The Library of Agricultural Ressources - Tunisia

The Virtual library of Scientific and Agricultural Resources BIRSA is a consortium. It’s the unique tool and point of access to all the libraries’ holdings of institutions belonging to IRESA. BIRSA is not only a collective bibliographic catalogue but, it also provides full text of grey literature and other useful informations and several services including :

    The library catalogues are collected in a unique catalogue
    Databases of bibliographic information and full text (AGORA, TEEAL, AIDA…) .
    Electronic Documents (thesis, dissertations, reports)  .
    Sites references (BNT, BNF, library of congress, etc. .. .)
    Datasheets of search results in agricultural sciences.

Basic info
Started in: 
2009
Contact email: 
bo.iresa@iresa.agrinet.tn
Geographic and thematic
Geographic coverage: 
National
FAO region: 
Africa
National: country: 
Tunisia
Region (location): 
Africa
Percentage of records about agricultural topics: 
100%
Content and access
Language: 
French
Audience: 
Academic world
Audience: 
Researchers
Open Access Mandate: 
Yes
Percentage of full text documents: 
Between 5% and 25%
Number of records: 
47,000
Standards & technologies
This section provides information on the technologies used and the standards with which the service is compliant, with indication of the metadata sets, formats and protocols adopted for input in the system and those adopted for output.

Output metadata set(s): 
Agricultural Metadata Element Set (AgMES)