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AGRIS: Access to Technical and Scientific Publications

AGRIS is a global network providing access to technical and scientific publications. It has about 50 active centres, mainly in developing countries. With over 70,000 bibliographical records per year, AGRIS is a valuable resource for researchers. However, challenges exist in terms of coverage and integration with local systems. Efforts are being made to enforce standards, improve document delivery services, and enhance collaboration with national research systems.

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AGRIS: Access to Technical and Scientific Publications

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  1. AGRIS is an important network for access to technical and scientific publications • About 50 active AGRIS centres all over the world • Most of these centres are in developing countries • Agris is the unique source for references from some national systems (China, India, Thailand) • The AGRIS methodologies assured quality in the capture of metadata • About 70.000 bibliographical records/year • Ca. 30 % with abstracts • Ca 1% with link to the full text • The AGRIS website has about 9000 users/month, among those 2000 regular users from institutions

  2. AGRIS: the use of the website

  3. OA OA AGRIS Data Flow and Availability Now • ISO2709 (Agrin/WebAgris) • Tag Text • Others ~ 50 AGRIS centres and partners FAO-AGRIS CDs AGRIS Archive ISO Exchange AGRIS Input Managing System (AIMS) BASIS Web DB links links Silverplatter CDs

  4. Issues of the network • Many AGRIS centres are insufficiently embedded in the National Agricultural Research Systems • Therefore : • the capacity to assure the availability of the full text material is not sufficient • Low coverage of the production of scientific and technical publications in the countries • The AGRIS network is still too much focused on central database and its products • There is no feasible management of links to the full text in the central AGRIS database

  5. Issues of the Standards • The existing AGRIS standards are not considering adequately the requirements of electronic publishing • The existing AGRIS standards are not well compatible with other exchange Standards (DC, OAI) • The AGRIS standards and rules are too much linked to specific databases and software products (Isis, AGRIN) • In consequence AGRIS is often not integrated to the local systems, but an “Extra”, that created also additional work

  6. AGRIS: the challenges • Access point of Excellence to scientific and technical publications • Organizing the access to the full text of the documents • Direct links to material on the web • Document delivery services • Agreements with commercial publishers • Better coverage of the scientific production in the countries • Line up with National Agricultural Research Systems • Line up with the Open Archive Initiatives in the scholarly area • Enforcing and promoting standards for information resource description and discovery

  7. 1. Enforcing the centres • Only capacity on the ground level will assure access to the documents • Metadata repositories of Agris centres • OAI data providers from Agricultural Faculties • Important national and Regiona Agricultural information Systems (China, IICA/Catie, Japan, NAL • OAI data providers from research and development organizations

  8. 2. Enforcing the network • The network facilitates tools and methods • The network gives access to the different repositories • The network itself offers a repository for documents and metadata to help partners without own facilities (AGRIS database and Repository in Rome) • The network produces offline products out of the different repositories

  9. 3. New AGRIS standards • The AGRIS Metadataset and the AGRIS cataloguing rules are under revision • We are preparing an DC/AGMES based application profile • The task is much more demanding than initially thought (we promised it for April, but we are not able to deliver) • We cannot copy DC, OAHP or something else, but have to work on compliant AGRIS standards • A draft will be available for end of May, we want to get this endorsed at COAIM

  10. 4. Organizing access to knowledge globally • Capacity Building, Capacity Building, Capacity Building! • Enforcing Regional and Topical Service Providers (Metadata Repositories) • Maintaining a central Database AND document repository for partners with no possibilities to publish online • Creating the possibility for the internationalization of national data (specific queries, language versions)

  11. OA OA OA OA OA OA AGRIS – Data Flow - Generic AGRIS data access outline Distributed Open Archives Distributed Metadata Repositories Other databases queried by AGRIS Agris Partners with integrated webservices using the AGRIS metadata profile Webservice Wrappers AGRIS XML/RDF Metadata Repository based on the AGRIS exchange standards Offline AGRIS Products Ontologies Web – Subject gateways

  12. AGRIS Rome Archive Purl AGRIS Metadata Repositories Repository for data exchange with national Systems Isis (Bireme) Database WebAGRIS with direct Access for the participating centres AGRIS Exchange Repository IICA/AGRIS Latinamerica at Catie WebAGRIS Rome Purl Database accessible for centres to give online availability for legacy material AGRIS Legacy Data (ca. 2 Mio records)

  13. The role of CATIE/IICA • Capacity building with national IICA/AGRIS centres • Coordinating all AGRIS activities in the Region • Collaboration in the setup of new and strengthening of existing centres • Promotion of the new AGRIS standards for meta data • Looking together with FAO for Funding possibilities to strengthen Information Management activities in the Region

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