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ELECTRONIC LIBRARY IN AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY AND NATURAL
RESOURCES FOR DEVELOPED AND DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
In March 1994, an Electronic Library in Agriculture, Forestry and
Natural Resources was established at Oxford on the local computer
network which is accessible from the Internet (e-mail, FTP, Gopher,
WWW) and also by UUCP from Developing Countries. The setup consists
of a fast 486DX2-66 MHz PC computer with 2.5 gigabytes SCSI drives
connected to the university network and by modem to the telephone
system. Software is IBM OS2 running UUPC, Telnet, FTP, Gopher and
WWW servers. The equipment includes a Philips CDD521 CD-ROM writer,
HP optical scanner and video capture facilities.
Currently, a limited number of documents have been set up for
demonstration purposes and are accessible via the Internet. In
addition, the system connects to Colombia, Vietnam, Cambodia and
Laos daily by UUCP. After four months, successful daily electronic
data interchange has been effectively demonstrated to operate at
reasonable cost. Further remote sites will be added.
Persons with Internet access can access the system by FTP at:
ifs.plants.ox.ac.uk
or by Gopher at:
gopher://ifs.plants.ox.ac.uk
or by World Wide Web at
http://ifs.plants.ox.ac.uk
Persons in remote countries wishing to be connected by UUCP should
contact the Editors of LRRD.
The project so far has been supported by equipment grants from the
International Foundation for Science, Stockholm and the Oxford
Forestry Institute. Costs of communication are provided by the FAO
Regional TCP in Sustainable Agriculture and Forestry for SE Asia
and underwritten by the ODA Forestry Research Programme.
PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT
The objective is to use the equipment described to develop an
electronic library on sustainable technologies which will be
available for data interchange. This will include electronic
journals and technical literature, electronic conferences and
particularly the collection of (non-copyright) publications by
scanning and/or optical character recognition.
The major basis for document development will be the Oxford Foresty
Institute Library which contains the western world's major
collection of forestry and related literature. This unique resource
is freely available and provides a service of response to technical
questions (currently) by correspondence.
In addition to the accumulation and distribution of literature and
abstracts, the OFI provides proactive processing of the literature,
including annotated bibliographies, monographs and manuals on
specific topics or species; review publications include Tropical
Forestry Papers, Occasional Papers, and Conference Proceedings.
Staff of the Institute prepare nearly 100 published articles per
year and agency or project reports. A further form of information
service has been the development and dissemination of computerized
databases and their management systems.
The objective of the current programme is to translate these major
library resources into electronic format and make them available
over the network, increasing the worldwide availability of forestry
and related literature and data.
The project is under the direction of Dr A.W. Speedy, University
Lecturer in Plant Sciences who is permanently employed by the
University of Oxford and an Associate Member of the Oxford Forestry
Institute.
Besides forestry, it is intended to include sections on sustainable
agriculture, livestock production and natural resources, with the
cooperation of other libraries and institutions worldwide.
The basic equipment is now established and operational. The need is
for additional staff and facilities to begin the tasks of scanning
the OFI collection and other relevant literature and to comit this
to the electronic system and to CD-ROM for further distribution for
local networks. A staff of 3 persons is required and present
estimates suggest that this would result in the accumulation of
approximately 200 books per man-year or 2000 books (or equivalent)
by the team over a 3 year period, eventually completing the target
of 2 GB of data available.
The establishment of the electronic library production team means
that at the end of the project there would be a major resource
available worldwide in forestry and natural resources research,
development and teaching.
.
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From: ajt@rri.sari.ac.uk (Tony Travis)
Newsgroups: bionet.plants
Subject: New WWW Server at the Oxford FOrestry Institute
Date: 26 Aug 1994 09:34:06 +0100
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[ Article crossposted from bionet.agroforestry ]
[ Author was speedy@uk.ac.oxford.vax ]
[ Posted on 25 Aug 94 13:33:37 BST ]
The Oxford Forestry Insitute, Oxford University
now offers a WWW server. This server will provide:
OFI occasional papers
OFI and Department of Plant Sciences Annual reports
OFI and Department of Plant Sciences Staff Contact Details
Summaries of Current Research projects at OFI and Department of Plant Sciences
Links to Other Forestry Resources on the Internet
Livestock Research for Rural Developement and other Electronic Publications
The server is maintained by Nick.Waltham@plant-sciences.oxford.ac.uk
The URL is "http://ifs.plants.ox.ac.uk"
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Dr. A.J.Travis, | JANET: <ajt@uk.ac.sari.rri>
Rowett Research Institute, | other: <ajt@rri.sari.ac.uk>
Greenburn Road, Bucksburn, | phone: +44 (0)224 712751
Aberdeen, AB2 9SB. UK. | fax: +44 (0)224 715349