Information centers, Need and Objectives of AGRIS, Activities of AGRIS, Services of AGRIS, Information Products of AGRIS, AGRIS in India,

1. INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM
FOR AGRICULTURAL
SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY(AGRIS)
Gaurav Boudh

2. CONTENTS
 Introduction
 Need and Objectives of AGRIS
 Activities of AGRIS
 Services of AGRIS
 Information Products of AGRIS
 AGRIS in India
 Conclusion
 References

3. INTRODUCTION
AGRIS is the International Information System for
Agricultural Science and Technology. AGRIS was
created in 1974 by Food and Agriculture Organization
(FAO) of United Nations. In 1975, it became
operational.
AGRIS is a Global Public Domain Database
bibliographic records in English, French, German,
Spanish, Japanese, Italian, Russian and Portuguese
Languages on Agricultural Science and Technology.
AGRIS has been serving users from developed and
developing countries through facilitating access to
knowledge in Agriculture Science and Technology.

4. CONTD…
AGRIS is a Mission-Oriented information system
committed to Collect, Manage and Disseminate
Agricultural Literary Information around the globe.
AGRIS main aim is to build an information system in the
field of Agriculture Science and Technology and related
subjects. It is a collaborative network of agricultural
institutions of the world.
The Subject areas of the AGRIS includes various aspects of
Agriculture including Forestry, Food, Environment,
Animal Sciences, Aquatic Sciences, Fisheries, Human
Nutrition and all other aspects related to Agriculture
Sciences from participating countries all over the world.

5. STRENGTH
AGRIS offers 9,390,683 bibliographic records
produced by more than 400 data providers
(research centers, academic institutions,
publishers, governmental bodies, development
programmes, international and national
organizations) from 144 countries.
More than 4 lakh agricultural and research
professionals worldwide access AGRIS resources
each month. While AGRIS is predominantly a
bibliographic database, it also provides full text
links to about 2 million of its records.

6. NEED OF AGRIS
AGRIS is essential for knowing the current
development and finding literature about Food,
Agriculture, Environmental Sciences and related to
Social Sciences also.
It is used to pursuit of an academic endeavor,
research and background studies for policy
makers.
It is also used to obtain an overview of what has
been published in a certain subject area.

7. OBJECTIVES OF AGRIS
 AGRIS main objective is to improve access and
exchange of Information related to Agricultural
Research.
 To provide a comprehensive agricultural information
among the nation and to avoid wasteful duplication of
work in the field.
 To meeting the international needs of developing nations
and help them to trained their Scientific and Technical
Personnel.
 Establishment of Single, Current Comprehensive
inventory of worldwide Agricultural Literature.

8. CONTD….
 To provide Current Awareness Service and Selective
Dissemination of Information and specialized
subject retrieval services and to fulfill the Document
Delivery Requests. Thus, the objective of AGRIS is
to meet the Information needs of Agricultural
Community.
 To interact with new or existing secondary
specialized Information Services so as to increase
efficiency and to eliminate unnecessary duplication
or gaps of research.

9. ACTIVITIES OF AGRIS
 AGRIS Search Engine is designed to help users to locate
Agricultural Scientific and Technological Information from its
publications i.e., Journals articles, Monographs, Book
Chapters, and Grey Literature including Unpublished Science
and Technical Reports, Theses &Dissertations and Conference
Papers in more than 90 Languages.
 AGRIS provides various search techniques to reach the
Information they are looking for through Simple Search and
Advanced Search Tool
 Provides Training for the use of AGROVOC.
 Provides training to Information and Documentation
Personnel from Developing Countries.
 Training on AGRIS Methodology, Indexing, Abstracting and
AGRIS Classification Scheme.

10. SERVICES OF AGRIS
 INDEXING AND ABSTRACTING SERVICES
Every piece of literature reported to AGRIS database is
supplied with its bibliographic description and a set of
description to indicator subject content.
 RETROSPECTIVE SEARCHES
through the entire database.
 SELECTIVE DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION
SERVICE
By which users can request the AGRIS processing unit,
to keep them informed of any new AGRIS entries on
Specific Subject concern to them.

11. CONTD….
 NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES
It containing all entries generated in a country and
those concerning this country and published outside.
 SUBJECT BIBLIOGRAPHIES
It can also be prepared upon requests from specialized
cooperating centres.
 REPOGRAPHIC SERVICES
It can be prepared on a high resolution laser printer in
AGRINDEX format, ready for reproduction by offset
and photocopy.

12. INFORMATION PRODUCTS OF AGRIS
 AGROVOC
AGROVOC is a controlled vocabulary covering all areas of
interest of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of
the United Nations including Food, Nutrition, Agriculture,
fisheries, forestry and Environment etc. It is a thesaurus
jointly produced by FAO and the Commission of European
Communities (CEC) is a controlled structured vocabulary of
Agricultural terminology constructed according to the
UNISIST guidelines for the establishment and the
development of monolingual and multi-lingual thesaurus.
AGROVOC is maintained by FAO in English, French and
Spanish Languages. AGROVOC is constantly updated
(through the online editing platform VocBench), and
regularly made accessible to users in various formats.

13. CONTD….
 AGRINDEX
It is Monthly Bibliography in English which deals
with the subject covered by AGRIS.
 AGRIS CD-ROM
CD-ROM Technology is thought to provide an
excellent solution for the retrieval for centre's which
do not have easy access to an online database.
• AGRIS FHN(Food Human Nutrition) CD-ROM
• AGRIS FORESTRY CD-ROM are available on
AGRIS and its Semiannually updates are also
available.

14. CONTD….
 WEB AGRIS
The new Web AGRIS version 2.0 was released to robust
Information Management System have integrated
numerous updates, errors fixes and new features.
Web AGRIS is a complete Multi-lingual web-based
system for distributed data Input, Processing and
Dissemination(through Internet or on CD-ROM) of
Agricultural bibliographic Information.
Web AGRIS also allows to link to documents that are
available in Electronic Format.

15. AGRIS IN INDIA
India is the Agricultural based Country, which plays an
important role in India’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP),
for the development of Agriculture British government
established Indian Council of Agricultural Research
(ICAR) on recommendation of Royal Commission
Agriculture in 1929. The Council has established so
many Institutions, State Agricultural Universities and
Krishi Vigyan Kendras etc.
73 Agricultural Universities, 101 ICAR Institutes, 641
Krishi Vigyan Kendras, 08 Agricultural Technology
application Research Institutes all the above produced
Agricultural Literature on large scale.

16. CONTD…..
The Government of India took decision in July 1974 to
participate in the AGRIS Database of FAO through a
National Input Centre under the ICAR.
PRODUCTS AND SERVICES IN INDIA
 INDIAN NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL
BIBLIOGRAPHY
The India has been providing inputs to the Agriculture
Research Information Centre (ARIC) of Indian Council
of Agricultural Research (ICAR) Database since 1975.
References provided by ARIC from the Indian
Periodicals and other literature in the field of
agricultural and allied sciences became available to the
users all over the world through AGRIS.

17. CONTD….
 ABSTRACTING JOURNALS
The publication of AGRIS in India include Indian
Agricultural Science Abstracts and Indian Animal
Science Abstracts.
 SELECTIVE DISSEMINATION OF
INFORMATION(SDI) AND DOCUMENT DELIVERY
SERVICES(DDS)
ARIC provides SDI and DDS free of cost to all
Agricultural Scientists, Research Scholars and Students
who require specific Information for various purposes
like review of literature, research planning and decision
making etc. Request for these services are received
from Indian as well as foreign nations.

18. CONCLUSION
The International System for Agricultural Science and
Technology(AGRIS) is a Multi-lingual Bibliographic
database that connects users directly to a rich collection
of Research and Worldwide technical Information on
Food and Agriculture.
The birth of AGRIS has been to facilitate our entire
society which involved in Agricultural Science and
Technology. Since the beginning AGRIS has been set up
a fully Computerized Information System based on
INIS, and it has grown into one of the successful and
comprehensive Information System on the Agricultural
Science and Technology.

19. REFERENCES
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Kumar, Mohit. (2018). Role of International Information
System for Agricultural Sciences and Technology
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