Online Databases
AGRICOLA 1970-. (Free on the web and also by subscription from vendors)
The AGRICOLA (Agricultural Online Access) database contains the bibliographic records of materials acquired by the National Agricultural Library and cooperating institutions in the agricultural and related sciences.
E-mail: http://www.nal.usda.gov/AGRICOLA/agricolaMail.html
URL: http://agricola.nal.usda.gov/
AGRIS, 1975-. (Free on the web and also by subscription from vendors)
FAO Headquarter
Viale delle Terme di Caracalla
00100 Rome, Italy
E-mail: FAO-HQ@fao.org
URL: http://www.fao.org/agris/
AGRIS provides worldwide bibliographic coverage of agricultural science. AGRIS is a cooperative system in which participating countries input references to the literature produced within their boundaries and, in return, draw on the information provided by the other participants. To date, 240 national, international and intergovernmental centers participate.
BIOSIS/Previews, 1969-. (Subscription required)
Thomson Scientific
Customer Support Desk
3501 Market Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
E-mail: info@biosis.org
URL: http://www.biosis.org/
BIOSIS Previews® contains citations from Biological Abstracts® (BA), and Biological Abstracts/Reports, Reviews, and Meetings® (BA/RRM) (formerly BioResearch Index®), the major publications of BIOSIS. All plant sciences subjects are comprehensively covered.
CAB Abstracts, 1910-. (Subscription required)
Published by: CAB International
Wallingford , Oxfordshire,
OX10 8DE, UK
E-mail: cabi-nao@cabi.org
URL: http://www.cabi.org/
CAB Abstracts is the most comprehensive bibliographic, abstracting and indexing database in its field. CAB Abstracts covers all aspects of plant sciences as well as food science.
Food Science and Technology Abstracts, 1969- . (Subscription required)
Published by: International Food Information Service (IFIS Publishing)
IFIS Publishing
Lane End House, Shinfield Road
Shinfield, Reading
RG2 9BB, UK.
E-mail: ifis@ifis.org
URL: http://www.ifis.org/
This database provides an extensive collection of abstracts prepared from the world's food science, food technology and food-related human nutrition literature. FSTA covers the whole range of topics that relate to every stage of the food chain. There are over 655,000 records in the database - from 1969 to present - with over 2000 new abstracts added every month.
PubMed, 1950- (Free on the web)
Published by: National Library of Medicine
8600 Rockville Pike, Bethseda, MD 20894
E-mail: http://wwwns.nlm.nih.gov/
URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi
This database provides over 7400 records on oryza sativa.
Science Citation Index, 1945- (Subscription)
Published by: Thomson ISI 3501 Market Street,
Philadelphia , PA 19104
E-mail Form: http://scientific.thomson.com/forms/uscontact/
URL: URL: www.isinet.com/
Database covering journal articles in all areas of science and technology. Database has standard indexing for over 7,000 journals but also provides the references for all articles. Citation indexing allows for the searching of cited references so that a network of researchers in a field could be identified.
Research in Progress
CRIS (USDA)
http://cris.csrees.usda.gov/
CRIS is the U.S. Department of Agriculture documentation and reporting system for ongoing and recently completed research and education projects in agriculture, food and nutrition, and forestry. Projects are conducted or sponsored by USDA research agencies, state agricultural experiment stations, the state land-grant university system, other cooperating state institutions, and participants in a number of USDA-administered grant programs
CARIS (FAO)
http://www.fao.org/agris/
Current Agricultural Research Information System is international in scope. It was created in 1975 to identify and to facilitate exchange of information about current agricultural research projects. 137 national and 20 international and intergovernmental centers participate in CARIS. This system includes ongoing and recently completed research projects in agriculture including many on rice.
Other databases
http://www.gramene.org/resources/#database (Gramene)
Lists several sites for rice genome sequencing efforts, a complete listing of rice (Oryza sp.) sequences; rice and other cereal crops database; and rice recipes.
http://bioserver.myongji.ac.kr/ricemac.html ( Myongji University)
This site includes the Rice EST database, rice map, rice gene database
http://www.shigen.nig.ac.jp/rice/oryzabase/top/top.jsp
The Oryzabase is a comprehensive rice science database established in 2000 by rice researcher's committee in Japan. The database is originally aimed to gather as much knowledge as possible ranging from classical rice genetics to recent genomics and from fundamental information to hot topics.
The Oryzabase consists of five parts, (1) genetic resource stock information, (2) gene dictionary, (3) chromosome maps, (4) mutant images, and (5) fundamental knowledge of rice science.
We are planning to do more extensive cross-referencing of Oryzabase to the major DNA sequence database, literature database and other plant databases in order to provide the wealth of information to rice researchers.
