The new AGRIS search application provides access to a large collection of world literature covering all aspects of agricultural sciences and technology, including grey literature which is not available through normal publication and distribution channels.

The AGRIS repository is continuously updated and currently contains over 2.3 million bibliographic references in the AGRIS AP XML format, from 1975 to date. This data is collected from AGRIS resource centres in over 100 countries worldwide.

This application provides a simple search box into which a user can type a query to search the entire repository. A "Search Assistant" allows for more sophisticated searches. The search results provide metadata (title, author, abstract, publisher, etc.) of bibliographic references and, where available, a link to the full-text document. Additionally, a Google search for the full text document of a bibliographic record can be executed.

Please send to FAO-Agris-Caris@fao.org your comments and feedback regarding the functionality of this new interface and eventual reports on bugs that will help us to improve this application.