The Federal State Budgetary Scientific Institution "Central Scientific Agricultural Library" (CSAL) is the oldest Bibliographic Center for Agricultural Science and Food Industry in the Russian Federation. The library was founded in 1930. More than 3 million items are stored in the library collection. Since 1992, CSAL has been managing AGROS, the largest agricultural database in Russian in the world. This database contains information about books and articles published both in Russian and foreign periodicals or serial editions (the annual increment is about 40,000 records).