Seminars on database
A series of seminars will be held this month in Wellington and Auckland on the Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux’s (C.A.8.) on-line retrieval service. > The C.A.B. provides a range of information services for agricultural science and is controlled by an executive council comprising 26 Commonwealth countries including New Zealand which contribute to C.A.B. funds. The C.A.B. will be represented by Mr Mark Furneaux, training officer. C.A.B. liaison in New Zealand will be carried out through meetings with Dr Grahapi Butler of the Ministry of’Agriculture and Fisheries, Wellington, with assistance.’from Mr Doug Gibbs, who' is responsible for organising. the seminars. and workshops there.
Over a million and a half references to the world’s literature on agriculture and related fields of applied biology can be searched with speed and accuracy using online database services available from C.A.B. Every year the information is updated with a further 150,000 abstracts. The references are updated on a monthly basis. The system contains all the world’s related literature from 1973 and is constantly being added to and expanded. The' C.A.B. abstracts detabase is available on-line through various computer facilities including Lockheed Dialog, European Space Agency’s I.R.S. and Dimdi. A typical search of all the world’s literature for any related agricultural subject takes about 20 minutes.
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Press, 2 March 1982, Page 23
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210Seminars on database Press, 2 March 1982, Page 23
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