Organic Agriculture Information Access
Descriptive Information
Additional URL, if any
Project and Contents Description
The Organic Agriculture Information Access is an electronic collection of historic United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) publications related to organic agriculture. In this collection, there are almost 200 documents published before 1942 (before synthetic chemicals became widely used) that contain state-of-the-art information and data that is still very pertinent for today's agriculture. Access to this data is intended to provide growers with new ideas on crop production without chemicals, as well as help researchers conserve scarce resources by avoiding unintended duplication. This collection is provided by the Alternative Farming Systems Information Center (AFSIC), a part of the National Agricultural Library (NAL), with funding from the USDA National Organic Program and Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program. This effort is part of the AFSIC "Organic Roots" project.
Geographic Coverage
United States
Any non-U.S. Government Pubs
No
Publications Source
- Library's Federal depository collection
Administrative Information
Owner
Project Contact Name
William Thomas
Institution Name
National Agricultural Library (NAL)
Institution Type
Library
Address
10301 Baltimore Avenue, room 122, USDA/NAL/AFSIC, 20705, USA
E-mail
Telephone
301-504-5724
Partners, if any
USDA/AMS/NOP, USDA/CSREES/SARE
Project Federally Funded:
Fully
Project Status
Ongoing
Digitization Conducted In-house
No
Searching for Project Partners
No
Visited
622
Technical Information
Meets Criteria for Preservation
Yes
File Formats
TIFF
Metadata Scheme in Use
Dublin Core
Metadata Encoded As
XML
Institution Has a Digitization Policy
No
Policy URL, if any
Restrictions on Access
No