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Research databases

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Europe
Online multilingual access to a range of library collections including the library collections of e.g. ELDIS, OneWorld, BLDS, OEFSE. EL@ND
The Electronic Development and Environment Information System, worldwide coverage ELDIS
European Tropical Forestry Research Network database of institutions and contact persons
Community Research and Development Information Service a database of the European Commission. CORDIS
Accessible Information on Development Activities AiDA
Web based Information System for Agricultural Research for Development from the International Agricultural Centre, the Netherlands, worldwide coverage

WISARD

Overseas Development Institute, UK Tropical Forestry Projects Information System (TROPICS, updated until 2000)
European Network for Research on Forest Ecosystems EFERN

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Countries
Country Project databases
Austria Institute of Forest Ecology Research Areas
Belgium Federal Office for Scientific, Technical and Cultural Affairs Database of Federal Research Actions (FEDRA)
Denmark KVL Forests and Landscapes
Finland University of Helsinki/ VITRI - Viikki Tropical Resources Institute research projects
  Finnish Forest Research Institute (METLA) Research Activities
  Finnish Biodiversity Research Programme 1997-2002 FIBRE
France Silvolab, French Gyana Arlequin Information Database (in French)
Germany x
Greece x
Ireland National Council for Forest Research and Development research projects
  Forest Ecosystem Research Group, University College Dublin
Italy x
Netherlands
Norway University of Life Sciences Norway Research
  BIBSYS is a shared library system for all Norwegian University Libraries, the National Library and a number of research libraries. The database contains books, series, periodicals, reports and proceedings, but does not contain articles.
Portugal x
Spain x
Sweden x
Switzerland Search results for 'forest' from the project database of InfoAgrar, the agricultural information and documentation service of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC).
United Kingdom Department For International Development
NARSIS, Natural Resources Division's Projects Information System
  ATROFI is a meta-database of historical tropical and sub-tropical forest inventory datasets held in the UK that has been developed under a DFID Forest Research Programme project
Archive of Tropical Forest Information
  FPEG-RDFN: The UK based Overseas Development Institute (ODI), Forest Policy and Environment Group, Rural Develpment Forestry Network has a collection of searchable papers.

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International
AGRIS is the international information system for the agricultural sciences and technology, created by the FAO. CARIS is a database on current agricultural research. AGRIS/CARIS
AGRICOLA (AGRICultural OnLine Access) is a bibliographic database of agricultural literature created by the U.S. National Agricultural Library. The database covers materials in all formats. It encompasses all aspects of agriculture, including e.g. entomology, plant sciences, forestry, extension and education, and earth and environmental sciences. AGRICOLA
African Journals OnLine (AJOL) - provides access to African published research. Access to online abstracts is free, and you can order full text articles. AJOL
Multilateral partnership. Extensive database of events, publications, projects and programmes, data and statistics. Organised by topic and country. Development Gateway
Directory of Open Access Journals. This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. It covers all subjects and languages. DOAJ
A list of hundreds of important contacts in the world of forestry, including national heads of forestry, national focal points for the global Forest Resources Assessment and national forest programmes, as well as delegates to the FAO Committee on Forestry and regional forestry commissions. FAO Forestry Contacts Database
Multipurpose Africover Databases on Environmental resources for 10 countries. Consult the metadata on the content and characteristics of the data sets and visualize and browse public domain data as web maps. MADE - Multipurpose Africover Databases on Environmental resources
The searchable databases of the Organisation for Tropical Studies in Costa Rica, a consortium of universities and research stations form the United States, Latin America and Australia. Includes the National Bibliography on Tropical Biology (BINABITROP). The database includes more than 13,000 references to theses, dissertations, monographs, journals, congresses, etc. OTS Databases
Global Forest Information Service, GFIS, is a distributed network of databases which catalogue information resources, using a common metadata standard. GFIS
Online bibliography on Tropical Conservation and Development Tropical Forestry

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