Web-based reference databases and subject gateways to locate current research information in agricultural and food sciences - a Finnish perspective

Authors

• M.-L. AALTONEN
• R. HAGELIN

DOI: https://doi.org/10.23986/afsci.5649

Abstract

Databases and the World Wide Web have overwhelmed the information market. Bibliographic reference databases with links to electronic journals that publish full text manuscripts provide information seekers with a wide range of fast and convienient searching methods. Increasingly organisations present their activities on the WWW which allows them to disseminate updated information about their experts, publications and on-going research projects better than was possible previously. The web technology has a major advantage over printed products since it allows end-users to search, browse and print the information in different formats according to their own specific needs. Agricultural and food science papers published in Finland have been documented annually in this journal for a number of years, but the advent of web technologies have made this much less valuable.;