From: Eric T Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Please circulate this announcement to other lists and please print in your
journals and newsletters. Thank you.
Free Searchable Non Timber Forest Product Bibliography Online
The web based international Bibliographic database on NTFPs is a free, non
profit venture. It is now online with over 1,300 entries and has a new
permanent home:
http://www.ifcae.org/cgibin/ntfp/db/dbsql/db.cgi?db=bib&uid=default
The database editorial committee is actively seeking authors to write
critical reviews and abstracts for records. Details are on the website.
Additionally, if you have published or know of published materials on NTFPs
not in the database, please fill out a submission form online so we can add
them.
Please alert us if you find errors in any records and they will be
corrected. Our funds have not permitted us to reformat every record thus
you will find some discrepancies in the bibliographic styles between
records. Occasionally there may be a question mark by a date or other field
(e.g., publisher) where our source of information was incomplete. Such
records were included if enough information was present for a researcher to
locate the record in a library or other source.
The majority of records are currently in English because startup funds
originated from the U.S. National Assessment on Non-Timber Forest Products.
However, the database reflects the fact that the majority of written
material on NTFPs has occurred internationally.
Options for expanding the database to include non-English publications
pertaining to NTFPs are currently being explored. One challenge is to
establish a multi-lingual oversight committee. Hopefully this first English
phase will be a catalyst for the international research community to work
together in the coming years to build a truly useful, international
resource for NTFP publications. Your input and participation are needed to
achieve this goal.
Our sincerely thanks to all the funders, volunteers, organizations,
government agencies and Internet technicians who have made this venture
possible.
Sincerely,
Eric T Jones
Institute for Culture and Ecology
PO Box 6688
Portland, OR 97212
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.ifcae.org
