Wageningen Library

Information products include:

(a) Dutch Union Catalogue of Agricultural Books and Periodicals: includes material on rural development in general. Strong developing countries element to collection. Covers both books and journal articles. The main database (also called CLC) is available free, via a WWW interface. Books can be loaned internationally.

(b) Gender Studies in Agriculture (see separate entry): database containing bibliographic descriptions of journal articles and book chapters on the position of women in rural societies. Most concern the Netherlands, Western European countries or developing countries. Literature which is important for analyzing their position is also included, e.g. articles on feminist theory and methodology. Articles on labour and health issues and history for example, are included if they concern also the position of rural women. The articles are being selected from 240 agricultural and social science journals. A number of chapters taken from readers and books are also included in the database. About 5, 000 descriptions are entered into the database. data entry ceased October 1998

(c) Land, Soil and Water database: database containing bibliographic descriptions of journal articles and book chapters on environmental planning and management of rural areas. The original publications are held by the libraries of either De Hucht, De Nieuwlanden or the Staring Centre, the latter being responsible for document delivery. Presently, the database comprises about 33 000 entries.

(d) FAO: online equivalent of FAO Documentation. It contains bibliographic descriptions of reports written by or for the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations). All reports are also published on microfiche. The Wageningen central library owns a large collection of these microfiches. The collection is complete for all microfiches published since 1988. The database is updated every two months. Printed copies produced from the microfiche can be ordered from the library

(e) Home economics: bibliographic descriptions of articles from a large number of scientific and popular journals in the field of home economics, family studies and consumer sciences. c.19 000 titles have been entered.

(f) WWW server: data from the University, plus PUDOC, the Dutch Agricultural Knowledge Network, and links elsewhere on agriculture.