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The Plant Management Network Now Available to USDA Employees St. Paul, Minn. (October 27, 2005) - The Plant Management Network's suite of online journals and resources has been recently added to the U. S. National Agricultural Library's (NAL) electronic serials collection. All Plant Management Network (PMN) agricultural journals, publications, and other resources are now accessible to all employees of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) through their computer IP address or NAL's Digital Desktop Library, DigiTop. To receive monthly notification of new articles, USDA employees, as well as anyone else, may sign up for the monthly PMN Update newsletter at no charge on the PMN homepage, www.plantmanagementnetwork.org. "As a resource serving many disciplines and agricultural sectors, PMN's content will be important to many of USDA's programmatic areas across its various agencies," said Richard Stuckey, PMN advisory council chair and former EVP of the Council for Agricultural Science and Technology. He added, "PMN is also currently available at 30 U.S. land-grant universities, other academic institutions, partner companies, and libraries in Canada, Europe, and Australia, as well as to individual subscribers worldwide." PMN publishes four applied science journals: Applied Turfgrass Science, Crop Management, Plant Health Progress, and Forage and Grazinglands. It also houses efficacy trial data, including Fungicide and Nematicide Tests, Biological and Cultural Tests for Control of Plant Diseases, and Commodity Variety Trials. Arthropod Management Tests will be added soon. Other resources include PMN Image Collections - a database of more than 2,200 plant and agricultural images, the PMN Plant Science Database - including more than 4,000 applied science fact sheets and other documents supplied by PMN Partners, the PMN Education and Training Center, PMN Soybean Rust Information Center, and a monthly newsletter, PMN Update. The National Agricultural Library is the Nation's primary source for agricultural information. NAL's mission is to increase the availability and utilization of agricultural information for researchers, educators, policymakers, consumers of agricultural products, and the public. The Library is one of the world's largest and most accessible agricultural research libraries and plays a vital role in supporting research, education, and applied agriculture. The Plant Management Network is the first-stop multidisciplinary Internet source for applied plant and agricultural science information and communication. The network is a not-for-profit collaboration of academic institutions, scientific and professional societies, industry, and governmental agencies, serving stakeholders worldwide. Learn more at www.plantmanagementnetwork.org. Media Contact: Joan Quam Phone: +1.651.454.7250 E-mail: jquam@scisoc.org |