This section provides practical information on methods and tools devoted to those journals editors, publishers and institutions which aim to publish their citations in the AGRIS database.The AGRIS bibliographic database provides the most comprehensive coverage of the world's most important and influential content covering the many aspects of agriculture, including forestry, animal husbandry, aquatic sciences and fisheries, human nutrition and extension literature from institutions all over the world.
AGRIS materials include unique gray literature such as unpublished scientific and technical reports, theses, conference papers, government publications, and more. A growing number (estimated 20%) of the bibliographic records have a correspondent full text on the web and can be easily retrieved by Google.
AGRIS is also a network of more than 150 world-wide institutions, including libraries, documentation centres, publishing companies and national networks, which periodically send their content to the AGRIS centralized database for dissemination on the internet.

Where information management systems or Content Management Systems (CMS) exist that are currently generating AGRIS AP XML, a Dublin Core qualified metadata standard for data exchange, other options are nowadays available to generate data compatible with the AGRIS search engine that currently index some 3 millions bibliographic references.On the left frame, the Guide gives an introduction to the possible methods that can be used for generating AGRIS AP XML metadata, paying particular attention on the OAI-PMH protocols.

The AGRIMetaMaker is the tool that FAO/AGRIS is providing to those Institutions or Publishers, aiming to publish their metadata in AGRIS with very little efforts.You will find additional information on how to submit content to AGRIS in the F.A.Q. section.