Supporting Agricultural Researchers’ Data Needs

The AgNIC Data Working Group (DWG) supports a collaborative effort between the National Agricultural Library (NAL) and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture to provide outreach and training to grantees on USDA public access requirements and ensures that scholarly outputs of USDA-funded research are freely available through PubAg and the Ag Data Commons. To advance these efforts, the group will bring the campus perspective to better inform NAL’s approach to educating these audiences.

Promoting Historical Agricultural Digital Publications

The Ag Digital Publications Working Group (ADPWG) promotes historical agricultural content beyond the agricultural community. The ADPWG coordinates projects to discover and inventory agricultural content in open repositories, documents best practices for making content open, and seeks opportunities to collaborate with other networks to showcase agricultural content to a wider audience.

Collection Development for Agriculture

The Collection Development Working Group (CDWG) supports sharing information and best practices among AgNIC partners to raise awareness of changes and issues in collection development activities. The group seeks to better understand unique collecting areas for partner institutions, retention and deaccession decisions, off-site storage, budgets, and item format trends. By facilitating communication about collection development policies and procedures among AgNIC partners, the CDWG hopes to ensure continued access to agricultural literature and resources.

Systematic Reviews for Agriculture

The goal of the Systematic Reviews Working Group (SRWG) is to share best practices and provide educational opportunities related to conducting systematic reviews in the fields of agriculture and natural resources. These opportunities may include webinars and other avenues to exchange information that will better equip AgNIC partners as they assist their researchers with systematic reviews.