Project CERES Marks its Fifth Year [1]
Project CERES has awarded funding to six projects for 2017-2018; in addition, a special project has been funded by the United States Agricultural Information Network (USAIN) [4]. Now in its fifth year, the three partners: the USAIN, the Agriculture Network Information Collaborative (AgNIC), [5]and CRL have awarded approximately $250,000 to small projects that preserve historical U.S. agricultural serials and make those materials accessible through digitization.
Project CERES 2017-18 participants were chosen by a subcommittee of the USAIN Preservation and Digital Library Committee [6]. The subcommittee was chaired by Joel Cummings of Washington State University.
Project CERES Proposals Funded for 2017-2018:
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Colorado State University: Preservation of Colorado Agriculture Literature, Colorado County Agent Annual Reports, Second Phase
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Cornell University, The Rural New Yorker
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Mississippi State University, Digitization of Agricultural Economics Publications
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North Carolina State University, Digitization of North Carolina Cooperative Extension Series Publications
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University of Arkansas, Digitization of Arkansas Extension MP (Miscellaneous Publications)
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University of Florida, Preserving Florida’s Agricultural History: Digitization of The Florida Cattleman & Livestock Journal
The special related project funded by USAIN is: California State University – Fresno, V.E. Petrucci Library Grape and Wine Research Gray Literature.
For a list of past awarded projects see information on CRL’s Global Resources Agriculture Partnership [7]. Individual digitized titles can be accessed through CRL’s catalog: http://catalog.crl.edu/search/c?SEARCH=ceres [8]
Information about submitting a proposal for Project CERES 2018-2019 will be available on the USAIN website in Fall 2017.