AHPC Library search
Content
The library in the Animal Health and Production Compendium (AHPC) contains the following collections of texts and
manuals:
- 42 original texts on animal production topics commissioned
specifically for the AHPC.
- 180 chapters reproduced from books published by CABI Publishing.
- World Organisatin for Animal Health (OIE) manuals and texts including Manual
of Standards for Diagnostic Tests and Vaccines 2000, International
Animal Health Code (2003), Disease Cards and 10 republished articles from
OIE proceedings.
- Over 15 electronic publications from the Food and Agriculture Organization of
the United Nations (FAO).
- 85 manuals and texts previously published by the International Livestock
Research Institute (ILRI).
- Links to books published by National Academy Press in the
Nutrient Requirements of Domestic Animals series, compiled by the Committee
on Animal Nutrition, Board on Agriculture, National Research Council, USA.
- Further coverage of animal nutrition includes content from ARC and AFRC
(UK) reports on nutrient requirements of domestic livestock and extracts
from other standard texts published by CABI Publishing such as
Feeding Systems and Feed Evaluation Models, Enzymes in Farm Animal Nutrition
and The Mineral Nutrition of Livestock.
- Various other links to useful information sources on the Internet
including genetics databases, CAB International on-line communities
and the USDA-CSREES, ADDS Program.
As well as the above texts, the AHPC library contains content from, or
information about, the
following major information resources:
- Content from the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research
(ACIAR) CD-ROM, Understanding Animal Health in Southeast Asia, including the
Survey Toolbox for Livestock Diseases.
- Compendium of Animal Health and Welfare in Organic Farming written by staff at
Veterinary Epidemiology and Economics Research Unit (VEERU, University of Reading, UK) as a resource material and training tool
for farmers, advisors, inspectors, veterinarians, organic sector bodies and
policy makers on issues related to general and specific animal health and
welfare aspects of organic livestock production.
- DRASTIC (Dairy Rationing System for the Tropics) produced by Stirling
Thorne Associates. DRASTIC is a simple software tool for planning the
feeding of dairy cows under tropical conditions.
- Livestock and Environment Toolbox - a decision support system developed by
an international consortium led by the Natural Resources International Ltd. It
contains technical and policy or institutional development options for
enhancing positive or mitigating negative effects of livestock on
natural resources.
- Economic Assessment of Livestock Diseases - there is also an informative
series of original texts provided specifically for the AHPC by VEERU on the
economic assessment of livestock diseases.
The library contains a great variety of material and it is advised that users
spend some time familiarizing themselves with its content. It is possible to
print out a whole expanded tree of the contents table (see under Table of
Contents below).
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As well as HTML documents, the library contains many documents in Adobe
Acrobat PDF format. If you have not done so already, you will need to install
Adobe Acrobat Reader on your computer. This can be done by clicking on the icon link
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Searching the library
The library contents can be searched using the Table of Contents or Free Text Search.
Table of Contents
The library contents have been classified by Topic, Livestock Species and
Publisher.
The library contents tree (on the left side of the library search interface) can be navigated by clicking on folders to open
them and clicking on them again to close them. An expanded folder will either
display HTML documents 
, PDF
documents 
or internet links 
contained within them, or subfolders further classifying the content. Select a
document by clicking on it, and it will automatically load and appear in your
browser. Web sites that can be reached by clicking on the classified Internet
links within the library will be displayed on your browser within a new window.
Obtaining a printout of the content
The whole table of contents can be expanded by clicking on the Expand Tree
link above the contents table. A printout of the whole, expanded contents can be
obtained by clicking the right-hand button of your mouse when the cursor is on
the contents table and selecting Print from the resulting drop-down menu. The whole table
should be allowed to expand before right-hand mouse clicking, otherwise only
that
part of the table expanded at that stage of clicking will be printed.
Free-text Search
Enter a word or phrase in the search box and then click the Search
button.
The results will be ranked according to the number of hits per document, with
documents containing the highest number of hits being displayed first.
Next to each document in the search results there will be an icon indicating
whether the document is an HTML file or an Acrobat PDF file. There will also be
an indication of the size of the file.
How the library in the CD version differs from that of the Internet version of
the AHPC
There are some differences in the content and searching capabilities of the library on the CD version of
the AHPC in comparison with that of the Internet version.
Searching
The Internet version of the AHPC is searchable using the table of contents, or a
free text search. On the CD, there is an index-based, keyword search, and table
of contents, but not a free text search capability.
Contents
There are some differences in contents of the Internet version of the
Compendium in comparison that of with the CD version. These differences arise because:
- It is assumed that users of the Internet version of the AHPC have full internet
access, whereas users of the CD version may not have access to the Internet.
So in some instances reproduced material is carried on the CD but, on the Internet
version, a link has been given to a website containing the material
direct from its publishers. However, care has been taken to include
important www links in the CD version of the AHPC for users who do have
internet access.
- The contents of the CD version of the AHPC is limited by the storage
memory available on the two CDs in the set. Consequently, there are some
sections of acquired material that are not available on the CD version due
to omission in order to include other information judged more valuable to
the Compendium.
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