SFF Project Summary
A user-friendly education tool for NZ deer farmers
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The Sustainable Farming Fund and NZ13FA have jointly funded a project to make deer farming information more accessible to deer farmers, Veterinarians and researchers.
Called "DeerSearch", it is essentially an internet accessible archive of published literature on NZ deer farming ... in other words, an electronic library.
The deer farming industry has been well serviced with research and development since its inception in the 1970's. Over the last 10 years, deer farming has grown dramatically from about 1500 deer farms to over 4500 deer farms today. New entrant deer farmers have benefitted from the enormous wealth of knowledge gained over the last 30 years, but are still often frustrated by difficulties in accessing information from a vast array of sources.
Enter "DeerSearch" ... this archive, modelled on an c-library developed by AgResearch scientists for internal use, provides rapid and easy access to a huge number of deer farming publications. Essentially, it is ii collection of all publications produced by scientists within AgResearch, Massey University, Lincoln University and Otago University within the last 30 years. It covers scientific, conference and technical papers, as well as general readership articles.
It is envisioned that by the launch of DeerSearch in late June 2002, over 2500 articles can be found within the archive. DeerSearch is to be located on a website developed for and owned by DEEResearch Ltd, a joint venture R & D investment company between AgResearch and the NWFA/NWIB. Access to DeerSearch at this site will be by password entry, and 58 available to all levy payers, veterinarians (members of NZVA) and researchers from the contributing organisations. The papers/articles are held as facsimile image MF files that are searchable off a standardised bibliography using authors, titles and/or keywords. Individual papers can be downloaded for direct viewing.
DeerSearch will be updated continually, with new papers added following copyright clearance. It will house the entire collection of the Deer Branch NZVA proceedings and may eventually be expanded to house theses and dissertations.
Further information on DeerSearch can be obtained from Dr G W Asher, Invermay Agricultural Centre, Mosgiel.
