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Background |
CRIS is the U.S. Department of
Agriculture's
documentation and reporting system for ongoing and recently
completed research and education projects in agriculture,
food and nutrition, and forestry. Projects are conducted or
sponsored by USDA research agencies, state agricultural experiment
stations, land-grant universities, other cooperating
state institutions, and participants in CSREES-administered
grant programs, including
Small Business Innovation Research and
National Research Initiative, and
the programs administered by the CSREES Science and Education Resources
Development unit. CRIS is an application of
the CSREES Information Systems and Technology Management
unit.
CRIS was authorized by the Secretary of Agriculture in 1966 to document the publicly-funded activities of the USDA/State agricultural and forestry research system. Available initially only to researchers, research administrators, and government personnel, the major portion of the database is now available free of charge to all users with access to the Internet. In addition, CRIS now documents a large and increasing number of education and extension activities funded by CSREES.
CRIS projects relating to human nutrition are provided annually to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for inclusion in the Human Nutrition Research and Information Management database (HNRIM). In CRIS these projects are designated as the subfile, "HNRIMS." Updates occur annually, therefore, all human nutrition projects in CRIS may not yet be coded as "HNRIMS."
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Participants |
| USDA
State
Institutions
- State
Agricultural Experiment Stations
- 1862
Land Grant Institutions
- 1890
Land Grant Institutions and Tuskegee University
- 1994
Land Grant Institutions (Tribal Colleges)
- Cooperating
Schools of Veterinary Medicine
- State
Forestry Schools
Other
Participants
- CSREES
Competitive Grant, Small Business Innovation
Research, Cooperative Agreement, and other CSREES-funded program recipients
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| Subject Coverage
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Agricultural and forestry
research and education encompasses a broad range
of activities including:
- Management
and use of natural resources.
- Protection
of crops and livestock from pests and other
hazards.
- Production
management systems for crops, livestock, poultry,
and fish.
- Farm
and forest product development and quality improvement.
- Marketing
of crop, animal, and forest products.
- Foreign
trade and market development.
- Food
and human nutrition, health and safety, and
consumer protection.
- Rural,
community, and youth development.
- Family
resource management.
- Fish
and wildlife management, outdoor recreation,
and environmental quality.
- Agricultural
education and outreach.
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| Description
of Work |
A CRIS work unit documents
a defined activity at a single location. The work
focuses on a clearly definable problem, a manageable
phase of a larger problem, or a few closely related
elements of a broad-based program. Each documented
activity includes information on:
- WHAT is being done,
- WHO is doing it,
- WHERE it is being conducted,
- WHEN it is performed,
- PROGRESS achieved,
- IMPACT expected, and
- PUBLICATIONS produced.
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| Why Use CRIS?
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The mission of CRIS is
to document the research and education activities
of the USDA/State agricultural research and education
system for various reporting purposes, as well as
to provide ready access to information which can
help users to:
- keep abreast of the latest developments in
agricultural and forestry research and education,
- plan future activities,
- avoid costly duplication of publicly-funded
work, and
- establish valuable contacts within the research
and education community.
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| Access
and Services |
| CRIS
provides free, unrestricted access to its public
database through its web site. Other products available
on the web site include:
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| CRIS
Today |
| In recent years CRIS
has undergone a number of changes that have brought
about significant improvements--for participating
institutions inputting data, and for users seeking
information.
Specific improvements include:
- Electronic input through a dedicated web site
- Faster updating of input records
- Updated, expanded, and simplified classification
- More information per project
- up to twelve investigators/participants
- contact information with phone, fax, e-mail,
and web site
- longer text fields
- non-technical summary
- impact statement with progress report
- unlimited citations can be reported
- full progress and publications history
available
- Now documenting education and extension activities
- Free access over the World Wide Web
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Further Information, Contact: |
Current Research Information
System
USDA/CSREES/ISTM
1400 Independence Avenue, S.W.
Stop 2270
Washington, DC 20250
Fax: (202) 690-0634
E-mail: cris@csrees.usda.gov
Web site: http://cris.csrees.usda.gov/ |
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Last
Modified
04/15/2008
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