I.S. Lupinovich Belarusian Agricultural Library (BelCHB) offers consumers Information resources of our own generation under an outsourcing agreement and is looking for partners interested in a distribution services agreement.

The I.S. Lupinovich Belarusian Agricultural Library (BelCHB) of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus has created and maintains its own electronic information resources:

1) The full-text information resource "Portal of Publications of the Department of Agrarian Sciences of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus" (included in the State Register of Information Resources, Registration Certificate No. 1682334067 dated April 12, 2023), which features 21 periodicals published by scientific and practical centers and institutes of the Department of Agrarian Sciences of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus.

The portal was created as part of the NAS's long-term strategy to include Belarusian scientific agricultural journals in international scientific databases and to introduce the global scientific community to the developments of Belarusian agricultural scientists.

2) The Union Electronic Catalog (UEC) of the Department of Agricultural Sciences of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus was created to disclose the information resources available within the Department's organizations and to intelligently service users of scientific and technical information.

The UEC was developed using technologies developed by the International Association of Users and Developers of Electronic Libraries and New Information Technologies, in accordance with international and national standards and machine-readable formats, using internet technologies and the IRBIS64 library database. Currently, eight libraries participate in the union catalog, with the Belarusian Agricultural Library (BelCHB) serving as the coordinating center.

3) The Electronic library of dissertation abstracts on agriculture and related industries (in Russian) is a thematic full-text collection that includes electronic copies of abstracts from the library's collection. The electronic library is built on the platform of J-IRBIS 2.0, a module for creating full-text databases within the IRBIS library.

4) The database of authoritative records "Agricultural Scientists of Belarus" (in Russian) contains brief biographical information, honorary titles, awards, and research achievements, among other things. The records are provided with links to the scientist's personal page, their profiles in the Russian Science Citation Index (RSCI) and ORCID, as well as to the library's electronic catalog and other proprietary databases containing information about the scientist's publications. Forms of the name in Russian, Belarusian, and other languages ​​are provided (if any publications are available). Photographs of the scientists are also provided.

5) The database "Electronic Index of Works of Agricultural Scientists of Belarus" includes biographies and full bibliographies of scientific works by prominent figures in Belarusian agricultural science (included in the State Register of Information Resources, Registration Certificate No. 1681202457 dated February 2, 2012).

6) The electronic version of the journal "Proceedings of the National Academie of Sciences of Belarus. Agrarian Sciences Series" (included in the State Register of Information Resources: registration certificate No.: 1681202455 dated 02.02.2012) with full texts of articles from 1990 to the current year, as well as the contents of issues for 1963-1989.

The information resources created promote the achievements of agricultural science, the scientific work of agricultural scientists, the preservation of the images of outstanding individuals for future generations, and the formation of a positive image of the country's agricultural sector.

The I.S. Lupinovich Belarusian Agricultural Library (BelCHB) is the national information center for the agro-industrial complex, a leading scientific library, the main national repository of sectoral information resources, the National Center of the UN International Information System on Agriculture and Food (FAO AGRIS), the national interlibrary loan center and document delivery center for foreign information centers of the FAO AGLINET International Network of National Agricultural Libraries, the FAO document depository library in Belarus, and the coordination center for information resources in the Belarusian agricultural sector.

The I.S. Lupinovich Belarusian Agricultural Library (BelCHB) offers interested individuals and organizations access to these resources. The Belarusian Agricultural Library (BelCHB) closely cooperates with all major libraries in Belarus to facilitate the mutual use of national information resources, including interlibrary loans and databases. The library is a founding member of the Belarusian Library Association. The library develops direct ties with national agricultural libraries and information centers in Central and Western Europe and America, purchasing and exchanging literature and databases. The strongest ties have been established with the US National Agricultural Library and the Central Agricultural Library of Russia, where a master copy of agricultural literature published in Belarus is transferred. Bel(BelCHB) is the National Center for the FAO International Publication Information System (AGRIS). The library supplies AGRIS with information on Belarusian agricultural literature in English via the internet for inclusion in the AGRIS database.

BelCHB regularly supplies the FAO International Publication Information System with national state statistics. As a member of the FAO AGLINET International Network of National Agricultural Libraries, BelCHB benefits from document delivery from many national agricultural libraries worldwide. More than 200 foreign organizations exchange literature with BelCHB.

The Belarusian Agricultural Library ( BelCHB) organizes navigation of global web resources and the integration of national web resources into the internet by supporting the national agricultural WWW navigator and maintains the AgroWeb Belarus portal on the Wayback Machine.

BelCHB is a member of the International Association of Agricultural Data Learners (IAALD) and the International Association of Users and Developers of Electronic Libraries and New Information Technologies (ELNIT). The BAL is a participant in the U.S.A./Central and Eastern European Agricultural Libraries Roundtable.

The library annually publishes collections of materials from international scientific conferences:
* "Belarusian Agriculture through the Lens of Scientific Research" and
* "Libraries in the Information Society: Preserving Traditions and Developing New Technologies."

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