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Turfgrass Information Center Homepage
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Logon Screen for TGIF (Turfgrass Information File)
Size of database: 100,000+ records!
# of Periodicals Monitored: Over 300!
# TGIF Searches in 2004: Over 76,000!
Academic Institutions subscribing to TGIF: More than 50!
Countries with TGIF users: 35+ countries!
Oldest publication in TGIF: 1665!
# Languages represented in TGIF records: More than 30!
TGIF Factoids
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TGIF Basic Search Screen
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Note the Ability to Limit by Industry Sector
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Guided Search Enables Boolean Operators (AND, OR, NOT) and Various Limiting Options
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Power Search, for Advanced Searchers, Enables Precise Searches
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TGIF Contains a Variety of Item Types, Including Periodical Articles, Research and Technical Reports, Books and Book Chapters, Published Q&As,
Scanned Golf Course Plans From and Video Interviews With Selected Members of the American Society of Golf Course Architects, Sample
Photographs from the Noer/Milorganite® Division MMSD Image Collection, and More!
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Sample of the Variety of Items in TGIF, page 2
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Various Display Formats are Available for Search Results; “Brief Table” Display Format Allows Space-Efficiency of Important Fields in the TGIF
Record. Note Items with Full-Text Availability from within TGIF Appear First in the Results Listing
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“Short” Display Format Contains Important Fields, Including Keywords
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“Full” Display Format Shows All Available Information About the TGIF Record
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“Citation” Display Format Orders Results by Author in a Citation-Like Format of Crop Science
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Horizontal Navigation within a TGIF Record Enables Jumping to Related TGIF Records
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“See Also” Data Includes Sets of Records Relating to a Topic
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USGA Research Project Reports Are Accessible as a Group
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Book Chapter Records Can Be Viewed as a Group
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The R&A/STRI Golf Research Database Records Link to Resulting Publications with TGIF Records
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Browsing within TGIF is also Possible Through Turf Topics
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Several Periodical Back-Runs Are Available for Browsing to TGIF Subscribers
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“What’s NEW in Turfgrass Research” Returns Research Articles Recently Added to TGIF
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Turfgrass Theses and Dissertations are Being Loaded as Searchable Full-Text PDFs as Copyright
Permissions are Cleared
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Large PDFs will be Segmented
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Sponsored Theses and Dissertations and Author-Granted Copyright Permissions will be
Acknowledged
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The MSU Libraries wishes to thank the supporters of the TIC Endowment Campaign, members of the Center Advisory Council, and Center subscribers,
especially: