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TEEAL is The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library. Launched in 1999, the TEEAL collection is a searchable, offline, digital library which contains mainly agriculturally focused reference journals, as well as coverage in related subject areas. The collection is updated annually, though the base set is currently provided to new subscribers via a 1TB hard drive by Cornell University’s Mann Library. With the release of the 2011 Update of TEEAL, the non-profit digital library now contains more than 275 prestigious full-text journals from leading publishers. TEEAL is a project of Cornell University's (Albert R. Mann Library ) in cooperation with over 80 major scientific publishers, societies and index providers. Initial financial support was provided by the Rockefeller Foundation, while the project is currently funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Funding of TEEAL sets is also made available within limited and specific time frames to those within ACP-eligible countries by the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation ACP-EU (CTA). ==History== The idea for TEEAL arose in the 1980s, and was created by Wallace Olsen, former Senior Research Associate, and Jan Olsen, former Director, of Mann Library. During travels to developing countries, the Olsens saw underfunded and out-of-date journal collections. TEEAL was born in order to effect long-term improvements in food security and agricultural development by giving scientists better access to current research.〔http://www.teeal.org/about.html#history〕 TEEAL was initially formed as a database of citations, linking to articles stored on hundreds of CD-ROMs. In 1999, the TEEAL Project sold its first “Library in a Box” — 130 journals with 600,000 pages of articles, stored on 100 compact discs — to the University of Zimbabwe. When local area networks became more common in institutions and libraries in the developing world, TEEAL (formerly LanTEEAL), the network-based variant of TEEAL, was developed and made available subscribers. The institutions which previously subscribed to the CD-ROM version of TEEAL, which is no longer updated or supported, are communicated with accordingly and urged to update to the newest available hardware for the collection (given significant purchase discounts to aid in processing). Updates are made to the TEEAL collection on an annual basis - therefore ensuring that the content being made available becomes increasingly thorough and current. The next TEEAL update, which is expected to be released in March 2014, will increase the total number of journals in the collection by another 50 (or more) new journal titles. Such an increase will be the largest number of journals that TEEAL has ever included in a single yearly update. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「TEEAL」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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