| Abstract: | ABSTRACT In September 1992 Washington State University at Tri-Cities became one of the nation's first subscribers to OCLC's FirstSearch in order to make user-accessed AGRICOLA and its other automated indexing services available free of charge to everyone on the Ethernet, the branch campus computer network, with its telnet access to the Internet. Arrival of user-accessed AGRICOLA at WSU Tri-Cities was timely due to the addition of a new bachelor of science degree program in the integrated cropping systems typical of the surrounding Columbia Basin arid lands region; the opening of a Food and Environmental Quality Laboratory to monitor local use of pesticides and other substances; the presence on campus of the Cooperative Extension Services District Office, covering eleven counties in the area; and close links with the WSU Agriculture Research and Extension Center at nearby Prosser. |
