EDINA Update: The Farming and Countryside Index

EDINA Update is a bibliographic index to “land‐based literature whose focus is more practical than scholarly”. This database claims to be the only index to cover popular press and trade magazines in agriculture and related subjects. If it delivered on this claim, the database would be tremendously valuable to academic libraries, public libraries, farmers, and environmental organizations. Large numbers of agricultural news publications, environmental association magazines, gardening periodicals, trade association publications and practical government‐produced literature are available. While these publications vary greatly in quality, agricultural literature is vast and often difficult to access. Since the advent of the internet, a...