The Inter­na­tional Rice Research Institute’s Library is respon­si­ble for main­tain­ing the Rice Bib­li­og­ra­phy. Whereas the library cat­a­logue con­tains a large col­lec­tion of books and jour­nals of inter­est to sci­en­tists research­ing rice or rice-related top­ics, the Rice Bib­li­og­ra­phy is a com­pre­hen­sive bib­li­og­ra­phy of all books and arti­cles directly per­tain­ing to rice. It endeav­ours to include all arti­cles and books relat­ing to rice in the world, and is the world’s largest and most com­plete source of sci­en­tific infor­ma­tion about rice with almost 8,000 new ref­er­ences added each year. All arti­cles per­tain­ing to rice are sought out for the Rice Bib­li­og­ra­phy and IRRI Library acquires copies of the arti­cle whether or not it holds the par­tic­u­lar ser­ial in its col­lec­tion.Over the years the Rice Bib­li­og­ra­phy has been mounted on a total of four soft­ware pack­ages. The ver­sion on the screen before you con­tains ref­er­ences from 1970 onwards. Older ref­er­ences, a few going back to the mid-18th cen­tury, are avail­able for search­ing at IRRI Library.

From their web­site and from the announce­ment by ALA (ACRL-STS) of the 2009 (bien­nial)Oberly Award for Bib­li­og­ra­phy in the Agri­cul­tural or Nat­ural Sciences.