The need for a database of this type was made clear in a paper given by J.C. Sandford at the 5th World Rabbit Congress in 1992:
"An important need, then, is for easier access to the literature, of necessity much in abstracted form. The ability to obtain, from one source only, a detailed list of previous work on a particular subject, would be of inestimable value and saving in time to the workers in rabbit science. In fact, the combined efforts to produce such a source would be a good deal less than the time needed by research workers separately to produce their own, and, as a continuing source, would become increasinly valuable. Experience of the past indicates that such an operation is very unlikely to be undertaken or financed by and Government. It is a task which is too great for a small group of individuals, except perhaps in a very restricted field. It is, however, perhaps a task which might well be organized by the World Rabbit Science Association."
Due to this growing need, and to provide a reference base for the "Pan-American Rabbit Science Newsletter", this database was begun in 1994. This database is the engine behind the Newsletter. Collection of a small user fee is necessary since there is no funding whatsoever, no tenured salary and very little other income at all. But certainly the time that this service can save a researcher, by getting all the references found and put in chronological order with volume and page number of each citing, is well worth the small fee. However, this database has been studiously ignored by the World Rabbit Science Association members since it is not assembled by one of their "peers".
This database gives volume and page number of every citing of every database entry. It is essential that researchers consider this database for all research on a topic, to find locations and context of citings, as well as to consider whether or not to bring into their discussion rabbit articles which have not been included in this database.
This database can be sorted by keywords <A to I> or <J to Z> or by <author>.
Here is an example. Besides finding most of the studies you need by keyword or author, this database finds the important CITINGS of articles, so you can read what other authors have said about a particular reference.
The database shows that this article:
Carabaño R., Fraga M.J., Santomá G., de Blas J.C. (1988) Effect of diet on composition of caecal contents and on excretion and composition of soft and hard faeces of rabbits. J. Anim. Sci. 66(4), 901-910.
has been cited in 5 other major studies:
It is this locating of important CITINGS of the particular reference article that makes this database unique.
If you do any research of references, you will appreciate how helpful this is, having a list of important citings, giving actual volume and page number of the citing. No other database will give you this information!
You too, can use this important rabbit research database!
As there is no funding for this database project (or for this web site), use of the database is by prepaid fee. Usage fee is only US$15 per individual request plus US$1.00 per page for output over four pages, includes mailing. Add US$1.00 for a DOS text file on disk. Fees are necessary to cover the huge amount of time involved in assembling this database. Goods and Services Tax of seven percent is in addition to these fees.
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