Natural Resource Bibliography, Inventory Brief

National Park Service

The NatureBib data system has undergone an extensive redesign and in 2010 and it was replaced by the Reference Application in the online Natural Resource Information (NRInfo) Portal (http://nrinfo.nps.gov). All NatureBib records have been migrated to this new system. The focus of these records is primarily on reports, articles, conference proceedings, theses and dissertations, gray literature, and other documents that contain information on park natural resources. In particular, the inventory captures references that may not be easily located via commercial on-line reference services (e.g., BIOSIS, JStor) or via public or academic libraries. In addition to standard bibliographic information, the portal-based Reference Application permits the uploading of full-text versions of documents and publications, so that users can view or download documents corresponding to their search results. The Reference Application in the NRInfo Portal currently houses over 300,000 records. It also contains thousands of geospatial and other data sets that have been merged in from a related application, the NPS Data Store. NPS staff across the country continue to add and update records on a daily basis.