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Size of database: 100,000+ records!

# of Periodicals Monitored: Over 300!

# TGIF Searches in 2004: Over 76,000!

Academic Institutions subscribing to TGIF: More than 50!

Countries with TGIF users: 35+ countries!

Oldest publication in TGIF: 1665!

# Languages represented in TGIF records: More than 30!

TGIF Factoids

TGIF Basic Search Screen

Note the Ability to Limit by Industry Sector

Guided Search Enables Boolean Operators (AND, OR, NOT) and Various Limiting Options

Power Search, for Advanced Searchers, Enables Precise Searches

TGIF Contains a Variety of Item Types, Including Periodical Articles, Research and Technical Reports, Books and Book Chapters, Published Q&As,

Scanned Golf Course Plans From and Video Interviews With Selected Members of the American Society of Golf Course Architects, Sample

Photographs from the Noer/Milorganite® Division MMSD Image Collection, and More!

Sample of the Variety of Items in TGIF, page 2

Various Display Formats are Available for Search Results; “Brief Table” Display Format Allows Space-Efficiency of Important Fields in the TGIF

Record. Note Items with Full-Text Availability from within TGIF Appear First in the Results Listing

“Short” Display Format Contains Important Fields, Including Keywords

“Full” Display Format Shows All Available Information About the TGIF Record

“Citation” Display Format Orders Results by Author in a Citation-Like Format of Crop Science

Horizontal Navigation within a TGIF Record Enables Jumping to Related TGIF Records

“See Also” Data Includes Sets of Records Relating to a Topic

USGA Research Project Reports Are Accessible as a Group

Book Chapter Records Can Be Viewed as a Group

The R&A/STRI Golf Research Database Records Link to Resulting Publications with TGIF Records

Browsing within TGIF is also Possible Through Turf Topics

Several Periodical Back-Runs Are Available for Browsing to TGIF Subscribers

“What’s NEW in Turfgrass Research” Returns Research Articles Recently Added to TGIF

Turfgrass Theses and Dissertations are Being Loaded as Searchable Full-Text PDFs as Copyright

Permissions are Cleared

Large PDFs will be Segmented

Sponsored Theses and Dissertations and Author-Granted Copyright Permissions will be

Acknowledged

The MSU Libraries wishes to thank the supporters of the TIC Endowment Campaign, members of the Center Advisory Council, and Center subscribers,

especially: