Viticulture & Winery Technology: Websites

The Australian Wine Research Institue was established in 1955 and aims to be the world's premier wine research institute through the delivery of world class research, development, extension and service activities. The site provides information about the institutes research activities, its organization, research interest and conferences. AWRI publications can be purchased through the site.

Cool Climate Oenology and Viticulture Institute (CCOVI) was established in 1996 as a centre for cool-climate grape and wine research. The institute provides leadership in enhancing and coordinating research and technology important to the grape and wine industry. The website provides information about the Institute and its staff, and research articles by staff at CCOVI related to viticulture and icewine making in particular. Links to Web resources are included. The Institute is a partnership between Brock University and the Ontario grape and wine industry.

Tables of contents and abstracts for the Journal of Wine Research, published by Carfax Publishing, part of the Taylor and Francis Group. It is an international refereed journal, which publishes recent research on all aspects of viticulture, enology and the wine trade, and was founded by the Institute of Masters of Wine to enhance and encourage scholarly and scientific interdisciplinary research in these fields. Tables of contents and abstracts are available from April 2000 onwards. Full-text access to articles (in PDF, requiring Adobe Acrobat Reader) is available to subscribers or on a pay-per-view-basis.

The National Grape Registry (NGR) contains information about varieties of wine, juice, and table grapes, raisins, and grape rootstocks available in the United States.

The Agricultural Research Service (ARS) is the U.S. Department of Agriculture's chief scientific in-house research agency. Their job is finding solutions to agricultural problems that affect Americans every day from field to table.

The Website of the Practical Winery and Vineyard journal, a bi-monthly peer reviewed publication, which publishes articles on every aspect of winegrowing, winemaking, and winemarketing. The website provides access to the contents page of each issue back to January/February 1990, with selected articles from each issue supplied in full-text for free. The site also provides a bookshop with titles available for order through the site.

The Napa Valley Wine Library is an alliance devoted to sharing and preserving information about viticulture, enology and wine lore, particularly in the Napa Valley. The extensive collection of books, magazines, interviews, clippings and other materials is housed at the St. Helena Public Library. The Wine Library is part of the Solano Napa and Partners (SNAP) Consortium. Students can check out materials using their NVC Library Card. While most of the this material does circulate, older and unique items are available for reference only in the Rare Book Room.

The National Agriculture Library (NAL) is a major international source for agriculture and related information. This site provides access to NAL's many resources and a gateway to its associated institutions. AGRICOLA is a searchable bibliographic database of citations to the agricultural literature holdings of the National Agriculture Library and items catalogued by other libraries not held in NAL's colelction. The records describe publications and resources encompassing all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines. Although AGRICOLA does not contain materials, thousands of AGRICOLA records are linked to online full-text documents, with new links being added every day.

The Core Historical Literature of Agriculture is a core electronic collection of agricultural texts published between the early nineteenth century and the middle to late twentieth century. Full-text materials cover agricultural economics, agricultural engineering, animal science, crops and their protection, food science, forestry, human nutrition, rural sociology, and soil science. Scholars have selected the titles in this collection for their historical importance.