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IPMnet NEWS
Major content
for this page
was provided by
Allan Deutsch.
IPMnet NEWS is a
free, global IPM
information
resource service
provided by the
Integrated Plant Protection Center
(IPPC) at Oregon
State
University, with
underwriting
support from the
U.S. Department of
Agriculture’s
Cooperative
State Research,
Education, and
Extension
Service
(CSREES),
the IPM-CRSP,
and IPPC.
To subscribe
(free), send the
message
“subscribe” to:
IPMnet@science.oregonstate.edu
To see back
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http://www.ipmnet.org/IPMNews/main_page.html
Here is a
snapshot of this
publication:
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Published
since: October 1993
without
interruption
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Distributed: free to all
who request
it
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Frequency: published
every 6
weeks
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E-mail
subscribers: 5,749
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Number of
subscriber
countries: 151, with the
addition of
Algeria,
Iraq, and
Macedonia in
2007.
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Type of
subscriber
organizations: all major
U.S. land
grant
institutions
with crop
pest
management
activities,
including
the four U.S.
Regional
Pest
Management
Centers;
all CGIAR
international
agricultural
research
centers
involved
with crop
protection,
plus several
non‑CGIAR
international
centers such
as AVRDC
and CATIE;
World
Bank; Asian
Development
Bank; FAO;
USAID
missions;
USDA (especially
ARS
and APHIS
personnel);
and dozens
of
agricultural
research-extension
centers,
both
governmental
and private
sector,
worldwide;
and many
recipients
representing
NARS
(national
agricultural
research
systems)
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Format: published as
a
direct-to-subscriber
e-mail in
English
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Other
outlets: numerous
smaller
pass-along
networks
and informal
arrangements
share
the file for
each IPMnet NEWS
issue with
specific
sub-groups
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Total
viewership: adding
together
e‑mail
subscribers,
plus those
connected to
sub‑networks,
and those
who see
republication
of portions
of the NEWS
by others
translates
into each
issue of the
NEWS being
viewed on an
estimated
6,000+
computer
screens
worldwide,
and in
partial form
on an
additional
2,000
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Funding: comes from
grants
from USDA’s
CSREES IPM
Extension
section and from
USAID’s
IPM-CRSP, plus
hosting and
supplemental
funding
from OSU’s IPPC
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Collaboration: the
International Association
for the Plant
Protection
Sciences (IAPPS)
requests IPMnet
NEWS e-mail
subscriptions
for all new
members of the
Association; the
International Society for Pest
Information
(ISPI) polls
all its nearly
7,000 global
participants for
their interest
in subscribing
to IPMnet NEWS,
leading to many
of them opting
to become
subscribers
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Calendar: IPMnet
maintains the
IPMnet CALENDAR
as the
single most
comprehensive,
regularly
revised,
multi-disciplinary
global listing
of IPM/crop
protection-related
events
(symposia,
conferences,
short courses)
freely available
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Formalities: IPMnet NEWS
has an assigned
ISSN
(international
standard serial
number), and is
covered under
U.S. copyright.
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Format: The NEWS’
e-mail version
remains consistent and
readily
recognizable,
although the
contents and
organization of
sections
continue to
evolve with
small tweaks in
almost every
issue; this
style was
adopted to be
readable by
computer systems
that may not
have access to a
wide range of
programs; it
also avoids many
of the current
e-mail and
Windows-associated
viruses and
worms, and it is
relatively quick
and easy to
access without a
long download
delay.
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Regular Features: Specific
sections
uniquely devoted
to coverage of
the USDA-CSREES
Regional IPM
Centers and USAID’s
IPM-CRSP appear in almost
every issue of
the NEWS; other
sections report
on current
publications,
websites, CDs,
and other
information
sources
related to IPM
and crop pest
management.
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Web version: NEWS issues
from #16 up to
present have
been configured
in HTML at
http://www.ipmnet.org/IPMNews/main_page.html on the IPPC
website.
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Uniqueness: IPMnet
believes that
there still is
no other free, regularly
periodic,
internationally
distributed
electronic
newsletter
singularly
devoted to
dissemination of
current,
broad-scope IPM
and crop pest
management
information.
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