USDA
USDA/NAL/AGNIC
he Agriculture Network Information Center (AgNIC) Alliance was formed in 1995 by a group of four land grant institutions - Cornell University, Iowa State University, University of Arizona, and University of Nebraska, Lincoln, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library (NAL). In 1998, NAL assumed the role as “secretariat” to move the partnership forward. Members were committed to creating a voluntary “alliance” dedicated to providing Internet access to quality, authoritative agricultural information, and specialized reference services. In 2007, with 60 voluntary partners, this vision continues to sustain the Alliance, largely due to its collaborative nature. University libraries affiliated with land-grant colleges -- as well as other interested institutions, such as the International Rice Research Institute, the American Farmland Trust and the Agricultural Information and Documentation Service for America (SIDALC), are working together with NAL to develop the AgNIC Alliance, its collections and services, and the technologies upon which it relies. Summary provided by: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agriculture_Network_Information_Center