outline of a database on water resource research projects and documents with emphasis on document delivery

this project aims at collecting and cataloging the information pertaining to the research projects and documents concerning water resource. the data collected along with abstracts were entered into worksheets in compliance with us- marc bibliographic format. they were fed into the computer following the necessary validation process. so far more than 5000 documents (proceedings, research report, dissertations and journal articles) have been entered and it is possible to simulataneously retrieve both the information and the actual document. the documents are in persian, french, english, german and russian. the descriptors are in both persian and english.