Scientific and technical information on the Sahel

The Sahel Institute has just launched the publication of a biannual bibliographic series called RESINDEX. Developed as part of the Sahel Network on Information and Scientific and Technical Documentation, this bibliography is the result of cooperation among several national and regional centres involved in the RESADOC data base. RESINDEX consists of two parts: a bibliographic list where the references are classified according to RESADOC's categories (crop production, crop protection and harvest, livestock, fishing, environment, ecology, energy, hydrology, transportation, infrastructure, commercialization, demography, health/nutrition, human resources, rural economics and sociology, economic development planning, information/documentation), and an index by subject, geographic location, institute and author By thus creating its own 'memory bank', the Sahel Institute will no doubt make more efficient use of studies in its possession and increase its programming capacity, with a view to launching more widespread development activities in the Sahel Finally, by publishing RESINDEX, the Sahel Institute opens the way to a more effective use of existing documentation on the Sahel. RESINDEX: Sahel Bibliography, Bamako, Sahel Institute, 1985. To receive a copy of this publication, write to: RESADOC Programme Sahel Institute P O. Box 1530 Bamako, MALI West Africabiannual bibliographic series called RESINDE