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Palm Beach County Cooperative Extension EDIS Online Publication System

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Palm Beach County Cooperative Extension EDIS Online Publication System

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The EDIS website is your Every Day Information Source. It is a comprehensive, single-source repository of all current University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences –UF/IFAS numbered peer-reviewed publications.
UF/IFAS academic departments develop and maintain a collection of publications available for universal free distribution on the web and through UF/IFAS Extension County Cooperative Extension Offices and Research and Education Centers statewide. Each year, visitors to the EDIS website access one of over 7,000 publication titles more than 26 million times. A streamlined publication process, universal web access, and print as needed services not only reduce the cost but also expand the impact of UF/IFAS publications.

UF/IFAS has had a long history of providing electronic access to publications, beginning in the early 1990s when it began producing handbooks of documents on CD ROMS. The Florida Agricultural Information Retrieval System (FAIRS) website first went online in May 1995 and continued until 1998 when the name changed to Extension Data Information Source (EDIS) to reflect changes in scope and function. EDIS became the single source for all Extension publications and adapted to permit extension units to print documents on an as-needed basis. More recently, the UF/IFAS Solutions for Your Life Web initiative has brought EDIS publications together with other valuable Web resources within the framework in a single Web-user friendly theme and framework.
 
Resources for the daily operation of the EDIS publication system is allocated to EDIS through the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences. The publications are the output of UF/IFAS Extension programs. You can stop by the IFAS Palm Beach County Cooperative Extension Service 531 North Military Trail West Palm to pickup popular IFAS publications or bring in a plant problem sample to be diagnosed by a Master Gardener volunteer M-F 9-4(closed all observed PBC holidays)

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