AANRO is an on-line service developed in 1996 by integrating three databases, Australian Agricultural Research in Progress (AARIP), Australian Bibliography of Agriculture (ABOA) and Streamline (the national water research database). AANRO is funded through the Primary Industries Standing Committee (PISC), the NRM Standing Committee (NRMSC) and the Rural Research and Development Corporations (RDCs). Accordingly the owners of AANRO are PISC, NRMSC and the RDCs.
In accordance with Government policy, all AANRO Program Partners have an obligation to ensure knowledge gained from publicly funded research, development and extension is freely available and easily accessible.
The audience is primarily the agricultural and natural resources research community, which includes all AANRO Program Partners plus some smaller groups such as the Catchment Management Authorities (eg. Corangamite).
The primary value of AANRO is that it provides the opportunity to access research in progress and other unpublished research information (grey literature) that is very difficult or impossible to find using internet search engines such as Google.
In addition, AANRO provides a listing of all research being undertaken or has been undertaken previously in each drainage division, agro-ecological region, catchment, state or territory and is the only service that provides a drill-down mechanism to find this information.