You want to:

• Solve your production problems?
• Improve quality of your products?
• Use advanced techniques?
• Find market opportunities?
• Be with the avant-garde of the industry?
• Develop new cultures?
• Increase your profits?

BUT, you lack time to:

• Read and classify your publications
• Maintain your knowledge up to date
• Surf on the Internet
• Visit commercial exhibitions and trial sites
• To meet producers.

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HORTIDATA enables you to obtain in a flash the information you need! Furthermore, it is simple and easy to use!
 

What is HORTIDATA?

HORTIDATA is the data bank specialized in ornamental production that the Quebec Institute for the development of ornamental horticulture (IQDHO) develops since 1992. This data bank is unique. It contains more than 31,000 references of technical articles which were read, selected and indexed by specialists in ornamental horticulture in order to be accessed quickly.

HORTIDATA gives you access within seconds to an impressive quantity of technical and practical information on production, management and marketing of ornamental plants in greenhouses and nurseries. It contains innovative and avant-garde information, coming from private and public sources.

The search for information can be carried out in three languages, French, English and Spanish, using simple and technical key words. The digitized texts of the articles remain in their original language.

A request gives access to three successive levels of information:

First level: list by titles of articles

Second level: bibliographical references and key words

Third level: digitized text of an article (PDF) when the reproduction rights on the Internet were obtained*

*Royalties

For texts selected and digitized in the data bank, IQDHO proceeded at the requests of reproduction rights on the Internet, in contacting the presumed holders of the royalties (editors, associations, companies, and authors) and thereafter having those rights according to received information of its first contacts. Consequently, the digitized articles available in HORTIDATA data bank are those for which the reproduction rights were obtained or for which IQDHO believe in all good faith to have obtained the rights. In the same way, the digitized copies of the indexed texts whose holder of the rights is untraceable are not accessible. If an error has slipped into the access to the digitized texts, you are requested to warn us about it as soon as possible by email.

Where does the information come from?

Information comes from articles selected in more than one hundred technical publications specialized in ornamental horticulture such as:

Information is also selected among publications provided by research and information centers, suppliers, associations, governments, etc.

Information Geographical Origin 55 % United States 25 % Canada 15 % Europe 5 % Others

The following productions are covered:

A data-processing research in HORTIDATA data bank gives access to information on the whole of the subjects related to the ornamental production such as:

Reminder about the indexed articles

IQDHO does not index all the articles published in the publications. A selection is carried out by agronomists. The selected texts treat various aspects related to the production and to the industry of ornamental horticulture.

TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS

• A computer with Internet access
• One of the following Web browsers: Internet Explorer 4 or Netscape Navigator 4, or more recent versions
• The software Acrobat Reader 4 or more recent versions **

**You can download Free Acrobat Reader software on Adobe site .