Current Research Information System (CRIS)
The Current Research Information System (CRIS) is the U.S. Department of Agriculture's documentation and reporting system for ongoing agricultural, food and nutrition, and forestry research. CRIS contains over 30,000 descriptions of current, publicly-supported research projects of the USDA agencies, the State Agricultural Experiment Stations, the State land-grant colleges and universities, State schools of forestry, cooperating schools of veterinary medicine, and USDA grant recipients. All projects performed at the West Virginia Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station, regardless of funding source, are entered to CRIS.

The database reports on current projects at many institutions. The participants in CRIS include

USDA

• Agricultural Research Service
• Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service
• Economic Research Service
• Foreign Agricultural Service
• Forest Service
• Natural Resources Conservation Service
• Rural Business-Cooperative Service

State Institutions

• State Agricultural Experiment Stations
• 1862 Land Grant Institutions
• 1890 Institutions and Tuskegee University
• Cooperating Schools of Veterinary Medicine
• State Forestry Schools

Other Participants

• National Research Initiative Competitive Grant Recipients
• Small Business Innovation Research Grant Recipients

The process by which projects submitted through the West Virginia Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station are reviewed is summarized in flow chart form at http://cristel.nal.usda.gov:8080/images/crisflow.gif .