TPI Members Get Exclusive Worldwide Access to Turfgrass Science Information through TGIF
The Turf Information Center (TIC) located at Michigan State University maintains a turf database called the Turfgrass Information File (TGIF).
The TGIF database is designed to be flexible for all users, from those accessing for the first-time to the more sophisticated users. TGIF provides bibliographic and descriptive records of all types of works related to turfgrass culture. This database contains more than 100,000 records of the most comprehensive collection of turfgrass educational materials in the world. As a significant added benefit to Turfgrass Producers International (TPI) members at no charge, this valuable database is only available to others for a fee.
Instructions for accessing the TGIF database:
Click on Enter TGIF link below
Welcome TPI members appears and click on the box "Click Here to Search TGIF"
Be sure to click that you accept conditions and terms. It will bring you to the Basic Search option. Now you have exclusive access to turfgrass science information at your fingertips!
Basic Search
The default page of TGIF is the Basic Search page. Instead of using a question or common language, type the most important words such as white grub control. Type phrases such as brown patch, without quotation marks. Typing only part of the search word may produce better results as truncation happens automatically. For example, typing fertili will automatically find fertilizer, fertilization, fertilization, fertility, etc. When searching for two or more topics, put semicolons between them. For example, if winterkill; cold tolerance is typed, TGIF will retrieve everything about winterkill OR cold tolerance.
More detailed instructions can be found at http://tic.msu.edu/search.html
In addition to the TGIF database, archives of all TPI Turf News magazines are available (editions published prior to the current year).
