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Several established online resources provide the fire community with ready access to fire science information. Select any of the external links below to search for documents related to your fire science needs.

Encyclopedia of Southern Fire Science
A searchable synthesis of fire behavior, fire effects, fire and people, prescribed fire, smoke management, wildfire, and fire ecology.

Fire Effects Information System
FEIS contains literature reviews on more than 1,100 species and their relationships with fire. Reviews cover plants and animals throughout the United States, providing a wealth of information for NEPA, resource planning, and fire management.

Fire Ecology Database
Developed by Tall Timbers Research Station, this database includes over 26,000 citations for fire science and research literature.

Fire Research Institute
A not-for-profit library holding over 80,000 books, journal articles, videos, training manuals, dissertations, news reports, and other material on wildland fire. The institute offers a free monthly newsletter listing new publications. To be on the mailing list, contact fire_research_institute@hotmail.com

FRAMES - The Fire Research And Management Exchange System
Technology in Support of Wildland Fire Research and Management
FRAMES provides a systematic method of exchanging information and transferring technology between wildland fire researchers, managers, and other stakeholders in order to make wildland fire documents, data, tools, and other information resources easy to find, access, distribute, compare, and use.

JFSP Fire Science Briefs
Search past editions of the JFSP Fire Science Briefs, which are published monthly to help managers find and use the best available fire science information.

JFSP Scribd Documents
Through the JFSP Scribed site, a selection of Joint Fire Science Program documents can be easily read, shared, and downloaded using a variety of devices (including mobile).

Southern Fire Portal
Search for fire-related publications, datasets, databases, decision-support tools, models, glossaries, interactive CD-ROMs, videos, and state-of-the-knowledge literature syntheses (prior to 2007).

TreeSearch
This online system searches for publications by Research and Development scientists in the US Forest Service.