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Résumé :
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Scientific technical communication is continously producing new technical terms and new expressions, and consequently, is vivid and constitutes a continuing creative process. In recent years, a considerable number of excellent publications have been published in the field of forestry and related subjects which take into account many new emerging concepts and provide clear and comprehensive definitions. Documentation,i.e., the collection and dissemination of information, has been one of the central activities in the field of terminology and is considered to be a basis for subsequent work on terms and definitions. Forestry in particular currently needs to open and broaden the understanding of its technical language in order to respond to the growing demand from the wider and less well-instructed public. The purpose of IUFRO's SylvaVoc project is to produce a bibliography designed to provide an overview of and knowledge about the existing dictionaries, glossaries and other papers and publications in the field of forestry. In effect, the bibliography is an inventory of the resources in the field. This Bibliography was compiled during the last three to four years, starting approximately in 1993. In total, it gives references to more than 350 publications covering a wide range of text types : there are thesauri, monolingual, multilingual dictionaries as well as terminologies and papers discussing terminological issues or classification problems. For all of these items, forestry is the common denominator. IUFRO is proud that a great number of the referenced publications can be consulted at its Vienna office. More than 40 languages are represented, the most frequent citations being, of course, in English or in combination with English, French, Spanish and German.
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