While CotRes is now easier to maintain and use than ever before, it is still difficult to convince many researchers to use a few minutes of their limited time to fill out the CotRes submission form. It is equally challenging to remind them on a regular basis to keep their own information in the database current. As more researchers submit information to CotRes, the more useful it will be, and the more useful it is, then more researchers will want to submit information to it. But reaching that critical mass has been and will continue to be a struggle. Feedback from users who have found CotRes valuable provides the inspiration to continue to expand and refine the database, however.
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CotRes has shown slow but steady growth in size. Opening up CotRes to submissions by international researchers should, in the coming year, begin to increase the rate of growth of the database. Dissemination Activities and accomplishments of CotRes are reported to Cotton Incorporated in quarterly and annual reports and annual project review meetings. CotRes is among the resources and services described in reports to the Texas Food and Fibers Commission, a state agency that provides the majority of NFIC funding. Cotton Incorporated's home page includes a hot link to the CotRes page, and numerous other web sites have linked to ours as well, providing Internet visibility.