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List of Selected Indexes to Academic/Scholarly Articles, other databases available from the Agriculture Databases page. (go to the Databases page, then scroll down under select a subject to: agriculture, soil and crop sciences, weed sciences, or natural sciences)

  • Agricola 1970-present, updated monthly. Citations and abstracts for articles from over 600 periodicals, as well as USDA and state experiment station and extension publications. This extensive database provides selective worldwide coverage of primary information sources in agriculture, forestry, and related fields. The literature cited is primarily in English, but over one-third of the database comprises citations in Western European, Slavic, Asian, and African languages.

  • AGRIS International 1975-present,updated monthly. AGRIS, the international information system for the agricultural sciences and technology, was createdby the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in 1974, to facilitate information exchange and to identify world literature dealing with all aspects of agriculture. AGRIS is a cooperative system in which participating countries input references to the literature produced within their boundaries and, in return, draw on the information provided by the other participants. 199 national, international and intergovernmental centres participate and submit about 14.000 items per month. The system collects bibliographic references (to date, about 3 million) to either conventional (journal articles, books) or non-conventional materials (sometimes called "grey literature" e.g. theses, reports, etc.), not available through ordinary commercial channels. One of the main reasons for AGRIS' existence is to encourage the exchange of information among developing countries, whose literature would not be covered by other international systems.

  • ASAE Technical Library coverage varies, updated on demand. The site was launched in January 2001 with technical documents added as they were published through out the year. Each year nearly 20,000 pages of content will be added. Some material published prior to 2001 has been added to the site in PDF only format. More is scheduled to be added as funds allow.

  • Biological Abstracts 1980-present, updated quarterly. Citations and abstracts for articles with national and international coverage. Includes agriculture, biotechnology, botany, ecology, and other biological science subject areas. Approximately 75% of the records include abstracts.

  • Biological Sciences 1982-present, updated monthly. This interdisciplinary database offers abstracts and citations to a wide range of research in biomedicine, biotechnology, zoology and ecology, and some aspects of agriculture and veterinary science. Supporting over two dozen areas of expertise, this CSA database provides access to literature from over 6000 serials, as well as conference proceedings, technical reports, monographs and selected books and patents.

  • BioOne 2000-present, with some journal coverage back to 1998. Updates vary depending on journal. BioOne is the product of innovative collaboration between scientific societies, libraries, academe and the private sector. BioOne brings to the Web a uniquely valuable aggregation of the full-texts of high-impact bioscience research journals. Most of BioOne's titles are published by small societies and non-commercial publishers, and, until now, have been available only in printed form. BioOne provides integrated, cost-effective access to a thoroughly linked information resource of interrelated journals focused on the biological, ecological and environmental sciences.

  • CAB Abstracts 1972-present, updated quarterly. This database covers the subject of agriculture in the broadest sense including biotechnology, crop protection, forestry, rural development, veterinary medicine, and other topics. Journals, monographs, conferences, books, annual reports, and other sources from more than 100 countries are included in the database. Nearly all the records have English abstracts.
  • Ecology Abstracts 1969-present, updated monthly. Ecology Abstracts focuses on how organisms of all kinds - microbes, plants, and animals - interact with their environments and with other organisms. Included are relevant papers on evolutionary biology, economics, and systems analysis as they relate to ecosystems or the environment. With coverage ranging from habitats to food chains, from erosion to land reclamation, the journal provides an important cross-section of current findings in target research areas. Comprehensive, yet carefully focused coverage makes this an essential resource for scientists concerned with preserving the environment.

  • Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management 1981-present, updated monthly. This multidisciplinary database, provides unparalleled and comprehensive coverage of the environmental sciences. Abstracts and citations are drawn from over 4000 scientific journals and thousands of other sources including conference proceedings, reports, monographs, books and government publications.

  • FAO STAT (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.) Coverage and update frequency varies. FAOSTAT is an on-line and multilingual databases currently containing over 1 million time-series records covering international statistics in the following areas: Production, Trade, Food Balance Sheets, Fertilizer and Pesticides, Land Use and Irrigation, Forest Products, Fishery Products, Population, Agricultural Machinery, Food Aid Shipments.

  • Microbiology Abstracts A: Industrial and Applied Microbiology Abstracts Industrial and Applied Microbiology Abstracts 1982-present, updated monthly. Significant findings and practical applications in agricultural, food and beverage, chemical, and pharmaceutical industries are assembled in this journal, making it an indispensable resource for research laboratories and academic libraries in any of these areas: Microbial Degradation, Food Microbiology, Microbial Toxins, Plant Diseases, Post-Harvest Decay, Plant Protection, Forestry, Soil Microorganisms, Mineral Microbiology, Protection of Materials, Hydrocarbons, Microbial Resistance, Antimicrobial Agents.

  • Plant Science 1994-present, updated monthly. Plant Science is a bibliographic database containing citations and abstracts of scientific literature on plant science, focussing on all plant scientific aspects, especially on pathology, symbiosis, biochemistry, genetics, biotechnology, techniques and environmental biology. Over 250 primary research journals are scanned by specialized scientific editors to add approximately 23,000 titles to the database each year. From July 1996 onwards, informative abstracts have been added when available.

  • Web of Science 1945-present, updated weekly. The Science Citation Index is a multidisciplinary database, with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of the sciences, including forestry. It indexes more than 5,700 major journals across 164 scientific disciplines.

    • Indexes to Newspaper articles and general articles

  • Academic Universe (Lexis-Nexis) Dates covered and update frequency vary by title. Academic Universe is a collection of online databases: News, Business, Legal Medical, and Reference. The news section covers national and international newspapers, many available in full-text.
  • Ebsco Academic Search Premier Coverage varies with each journal-present, updated six times a year. Information on a wide range of science and social science subjects from general and academic journals.

    • Handbooks and Encyclopedias

  • Most of these books are located in Morgan Library Reference:
    • AGRICOLA Subject Category Codes useful for more advanced searching in the database
    • Dictionary of agriculture / editor, Alan Stephens. 2nd ed. S411 .D573 1998 REF
    • Dictionary of agriculture : from abaca to zoonosis / Kathryn L. Lipton. S411 .L55 1995 REF
    • Dictionary of soils = Dictionnaire des sols / G. Plaisance and A. Cailleux. A 1.2:S 683/3 DOC
    • Glossary of crop science terms / [Robert F. Barnes and James B.Beard, ed.] SB45 .G57 1992 REF
    • Handbook of plant and crop stress / edited by Mohammad Pessa. 2nd ed. SB112.5 .H363 1999 REF
    • Handbook of soil science / editor-in-chief, Malcolm E. Sumner. S591.H23 2000 REF
    • Nutrient deficiencies and toxicities in crop plants / edited by William F. Bennett. SB742 .N86 1993 REF
    • Practical pedology : studying soils in the field / Stuart G. McRae. S591 .M38 1988
    • Full text from Natural Resources Conservation Service (in PDF format)

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Allison Level originally created the content of this page, but as of June 2007 it is no longer being updated.