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Subjects in Agriculture, Biology, Ecology

Indexes and Databases in Agriculture, Biology, Ecology

Academic Search Premier Authentication Required
Coverage: Coverage varies, some starting with 1975 - present, updated continuously.
This resource is licensed by the MINITEX Library Information Network with state appropriations from the Minnesota Higher Education Services Office (MHESO) and the Minnesota Department of Education.
The world's largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,600 scholarly publications, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals.
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AgEcon Search
Coverage: 1993 - present (varies by school), updated monthly.
Full text library of agricultural and applied literature.
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AGRICOLA Authentication Required
Coverage: 1970 - present, updated monthly.
Search here to find citations and abstracts for articles from over 600 periodicals, as well as USDA and state experiment station and extension publications, and selected books on agriculture, animal husbandry, animal and human nutrition, forestry, plant pathology, plant science, human ecology, agricultural economics, rural sociology.
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Agricultural and Environmental Biotechnology Abstracts Authentication Required
Covers agricultural products involving both plants and animals, new applications across the food industry, plant genome studies ,and environmental developments.
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AGRIS Authentication Required
Coverage: 1975 - present, updated quarterly.
Strong in agricultural and development economics of developing countries; AGRIS, the International System for the Agricultural Sciences and Technology, is an international bibliographic database.
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Agris - FAO Databases
Information for international agricultural research.
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Animal Health and Production Compendium Authentication Required
An encyclopaedic, interactive database that draws together scientific information on Animal Health and Production.
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AnimalScience.com Authentication Required
Coverage: 1973 - present
Covers all aspects of veterinary science, including parasitology and zoonotic disease, as well as animal nutrition, equine science, animal production and animal genetics, and aquaculture and fisheries.
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Aquaculture Compendium Authentication Required
An encyclopaedic, interactive database that draws together scientific information on Aquaculture.
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ASFA 3: Aquatic Pollution and Environmental Quality Authentication Required
Coverage is devoted to research and policy on the contamination of oceans, seas, lakes, rivers, and estuaries.
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ASFA: Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Authentication Required
Coverage: 1978-present, updated monthly
Includes comprehensive information on the science and technology of marine, freshwater, and brackishwater organisms and environments.
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Bacteriology Abstracts (Microbiology B) Authentication Required
Topics range from bacterial immunology and vaccinations to diseases of man and animals, including clinical findings as well as all aspects of pure bacteriology, biochemistry, and genetics.
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BEAST CD Authentication Required
Coverage: 1973-present
VetCD and BeastCD have been renamed AnimalScience.com.
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Bibliography of Fossil Vertebrates
The BFV Online is an electronic version of the bibliography volumes published for years 1981-1993
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Biological Abstracts Authentication Required
Coverage: 1980-2003
Biological Abstracts (part of BIOSIS Previews) is one of the foremost sources of bibliographic references to the life science journal literature.
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BIOSIS Previews Authentication Required
Coverage: 1996 - present, updated monthly.
Covers the biological and medical sciences, including biochemistry, biophysics, biotechnology, botany, environment, microbiology, and zoology. Provides citations and abstracts to articles, conference papers, technical reports and chapters of books from over 5000 publications.
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CAB Abstracts Plus Full Text Select Authentication Required
Coverage: 1910 - present
CAB Abstracts covers agriculture in its broadest sense, including crop production, forestry, environment, animal health and nutrition, veterinary science, agricultural engineering, biotechnology, soil and water, agricultural economics, recreation and tourism, rural sociology, and human nutrition and health.
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Crop Protection Compendium Authentication Required
An encyclopaedic, interactive database that draws together scientific information on Crop Production.
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Current Contents Authentication Required
Coverage: 1994 - present, updated weekly
FYI: Current Contents Database to be Replaced on January 1, 2006!
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Department of Energy "DOE Information Bridge"
Coverage: 1996 - present
DOE Information Bridge provides free, convenient, and quick access to full-text DOE research and development reports in physics, chemistry, materials, biology, environmental sciences, energy technologies, engineering, computer and information science, renewable energy, and other topics.
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Digital Dissertations Authentication Required
Coverage: 1861 - present (Doctoral dissertations); 1962 - present (Masters theses).
Dissertations and theses from over 1000 universities.
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Ecology Abstracts Authentication Required
Focuses on how microbes, plants, and animals interact with their environments and with other organisms.
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EIS: Digests of Environmental Impact Statements Authentication Required
Includes abstracts of the hundreds of environmental impact statements issued by the federal government each year, indexed for easy reference.
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Environmental Engineering Abstracts Authentication Required
Covers the world literature pertaining to technological and engineering aspects of air and water quality, environmental safety, and energy production.
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Environmental Impact Statements: Full-text and Digests Authentication Required
Environmental Impact Statements (EIS) are documents that help the government and the general public understand the effects of developments on the environment and to decide whether developments should go ahead.Full text statements are available from 2003-present and digests (summaries) are available from 1985-present.
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Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management Database Authentication Required
Coverage: 1967 - present
This database provides comprehensive, multidisciplinary coverage of the environmental sciences.
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Faculty of 1000 - Biology Authentication Required
Current literature awareness service which highlights the "most interesting papers" in biology, based on the recommendations of over 1000 leading scientists.
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Fish & Fisheries Worldwide Authentication Required
Coverage: 1971 - present, updated quarterly.
A working biologist's index to all aspects of ichthyology, fisheries and aquaculture, including fish management, natural history, and fish health, plus environmental, habitat, and commercial information.
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Forestry Abstracts Authentication Required
Coverage: 1939 - present (Access 1973 - present via CAB Abstracts : Access 1939 - 1972 via CAB Archive)
Covers all aspects of forest management, tree biology and forest ecology, including silviculture, provenance studies, inventories, economics, agroforestry, husbandry of non-wood forest products, tree anatomy and physiology, climate, soils, forest ecology, tree breeding, fire, forest pests and protection, forest conservation and arboriculture.
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Forestry Compendium Authentication Required
An encyclopaedic, interactive database that draws together scientific information on Forestry.
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FPI: Flowering Plant Index Authentication Required
Coverage: 1982 - present, updated daily.
Part of the Plant Information Online database.
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Global Health Authentication Required
Coverage: 1973 to Present
Global Health brings together the resources of two internationally renowned databases - the Public Health and Tropical Medicine (PHTM) database, previously produced by the Bureau of Hygiene and Tropical Diseases (BHTD), and the human health and diseases information extracted from CAB ABSTRACTS. Over 16,000 serial sources from more than 130 countries are scanned regularly for inclusion in the Global Health database, to produce approximately 25,000 new entries per year.
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Health and Safety Science Abstracts Authentication Required
Published in association with the University of Southern California's Institute of Safety and Systems Management, this database provides a comprehensive, timely survey of recent work relating to public health, safety, and industrial hygiene.
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HubMed
Alternative interface to the MEDLINE/PubMed health and biological sciences database.
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Human Population and Natural Resource Management Authentication Required
This database explores human population and demography topics, as well as societal issues involving natural resource management.
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Industrial and Applied Microbiology Abstracts (Microbiology A) Authentication Required
Includes significant findings and practical applications in agricultural, food and beverage, chemical, and pharmaceutical industries.
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IngentaConnect Authentication Required
Coverage: October 1988 - present, updated daily
This index provides bibliographic citations for academic and professional research articles online - some 20 million articles from 30,000 publications.
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LexisNexis Academic Authentication Required
Coverage: Varies by title.
LexisNexis Academic is a collection of online databases: News, Business (plus corporate news and corporate financials), Legal, Medical, and Reference.
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LexisNexis Government Periodicals Authentication Required
Coverage: 1988-present
Provides bibliographical information about articles in US government periodicals in all fields, and provides links to the web sites for most of the titles.
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MasterFile Premier Authentication Required
This resource is licensed by the MINITEX Library Information Network with state appropriations from the Minnesota Higher Education Services Office (MHESO) and the Minnesota Department of Education.
MasterFILE Premier, designed specifically for public libraries, provides full text for more than 2,000 general periodicals covering a broad range of disciplines including general reference, business, education, health, general science, multi-cultural issues and much more.
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MEDLINE (OVID) Authentication Required
Coverage: 1966 - present, updated weekly.
MEDLINE covers the fields of medicine, public health, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, and the basic biomedical sciences.

The Libraries' subscription to this resource allows for 40 users at any one time.
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NTIS National Technical Information Service Authentication Required
Coverage: 1964 - present
NTIS indexes government-sponsored U.S.
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Oceanic Abstracts Authentication Required
Coverage: 1981 - current
Abstracts of technical literature pertaining to the marine and brackish-water environment.
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Ornithological Worldwide Literature (OWL)
Coverage: 1983 - present
OWL is a compilation of citations and abstracts from the worldwide scientific literature that pertain to the science of ornithology.
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PAPERCHEM Authentication Required
Coverage: 1967 - present, updated quarterly.
Indexes publications relating to pulp, paper and allied technologies.
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Plant Information Online
Coverage: 1982 - present, updated daily.
Includes current sources in North American nurseries for over 70,000 plants; over 200,000 citations to current plant science literature, listings for more than 1300 North American seed and nursery firms, and an evaluative review of 75 CD-ROMs and web sites of plant images.
This resource is free and open to the public.
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Pollution Abstracts Authentication Required
Coverage: May 1981- present
Combines information on scientific research and government policies in a single resource.
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Public STINET
Coverage: 1974-present
Public STINET provides access to citations to unclassified documents that have been entered into the Defense Technical Information Center's (DTIC) Technical Reports Collection since December 1974 as well as some full text reports for those citations.
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PubMed - Public Version
Coverage: 1950 to present
Primary source of journal citations for the health sciences - the public version provides only limited full text access to journal articles.
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PubMed - U of M Students, Staff & Faculty Authentication Required
Coverage: 1950 to present
Primary source of journal article access for the health sciences - the campus version provides full text access to all Medline e-journals subscribed to by the University of Minnesota TC Libraries.
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Risk Abstracts Authentication Required
Experts define risk as a combination of the magnitude and probability of adverse effects.
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RLIN Bibliographic Files Authentication Required
Coverage: 1700s - present, with an emphasis on 20th Century materials. Library of Congress record updated weekly, other record updated continuously. [ Add To myLibrary! ]

SciFinder Scholar Authentication Required
Coverage: 1907-present
SciFinder Scholar is the best database for chemistry-related topics - you need to download special software to use it from your home or office computer (PC 2000/XP/Vista or Mac OS 10.3/10.4) or you can access it from a public computer in the Walter, BioMedical, or Magrath libraries by clicking on the SciFinder icon on the desktop (note: access is contractually restricted to current U of MN faculty, students and staff).
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Social Sciences in Forestry
Coverage: 1985 - present, updated weekly.
Covers journal articles, books, conference proceedings, and government documents.
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Sustainability Abstracts Authentication Required
Explores the management of human use and conservation of the natural resource base, ensuring the attainment and continued satisfaction of human needs in the present as well as maintaining the potential to meet the needs and aspirations of future generations.
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Textile Technology Index Authentication Required
Coverage: 1978 - present
The Textile Technology Digest (TTD) database contains bibliographic citations, with abstracts, and provides international coverage of the literature of textiles and related subjects.
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Toxicology Abstracts Authentication Required
Covers social poisons and substance abuse, natural toxins, legislation and recommended standards to environmental issues; toxicology studies of industrial and agricultural chemicals, household products, pharmaceuticals, and other substances, and the in vivo effects of toxic substances; the effects of alcohol and smoking, drug abuse, hydrocarbon studies, nitrosamines, radiation and radioactive materials; and toxicity testing methodology and analytical procedures for toxic substances.
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TOXLINE
Coverage: 1965-present
TOXLINE includes citations to journal articles, monographs, technical reports, theses, letters, and meeting abstracts, papers and reports on Toxicological, pharmacological, biochemical and physiological effects of drugs and other chemicals
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Trail Planning Construction and Maintenance
Coverage: 1984 - present, updated weekly.
Covers journal articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents.
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TROPAG & RURAL Authentication Required
Coverage: 1975 - present, updated quarterly
The two databases contain references with abstracts to the worldwide literature on agriculture and economic and social development in tropical and subtropical regions. TROPAG covers food crops and industrial crops, animal husbandry, forage and pastures, aquculture, forestry, agroforestry, postharvest operations, farming systems and environmental management of tropical regions. RURAL abstracts literature on economic and social development in developing countries including development strategies, international cooperation, health, income generation, education, women and development, and environmental issues.

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Tropical Forest Conservation and Development
Coverage: 1992 - present, updated weekly.
Covers journal articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents.
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Turfgrass Information File Authentication Required
Coverage: 1968 - present
The Turfgrass Information File (TGIF) provides bibliographic and descriptive records of all types of works related to turfgrass culture.
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U.S. Congressional Serial Set - Digital Edition Authentication Required
Coverage: Vol. 1, 15th Cong. (1817) - Vol. 8854, 70th Cong. 1st. Sess. (1928)
A rich source of primary source material on all aspects of American history, from the bound, sequentially numbered volumes of all the reports, documents, and journals of the US Senate and House of Representatives.
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Urban Forestry
Coverage: 1980 - present, updated weekly.
Indexes publications relating to the history of urban forestry; urban forest legislation; the benefits of urban forests; selection and planting of trees; maintenance of the urban forest; planning and management; and urban forestry programs.
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VET CD Authentication Required
Coverage: 1989-present; 1973-present
VetCD and BeastCD have been renamed AnimalScience.com.
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Water Resources Abstracts Authentication Required
Coverage: 1967-present
Includes water-related topics covering the characteristics, conservation, control, pollution, treatment, use and management of water resources.
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Web of Science (ISI) Authentication Required
Coverage: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED)--1975-present; Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)--1975-present; Arts and Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI)--1975-present.
Web of Science is the Web interface for the ISI Citation Index products which cover over 8,000 international journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities.
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Wildlife and Ecology Studies Worldwide Authentication Required
Coverage: 1935 - present, updated quarterly.
A working biologists index to world literature on mammals, amphibians, reptiles, and birds; includes studies on all aspects of their life cycles and behaviors, including hunting and management research.
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Zoological Record Authentication Required
Coverage: 1864 - current
The premiere index for the zoological sciences, this is a comprehensive index to the world's zoological literature from approximately 6000 journals.
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