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 | Subject Librarian: Megan Kocher E-Mail: mkocher@umn.edu This subject covers: applied animal physiology, nutrition, breeding and genetics, ecology and ethology, and livestock and poultry management. In addition, diseases of food animals are the focus of many veterinary scientists. (From Britannica Online) |
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Article Databases and Indexes
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CAB Abstracts Plus Full Text Select   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. Indexes journal articles, monographs, conferences, and other primary literature.
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| MEDLINE (OVID) OVID, like PubMed, is an interface to search the MEDLINE database. It includes citations from the fields of medicine, public health, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, and the basic biomedical sciences.
MEDLINE is the National Library of Medicine's bibliographic database/article index that contains over 17 million references to journal articles. Coverage is from 1949 to the present. Over 5200 journals worldwide in over 37 languages are indexed.
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PubMed  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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| Searchable Proceedings of Animal Conferences Proceedings from major animal production conferences held in the U.S. and Canada.
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Academic or Scholarly Articles Subject Indexes
| AGRICOLA 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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| AGRIS - FAO (public version) Information for international agricultural research, from 1975 to the present.
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| Animal Health and Production Compendium An encyclopaedic, interactive database that draws together scientific information on Animal Health and Production.
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| BIOSIS Previews NO LONGER CURRENT. Due to budget pressures, we have canceled our subscription to BIOSIS Previews. Although you will continue to be able to access the database, no new articles will be added after January 2011. 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. The Libraries' subscription to this resource allows for 10 users at any one time. If you get a busy signal, please wait a few minutes and try accessing the site again. [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Google Scholar Connect to Google Scholar through the Libraries' web site to gain off-campus access to all the articles and journals in full text in the Libraries. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web. To connect to the full text, click "FindIt@U of M Twin Cities" in your Google Scholar search results. Learn more: Google Scholar FAQ
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| PubMed - Public Version Primary source of journal citations for the health sciences - the public version provides only limited full text access to journal articles. Includes Medline and Pre-Medline (articles more recent than found in Medline).
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| Web of Science (ISI) Indexes over 11,000 international journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Titles of the print equivalent are: Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Book Citation, Science Citation Index, and Social Sciences Citation Index. Coverage runs from 1975 to the present. Basic truncation symbol is the asterisk(*).
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General Indexes to Magazine, Journal & Newspaper Articles
| Academic Search Premier 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 over 4,600 scholarly (peer-reviewed) publications back to 1975. [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
| LexisNexis Academic LexisNexis Academic is a full text databases for news, business, and legal research. It includes sources for researching accounting, environmental studies, health and medical care, government and politics, people, consumer information, and countries worldwide. Locate company information, including the Hoovers Company Profiles.
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Catalogs and Bibliographies
Catalogs
| MNCAT: for finding journals, books, and more Libraries Catalog searches for books, e-books, e-journals, maps, music scores, films, sound recordings, government publications, archival materials etc, owned by or accessible via the University of Minnesota.
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| WorldCat 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 Covers all subjects. Provides bibliographic citations of books, serials, manuscripts, maps, music scores, sound recordings, films, theses/dissertations, and machine-readable data files published worldwide. Provides holdings information for nearly 30,000 libraries. Producer/Publisher is OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. The Libraries' subscription to this resource allows for 65 users at any one time. If you get a busy signal, please wait a few minutes and try accessing the site again. [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
General Reference Sources
Dissertations and Theses
| Digital Dissertations Dissertations and theses from over 1000 universities. Doctoral dissertations are indexed for almost all North American graduate schools and many European universities. Masters theses from selected schools only. Provides bibliographic citations for older titles. Abstracts are included for dissertations since 1980 and for masters theses since 1988. Some dissertations, beginning with 1997 publication dates, are available digitally. These include the University of Minnesota and other CIC member universities.
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Encyclopedias
| Encyclopedia of Dairy Sciences [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Encyclopedia of Farm Animal Nutrition Provides ready access to specific facts and figures on the nutrition of farm animals including birds and fish. The encyclopedia includes definitions of terms; chemical structures and functions of nutrients, metabolites, toxins, etc; nutritional processes, their physiological and metabolic bases;descriptions of the major farmed species, their metabolism and practical feeding;composition and nutritional value of crops and feedstuffs;feed processing;feeding systems.
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| Encyclopedia of Historic and Endangered Livestock and Poultry Breeds [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
Internet Resources
Electronic Texts
| Springer E-Books Over 25,000 electronic books covering a wide range of disciplines. Publishers include:
Apress, Birkhauser, Copernicus Books, Humana, Physica-Verlag, Plenum US, Praxis, Springer, Springer-Verlag, Steinkopff, and TELOS.
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Periodical and Newspaper subscriptions
Electronic Journal Collections
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) (OA) PLoS publishes peer-reviewed, open access scientific and medical journals. They include original research as well as timely feature articles. All PLoS articles are immediately freely accessible online, are deposited in the free public archive PubMed Central, and can be redistributed and reused according to the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.
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Societies, Agencies, and Organizations
Official Agency & Organization Websites
| AgNIC (Agriculture Network Information Center) AgNIC is a voluntary partnership between land grant institutions, libraries, departments within colleges and universities, states, extension programs, etc.,to provide selected, quality agricultural information. AgNIC provides information on animal science, animal products, farms and farming, food and nutrition, insects, forest science, plant diseases, rural and agricultural sociology, and a host of other topics.
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| American Dairy Science Association (ADSA) The ADSA provides leadership in scientific and technical support to sustain and grow the global dairy industry through generation, dissemination, and exchange of information and services.
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| American Society of Animal Science (ASAS) The ASAS fosters the discovery, sharing and application of scientific knowledge concerning the responsible use of animals to enhance human life and well-being.
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| Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) The mission of the MDA is to enhance Minnesotans' quality of life by ensuring the integrity of the food supply, the health of the environment, and the strength of the state's agricultural economy.
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| US Dairy Forage Research Center The Center's mission is to develop knowledge and tools to enhance sustainable and competitive dairy forage systems that protect the environment, promote animal health, and ensure a safe, healthy food supply.
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Style Manuals and Writing Guides
Bibliography Software
| RefWorks: Personal Citation Manager RefWorks is a web-based citation manager that allows you to create your own databases of citations by importing references from MNCAT and other databases, and then in seconds automatically generate bibliographies in all major styles (MLA, APA, Turabian, Chicago, etc.).
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Style Manuals
University of Minnesota
Related U of M Web Sites
| College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences (CFANS) CFANS is a college devoted to solution-driven science; we use critical and innovative thinking plus all the tools of the arts and sciences to make our planet a productive, friendly, and sustainable environment—to solve everyday problems. We study the health of the land and the health of the living.
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| Department of Animal Science Through education, research, and outreach, the Department serves people by providing continued improvements in the efficient and humane production of animal and wholesome animal products.
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| Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station (MAES) The MAES funds research at the University of Minnesota to improve and support Minnesota's families and communities, food, natural resources and agriculture.
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| University of Minnesota Extension Taking University research and education to the people of Minnesota ... discovering real-world solutions to real-life problems.
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Library Information
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Books, journals and government publications in agriculture, biological sciences, design, applied statistics, food science, family social science, applied economics and more.
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