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 | Subject Librarian: Beth Petsan E-Mail: petsan@umn.edu This subject covers: the study of plants, including their structure, properties, and biochemical processes. Also included are plant classification and the study of plant diseases and of interactions with the environment. (From Britannica Online) Also known as botany. |
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Article Databases and Indexes
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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| 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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| 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  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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| 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, Science Citation Index, and Social Sciences Citation Index. Coverage runs from 1975 to the present.
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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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Indexes, Other
| International Plant Names Index A database of the names
and associated basic bibliographical details of all seed plants. Its goal is to
eliminate the need for repeated reference to primary sources for basic
bibliographic information about plant names. The data in the IPNI comes from three sources: the Index Kewensis (IK), the Gray Card Index (GCI) and the Australian Plant
Names Index (APNI).The data are freely available. [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Plant Information Online 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. [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
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
Dictionaries
| Elsevier's Dictionary of Plant Names in Latin, English, French, German, and Italian [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Elsevier's Dictionary of Plant Names of North America, including Mexico: in Latin, Spanish (Mexican and European) and English (American) [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
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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General Reference Works
| Handbook of Plant Biotechnology [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Landmarks of Botanical History |
| The Plant List The Plant List is a working list of all known plant species. Version 1, released in December 2010, aims to be comprehensive for species of Vascular plant (flowering plants, conifers, ferns and their allies) and of Bryophytes (mosses and liverworts).
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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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Web Sites
| North American Plant Atlas Create plant lists for locations, or map plant locations. Includes all plants in North America, north of Mexico. Web successor to the Synthesis of the North American Flora.
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Periodical and Newspaper subscriptions
Electronic Journal Collections
| BioOne Remote access available for University of Minnesota -- Twin Cities students, staff and faculty
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| 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 Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) ASPB is a professional society devoted to the advancement of the plant sciences.
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| American Society of Plant Taxonomists (ASPT) The ASPT promotes research and teaching of taxonomy, systematics, and phylogeny of vascular and nonvascular plants.
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| Botanical Society of America (BSA) The mission of the BSA is to promote botany, the field of basic science dealing with the study and inquiry into the form, function, development, diversity, reproduction, evolution, and uses of plants and their interactions within the biosphere. The BSA encompasses all areas of plant biology, including development, physiology, reproductive biology, evolution, phycology, genetics, mycology, ecology, systematics, molecular biology, and paleobotany.
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| Center for Plant Conservation (CPC) The mission of the CPC is to conserve and restore the imperiled native plants of the United States to secure them from extinction.
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| FAO - Food and Agriculture Organization The Food and Agriculture Organization was founded in 1945 and is the lead agency for agriculture, forestry, fisheries and rural development. An intergovernmental organization, FAO has 180 member countries plus one member organization, the European Community. NOTE: FAO publications are found in Magrath Library on the St. Paul Campus. [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
| International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT) The purpose of the IAPT is to carry out projects of interest and concern to systematic biologists, especially those which require or profit from international cooperation. IAPT is dedicated to organismal biodiversity: the extent, recognition, organisation, evolution, and naming of plants and fungi, both living and fossil.
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| International Society for Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions (IS-MPMI) The IS-MPMI is comprised of members from more than 30 countries who research molecular aspects of microorganisms interacting with plants and the consequences of such interactions. Disciplines represented by IS-MPMI members include microbiology, nematology, plant pathology, plant breeding, and many more.
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| Society for Economic Botany (SEB) The SEB fosters and encourages scientific research, education, and related activities on the past, present, and future uses of plants, and the relationship between plants and people, and to make the results of such research available to the scientific community and the general public through meetings and publications.
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| The Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries, Inc. (CBHL) The CBHL
is the leading professional organization in the field of botanical and horticultural information services. The CBHL believes in the critical importance of collecting, preserving, and making accessible the accumulated knowledge about plants for present and future generations. CBHL provides an organizational framework and an active forum for institutions and individuals concerned with fostering the advancement of botanical and horticultural information and information services.
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Statistics and Data
Data Resources
| ARS : Datasets Provides links to collections of data are maintained by the Agricultural Research Service or by ARS in cooperation with other organizations. Organized by broad topic: Chemistry and Biochemistry, Food and Nutrition, Genetics, Germplasm, Natural Resources, Systematics(Taxonomic Classification)
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| Entrez Cross-Database Search Overviews and allows text-based searches of over 25 of the bibliographic databases and biomolecular data resources held at NCBI (the National Center for Biotechnology Information), including PubMed, OMIM, Entrez Gene, and Entrez Taxonomy; this site performs a simultaneous search of the various databases and reports back the number of hits in each -- you can then select an individual database to view detailed search results.
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| PLANTS Database The PLANTS Database provides standardized information about the vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories. It includes names, plant symbols, checklists, distributional data, species abstracts, characteristics, images, crop information, automated tools, onward Web links, and references.
PLANTS is a collaborative effort of the USDA NRCS National Plant Data Team (NPDT), the USDA NRCS Information Technology Center (ITC), The USDA National Information Technology Center (NITC), and many other partners.
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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
| Scientific Style and Format: The CSE Manual for Authors, Editors, and Publishers, 7th ed. Published by the Style Manual Committee, Council of Science Editors.
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University of Minnesota
Related U of M Web Sites
| College of Biological Sciences (CBS) The mission of the CBS is to advance knowledge of the mechanisms of life through breakthrough discoveries and prepare today’s students to create the biology of tomorrow.
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| Department of Plant Biology Knowledge of basic plant biology enriches society and advances the applied sciences. The mission of the Department of Plant Biology is to increase knowledge of and to provide education in the basic plant sciences by engaging in fundamental research from the molecular to the ecosystem level.
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| University of Minnesota Herbarium The University of Minnesota Herbarium (a division of the Bell Museum of Natural History) is located in the Biological Sciences tower on the St. Paul campus, corner of Gortner and Buford Avenues, room 875. Hours are from 8:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m. Monday through Friday during the regular school year and by appointment only in the summer.
The distribution of specimens (approximately 900,000 total) is worldwide, though the majority are from the northern hemisphere.
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Library Information
Primary Subject Location
Magrath Library
Books, journals and government publications in agriculture, biological sciences, design, applied statistics, food science, family social science, applied economics and more.
Campus: St. Paul Campus
Address: 1984 Buford Avenue
Telephone: Circulation: (612) 624-2233; Reference: (612) 624-1212
Main URL: http://www.lib.umn.edu/magrath
Reference URL: http://www.lib.umn.edu/about/contact
Map URL: http://onestop.umn.edu/Maps/CentLib/index.html
Hours URL: http://www.lib.umn.edu/about/collections/magrath/hours
Secondary Subject Location(s)
Plant Pathology Library
Books and journals on diseases of plants, mycology, nematology, effects of pollution on plants.
Campus: St. Paul Campus
Address: 395 Borlaug Hall
Telephone: 612-625-9777
Main URL: http://plant.lib.umn.edu/
Reference URL: http://infopoint.lib.umn.edu/
Map URL: http://onestop.umn.edu/Maps/BorH/index.html
Hours URL: http://www.lib.umn.edu/about/collections/plant/hours
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