Selected Resources for: Agriculture


Subject Librarian: Leslie Delserone
E-Mail: delse001@umn.edu
Subject Description:This subject covers: the science or art of cultivating the soil, growing and harvesting crops, and raising livestock. (From Britannica Online)


Abstracts and Indexes

Academic or Scholarly Articles Subject Indexes
AGRICOLA Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
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. Basic truncation symbol is the asterisk: *.
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AGRIS Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
Strong in agricultural and development economics of developing countries; AGRIS, the International System for the Agricultural Sciences and Technology, is an international bibliographic database. It is produced by the AGRIS Coordinating Centre, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Rome, Italy, in cooperation with participating countries and international organizations. Basic truncation symbol is the asterisk: *.
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Agris - FAO Databases
Information for international agricultural research.
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BIOSIS Previews Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
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. [BIOSIS Previews consists of Biological Abstracts (journal articles) and Biological Abstracts/RRM (reports, reviews, and meetings).] Basic truncation symbols are the dollar sign: $ or the colon: :.

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CAB Abstracts Plus Full Text Select Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
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. It provides bibliographic citations with abstracts in English for records of all languages. Indexes journal articles, monographs, conferences, and other primary literature.
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Google Scholar - U of M students, staff and faculty Authentication Required
Use Google Scholar through the Libraries' web site, or by setting your Scholar Preferences to the "University of Minnesota (FindIt@U of M Twin Cities) to gain off-campus access to all the articles and journal subscriptions the library has already acquired for you. Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. 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.

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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.
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TROPAG & RURAL Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
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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Web of Science (ISI) Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
Web of Science is the Web interface for the ISI Citation Index products which cover 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. Basic truncation symbol is the asterisk: *.
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General Indexes to Magazine, Journal & Newspaper Articles
Academic Search Premier Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
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. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.
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AgEcon Search
Full text library of agricultural and applied literature.
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LexisNexis Academic (ON CAMPUS USE ONLY) Authentication Required
LexisNexis Academic is a collection of online databases: News, Business (plus corporate news and corporate financials), Legal, Medical, and Reference. International news sources are included.
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Catalogs and Bibliographies

Catalogs
MNCAT Classic
Search with MNCAT Classic to find books, journals, etc. owned by the library. Search by keyword, subject, title, or author for materials on your topic. MNCAT Classic lacks the faceted searching of MNCAT Plus, but can be easier to use if you already have a good idea of what you're looking for.
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WorldCat 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
Covers all subjects. Provides bibliographic citations of books, serials, manuscripts, maps, music scores, sound recordings, films and machine-readable data files published worldwide. Provides holdings information for nearly 30,000 libraries. Producer/Publisher is OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.

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General Reference Sources

Dictionaries
CRC Dictionary of Agricultural Sciences
A comprehensive guide to the terminology of agriculture...includes every area of agriculture, from traditional farming to environmental sciences to the latest developments in biotechnology and genetics.
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Dissertations and Theses
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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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Internet Resources

Electronic Texts
CABI E-Book Collection Authentication Required
CABI E-Books covering the applied life-sciences. The collection contains almost 400 titles.
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Springer E-Books Authentication Required
Over 25,000 electronic books covering a wide range of disciplines. Some of the publishers include the following: Apress, Birkhauser, Copernicus Books, Humana, Physica-Verlag, Plenum US, Praxis, Springer, Springer-Verlag, Steinkopff, and TELOS.
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Gateways & Megasites
Internet Resources for Agriculture
Selected government, organizations, employment and other websites.
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Web Sites
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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Societies, Agencies, and Organizations

Official Agency & Organization Websites
Department of Agriculture
This Minnesota agency department protects the public health and safety regarding food and agricultural products.
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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.
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U.S. Department of Agriculture
The official web site of the United States Department of Agriculture.
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Statistics and Data

Statistical Resources
FedStats
More than 70 agencies in the United States Federal Government produce statistics of interest to the public. This site provides easy access to the full range of statistics and information produced by these agencies for public use.
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USDA Economic Research Service (ERS)
The main source of economic information and research from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Includes statistics and data on food consumption.
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Style Manuals and Writing Guides

Bibliography Software
RefWorks: Personal Citation Manager Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
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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Writing Guides
QuickStudy -- Citing Sources
QuickStudy: Library Research Guide from the University of Minnesota provides examples online for APA, MLA and Turabian styles, including how to cite electronic sources.
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University of Minnesota

Related U of M Web Sites


Library Information

Primary Subject Location


Books, journals and government publications in agriculture, biological sciences, human ecology, design, housing and apparel, vocational education, applied statistics, food science and nutrition, family social science, rural sociology and agricultural, and applied economics.
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Related Pages

Internet Resources for Agriculture