Electronic Databases
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- Academic Search Elite
Abstracts and full text journal articles in all subject categories.
- AGRICOLA - The National Agricultural Library's Catalog and Article Citation Database
Materials relating to all aspects of agriculture.
- Applied Science Full Text
Indexes and abstracts for 760 science and technology journals, from as far back as 1983.
- Biological & Agricultural Index Plus
Indexes to the leading journals in biology and agriculture.
- Biological Abstracts (BIOSIS)
Indexes & abstracts international journals in the life sciences. Topics include agriculture, biochemistry, ecology, microbiology, neurology, pharmacology, toxicology and much more.
- BioOne
Provides access to the full-text of 60+ peer reviewed, high-impact bioscience research journals.
- General Science Full Text
Indexes and abstracts and full text articles from popular and professional science publications.
- Readers' Guide Full Text
Indexes and abstracts from more than 400 popular journals, from as far back as 1983. Also available in print, Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature, 1900 - 1982 (Reference Area Index Tables)
- SAGE Journals Online SAGE publishes over 470 journals in Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, Science, Technology and Medicine. Full-Text
- Science Online Magazine
The world's leading journal of original scientific research, global news, and commentary.
- Web of Science Citation Databases
Provides access to Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Together they index over 8,000 scholarly journals and can be searched by author, topic or citation.
- General Electronic Databases
Comprehensive Sites on Agriculture
- Agriculture Network Information Center
A guide to quality agricultural information on the Internet.
- AgriGator
A general resource with links to state and federal government, commercial, and international sites, conferences, associations/societies, publications, and marketing sites.
- INFOMINE
A scholarly internet resource collection of biological, agricultural, and medical sites compiled by the University of California Riverside.
- U.S. Department of Agriculture
Includes links to numerous useful sites, including the Economic Research Service and the National Agricultural Statistics Service.
Agribusiness
- Economic Statistics Briefing Room
Provides quick daily reports of various economic statistics including prices, Consumer Price Index, Producer Price Index, and farm prices.
Biotechnology
Plant and Soil Science
- Global Crop Pests Identification and Information
This web site, developed by the Cornell Institute for Food, Agriculture, and Development contains a new prototype of the "Global Crop Pest Identification and Information Services in Integrated Pest Management (IPM)". The prototype, available in English and Spanish, is searchable by pest or crop name and provides information for use in crop pest diagnosis.
- Internet Glossary of Soil ScienceTerms
Maintained by the Soil Science Society of America, this searchable glossary contains hundreds of soil science terms.
- The Plant Pathology Internet Guide Book
The Plant Pathology Internet Guide Book provides links to resources about plant pests. Links are broken down into several categories including bacteriology, entomology, mycology, and weeds and parasitic plants. The Institute for Plant Diseases & Plant Protection, Department of Horticulture, University of Hanover hosts this site.
- PLANTS Threatened and Endangered Module
This site, offered by the Natural Resources Conservation service of the US Department of Agriculture, purports to be asingle source of standardized information about state and federally protectedplants. It focuses on vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the United States and its territories.
Miscellaneous Links
- FDA Center for Food Safety & Applied Nutrition
Contains information about the agency's regulatory programs in the areas of biotechnology, food processing, pesticides, and chemicals, etc.
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the U.N.
Provides links to the various departments, including agriculture, economics, fisheries, nutrition, etc.
- Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture
The Center's site is broken down into three sections: Programs, Resources, and About the Center. Available resources include research reports, papers and speeches, and fact sheets on the topic of sustainable agriculture.
- NAL Agricultural Thesaurus
The NAL (National Agricultural Library) Agricultural Thesaurus was "created to meet the needs of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Research Service (ARS) for an agricultural thesaurus". The thesaurus covers all aspects of agriculture and is an invaluable resource for research purposes.
- USDA - National Agricultural Statistics Service Crop Weather
Includes state and federal crop reports, current and historical.
Related Sites at UW-Platteville/Karrmann Library
Agriculture at UW-Platteville
- The Agriculture Office is located in 715 Tower and the contact person is Mark Zidon. For a listing of courses or for more information on this program, call (608) 342-1393.
- Judy Wurtzler is the Karrmann Library'sliaison to the Agriculture program. Contact Judy at (608) 342-1077 for individualized consultations and/or library instruction sessions in agriculture. Her e-mail address is wurtzler@uwplatt.edu.