LibGuides: Agriculture Research Guide: Article Databases

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AGRICOLA This link opens in a new window
Agriculture, animal & plant sciences
*lists citations and summaries of journal articles, government publications, and books

*covers agriculture and allied disciplines, including animal and plant sciences

*covers items published from 1970 to present
Biological & Agricultural Index Plus This link opens in a new window
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Biological and Agricultural Sciences
*provides access to full text articles, page images, article abstracts, and citations from hundreds of sources
*covers agriculture, biology, ecology, botany, zoology, food science, and more
*retrospective coverage as far back as 1983, full-text since 1997
Biological Abstracts (Web of Science) This link opens in a new window
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Biological and Life Sciences
*covers biology, biochemistry, biotechnology, botany, pre-clinical and experimental medicine, pharmacology, zoology, agriculture, and veterinary science
*indexes over 4,200 journals from 100 countries and includes over 11.3 million records
*covers items published from 1926-present

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Agriculture Resources for Research

AGRICOLA This link opens in a new window
Agriculture, animal & plant sciences
*lists citations and summaries of journal articles, government publications, and books

*covers agriculture and allied disciplines, including animal and plant sciences

*covers items published from 1970 to present
Agriculture (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new window
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Infotrac Journals and eBooks on Agriculture
Provides authoritative periodical content that spans the industry—from practical aspects of farming to cutting-edge scientific research in horticulture. With a strong emphasis on titles covered in the Agricola database, this collection of more than 600 journal titles is focused on agriculture-related fields.

Gale InfoTrac Power Packs are subsets of periodicals found in the Academic OneFile and General OneFile Databases. Each subject specific PowerPack Collection has the content needed by a unique category of researcher. This collection also contains some unique content not available within the databases listed above.
Annual Reviews (Current Editions & Electronic Back Volume Collection) This link opens in a new window
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Bio-medical, Physical, and Social Sciences (including Economics)
*content spans the Biomedical, Physical, and Social Sciences (including economics)

*Recent editions of Annual Reviews (2009-2019) are provided as well as editions from the Annual Reviews Electronic Back Volume Collection (EBVC).

*Content dates range from 1932-2019
Biological & Agricultural Index Plus This link opens in a new window
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Biological and Agricultural Sciences
*provides access to full text articles, page images, article abstracts, and citations from hundreds of sources
*covers agriculture, biology, ecology, botany, zoology, food science, and more
*retrospective coverage as far back as 1983, full-text since 1997
Biological Abstracts (Web of Science) This link opens in a new window
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Biological and Life Sciences
*covers biology, biochemistry, biotechnology, botany, pre-clinical and experimental medicine, pharmacology, zoology, agriculture, and veterinary science
*indexes over 4,200 journals from 100 countries and includes over 11.3 million records
*covers items published from 1926-present
BioOne Complete This link opens in a new window
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Full-text journal articles in biological, ecological, and environmental sciences
BioOne Complete is BioOne's online database of 200 high quality, full-text, subscribed and open-access titles focused in the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences. Nearly 1,500 academic libraries, research institutions, governmental bodies, nonprofit organizations and corporations around the world subscribe to BioOne Complete. BioOne complete Includes:

*Full-text for 200 titles from more than 149 publishers
*151 ISI-ranked titles
*67 titles available online only in BioOne Complete
*Over 150,000 full-text articles, and growing daily
*HTML, PDF, and mobile access
*contains citations and abstracts from scholarly journals
*covers biological, ecological and environmental sciences
* Also contains selected full-text for the specific titles listed at http://libguides.apsu.edu/c.php?g=36164&p=859729
Coronavirus Research Database This link opens in a new window
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Health and medical research database for openly available content related to the COVID-19 outbreak
Including coverage of the COVID-19 outbreak, this database curates openly available content related to coronaviruses. It includes thousands of open-access articles from the world’s leading publishers as well as current research from pre-print repositories such as arXiv and will continue to grow and evolve as more is learned about the pandemic.

The Coronavirus Research Database is a collection of journal articles, preprints, conference proceedings, dissertations and more related to COVID-19 and other coronaviruses. It includes comprehensive research background coverage of past pandemics and epidemics, like MERS and SARS, to give researchers and students context around the current global crisis

The database aggregates open content from ProQuest with content made freely availableby members of the International Association of STM Publishers. Notable publishers contributing to the Coronavirus Research Database include Public Library of Science, BioMed Central, MDPI AG, Springer Nature Publisher Group, Taylor & Francis and The BMJ. Preprint servers include arXiv.org and BioRxiv.
Dissertations and Theses: Global This link opens in a new window
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Doctoral dissertations and master’s theses in full-text from universities in 88 countries
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses: Global (PQDTGlobal) is the world's most comprehensive collection of full-text dissertations and theses. As the official digital dissertations archive for the Library of Congress and as the database of record for graduate research, PQDTGlobal includes millions of searchable citations to dissertations and theses from 1861 to the present day together with over a million full-text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. Over 2.1 million titles are available for purchase as printed copies. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full-text coverage for older graduate works. It also includes PQDT UK & Ireland content.

More than 70,000 new full-text dissertations and theses are added to the database each year through dissertations publishing partnerships with 700 leading academic institutions worldwide, and collaborative retrospective digitization of dissertations. Full-text dissertations are archived as submitted by the degree-granting institution. Some will be native PDF, some PDF image.

Each dissertation published since July, 1980 includes a 350-word abstract written by the author. Master's theses published since 1988 include 150-word abstracts. Simple bibliographic citations are available for dissertations dating from 1637. Where available, PQDTGlobal provides 24-page previews of dissertations and theses.

Subject coverage
• Business and Economics
• Medical Sciences
• Science
• Technology
• Agriculture
• Social Sciences
• Arts
• Humanities
Encyclopedia of Life This link opens in a new window
Biological species, ecology
*Ultimately, the Encyclopedia of Life will provide an online database for all 1.8 million species now known to live on Earth.

*Series of websites that unites mammal, bird, bug, plant, bacteria, etc. in one location, providing in-depth, scientifically valid information

*Students and educators will be provided with a wide variety of tools for using the information on the species pages as well as for feeding their own information back into the system
Environmental Studies and Policy (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new window
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Infotrac Journals and eBooks on Environmental Studies
Focuses on environmental issues and policies with diverse perspectives from the scientific community, governmental policymakers, and corporate interests.

Gale InfoTrac Power Packs are subsets of periodicals found in the Academic OneFile and General OneFile Databases. Each subject specific PowerPack Collection has the content needed by a unique category of researcher. This collection also contains some unique content not available within the databases listed above.
Environmental Studies (Gale in Context) This link opens in a new window
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Understand environmental issues that affect people globally through topic overviews, journals, news, and multimedia content.
Gale In Context: Environmental Studies provides detailed information on current environmental issues and processes from both a scientific and a social standpoint.

From climate change to automobile emissions, today’s environmental issues determine the destiny of tomorrow’s world. Gale In Context: Environmental Studies provides users with comprehensive information, empowering learners to critically analyze and understand important topics that affect people around the world. Explore topics and events within Earth systems, global change, pollution, populations, and more.

Integrating case studies, news, reference materials, academic journals, videos, and more, Environmental Studies is updated daily with relevant information. The resource offers nearly 400 topic, state, and province pages across the science, social studies, and humanities curriculum, including Water Privatization, Ecotourism, Air Pollution, Green Economy, and more.
Gardening and Horticulture (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new window
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Infotrac Journals and eBooks on Gardening, Landscape and Horticulture
Contains journals focused on both the practical aspects as well as the scientific theory of gardening, landscaping, and other areas of horticulture studies giving biotechnologists, farmers, landscape architects, and hobbyists access to important content relevant to their pursuits.

Gale InfoTrac Power Packs are subsets of periodicals found in the Academic OneFile and General OneFile Databases. Each subject specific PowerPack Collection has the content needed by a unique category of researcher. This collection also contains some unique content not available within the databases listed above.
Science (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new window
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Large collection of scientific journals
*With the General Science Collection, researchers can stay current with the latest scientific developments in particle physics, advanced mathematics, nanotechnology, geology and hundreds of other areas.

*More than 200 journals are covered.

*Updated daily, the General Science Collection includes more than 1.6 million articles
Global Plants (JSTOR Plant Science) This link opens in a new window
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Global plant research
*Provides access to foundational content vital to plant science - plant type specimens, taxonomic structures, scientific literature, and related materials.

*By 2013, there will be over 2.2 million type specimens available

*Materials are global in scope representing over 160 partners in 47 countries on 5 continents
GPO Monthly Catalog This link opens in a new window
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Government Publications on all subjects
*Lists citations to federal government publications produced by the U.S. Government

*Covers all types of U.S. government documents, including Congressional reports, hearings, debates, and records; judiciary materials; and documents issued by executive departments (Defense, State, Labor, Office of the President, etc.).

*Includes a bibliographic citation in each record.

*includes entries for documents published from 1976 to present
GreenFILE This link opens in a new window
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All aspects of human impact to the environment
*includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more

*provides indexing and abstracts for more than 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records

*The ability to "search for full-text" at Woodward Library is enabled
PubAg This link opens in a new window
Full-text articles and citations for articles relevant to agricultural sciences
PubAg is the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), National Agricultural Library's (NAL) search system for agricultural information.

PubAg covers all of the core topics of the agricultural sciences including nutrition, food safety, food quality, animal and crop production and protection, natural resources, sustainable agricultural systems, rural development, agricultural economic and policy issues, agricultural imports and exports, agricultural statistics, extramural research, and Extension education.

How is PubAg different from AGRICOLA?
-AGRICOLA serves as the public catalog of the National Agricultural Library. It contains records for all of the holdings of the Library. It also contains citations to articles, much like PubAg. AGRICOLA also contains citations to many items that, while valuable and relevant to the agricultural sciences, are not peer-reviewed journal articles. Also, AGRICOLA has a different interface. So, while there is some overlap between the two resources, they are different in significant ways. There are no plans to eliminate AGRICOLA.
SAGE Premier This link opens in a new window
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Electronic access to over 900 peer-reviewed, full-text journals on a variety of topics, with content dating back to 1999.
*High-quality, interdisciplinary content – almost two thirds of the content in the SAGE Premier package is ranked in the 2011 Journal Citation Reports® (Thomson Reuters, 2012)

*15 journals received their first Impact Factor with the 2011 report and 7 journals increased their Impact Factors.

*SAGE is market leader (by number of ranked titles) in 6 key disciplines including Criminology & Penology; Education, Special; Social Issues; Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary; Sociology and Urban Studies.

*9 journals ranked #1 in their categories.
Science Direct College Edition Journal Collections This link opens in a new window
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Collection of journals covering Social Sciences, Humanities, Life Sciences, Health Sciences, Physical Science, and Engineering
*Contains over 1800 full text, peer reviewed journals

*Provides articles from journals in Social & Behavioral Sciences, Health & Life Sciences, Physical Sciences & Engineering

*Dates available include issues from the current year back to 1995 for most titles
Science Topics This link opens in a new window
Get background information on your topic.
Use this database for quick definitions and overviews of different terms. It is a cross between an encyclopedia and a dictionary. You will see snippets from related ScienceDirect books (but APSU does not own access to the full-text chapters for most of these titles).
These pages provide concept definitions and subject overviews for researchers who want to expand their knowledge about scholarly and technical terms.

Each synopsis provides a series of short, authoritative, excerpts from highly relevant book chapters written by subject matter experts in the field.

These topic summaries are derived from Elsevier encyclopedias, reference works and books.
SciFinder-n (SciFinder Web) This link opens in a new window
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Contains a wide variety of content from journal articles to information on chemical structures, properties, and reactions
SciFinder-n is the new interface for the most comprehensive index to the chemical literature and related sciences, including chemistry, chemical engineering, materials science, & nanotechnology. Search 52 million article, patent, and conference references, the CAS Registry of 161 million chemical substances (many include property data) & CASREACT database of 126 million chemical reactions and preparations. Search by topic, reaction, or chemical substance (Registry number, structure, substructure).

Log-in to SciFinder-n
New Users: Register for a SciFinder Account
You must use an apsu.edu e-mail address and create a username and password. Your account will not be activated until you click on a confirmation link that is sent to your e-mail.
What's in Scifinder?
- Chemical Substances (CAS REGISTRY)
- References (CAplus)
- Reactions (CASREACT)
- Chemical Suppliers (CHEMCATS)
- Regulated Chemicals (CHEMLIST)
- Markush (MARPAT; Substances in patents)
- use the Structure Drawing Editor to draw chemical structures, substructures, or reactions
- Created by CAS (a division of the American Chemical Society)
- Serves as an electronic version of Chemical Abstracts providing references from more than 9500 journals
- Contains patents from over 50 patent-issuing organizations
- Contains the world's largest collection of organic and inorganic substance information
The new SciFinder-n interface provides the following features:
- A brand new streamlined interface providing easier navigation and time savings
- Improved reference searching with new relevancy ranking and autosuggest
- Multi-tab browsing and automatic User Login recognition
- Simultaneously explore both text and structure in a single search
- Automatically saves and stores all search history for quick and easy recall
- Includes MethodsNow providing access to step by step synthetic procedures, extracted and summarized
- Includes PatentPak providing access straight to full-text patents and hard-to-find-substances with a single click
- Citation mapping that quickly identifies important research and graphically displaying references
- Updated retrosynthesis planning capabilities
Helpful links for using SciFinder-n:
- Access the SciFinder-n quick start guide for a step-by-step journey into the product
- Watch our video collection of SciFinder-n How-To videos
- Migrate your current saved answers and alerts from the previous interface (SciFinder Web)
Alumni do not qualify for SciFinder access. Any use of SciFinder for commercial purposes under your institution's license is prohibited. Please remember to logout from SciFinder Scholar as soon as you have finished with your research.
Springer Online Journals (LYRASIS Collection) This link opens in a new window
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Peer-reviewed journals from science related fields, philosophy, and business
The Springer eJournal collection includes around 2000 peer-reviewed journals in science, technology, engineering, medicine, business, philosophy, and the social sciences.
Sustainability (JSTOR) This link opens in a new window
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Research on environmental stresses and their impact on society
JSTOR Sustainability is a collection of journals, e-books, and research reports that provide multiple perspectives on environmental issues. The collection covers over 20 disciplines, including the Biological Sciences, Business & Economics, Ecology, Environmental Sciences, Law, Public Health, and Urban Studies.

The Sustainability collection on JSTOR is a growing and highly interdisciplinary set of content. The collection includes:

More than 140 journals in the core disciplines of environmental studies, business & economics, law, environmental science, aquatic and biological sciences, ecology, and urban studies and the built environment.

5,000 research reports from a minimum of 40 leading think tanks around the world (2,000 available now, more coming later in 2017-2018). The often hard-to-find research reports will include policy briefs, technical papers, white papers, and discussion papers from government agencies, non-governmental organizations, corporations, policy institutions, and academic centers.

10 open access journals (two available in early 2017, more coming soon)

More than 350 scholarly ebooks spanning the wide ranges of disciplines in the collection.
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Science, technology, and medicine
*Lists citations for millions of articles and full-text from over 200 periodicals

*Covers science, technology, medicine, and humanities

*Contains articles from 1996 to date

General Resources for Research on All Subjects

General Resources may also contain many useful articles or other types of information on your topic. Academic Search Premier, Academic OneFile, and JSTOR are great resources to find articles on almost any subject.

Click the link below for a complete list of General Resources.

General Article Databases (All Subjects)
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