Walker Library: *Agriculture: Articles & Databases

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For resources related to specific subjects in agriculture, use the quick links below.

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Digital Collections

These digital collections include online repositories & collections of white papers, government documents, historical documents. Most include full-text electronic documents.

The New National Agricultural Library Digital Collections
The NALDR provides access to publications either digitized by NAL or through NAL's partnerships with other institutions. The majority of the publications available in the NALDR were published by the USDA. Examples include the Agriculture Information Bulletin, the Agricultural Economic Report, and the Yearbook of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Core Historical Literature of Agriculture
The Core Historical Literature of Agriculture (CHLA) is a core electronic collection of agricultural texts published between the early nineteenth century and the middle to late twentieth century. Full-text materials cover agricultural economics, agricultural engineering, animal science, crops and their protection, food science,forestry, human nutrition, rural sociology, and soil science. Scholars have selected the titles in this collection for their historical importance.
Farmland Information Center - Literature
Norm Berg was a key author in the beginnings of agricultural conservation in the United States. The Norm Berg Collection assembles documents written by or about Berg as well as key laws and reports that represent milestones in agricultural conservation.
Farm, Field, and Fireside: Agriculture Newspaper Collection @ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The Farm, Field and Fireside collection contains historically significant U.S. farm weeklies published in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. You can print, download, or e-mail individual articles for free.

Recommended Agriculture Databases

AgEcon Search
AgEcon Search is a free-to-user website that contains the full text of working papers, conference papers, and journal articles in applied economics, including the subtopics of agricultural, consumer, energy, environmental, and resource economics.

Agricola This link opens in a new window
Indexing for journals, books, etc. in agriculture, 1600s to present. From the National Agricultural Library.
Containing bibliographic records from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library, this source provides access to millions of citations. The citations are comprised of journal articles, book chapters, theses and much more, covering all aspects of agriculture.
Journals Indexed In Agricola

AGRIS
AGRIS is a global public domain Database with bibliographical records on agricultural science and technology. The bibliographic references contain either links to the full text of the publication or additional information retrieved from related Internet resources.

Biological & Agricultural Index Plus This link opens in a new window
Indexing and fulltext articles for biology, agriculture and related.

PubMed Central
NIH digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.
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U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature, offering free access to most of its contents. PubMed Central contains over two million articles, most of which have a corresponding citation in the PubMed database.
Science Direct
ScienceDirect is a leading full-text scientific database offering journal articles and book chapters from nearly 2,500 journals and more than 30,000 books.
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There are 13,397,561 articles on ScienceDirect.

Scopus This link opens in a new window
Abstracts and citations from peer-reviewed literature and conference proceedings in Life Sciences, Medicine, Physical Sciences, Technology, Social Sciences and Arts & Humanities.
Video Tutorials
Content Coverage Guide

Science Education Videos

JoVE Journal Biology This link opens in a new window
Peer-reviewed research in video format: Cellular biology, developmental biology, microbiology, immunology, plant biology, medicine, and neuroscience.
Articles that accompany videos can be downloaded in PDF form.
JoVE Science Education - Basic Methods in Cellular and Molecular Biology This link opens in a new window
15 videos demonstrate how to execute basic techniques commonly used in cellular and molecular biology.
Each video is paired with additional video resources for you to view practical applications of the technique and other complementary skills.

Videos cover plasmid purification, the ELISA method, transfection, etc.
JoVE Science Education - General Laboratory Techniques This link opens in a new window
15 videos show to use standard pieces of laboratory equipment essential in many experiments, as well as how to perform basic laboratory functions.
Each video is paired with additional video resources for you to view practical applications of the technique and other complementary skills.

Videos cover centrifuge, light microscopy, working in the hood, making solutions, microplate reader, etc.
Kanopy Streaming Video This link opens in a new window
Watch streaming films, documentaries, and training videos from Criterion Collection, Women Make Movies, First Run Features, and other leading producers. The library owns some titles on this platform, but most content is leased solely for classroom use; see https://library.mtsu.edu/mediaresources/policy
Kanopy Troubleshooting Guide
Kanopy Accessibility Statement
Creating playlists and/or clips (Must first create a Kanopy account)

Additional Agribusiness & Agriscience Databases

For more databases, see the A-Z Resources page.

Annual Reviews This link opens in a new window
Full-text of all Annual Review publications in biomedical sciences, physical sciences and social sciences. This includes a complete backfile of all titles, some of which date back to 1930.
Annual Reviews is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide the worldwide scientific community with a useful and intelligent synthesis of the primary research literature for a broad spectrum of scientific disciplines.

Annual Reviews publications are among the most highly cited
in scientific literature as indexed by the Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Reports® (JCR).
Education Full Text This link opens in a new window
Indexing and fulltext for education, 1984 to present.
Publication List
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
Indexing, abstracting, and fulltext for journals in the sciences and social sciences.
GeoRef This link opens in a new window
Geosciences database with over 2.8 million bibliographic records to the geoscience literature of the world.
Over 3,500 journals are reviewed for indexing in the GeoRef database as well as books, maps, government reports, conference papers, and theses and dissertations. Produced by the American Geological Institute.
ABI/INFORM Collection This link opens in a new window
Indexing and fulltext for business literature, 1980s to present.
Local, regional, national and international business news coverage of corporations, privately held companies, local start-ups, executive profiles, marketing, finance, and industry news. Coverage from 1985-present.

Other Agriculture Databases & Search Engines

Science.gov
Searches over 50 databases and over 2100 websites from 13 federal agencies of authoritative U.S. government science information including research and development resutls.

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