Subject Guide
Funk ACES Library
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Urbana, IL 61801
1101 S. Goodwin, MC-633
Urbana, IL 61801
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Keywords
Use these related terms to find resources in electronic databases:
- agriculture
- agroecology
- alternative agriculture
- alternative farming (techniques)
- biodynamic (agriculture or farming)
- organic farming
- organic gardening
- organic living
- organic producing
- renewable agriculture
- renewable food systems
- sustainability
- sustainable farming (techniques or practices)
Best Bet Database
- CAB Abstracts This link opens in a new windowA comprehensive bibliographic database of Ag publications worldwide.
Other Databases
- Agricola on Ovid This link opens in a new windowThe bibliographic database of the National Agricultural Library. It is an excellent source for research of Agriculture & allied disciplines in the U.S.
- Biological Abstracts (BIOSIS) This link opens in a new windowIdentifies journal articles on biology and the biomedical sciences. It is one of the primary databases for life sciences, providing citations and abstracts to articles in over 5,000 research journals in the life sciences.
- Garden, Landscape & Horticulture Index This link opens in a new windowCovers a wide range of serial titles including general gardening titles of national, international, and regional interest and titles devoted to specialty gardens and plant groups.
- Organic E-printsOrganic Eprints is an international open access archive for papers and projects related to research in organic food and farming, developed by the International Centre for Research in Organic Food Systems.
- Scopus This link opens in a new windowScopus is the largest abstract and citation database, including peer-reviewed titles from international publishers, Open Access journals, conference proceedings, trade publications, quality web sources. Subject coverage : Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics and Engineering; Life and Health Sciences; Social Sciences, Psychology and Economics; Biological, Agricultural and, Environmental Sciences.
- Web of Science (Core Collection) This link opens in a new windowProvides the most current index to over 8000 of the world's leading scholarly research journals in all disciplines; includes abstracts. Updated weekly. Avail: 1982 - present. Includes a unique "cited reference" feature, to find articles that have cited a given article.
- ProQuest Dissertations and Theses This link opens in a new windowPQDT is a collection of citations to dissertations and theses worldwide from 1861 to the present day. Full-text is available for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and some of the older graduate works. PQDT is also the official digital dissertations archive for the Library of Congress. Also included are the citations to British and Irish dissertations and theses (PQDT: UK & Ireland) since 1761 and abstracts for content since 1986.
Note: UIUC masters theses are not in PQDT. They are only found in IDEALS or in the library catalog. - GreenFILE This link opens in a new windowGreenFILE offers well-researched but accessible information covering all aspects of human impact on the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles include content on the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments, and what can be done on each level to minimize negative impact.