Key Words
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)
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. PDF Guide Available
- 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. PDF Guide Available
- CAB Abstracts This link opens in a new windowA comprehensive bibliographic database of Ag publications worldwide. PDF Guide Available
- 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. PDF Guide Available
- 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. Basic and Advanced PDF Guides Available
- USDA/CRIS (Current Research Information System)The USDA's Current Research Information System. It documents ongoing and recently completed research in agriculture, food, and nutrition.
- 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. Basic and Advanced PDF Guides Available
Subject Guide
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Finding Major Journals
For methods and resources to use in identifying journals in your field for publication or other purposes, see the Identifying Journals segment of this Introduction to Impact Factor guide.