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Journal Articles for Agriculture

• Academic Search Premier Full text of almost 5,000 scholarly journals in all disciplines.
• Agricola The major sources for articles, books, pamphlets, and other material on all areas of agriculture.
• AgBioForum offers a wide range of articles from agriculture, economics, the science of biotechnology, and ethical issues surrounding biotechnology. Abstracts and full text articles are available free of charge to all users.
• BioOne A full text source of about 150 journals.
• Blackwell-Synergy Journals in Science, Technology, and Medicine Over 400 current full text journals in the sciences, technology, and medicine.
• GreenFILE, a freely accessible research database focusing on the relationship between human beings and the environment, with well-researched information on topics ranging from global warming to recycling to alternate fuel sources and beyond. Including scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports, GreenFILE offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the ecology. Drawing on the connection between the environment and disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health, and technology, GreenFILE will serve as an informative resource for anyone concerned about the issues facing our planet.
• PrimateLit Citations to scientific literature on nonhuman primates. 1940 to present. Note: do not pay for any articles you discover through these resources. Instead, see if they are online via the Full-text Article Finder or contact the cognitive science librarian for assistance.
• PsychINFO The largest source of materials (journal articles, books, chapters of books) in psychology and related disciplines.
• ScienceDirect College Edition A full text database for journals in the life, medical, social, behavioral, and physical sciences.
• JSTOR (Journal Storage) Scholarly articles in over 150 academic journals. Articles date from the 1800s up to a "moving wall" of between one and eight years before the present. That means that there are no current articles. Coverage includes the arts, business, general science, the humanities, and social science.

Websites for Agriculture

• Agricultural and Environmental Biotechnology Annotated Dictionary A glossary of biotechnology terms.
• Agricultural Sciences books Full text books on agricultural sciences.
• AGRIS/CARIS Information Centre Three million entries on all aspects of agriculture, courtesy of the Food and Agricultural Organization of the U.N.
• Designer Seeds
• Forest History Society Archival Guide: A bibliography to information on forests and forestry. No full text. This just leads you to sites that might have the material.
• Infomine Scholarly Internet resource collections in biological, agricultural, and medical sciences. Annotates and presents scholarly Internet resources in a flexible and easy to navigate manner.
• Insect Pheromones
• Life Science Dictionary More than 8,300 terms dealing with biochemistry, biotechnology, botany, cell biology, genetics, ecology, limnology, pharmacology, toxicology, and medicine. Also includes organisms (e.g bacteria, worms, fungi, etc.) pertaining to medicine and biotechnology.
• NatureServe Explorer A searchable database of more than 50,000 plants, animals, and ecological communities of the U.S. and Canada. Includes rare and endangered species as well as common plants and animals.
• NewCROP NewCROP provides a one-stop source of information for those looking for new crops to grow. Provides reference resources, a list of experts, and a calendar of related events.
• Science in the Headlines Provides summaries of reports on hot science topics, from AIDS to urban development. Link to the full text of reports and to related publications. From the National Academy of Science.
• Scirus Science-specific search engine. Searches 90 million science-related websites. Also searches journal sources such as Medline and ScienceDirect. Search Scirus from the box below.

Search Agricultural Sciences Search Biosciences

• Transgenic Crops: An Introduction and Resource Guide An excellent summary of the work being done on transgenic crops. A useful guide for anyone interested in the production and use of genetically modified organisms.
• USDA's Agriculture Fact Book 2000 Covers rural America, nutrition, consumer issues, trade, food safety, and the U.S. Forest Service. Note: requires Adobe Acrobat reader to view the data. You may download the reader here, or ask a reference librarian for assistance.