A large but easy to use database of resources in all agricultural sciences, especially the applied sciences in agriculture, engineering, and resource economics. Includes books, book chapters, microforms, media, as well as journal articles. It provides coverage of mostly English language materials, with particular strength in federal and state publications. It covers a longer time period than many other databases, 1970-
Citations, with abstracts, to articles, books, conference proceedings, monographs, and reports relating to the biological, medical, and agricultural sciences. 1982- .See in particular the Plant Science section.
Citations, with abstracts, to journal articles relating to animal production, veterinary science, crop science, forestry, and agricultural engineering. A section is dedicated to plant pathology: use as part of your search the code "FF610" in the field "CC CABICODES_TERMS." The best way to find European agricultural sources. 1990- .
This database extensively covers the literature of chemistry and chemical engineering, including the application of chemistry to agriculture. You search this in "normal language" free text form by using a phrase like "bacterial diseases in carrot". You must use this in the Library, or download software onto your computer.
A major resource, covering all fields of science and other disciplines, allowing a cross-subject search from literature of many fields. Also allows the researcher to identify more recent articles via a search of older works cited in lists of references from those recent articles.
Full-text information from newspapers, the legal literature, and other sources on a variety of topics. Best used for topics on the legal and political aspects of plant pathology or the impact of disease on society. Covers newspaper and other non-scholarly reports.
Bibliographic database covering the world's scholarly literature relating to the history of the United States and Canada. It includes article abstracts and bibliographical citations of reviews and dissertations on the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistoric times to the present; there are some links to full text. "CLIO Notes," an alternative search interface, guides you through U.S. history by allowing you to browse through chronologies and hundreds of brief summaries of significant events and themes in American history.
Bibliographic database covering the world's scholarly literature relating to history, excluding the United States and Canada. It includes article abstracts and bibliographical citations of books and dissertations on the history of the world, except the United States and Canada, from 1450 to the present.
The accepted citation style in the biological sciences comes from the Council of Science Editors (formerly Council of Biology Editors, known as CBE). To cite printed material, such as books and journal articles, you can refer to a useful page from the University of Wisconsin, CBE Documentation , at http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/DocCBE.html . I recommend using the name-year system, then look for the link to "Create a reference list."
For citing sources found on the internet, whether they are journal articles online or Web pages from organizations, you need to cite somewhat differently. A good summary of their rules is at the Citation Styles Online! web site, found at http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/cite8.html . The link on that page for citing the Internet no longer works, but the Council of Science Editors points to a site on how to do this at: Citing the Internet: Formats for Bibliographic Citation. You can go directly to this information at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/formats/internet.pdf
