Science

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Science Engineering Resources 101 Focus on
Agricultural Resources

• Mary Frances Lembo
• Hanford Technical Library
• Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
• James E. Manasco
• Ekstrom Library, Collection Development
• University of Louisville

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Agriculture-What is it good for?

• According to wikipedia Agriculture refers to
  the production of food and goods through farming
  and forestry. Agriculture was the key development
  that led to the rise of civilization, with the
  husbandry of domesticated animals and plants
  (i.e. crops) creating food surpluses that enabled
  the development of more densely populated and
  stratified societies.

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Background Materials

• Using the agricultural, environmental, and food
  literature / Barbara S. Hutchinson and
  Antoinette Paris Greider, editor. 2002 Marcel
  Dekker ISBN 0824708008
• This is a useful resource for students and
  researchers in the disciplines of food science,
  agriculture and environmental science. Each topic
  is covered thoroughly and the selected resources
  cover a broad spectrum of the available
  information. This resource will be of primary
  interest to academic libraries or special
  libraries dealing with these topics.- Journal of
  Agricultural and Food Information, Vol. 4(4),
  2002

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Background Materials

• Wiley Encyclopedia of Food Science and Technology
  / Frederick J. Francis, editor. 1999
  Wiley-Interscience 2nd edition ISBN 0471192856
  
• "...an excellent reference for any food
  scientist..." -- Journal of Food Biochemistry,
  Vol. 27, No. 1

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Background Materials

• Mansfeld's Encyclopedia of Agricultural and
  Horticultural Crops (Except Ornamentals) / Peter
  Hanelt, et al, editor. 2001 Springer. ISBN
  3540410171
• "...a biological or agricultural institute must
  have it in its library as the encyclopedia will
  be a standard reference in this field for the
  next decades." Feddes Repertorium. Zeitschrift
  für botanische Taxonomie und Geobotanik

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Background Materials

• United States Department of Agriculture-Browsing
  by subject
• http//www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usdahome
• Select topic of interest from list on left.

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Databases, Indexes Abstracts

• Agricola
• Citations and abstracts of materials acquired by
  the National Agricultural Library (NAL) and
  cooperating institutions in the agricultural and
  related sciences.
• Coverage is worldwide. In addition, the database
  includes subfiles of citations from the Food and
  Nutrition Information Center (FNIC) and the
  American Agricultural Economics Documentation
  Center (AAEDC).

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Databases, Indexes Abstracts

• Agricola
• Available from a variety of vendors. But, free
  at http//agricola.nal.usda.gov/
• Includes printed works back to the 15th century.
• The Mother Database for Agriculture and related
  disciplines, American style.
• Before 1976, refer to the print Bibliography of
  Agriculture.

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Databases, Indexes Abstracts

• CAB Abstracts
• Agricultural and applied life sciences resources,
  with emphasis on agronomy, forestry, public
  health, environmental issues, and the management
  of natural resources.
• Coverage includes 11,000 journals, books,
  conference proceedings, reports, theses and other
  kinds of literature published internationally.
  The current file (1973 - present) and the archive
  (1910 - 1972) may be searched separately.

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Databases, Indexes Abstracts

• CAB Abstracts
• 1910-present
• Available from a variety of vendors.
• The Mother Database for Agriculture, British
  Style.

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Databases, Indexes Abstracts

• AGRIS
• An international bibliographic database produced
  by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the
  United Nations (FAO).
• Compiled from data submitted by 146 national
  AGRIS centers and 22 international organizations.
  Indexes and abstracts agricultural topics,
  including forestry, animal husbandry, the aquatic
  sciences and fisheries, and human nutrition.
  Coverage includes scientific and technical
  reports, theses, and conference papers in a
  variety of languages. Available from several
  vendors. But, also freely available.
• 1975-present.

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Databases, Indexes Abstracts

• Biological Abstracts and BIOSIS Previews
• Biological Abstracts indexes the journal
  literature in the life sciences.
• BIOSIS Previews includes Biological Abstracts,
  along with reports, reviews and data from
  meetings.
• Available in a variety of formats.

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Databases, Indexes Abstracts

• Current Research Information System (CRIS)
• Documentation and reporting system for ongoing
  and recently completed research and education
  projects in agriculture, food and nutrition, and
  forestry. Contains over 30,000 descriptions of
  current, publicly-supported research projects
  conducted or sponsored by USDA research agencies,
  state agricultural experiment stations, the state
  land-grant university system, other cooperating
  state institutions, and participants in a number
  of USDA-administered grant programs, including
  Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and
  National Research Initiative (NRI), and the
  programs administered by the Science and
  Education Resources Development (SERD) unit of
  the Cooperative State Research, Education, and
  Extension Service (CSREES).
• Available for free at http//cris.csrees.usda.gov/

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Databases, Indexes Abstracts

• Plant Science
• Database containing citations and abstracts of
  scientific literature on plant science, focusing
  on pathology, symbiosis, biochemistry, genetics,
  biotechnology, techniques and environmental
  biology.

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Databases, Indexes Abstracts

• Statistical Abstract of the United States
• http//www.census.gov/compendia/statab/
• While available online, this remains my favorite
  book, speaking librarianly.

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Databases, Indexes Abstracts

• Fred
• (Web of Knowledge (Science, whatever))
• Provides access to
• Science Citation Index Expanded
• Social Sciences Citation Index
• Arts Humanities Citation Index
• Index Chemicus
• Current Chemical Reactions
• Journal Citation Reports
• Medline, etc. etc.

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Databases, Indexes Abstracts

• Fred
• (Web of Knowledge (Science, whatever))
• Primarily known as a citation database provides
  access back to 1900 for SCI, for those willing to
  pay, other databases have different coverage
  ranges.
• Can search by subject, but.

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Extension Publications

• In the field of agriculture, extension
  publications are extremely important. In the US,
  each state has extension offices at their
  land-grant institutions.
• Agricola indexes significant reports, but
  doesnt include many smaller publications.

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Extension Publications

• University of Kentucky Extension Publications may
  be accessed via
• http//www.ca.uky.edu/agc/pubs/pubs.htm

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Extension Publications

• E-Answers Provides access to extension
  publications for all the states.
• http//e-answers.adec.edu/

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Digital Collections

• National Agricultural Library Digital Repository
  (NALDR)
• http//naldr.nal.usda.gov/
• Provides access to historical publications, and
  some recent ones. Searchable via the website and
  freely available.

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Digital Collections

• Soil Data Mart
• http//soildatamart.nrcs.usda.gov/
• The official information about the soils in a
  given area is available from the Soil Data Mart,
  which provides the most current data about the
  soils.

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Digital Collections

• Web Soil Survey
• http//websoilsurvey.nrcs.usda.gov/app/
• Also provides current soil data. The interface
  allows the user to define an area of interest, to
  view and print a soil map, to assess soil data
  about the area, and to obtain information about
  the suitability of the soils for selected uses.

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Societies/Organizations

• Agricultural Biotechnology Center, Godollo,
  Hungary
• http//www.abc.hu/American Society of Agronomy
• Australian Department of Agriculture, Fisheries
  and Forestry
• http//www.daff.gov.au/
• Belarus Agricultural Library
• http//belal.by/

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Societies/Organizations

• Canadian Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
• http//www.agr.gc.ca/index_e.php
• Consultative Group on International Agricultural
  Research (CGIAR)
• http//www.cgiar.org/
• Crop Science Society of America
• http//www.crops.org/
• European Food Information Council
• http//www.eufic.org/

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Societies/Organizations

• International Association of Agricultural
  Information Specialists (IAALD)
• http//www.iaald.org/
• National Agricultural Biotechnology Council
  (NABC)
• http//nabc.cals.cornell.edu/
• New Zealand Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry
• http//www.maf.govt.nz/mafnet/index.htm
• Soil Science Society of America
• http//www.soils.org/

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Societies/Organizations

• Special Libraries Association-Food, Agriculture
  and Nutrition Division
• http//units.sla.org/division/dfan/
• U.K. Department for Environment, Food Rural
  Affairs (DEFRA)
• http//www.defra.gov.uk/
• United Nations-Food and Agriculture Organization
  of the United Nations
• http//www.fao.org/
• United Nations-World Food Programme
• http//www.wfp.org/

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Societies/Organizations

• U.S. Department of Agriculture
• http//www.usda.gov
• U.S. Food Drug Administration
• http//www.fda.gov
• USAIN (United States Agricultural Information
  Network)
• http//usain.org/
• Weed Science Society of America
• http//www.wssa.net/

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Frequently Cited Journals

• American Journal of Agricultural Economics
• Animal
• Crop Science
• Journal of Agricultural Science
• Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture
• Livestock Science

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Frequently Cited Journals

• Nature Biotechnology
• Plant Journal
• Soil Science Society of American Journal
• Transactions of the ASABE

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Contact us

• Mary Frances Lembo
• Technical Library Specialist
• Hanford Technical Library
• Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
• mf.lembo_at_pnl.gov
• James E. Manasco
• Collection Development
• Ekstrom Library
• University of Louisville
• james.manasco_at_louisville.edu

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SLA Engineering and Science-Technology Divisions
thank

• Elsevier
• For their generous support in sponsoring this
  program.