Guide to research resources for locating information in agricultural education and studies - including curriculum materials, journal articles, dissertations, and extension publications.
Article databases list journal articles, conference papers, and other items. They allow you to search hundreds of journals at once, enabling precise retrieval of articles published on a particular subject.
Most useful Indexes for Agricultural Education & Studies:
The ACSESS Digital Library is a complete collection of all content published by the American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, and Soil Science Society of America. This collection is a work-in-progress and was released to the public during summer 2012. Publications include: journal, magazines, and some e-books.
An international and multilingual agricultural research database maintained by the United Nations. AGRIS contains references to books, articles, book chapters, data sets, and gray literature.
CAB Abstracts is one of the largest agricultural databases covering international research literature in a wide range of subjects across the applied life sciences – from agriculture, the environment, and veterinary sciences, to applied economics, leisure/tourism, and nutrition. Especially useful to find information for specific countries on these topics. CAB Abstracts tutorial
Contains a mixture of journal articles, unpublished reports, and curriculum materials in all areas of education. Some documents are available full-text. The ISU Library subscribes to most of the journals indexed by ERIC, and maintains a microfiche file of all indexed reports up to August 2004.
Full text access to over 1500 national and international newspapers. Exellent resource for locating information on current world events such as recent crop damage in foreign countries.
A free repository of historically significant US farm weekly newspapers documenting a time of transition in American agriculture, politics, family life and technology. Covers late nineteenth to early twentieth centuries.
A large database containing scholarly journal articles and conference papers on any topic in science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts & humanities. Includes cited references and h-index information. Scopus tutorial
The fundamental question which can be answered quickly by Web of Science is where and by whom has a particular paper been cited. If you have 1-2 journal articles that are perfectly on your topic - you can look them up in Web of Science to see who has cited them. If another researcher has cited these papers, then these additional papers are probably also on the same (or a similar) topic. It's a great way to find related articles.