Agricultural Sciences

"Overview"

An overview of this subject guide serves as a pathfinder for this subject Guide. You can navigate to different content components by one click.

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TAB "Quick Reference"

provides access to Statistical Data, Reference Books, Research questions and CAB Blog.

Statistical data includes data posted from various government agencies. You can click on the logos to find data on Weather (NOAA), Agriculture (USDA), International Food & Agriculture (FAO), Toxic Release (EPA) and Water (USGS).

 

 

This tab also provides access to a commercial news service USDA Crop Explorer and  StormX for crop protection and other related data. 

 

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TAB "Find Books"

Provides access to print and eletronic books in the libraries via online catalogs. It also show you how to suggest a book to purchase.

 

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TAB "Find Journal Articles"

Provides access to electronic journals and a few open access organizations to view full-text articles.

 

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TAB "Search Engines"

Provides search box for OSU ScholarsArchive, GoogleScholar, LibraryFind, World Digital Library

 

 

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(click logo)

LibraryThing™ is the world's largest book club, you can create your own library and share with people in the world. You can write reviews and find out a longer reading list in the subject of your interest.

I have created a mini library listing reference books related to plant science area (available in the Valley library).

CABI Blogs: hand picked... and carefully sorted

 The content specialists put together highlights of the research information collected in CAB database.

 

Click on the logos to get data

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    National Agricultural Statistics Service

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   U.S. Geological Survery water Data

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  EPA Toxic Release State Factsheet

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   National weather service

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  International food & agriculture data

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  USDA Crop Explorer

 

The Genology of Herbicide Company

Inundative Control Using Bioherbicides

AGROProjects

AGROProjects - index of new chemical & natural herbicide & PGR products
and manufacturers

 

 

100PlantScienceQuestions.org.uk -

identifies 100 contributions that plant scientists might make in Economic, Global, Scientific, & Social Arenas.  This is a good tool to explore various concern in this area

OSU Libraries Catalog  Books in Valley Library and OSU branch libraries.  If a book isn't available from OSU, use "Try Summit Libraries" to borrow it from another library.

Summit/WorldCat Catalog Request books not available at OSU and have them sent to Valley Library, usuall within 3-4 working days.

Show me how to get books from Summit/WorldCat!

 

Suggest a book  you'd like the library to get.

Find Electronic Books available online in the library catalog

 

In the Library Catalog,  Choose the Advance Search option.

In the Material type box, chooce the Ebook  option.

You will find many electronic books you can read online according to your search terms.

Interlibrary Loan is a service that helps us to borrow books and journal articles we do not currently have at the Valley Library,  It is free to OSU student, staff and faculty. Journal articles can arrive from a few hours to a few days but books can take longer.

If you have never use Interlibrary Loan before, please read this page,https://access.library.oregonstate.edu/FirstTime.html

You can sign up with your Onid account

https://access.library.oregonstate.edu/logon2.html

Note: Textbooks are hard to get. Expect long delays or cancellations. Please don't depend on Interlibrary loan for requred texts for your courses.

 

 

Google post some books online, you can read the whole book but cannot download or print. If you want to read the whole book, make sure you select the option "full view only"

By Subcriptions paid by OSU Libraries

Find e-journal by title or ISSN

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Open Access Online, however, some only limited to older issues

Open J-Gate

To get full-text, click "show detial" and you will see adialog box "Full Text Links", click the downward arrow next to it, you see more options, "HTM" or PDF" or both. Click on it and it will lead you to the full text.

 

HighWire Press [Stanford University] Free access

National Institutes of Health -- Public Access

DOAJ --- Directory of Open Access Jour

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• AgEcon Search
  AgEcon Search is a free, open access repository of full-text scholarly literature in agricultural and applied economics, including working papers, conference papers, and journal articles.
  Coverage Dates: 1932
• AGRICOLA (EBSCOhost)
  This database contains bibliographic records from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library. Coverage for AGRICOLA dates back to 1970 and includes more than 2.5 million citations. The citations are comprised of journal articles, monographs, theses, patents, software, audiovisual materials, and technical reports related to agriculture. Links to over 300 journals in Academic Search Premier.
  Coverage Dates: 1970
• Agricultural and Environmental Biotechnology Abstracts (part of ESPM)
  Subset of Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management. Covers agricultural products involving both plants and animals, new applications across the food industry, and wide-ranging environmental developments. Plant genome studies, now the focus of major research initiatives around the world, are examined in detail. Food, chemical, pharmaceutical, and biotechnology companies as well as scientists and other professionals working in agricultural and environmental fields will find information essential to their work in this journal.
  Coverage Dates: 1993 - present
• BioOne
  BioOne is the product of innovative collaboration between scientific societies, libraries, academe and the private sector. BioOne brings to the Web a uniquely valuable aggregation of the full-texts of high-impact bioscience research journals. Most of BioOne's titles are published by small societies and non-commercial publishers, and, until now, have been available only in printed form. BioOne provides integrated, cost-effective access to a thoroughly linked information resource of interrelated journals focused on the biological, ecological and environmental sciences.
  
  Concurrent Users: unlimited
  Coverage Dates: Varies by Journal
• CAB Abstracts
  Covers journal articles, conference proceedings and other materials in agriculture, forestry, nutrition and veterinary medicine. International scope.
  Abstracts and index:
  1973-present
  Coverage Dates: 1973 - present
• GrayLit Network
  Developed by the Department of Energy's Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), in collaboration with DOD/DTIC, NASA, and EPA, the GrayLIT Network is a portal for technical report information generated through federally funded research and development projects.
  Coverage Dates: 1974
• MEDLINE (PubMed)
  Index to research articles covering all areas of medicine including clinical and experimental medicine; dentistry; health care administration; microbiology; nursing; paramedical professions; pathology; pharmacology; physiology; reproductive biology; psychiatry; psychology; toxicology; and veterinary medicine. PubMed is direct from the National Library of Medicine web site.
  Abstracts and index: 1966-present
  Coverage Dates: 1950 - present
• Plant Management Network
  The Plant Management Network database provides quick and easy access to fact sheets, newsletters, product listings, training resources, and related information. The database indexes all articles published in Applied Turfgrass Science, Plant Health Progress, Crop Management, and Forage and Grazinglands, and thousands of web-based resources hosted at PMN's partner university, company, and association websites.
  
  Concurrent Users: unlimited
  Coverage Dates: 1984
• SciFinder Scholar (Chemical Abstracts)
  SciFinder Scholar provides electronic searching of Chemical Abstracts (CA) and the CAS Registry file. CA is the world\'s largest and most up-to-date collection of chemical information, with more than 20 million abstracts of journal articles, patents, and more. CAS Registry contains more than 24,000,000 substance records, including more than 16,000,000 organic and inorganic substances and 4,000,000 biosequences. The Registry is the world\'s largest collection of organic substance records.
  1907-present
  Coverage Dates: 1907 - present
• Web of Science
  The web version of Science Citation Index (SCI) and Social Science Citation Index (SSCI). The Web of Science accesses a multidisciplinary database of bibliographic information gathered from thousands of scholarly journals. The databases are indexed so you can search for specific articles by subject, author, journal, and/or author address. Because the information stored about each article includes the article's cited reference list (often called its bibliography), you can also search the databases for articles that cite a known author or work.
  Science Citation Index 1970-present
  Social Science Citation Index 1970-present
  
  Concurrent Users: unlimited
  Coverage Dates: 1970 - present

Interlibrary Loan is a service that helps us to borrow books and journal articles we do not currently have at the Valley Library,  It is free to OSU student, staff and faculty. Journal articles can arrive from a few hours to a few days but books can take longer.

If you have never use Interlibrary Loan before, please read this page,https://access.library.oregonstate.edu/FirstTime.html

You can sign up with your Onid account

https://access.library.oregonstate.edu/logon2.html

Note: Textbooks are hard to get. Expect long delays or cancellations. Please don't depend on Interlibrary loan for requred texts for your courses.

 

 

DIY Research

A blog initiated by Anne-Marrie Deitering, this blog talks about how to find specific journal articles inthe OSU collections, how to track down a scholarly /research source from a news artilce or how to get your book source etc.

Keep Current with your research

learn about social bookmarking, bibliographic management software, blogs, wikis, search alerts and feeds to help you keep up with and manage information for your research areas.

EndNote

Can be used to organize and personalize citation/bibliography manaer software program

EndNote features include

• Organize references in a database.
• Format citations and create bibliographies automatically in word processing software.
• Create multiple databases with unlimited records per database.
• There are 47 customizable reference types with up to 52 fields for entering bibliographic data.
• EndNote has the capability to connect directly to information resources that support the Z39.50 standard. This greatly simplifies the process of importing search results into an EndNote database. (Note: Most commercial reference databases have restricted access, requiring a login/password.)
• For resources that do not support Z39.50, downloaded references can be imported without retyping into personal EndNote databases using EndNote's import filters

Here is the Tutorial you can use to learn how to use EndNote

 

 

Please click on this link to see the definition of plagiarism at OSU

http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/instruction/

tutorials/engage/cite/plagiarism.htm

Read more

 

The Valley Library at Oregon State University has no affiliation with companies of the products mentioned.  This module is for information sharing only, hoping that users can find useful tools for their research works.

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