AGRICOLA
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- AGRICOLA This link opens in a new windowThe U.S. National Agricultural Library's bibliographic database to identify journal articles, government documents, technical reports, books, patents, and audiovisual resources from agricultural sources, including botany, ecology, environmental science, freshwater and marine sciences, and forestry from 1970 to the present. More InfoPUBLIC
This database is freely available to the general public via the Internet.
Description
AGRICOLA (Agricultural Online Access) is the U.S. National Agricultural Library's bibliographic database. While the name and origin of this database indicate a primary focus on agriculture, AGRICOLA's coverage of the life sciences is substantial. This extensive database has been maintained since 1970 to provide selective worldwide coverage of primary information sources in agriculture and the related fields of botany, forestry, ecology, and plant science including genetics and hereditary in domestic and wild strains of plants. Addition topics covered in AGRICOLA are:
Agrobusiness | Biochemistry | Biotechnology |
Cell biology, | Climatic changes | Environmental chemistry |
Food science | Natural resources | Nutrition |
Plant genomics | Plant molecular biology | Pesticides |
Soil science | Terrestrial entomology | Water quality and resources |
Leads to citations and abstracts to journal articles, government documents, technical reports, books, patents, and audiovisual resources from agricultural sources worldwide.
For additional information, see the AGRICOLA Help Pages.
Dates Covered
1970 to the present. Updated monthly.
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