Subject Guides: Agriculture

Agricultural & Life Sciences

  • Agricola (National Agriculture Library) Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff Available through FindIt
    (1970-) citations/abstracts

    Topic coverage includes agriculture, animal industries, botany, entomology, plant science, soil science, veterinary medicine, and water resources management.

    National Agricultural Library's public gateway to Agricola Open to everyone

    Journals Indexed in Agricola

  • Agricultural and Environmental Biotechnology AbstractsLicensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staff Available through FindIt
    (1993-) citations/abstracts

    Topic coverage includes plant and animal biotechnological developments, food industry and environmental issues.

  • Agris (FAO-United Nations) Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staffAvailable through FindIt
    (1986-) citations/some abstracts

    Topic coverage includes agriculture, animal production, aquatic science and fisheries, machinery and buildings, natural resources, plant production, pollution, and rural sociology.

  • AgNic: Agricultural Network Information Center Open to everyone

    Searchable on-line guide to quality agricultural information via the Internet. Resources are selected and produced by the National Agricultural Library, land-grant universities and partners in the public sector.

  • Biological AbstractsLicensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staffAvailable through FindIt
    (1980-) citations/abstracts

    Topic coverage includes anatomy, bacteriology, biotechnology, clinical medicine, genetics, microbiology, nutrition, parasitology, pharmacology, toxicology, virology, and zoology.

  • CAB Abstracts (agriculture/veterinary)Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staffAvailable through FindIt
    (1972-) citations/abstracts

    Topic coverage includes agriculture, dairy science, entomology, forestry, horticulture, soil science, and veterinary medicine.

  • E-AnswersOpen to everyone

    Provides access to Extension and/or outreach publications as produced by land grant universities. Topics include: agriculture, forestry, fishing, family/consumer issues, lawn and garden, child development, 4-H/youth, environment, public policy, economics, and water quality.

  • Environmental Sciences and Pollution ManagementLicensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staffAvailable through FindIt
    (1981-) citations/abstracts

    Topic coverage includes pollution, bacteriology, ecology, toxicology, environmental engineering, environmental biotechnology, waste management, and water resources.

  • FSTA (Food Science and Technology Abstracts)Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staffAvailable through FindIt
    (1969-) citations/abstracts

    Topic coverage includes commodity technology, dairy products, dietetic foods, fermentation technology, food additives and engineering, hygiene, food laws, meat and poultry, sugars, and toxicology.

  • TEKTRAN DatabaseOpen to everyone

    Provides selected pre-publication notices of research results from the Agricultural Research Service of the USDA.

  • USDA Current Research Information System (CRIS) Open to everyone

    Presents ongoing and recently-completed research sponsored by USDA research agencies, state agricultural experiment stations, state land-grant university systems, and participants in USDA grant programs.

  • Web of KnowledgeLicensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staffAvailable through FindIt
    (1982-) citations/abstracts and links to electronic journal full-text

    Access to Science Citation Index, Expanded, a useful tool for citation tracking. Searchable by author, title, subject and institution.

Business & Economics

  • ABI/INFORM (American Business Institute) Licensed access for UW-Madison students, faculty, staffAvailable through FindIt
    (1971-) citations/abstracts full-text since 1992

    Access to business and trade journal literature. Topic coverage includes management techniques, corporate strategies, trends, and business conditions.

  • AgEcon Search: Research in Agricultural and Applied EconomicsOpen to everyone

    Provides full text reports of scholarly research in the field of agricultural and applied economics. Adobe Acrobat reader software 2.0 or higher required for viewing.

  • FAPRI (Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute) Open to everyone

    Congressionally-enacted institute provides objective analysis of food, agricultural, nutritional and environmental issues. Data and publications are provided by partners in academia.

  • Farmdoc (Farm Decision Outreach Central) Open to everyone

    Project site provides access to resources designed to improve risk assessment and management. Topics include such issues as finance, marketing, management, law, taxation, insurance and local/state/federal policies.

  • Market Information Database System (MIDS) Open to everyone

    Provides access to agricultural market information received from the USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS).

Health & Safety

  • EXTension TOXicology NETworkOpen to everyone

    Supplies toxicology information and fact sheets, Pesticide Information Profiles (PIPs), and Toxicology Information Briefs (TIBs).

  • Farm*A*SystOpen to everyone

    Supplies information on preventing farm and residential pollution by using confidential environmental risk assessments.

  • Food Animal Residue Avoidance Database (FARAD) Open to everyone

    Supplies comprehensive information regarding agricultural safety and health education. Database includes state publications, OSHA and EPA standards.

  • PubMed (National Library of Medicine) Open to everyoneAvailable through FindIt
    (1966-) citations/abstracts and links to some full-text

    Topic coverage includes clinical medicine, biomedicine, and the biological and physical sciences.

  • National Ag Safety Database (NASD) Open to everyone

    Supplies comprehensive information regarding agricultural safety and health education. Database includes state publications, OSHA and EPA standards.

  • TOXNET (National Library of Medicine) Open to everyone

    Provides access to databases and factsheets on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, and related areas.