Agronomy and Soils

Library Specialist

Claudine Jenda: jendaca@auburn.edu
334-844-1658
Reference Department

Reference Tools

Encyclopedias and Dictionaries
CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names: Common Names, Scientific Names, Eponyms, Synonyms and Etymology   Ref QK 13 Q 38 2000
Dictionary of Generic Names of Seed Plants   Ref QK11 W 52 1995
Elsevier's Dictionary of Horticultural and Agricultural Plant Production:In Ten Languages, English, Dutch, French, German, Danish, Swedish, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin   Ref SB 45 E 42 1990
Elsevier's Dictionary of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering: In Five Languages, English, French, Spanish, Dutch, and German RefTA 710 A 15 .T 85 1989
Encyclopaedia of Seed Production of World Crops   SB117 E 45 1998
Glossary of Crop Science Terms   Ref SB 45 G 57 1992
Multilingual Dictionary of Agronomic Plants   Ref SB45.5 M 85 1994
Plant Identification Terminology: an Illustrated Glossary RefQK 9 H 37 1994
Handbooks and General Reference
Agrochemicals Desk Reference   Ref TD 196 A 34 .M 661997
Biological Control of Weeds: a World Catalogue of Agents and their TargetWeeds   SB 611.5 B 55 1998
CRC Handbook of Alternative Cash Crops   Ref SB 111D 85 1993
FAO Fertilizer Yearbook   HD 9483 A 1 .F 65
Geochemical Reference Material Compositions: Rocks, Minerals, Sediments, Soils, Carbonates, Refractories and Ores used in Research and IndustryRefQE 438 P 67 1992
Grower's Weed Identification Handbook   Ref SB 611G 76 1990
Handbook of Soil Science  S 591 H 23 2000
Nomenclatorial Compilation of Plant and Soil Nematodes  RefQL 391 N 4 .T 83
Official Methods of Analysis of AOAC   Ref S 587 A73 2000
Pesticide Manual: a World Compendium: incorporating the Agrochemicals Handbook   Ref SB 951 P 434 1994 
Publications Handbook and Style Manual   Desk Ref S494.5 A 96 .P83 1998
Rules for Testing Seeds   Ref SB 114 A 1 .A75
Soil and Plant Analysis Laboratory Registry for the United States and Canada   Ref S 593 S 7424 1999
World Economic Plants: a Standard Reference   Ref SB107 W 59 1999
World List of Seed Sources = Liste Mondiale de Sorces de Semences =Lista Munial de Fuentes de Semillas   Ref SB 113.4 F 661996
Subject Profile Call Numbers
QKBotany
S 583 - S 599.9Soils, Soil Science
S 600 - S 600.7Agricultural Meteorology, Crops and Climate
S 604.5 - S 604.64Agricultural Conservation
S 622 - S 627Soil Conservation
S 631 - S 667Fertilizers and Improvement of the Soil
SB 119 - SB 123.75Propagation
SB 818 - SB 945Pest Control and Treatment of Diseases
SB 950.9 - SB 970.4Pesticides
TP 963Manufacture, Fertilizers
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Indexes and Databases

All databases are available on campus and remotelyunless otherwise noted.  To access a resource from home, you willneed to type your library ID and last name.  Your library ID is usually:two, zero, your Social Security Number, then zero.  For example: A person with the Social Security Number 123-45-6789 has the library ID: 201234567890
Subject Databases
Agricola
National Agricultural Library's database indexing journal articles, bookchapters, agriculture extension bulletins, etc. from 1979 - Present
Public access at http://www.nal.usda.gov/ag98/ag98.html
(For researching agricultural literature from 1942-1978, consult Bibliography of Agriculture   S 493 B 525.)
CABAbstracts
CAB International's database covering literature in the fields of agriculture,forestry, animal sciences, food science, etc. 1973 - Present
(For researching agronomic literature before 1973, consult
Weed Abstracts  SB 611 W 33,
Soils and Fertilizers  S 590 S 67,
Plant Breeding Abstracts  SB 123 P 54,
Herbage Abstracts  SB 4 H 38, or
Field Crop Abstracts  SB 183 F 5.)
BiologicalAbstracts
Indexes journal articles covering the fields of biology, botany, zoology,microbiology, clinical and experimental medicine, etc. 1990- Present
(For researching biological literature from 1927-1990, consult Biological Abstracts  QH 301 B 37.)
 
Business and Industry Database
Covers public and private companies, industries products and markets. Approximately60% of the database is full text. 1994 - Present
Chemical Abstracts
Covers a broad spectrum of technical and scientific information includingchemistry, biochemistry and chemical engineering. 1967 - Present. Onlyavailable on campus.
(For researching chemical literature from 1907-1966, consult Chemical Abstracts  
QD 1 A 51.)
Environmental Sciences
Indexes literature on aquatic pollution, bacteriology, ecology, energyresources, environmental biotechnology, environmental engineering, etc. from1981 to the present except citations from Selected Water Resources Abstracts begin in 1967.
For researching environmental literature prior to 1981, refer to AubieCat to find call numbers for the print indexes corresponding to the Environmental Sciences subfiles.
GeoRef
American Geological Institute 's database indexing technical literatureon geology and geophysics. 1785 - Present.


General Databases

Academic Search FULLTEXTElite
Covers abstracts and indexing for over 3,000 scholarly journals and featuresfull text articles for over 1,200 journals since 1990. 
InfoTrac's Expanded AcademicASAP 
Indexes 1500 journal titles in a variety of subject areas.  Articlesin over 500 journals are full text. 1980 – Present 
Dissertation Abstracts
1861 – Present.  The most current two years are available off campus, butearlier years are only available on campus. 


Current Awareness Resources

Current Contents
Provides access to the tables of contents and bibliographic data from currentissues of scholarly research journals and books in the sciences. 1996 – Present 
Reveal
An automated alerting service that delivers the table of contents of periodicalsor results of keyword searches directly to your e-mail address.  Availableto AU faculty, graduate students and staff. Be sure to first enter your library barcode, then your password and in the next window choose the Reveal option.  
Ingenta Uncover Plus 
A database of article information taken from over 18,000 journals that allows faxing of articles not owned by AU Libraries. Available to AU faculty, graduate students and staff.  
Citation Database
Science Citation Index
Provides access to current bibliographic information and cited referencesfrom over 3,300 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals.1984 - Present.
(For researching citation literature from 1961-1983, consult Science Citation Index  
Ref Q 1 S 3693.)
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Journals

List of Current Print Agronomy and Soils Journals

E-journalsat AU Libraries
This E-journals list includes ALL subject areas, notjust Agronomy and Soils.

Please note:  If you don't see the journal that you needon the above lists, always be sure to check AubieCat. By doing a "journal title" search in that database, you will get the callnumber for any paper subscription and/or a link to any electronic subscription.

To search for articles, see the Indexes and Databasessection of this guide

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Web Sites

AgHort 100 Plant Images http://pas.byu.edu/pas100/
JPEG gallery of approximately 150 economically important plants
AgNIC (Agriculture Databases) http://www.agnic.org/
Guide to quality agricultural information on the Internet as selected by the National Agricultural Library, Land-Grant Universities and other institutions
ARS Pesticide Properties Database http://www.ars.usda.gov/Services/docs.htm?docid=6433
Compendium of chemical and physical properties of pesticides
Agriculture Virtual Library  http://vlib.org/Agriculture
Agriculture Links
Checklist of Online Vegetation and Plant Distribution Maps http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/EART/vegmaps.html
Arranged by area, world or continent and subdivided by region or country
Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service  http://www.csrees.usda.gov/
CSREES expands the research and higher education functions of the former Cooperative State Research Service and the education and outreach functions of the former Extension Service. Links to state extension pages.
EPA Office of Pesticides Programs   http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/
Includes links to safety programs
FAO Statistical Data   http://apps.fao.org/page/collections?subset=agriculture/
Contains information about harvests of foodstuffs by country or continentin a searchable database
FAO World Agricultural Information Centre http://www.fao.org/waicent/search/default.asp
Three parts: "Documents" for full-text; "FAO Documentation Catalogue" for bibliographic information from the FAO library; "WAICENT" to search indexed web-pages on the FAO site.
Forage Information System http://forages.oregonstate.edu/index.cfm
Global forage information resource, including a glossary of forage-related terms
Grain Genes   http://wheat.pw.usda.gov/
Genetic database for wheat, barley, rye, oat and sugarcane
Internet Directory for Botany   http://www.botany.net/IDB/
Searchable, browsable gateway for botanical information
National Resource Conservation Service  http://www.mn.nrcs.usda.gov/ 
Formerly known as the Soil Conservation Service, the NRCS works to conserve natural resources on private lands
New Crop  http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/default.html
Source for information on less common crops by the Center for New Crops and Plant Products at Purdue University
Plant Genonme Data and Information Center http://www.nal.usda.gov/pgdic
Provides access to many aspects of plant and animal genome mapping
Transgenic Crops: An Introduction and Resource Guide  http://www.colostate.edu/programs/lifesciences/TransgenicCrops/
Information and links to resources on the technology and issues surrounding transgenic crops
Turfgrass Information Center   http://www.lib.msu.edu/tgif/
Comprehensive collection of publicly available turfgrass educationalmaterials
USDA Current Research Information System   http://cris.csrees.usda.gov/
Reporting system for research projects in agriculture, food and nutrition,and forestry 
Virginia Tech Weed Identification Guide http://www.ppws.vt.edu/scott/weed_id/rightsid.htm
Identification of common weeds and weed seedlings found in Virginia and the southeastern U.S. 
Web-agri.com   http://web-agri.com
An agricultural search engine (not a directory site) to search over 300,000 web pages
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Research Guides

Guide to Information Sources in the Botanical SciencesRefQK 45.2 D 38 1996
 

Literature of Crop Science Ref SB 45.65 L 58 1995
Literature of Soil Science   Ref S 590.45 L 581994

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Associations and Societies

ASA/CSSA/SSSA   http://www.asa-cssa-sssa.org
American Society of Agronomy/Crop Science Society of America/Soil Science Society of America
ASAE   http://asae.org
American Society of Agricultural Engineers
SON   http://www.ianr.unl.edu/son/
Society of Nematologists
SWCS   http://www.swcs.org
Soil and Water Conservation Society
SWSS   http://www.weedscience.msstate.edu/swss/
Southern Weed Science Society
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Discussion Lists and Newsgroups

General

Electronic Mailing Lists at Auburn University   http://www.auburn.edu/helpdesk/internet/listserv.html#classmail

Contains links to help sites for all varieties of mailing lists. 

Subject Specific

Kovacs' WWW View of Directory of Scholarly and Professional E-Conferenceshttp://www.kovacs.com/directory.html

BIOSCI/bionet Electronic Newsgroup Network for Biology   http://net.bio.net/

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Auburn University Department and Course Pages

Department of Agronomy andSoils

Alabama Land Resource Information Center

Alabama Cooperative Extension System
Agronomy and Soil

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jendaca@auburn.edu