Horticulture
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Claudine Jenda: jendaca@auburn.edu334-844-1658
Reference Department
ReferenceTools
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 Gardening Ref SB 450.95 D 53 1992
- Dictionary of Horticulture Ref SB 45 N 38 1994
- Dictionary of Plants Containing Secondary Metabolites RefQK 887 G 58 1991
- 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 Plant Names: in Latin, English, French, German,and Italian Ref QK 13 E 57 1996
- Encyclopedia of Medicinal Plants Ref RS 164 C 4437 1996
- Hortus Third: a Concise Dictionary of Plants Cultivated in the UnitedStates and Canada Ref SB 45 B 22 1976
- Plant Identification Terminology: an Illustrated Glossary RefQK 9 H 37 1994
- Hillier Gardener's Guide to Trees and Shrubs RefSB 435 H 54 1997
- Index of Garden Plants Ref SB 407 G 75 1994
- Kew Index for. . .: names of seed-bearing plants, ferns and fern alliesat the rank of family and below QK 11 I 4
- National Organic Directory: a Guide to Organic Information & Resources HD 9003 N 33
- North American Horticulture: a Reference Guide RefSB 317.56 U 6 .N67 1992
- Manual of Woody Landscape Plants: their Identification, Ornamental Characteristics,Culture, Propagation, and Uses SB 435 D 57 1998
- Plant Form: an Illustrated Guide to Flowering Plant Morphology RefQK 641 B 45 1991
- Poisonous and Medicinal Plants QK 100 A 1 B 57 1990
| QK | Botany |
| SB | Plant Culture |
| SB 183 - SB 317 | Field Crops |
| SB 320 - SB 353.5 | Vegetables |
| SB 354 - SB 402 | Fruit Culture and Orchard Care |
| SB 403 - SB 450.7 | Flowers |
| SB 450.9 - SB 467 | Gardens and Gardening |
| SB 469 - SB 476 | Landscape Gardening/Landscape Architecture |
| SB 481 - SB 485 | Parks and Public Reservations |
| SB 599 - SB 989 | Pests and Diseases |
| TP 963 | Manufacture, Fertilizers |
Indexesand 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: 201234567890Subject 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 horticultural literature before 1973, consult
Horticultural Abstracts SB 1 H 65,
Plant Breeding Abstracts SB 123 P 54.) - 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(Now SciFinder Scholar)
- 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.
- Medline(from Ovid)
- Citations to journal literature covering biomedicine including research,clinical practice, administration, policy issues, etc. 1966 - Present
- Public access at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi
- OLDMEDLINE (1958-1965) at http://gateway.nlm.nih.gov/gw/Cmd
- (For researching medical literature from 1941-1959, consult Current List of Medical Literature Z 6660 C 8.)
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
- CurrentContents
- 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.
- 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.)
Journals
Listof Current Print Horticulture Journals
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.
Web Sites
- 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
- Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service http://www.reeusda.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.
- Cornell University Poisonous Plants Page http://www.ansci.cornell.edu/plants/plants.html
- Lists genus and species, poisons, and other sites on the web for more informationabout poisonous plants
- Food and Nutrition Information Center http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/
- Nutrition databases, publications, audiovisuals, & software developedby USDA
- International Plant Names Index http://www.ipni.org/
- A collaborative initiative of The Royal Botanic Gardens (Kew Web http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/), The Harvard University Herbaria (Gray Card Index http://www.herbaria.harvard.edu/Data/Gray/gray.html), and the Australian National Herbarium for a comprehensive literature-based database of the scientific names and associated bibliographical details of all vascular (seed) plants
- National Plants Database http://plants.usda.gov/plants/index.html
- The NPD contains information about plants, their identification, and distribution
- Plant Dictionary Image Library http://www.hcs.ohio-state.edu/plants.html
- Includes four sections: Plants of Horticulture, Pests & Disease of Horticulture, Biology of Horticulture, Technology of Horticulture
- Plant Gene Register (American Society of Plant Physiologists) http://www.tarweed.com/pgr/index.html
- Electronic publication for articles describing the isolation and DNA sequencedetermination of plant genes.
- PlantFacts Search Engine http://plantfacts.ohio-state.edu
- Includes two databases: Factsheet Database, guides for answering plant-related questions and Reseach and Teaching, links to university departments
- Paul Evans Library of Fruit Science http://library.smsu.edu/paulevans/pelindex.htm
- Links to Agricultural Experiment Stations, Cooperative Extension Services & Horticulture Departments as well as links to journals. Emphasis on viticulture.
- TROPICOS Image Index http://mobot.mobot.org/Pick/Search/image/imagefr.html
- Plant image database project from the Missouri Botanical Garden
- Web-agri.com http://web-agri.com
- An agricultural search engine (not a directory site) to search over 300,000 web pages
- World Wide Web Virtual Library: Biotechnology http://cato.com/biotech/
- Covers pharmaceutical development, genetic engineering, etc. with emphasison product development
- WWW Virtual Library on Gardening http://www.gardenweb.com/vl/
- Site for gardeners
- Guide to Information Sources in the Botanical Sciences RefQK 45.2 D 38 1996 Web Link
- Reference Sources in Science, Engineering, Medicine, and AgricultureRefQ 158.5 M 278
- ASHS (American Society for Horticultural Science) http://www.ashs.org/
- ASPP (American Society of Plant Physiologists) http://www.aspp.org/
- BIC (Biotechnology Information Center) http://www.nal.usda.gov/bic/www.html#scisoc
- ISHS (International Society for Horticultural Science) http://www.ishs.org/
- NGA (National Gardening Association) http://www.garden.org/
- RHS (The Royal Horticulture Society) http://www.rhs.org.uk/
- 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.
- 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/
ResearchGuides
General
Associationsand Societies
DiscussionLists and Newsgroups
GeneralAuburnUniversity Department and Course Pages
Deptartmental--Faculty Web PagesDepartment of Horticulture http://www.ag.auburn.edu/dept/hf/
Landscape/Horticulture http://www.ag.auburn.edu/landscape/
Alabama Cooperative Extension System
Horticulture http://www.aces.edu/dept/extcomm/publications/anr/anrho.html
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