Horticulture

LibrarySpecialist

ReferenceTools

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

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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: 201234567890

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 FULLTEXT Elite

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.  

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

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

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.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.

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.huh.harvard.edu/), 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/

The NPD contains information about plants, their identification, and distribution

Plant Dictionary Image Library http://plantfacts.osu.edu/images.lasso

 

 

 

 

 

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.missouristate.edu/paulevans/

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

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ResearchGuides

General

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

 

Reference Sources in Science, Engineering, Medicine, and AgricultureRefQ 158.5 M 278

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Associationsand Societies

ASHS (American Society for Horticultural Science)   http://www.ashs.org/

ASPP (American Society of Plant Physiologists)   http://www.aspb.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/

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DiscussionLists 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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AuburnUniversity Department and Course Pages

Deptartmental--Faculty Web Pages

Department 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/pubs/docs/indexes/anrho.tmpl

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