Agronomy and Soils
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[edit] 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 Industry RefQE 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
| QK | Botany |
| S 583 - S 599.9 | Soils, Soil Science |
| S 600 - S 600.7 | Agricultural Meteorology, Crops and Climate |
| S 604.5 - S 604.64 | Agricultural Conservation |
| S 622 - S 627 | Soil Conservation |
| S 631 - S 667 | Fertilizers and Improvement of the Soil |
| SB 119 - SB 123.75 | Propagation |
| SB 818 - SB 945 | Pest Control and Treatment of Diseases |
| SB 950.9 - SB 970.4 | Pesticides |
| TP 963 | Manufacture, Fertilizers |
[edit] Indexes and Databases
All databases are available on campus and remotely unless otherwise noted. To access a resource from home, you will need to type your username and password.
Subject Databases
- AGRICOLA
- National Agricultural Library's database indexing journal articles, book chapters, agriculture extension bulletins, etc. from 1979 - Present
- Public access at AGRICOLA
- (For researching agricultural literature from 1942-1978, consult Bibliography of Agriculture S 493 B 525.)
- CAB Abstracts
- CAB International's database covering literature in the fields of agriculture,forestry, animal sciences, food science, etc. 1910 - Present
- Biological Abstracts
- 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 Scifinder Scholar
- Covers a broad spectrum of technical and scientific information including chemistry, biochemistry and chemical engineering from 1907 - Present.
- Environmental Sciences
- Indexes literature on aquatic pollution, bacteriology, ecology, energy resources, environmental biotechnology, environmental engineering, etc. from 1967 to the present.
- GeoRef
- American Geological Institute 's database indexing technical literature on geology and geophysics. 1785 - Present.
General Databases
- Academic Search Premier
- Covers abstracts and indexing for over 3,000 scholarly journals and featuresfull text articles for over 1,200 journals since 1990.
- InfoTrac's Expanded Academic ASAP
- Indexes 1500 journal titles in a variety of subject areas. Articlesin over 500 journals are full text. 1980 – Present
- Dissertation and Theses
- 1861 – Present. This database contains over 2 million records of dissertations and theses from over 700 universities worldwide. For dissertations and theses at Auburn, search also the Library Catalog and the Auburn University Dissertations and Theses database.
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 Web of Science
- Provides access to current bibliographic information and cited referencesfrom over 3,300 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals.1945 - Present.
[edit] Journals
This E-journals list includes ALL subject areas, notjust Agronomy and Soils.
Please note: If you don't see the journal that you need on the above lists, always be sure to check the library catalog. 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 Indexes and Databases]section of this guide
[edit] Web Sites
- JPEG gallery of approximately 150 economically important plants
- Guide to quality agricultural information on the Internet as selected by the National Agricultural Library, Land-Grant Universities and other institutions
- Compendium of chemical and physical properties of pesticides
- Agriculture Links
- Arranged by area, world or continent and subdivided by region or country
- 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.
- Includes links to safety programs
- Contains information about harvests of foodstuffs by country or continent in a searchable database
- 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.
- Global forage information resource, including a glossary of forage-related terms
- Genetic database for wheat, barley, rye, oat and sugarcane
- Searchable, browsable gateway for botanical information
- Formerly known as the Soil Conservation Service, the NRCS works to conserve natural resources on private lands
- Source for information on less common crops by the Center for New Crops and Plant Products at Purdue University
- Provides access to many aspects of plant and animal genome mapping
- Information and links to resources on the technology and issues surrounding transgenic crops
- Comprehensive collection of publicly available turfgrass educational materials
- Reporting system for research projects in agriculture, food and nutrition,and forestry
- Identification of common weeds and weed seedlings found in Virginia and the southeastern U.S.
- An agricultural search engine (not a directory site) to search over 300,000 web pages
[edit] 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
[edit] Associations and Societies
- American Society of Agronomy/Crop Science Society of America/Soil Science Society of America
- American Society of Agricultural Engineers
- Society of Nematologists
- Soil and Water Conservation Society
- Southern Weed Science Society[#top Top of page]
[edit] Discussion Lists and Newsgroups
General
[edit] Auburn University Department and Course Pages
Alabama Cooperative Extension System
If you have any comments about this information page, please contact:
Claudine Jenda