Horticulture
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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 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
Handbooks and General Refernce Books
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
SubjectProfile Call Numbers
| Call number range | LC Subject Heading |
| 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 |
[edit] 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
National Agricultural Library's database indexing journal articles, bookchapters, agriculture extension bulletins, etc. from 1979 - Present Public access (For researching agricultural literature from 1942-1978, consult Bibliography of Agriculture S 493 B 525.)
CAB International's database covering literature in the fields of agriculture,forestry, animal sciences, food science, etc. 1910 - Present
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.)
Covers public and private companies, industries products and markets. Approximately60% of the database is full text. 1994 - Present
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.)
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.
Citations to journal literature covering biomedicine including research,clinical practice, administration, policy issues, etc. 1966 - Present
Public access OLDMEDLINE (1958-1965)
(For researching medical literature from 1941-1959, consult Current List of Medical Literature Z 6660 C 8.)
General Databases
Covers abstracts and indexing for over 3,000 scholarly journals and featuresfull text articles for over 1,200 journals since 1990.
Indexes 1500 journal titles in a variety of subject areas. Articlesin over 500 journals are full text. 1980 � Present
1861 � Present. The most current two years are available off campus, butearlier years are only available on campus.
Current Awareness Resources
Provides access to the tables of contents and bibliographic data from currentissues of scholarly research journals and books in the sciences. 1996 � Present
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.
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
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.)
[edit] Journals
This E-journals list includes ALL subject areas, notjust Horticulture.
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 Databases section of this guide.
[edit] Web Sites
Guide to quality agricultural information on the Internet as selected by the National Agricultural Library, Land-Grant Universities and other institutions
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.
Lists genus and species, poisons, and other sites on the web for more informationabout poisonous plants
Nutrition databases, publications, audiovisuals, & software developedby USDA
A collaborative initiative of The Royal Botanic Gardens ( Kew Web), The Harvard University Herbaria (Gray Card Index), and the Australian National Herbarium for a comprehensive literature-based database of the scientific names and associated bibliographical details of all vascular (seed) plants
The NPD contains information about plants, their identification, and distribution
Plant Gene Register (American Society of Plant Physiologists)
Electronic publication for articles describing the isolation and DNA sequencedetermination of plant genes.
Includes two databases: Factsheet Database, guides for answering plant-related questions and Reseach and Teaching, links to university departments
Links to Agricultural Experiment Stations, Cooperative Extension Services & Horticulture Departments as well as links to journals. Emphasis on viticulture.
Plant image database project from the Missouri Botanical Garden
An agricultural search engine (not a directory site) to search over 300,000 web pages
Covers pharmaceutical development, genetic engineering, etc. with emphasison product development
Site for gardeners
[edit] Research Guides
General
Guide to Information Sources in the Botanical Sciences RefQK 45.2 D 38 1996
Reference Sources in Science, Engineering, Medicine, and Agriculture RefQ 158.5 M 278
[edit] Associations and Societies
American Society for Horticultural Science
American Society of Plant Physiologists
Biotechnology Information Center
International Society for Horticultural Science
National Gardening Association
The Royal Horticulture Society
[edit] Discussion Lists and Newsgroups
General
Contains links to help sites for all varieties of mailing lists.
Subject Specific
Kovacs' WWW View of Directory of Scholarly and Professional
[edit] Auburn University Department and Course Pages
Departmental--Faculty Web Pages
Alabama Cooperative Extension System
If you have any comments about this information page, please contact: Claudine Jenda