Agriculture Databases

ABI/INFORM Global--Most scholarly and comprehensive way to explore and understand business research topics. Search nearly 3000 worldwide business periodicals for in-depth coverage of business and economic conditions, management techniques, theory, and practice of business, advertising, marketing, economics, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, and more. Expanded international coverage. Fast access to information on 60,000 + companies with business and executive profiles. Now includes The Wall Street Journal. 

Academic Search Premier: The world's largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,000 scholarly publications, including full text for more than 3,100 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCO host.

BIOSIS Previews (Biological Abstracts) (1990 - present) combines the journal reference content from Biological Abstracts with the references to meetings, reviews, books, and monographs from Biological Abstracts/RRM (Reports, Reviews, Meetings). Updated weekly, BIOSIS Previews is the ultimate compendium for current life science information.  In 2000, BIOSIS Previews will cover nearly 540,000 records from 5,200 sources including:

• Nearly 350,000 records from journals that focus on vital biological and medical research
• Nearly 160,000 references to items from over 1,500 meetings, symposia, and workshops
• Approximately 20,000 references to review articles 
• Over 13000 references to books, book chapters, software
• Approximately 16,000 references to U.S. patents related to the life sciences
• By the end of 2000, the BIOSIS Previews database will include nearly 12.5 million records dating from 1969 to the present.

General OneFile  (Help Guide) is a one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Millions of full-text articles, many with images. Updated daily.

JSTOR  provides back issues of journals in a wide variety of humanities and social science disciplines. Printing from the JSTOR database requires Adobe Acrobat Reader.  For a current list of journals available, see Journals Currently Available.

ScienceDirect offers access to the Elsevier Science journal collection (over 1,200 titles), along with journals from a host of prestigious societies and STM publishers. The full text collection of over 1 million articles from 1995 to present covers a wide variety of subject areas and disciplines, including: Biochemistry, Biological Sciences, Business & Management Science, Chemistry, Clinical Medicine, Earth Sciences, Economics, Engineering & Technology, Environmental Science, Materials Science, Mathematics & Computer science, Microbiology & Immunology, Neurosciences, Pharmacology & Toxicology, Physics, and Social Sciences. 

Sociological Abstracts provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,700 serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers. Records added after 1974 contain in-depth and nonevaluative abstracts of journal articles.

Sociology: A SAGE Full-Text Collection covers such subjects as Childhood, Contemporary Sociology, Comparative Sociology, Consumer Culture, Classical Sociology, Ethnic Studies, Gender Studies, Leisure Studies, Social Theory, Sociology of Sport, and Sociology of Work and Employment (Labor Studies).

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is an agency in the United States Department of Commerce that provides patent protection to inventors and businesses for their inventions, and trademark registration for product and intellectual property identification.

Wiley InterScience provides full text information of over 300 leading scientific, technical, medical, and professional journals, plus major reference works, the acclaimed Current Protocols laboratory manuals, and even the full text of select Wiley print books online.