Guide to Horticultural Research Databases

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The following databases and paper indexing and abstracting publications may be used to locate articles relevant to biology  in journals, magazines, conference proceedings, books, and other sources.  Contact a librarian (688-5570 or 800-786-2038) for more information or if off-campus access is denied to a current SDSU student, faculty member, or staff member.

AGRICOLA (1970+, via CSA). AGRICOLA is produced by the National Agricultural Library and it provides bibliographic access to the literature of agriculture and allied sciences. It indexes articles, books, theses, patents, software, and audiovisual materials. Horticulture, forestry, plant physiology, genetics and diseases of plants are covered. Also soil biology,  ecology,  and other topics related to the life sciences are included.  Older agricultural literature can be identified using the paper volumes of the Bibliography of Agriculture (1942-1997) shelved on the library's main floor in the Abstracts &t Indexes area (630.35061 .Un3.01).

Biological Abstracts. (1926+, via EBSCOhost). This database provides comprehensive bibliographic coverage of the biological sciences.   Access data after 1996 via the web.  Older paper volumes of this title are shelved on the library's main floor in the Abstracts & Indexes area (570.5 B52).

Biological Sciences Database. (1982+, via CSA) This interdisciplinary database, produced by Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, includes abstracts and citations in  biotechnology, plant science and ecology, and some aspects of agriculture and veterinary science. 

CAB Abstracts. 1984+.  The CAB Abstracts database provides worldwide coverage of the literature of agriculture and related areas, including horticulture, forestry, plant breeding, plant pathology, soils and fertilizers and weed science. Journals, monographs, conferences, books, annual reports, and other sources from more than 100 countries are scanned regularly for inclusion in the CAB Abstracts database. 

Web of Science (1992+). Also known as Science Citation Index, this multidisciplinary database of citations and abstracts from journal literature can be used as a conventional author-subject index, or it can be searched by cited author or paper. Prior years (1965-1990) are available in paper at Abstracts 016.5 .Sci27. 

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Other Databases

Current Contents Many subject areas are covered including:  Agriculture, Biology, Environmental Sciences, and Life Sciences. Contains the tables of contents and abstracts of articles from thousands of journals.

Dissertation Abstracts International. This resource provides a subject, title, and author guide to over 1.2 million abstracts of doctoral dissertations and masters theses written since 1861.  

Academic Search Premier. (EBSCOhost) Academic Search Premier, designed specifically for academic institutions, is the world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for more than 4,600 scholarly publications, including more than 3,500 peer-reviewed publications. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for all 8,040 journals in the collection.

ProQuest Provides access to three bibliographic and full-text databases.  Discovery is a comprehensive file of periodicals for a broad range of subject areas. National Newspaper Abstracts provides abstracting and indexing for New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal.  Research Library provides coverage of a broad range of subjects including arts, business, children education, general interest, health, humanities, international, law, military, multicultural, psychology, sciences, social sciences, and women's interests.  The databases can be search all together or individually.
 

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This guide is only an introduction to locating materials on this topic.
For more in-depth information or for assistance in using these sources, ask a librarian.

 

This guide was created and is updated by Mary Caspers-Graper.
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Updated: 14 February 2008 by me