Agriculture - Research Guide

Find material to support your agriculture research. Ask the Agriculture Librarians for assistance.

Finding Articles

The following subscription databases are recommended for finding articles from journals, magazines, newspapers, and other reliable materials:

AGRICOLA This link opens in a new window
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Covers agriculture; plant and animal sciences; forestry; entomology; soil and water resources; agricultural economics and engineering; alternative farming; nutrition, 1970-present.
Available on campus to all, or off-campus to UMass Amherst students, staff and faculty with an UMass Amherst IT NetID (user name) and password.
Gale OneFile: Agriculture This link opens in a new window
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Articles, some full text, from 600+ journals, magazines, newsletters, newswires, plus some book chapters about farming, food, horticulture and related fields.
Available on campus to all, or off-campus to UMass Amherst students, staff and faculty with an UMass Amherst IT NetID (user name) and password.
APS Image Database This link opens in a new window
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Thousands of scientifically peer-reviewed images showing disease symptoms, pests, and other disorders associated with plants and crops.
Available on campus to all, or off-campus to UMass Amherst students, staff and faculty with an UMass Amherst IT NetID (user name) and password.
Bloomsbury Food Library This link opens in a new window
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Bloomsbury Food Library is a collection of interdisciplinary food studies materials with content from history, sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, human geography, sustainability, agriculture, culinary arts, literary studies, political science, and development studies.
Available on campus to all, or off-campus to UMass Amherst students, staff and faculty with an UMass Amherst IT NetID (user name) and password.
CAB Abstracts This link opens in a new window
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CAB focuses on international development - providing access to the world’s applied life sciences literature, 1973 to present.

UMass Libraries' subscription includes: CAB Abstracts Archive; VetMed Resource.
Available on campus to all, or off-campus to UMass Amherst students, staff and faculty with an UMass Amherst IT NetID (user name) and password.
Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) This link opens in a new window
Provides a searchable index of peer-reviewed monographs and edited volumes published according to its requirements.
Content is freely available for use by all.
Gale In Context: Environmental Studies This link opens in a new window
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Search by topic and/or geography: agriculture, food, energy, pollution, economic development, social factors and in journals, magazines, newspapers, encyclopedias as well as primary sources.
Available on campus to all, or off-campus to UMass Amherst students, staff and faculty with an UMass Amherst IT NetID (user name) and password.
Gale OneFile: Gardening and Horticulture This link opens in a new window
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Indexes citations, abstracts, and full-text journal articles, conference proceedings, reviews, books, and recipes. 1901-present.

Full text available in PDF and HTML. You can limit to peer-reviewed sources.
Available on campus to all, or off-campus to UMass Amherst students, staff and faculty with an UMass Amherst IT NetID (user name) and password.
GreenFILE This link opens in a new window
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Scholarly, government, and general-interest articles on climate change, renewable energy, green building, sustainable agriculture, green building, pollution, recycling, education, law, health, and technology. Covers 1973-current.
Available on campus to all, or off-campus to UMass Amherst students, staff and faculty with an UMass Amherst IT NetID (user name) and password.
Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia This link opens in a new window
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Online version of the comprehensive, lavishly illustrated zoology encyclopedia
Available on campus to all, or off-campus to UMass Amherst students, staff and faculty with an UMass Amherst IT NetID (user name) and password.
JSTOR Global Plants This link opens in a new window
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Nearly two million high-resolution specimens from herbaria from around the globe.
Available on campus to all, or off-campus to UMass Amherst students, staff and faculty with an UMass Amherst IT NetID (user name) and password.
Plant Management Network This link opens in a new window
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Cooperative resource for the applied plant sciences. Offers research material on agricultural and horticultural crops: journal articles, proceedings, reports, and an image-based pest database. 2000 - present.
Available on campus to all, or off-campus to UMass Amherst students, staff and faculty with an UMass Amherst IT NetID (user name) and password.
PubMed This link opens in a new window
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National Library of Medicine's comprehensive database of citations to medical journal articles, with links to UMass-subscribed full text, 1966-present
NOTE: Particularly useful for medicinal plant searches.
Available on campus to all, or off-campus to UMass Amherst students, staff and faculty with an UMass Amherst IT NetID (user name) and password.
Turfgrass Information Center This link opens in a new window
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Journals, monographs, fact sheets, pamphlets, images, and web documents related to turfgrass culture, science and management.
Available on campus to all, or off-campus to UMass Amherst students, staff and faculty with an UMass Amherst IT NetID (user name) and password.
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
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Index to articles from peer-reviewed journals in all disciplines.Search by cited reference, topic, author, and more. Arts and Humanities covers 1975-present; Social Sciences 1900-present; and Science 1900-present.
Available on campus to all, or off-campus to UMass Amherst students, staff and faculty with an UMass Amherst IT NetID (user name) and password.
Zoological Record This link opens in a new window
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Citations to periodical articles and other scholarly literature on zoology, biochemistry, behavior, ecology evolution, and genetics, 1864-present.
Available on campus to all, or off-campus to UMass Amherst students, staff and faculty with an UMass Amherst IT NetID (user name) and password.

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