Natural Resources Conservation 

Ask a Librarian!

RefWorks at UMass Amherst - citation manager

Subject specialist librarians

Natural Resources Conservation Department

You will see this UMLinks button in most of the databases.

Use it to find the full text of your article online, if we have access through the libraries.

Or, it will search the library catalog for you to see if we have your article in print

--or link you to Interlibrary Loan to get it from elsewhere.

IMPORTANT: Accessing databases from off-campus requires log-in with your OIT user and password.

Best Bet Databases -These first two databases are the most useful ones for finding articles on natural resources, and you can search them simultaneously.

Agricola
Covers all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines, including animal and veterinary sciences, entomology, plant sciences, forestry, aquaculture and fisheries, extension and education, wildlife management and earth and environmental sciences. Citations are drawn from journal articles, book chapters, monographs, theses, patents, software, audiovisual materials, and technical reports. Produced by the US Dept of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library. 1970-present.

CAB Abstracts
Source for journal articles and other material on land use: agriculture, forestry, biotechnology, agricultural economics, tourism, nutrition, etc.. Produced by the British Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux. 1910-present

These are also useful - some general, some specialized. If you need help picking, ask me!

Animal Behavior Abstracts
Journal articles, papers, and field and laboratory summaries relating to animal behavior. Note: We have access to only the current year and last year.

Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts
Articles from serial publications, books, reports, and conference proceedings published in the field of aquatic science, 1965-present.

Biological & Agricultural Index
Articles in about 300 scholarly journals on agriculture, food production, nutrition, forestry, marine biology and plant pathology, 1984-present.

Biological Abstracts
Comprehensive coverage of the life sciences literature, including journal articles, conference papers, and books relating to life sciences, 1969-present.

BioMed Central
Free (open source) access to federally funded peer-reviewed biomedical research in over 100 recent journals.

BioOne
Bioscience research journals in full text, 1998-present.

Environment Index
Indexes articles on the environment from scientific, legal, and popular journals, 1950’s- present.

Genetics Abstracts
Citations to articles on genetics research, updated monthly. Note: we have access to only the current year and last year.

PubMed
National Library of Medicine's comprehensive database of citations to medical journal articles, with links to UMass-subscribed full text, 1966-present. Public access version

ScienceDirect
Full-text scholarly journals from the sciences, including the social sciences, published within the last five years, 1998-present.

Web of Science
Provides a search by cited reference, topic, author, and more for articles in important journals in all fields (despite the name). Arts and Humanities covers 1975-present; Social Sciences 1956-present; and Science 1900-present.

Zoological Record
Citations to periodical articles and other scholarly literature on zoology, biochemistry, behavior, ecology evolution, and genetics, 1864-present.