Urban Agriculture (StockSch 290U)
Library resources to support Professor Helena Farrell's course. Summer 2013.
Library Databases
Use the following databases to retrieve articles from journals, magazines, and newspapers. (These resources are available on campus, or off campus to UMass Amherst affiliates with an OIT account; enter your OIT login and password when prompted.)
- Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new windowScholarly journals from all academic disciplines - an excellent starting point for multidisciplinary research projects. 3,200 full-text journals. Coverage from 1975 to present.
- AGRICOLA This link opens in a new windowCovers agriculture; plant and animal sciences; forestry; entomology; soil and water resources; agricultural economics and engineering; alternative farming; nutrition, 1970-present.
- Gale OneFile: Agriculture This link opens in a new windowArticles, some full text, from 600+ journals, magazines, newsletters, newswires, plus some book chapters about farming, food, horticulture and related fields.
- Alt-Press Watch This link opens in a new windowSeveral hundred U.S. alternative newsweeklies, covering issues like the environment, labor, public policy, and the peace movement, 1970-present.
- CAB Abstracts This link opens in a new windowCAB focuses on international development - providing access to the world’s applied life sciences literature, 1973 to present. Coverage includes agriculture, environment, veterinary sciences, applied economics, food science and nutrition.
- Food Science and Technology Abstracts This link opens in a new windowArticles in 1,800 food science journals, plus other scholarly material, on all aspects of food science, nutrition, and processing, 1969-present.
- Gale OneFile: Gardening and Horticulture This link opens in a new windowIndexes 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. - GreenFILE This link opens in a new windowScholarly, 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.
- Gale In Context: Environmental Studies This link opens in a new windowSearch by topic and/or geography: agriculture, food, energy, pollution, economic development, social factors and in journals, magazines, newspapers, encyclopedias as well as primary sources.
- Left Index This link opens in a new windowCitations to articles in leftist periodicals, on labor, ecology & environment, race, social & cultural theory, 1982-present.
- Science.gov This link opens in a new windowA site that organizes access to agriculture, computer, health, energy and other scientific information from U.S. government agencies. Current.
