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Agricultural Sciences & Technology Subject Guide

Range Ecology and Management
Information Resources for Crop Science 105
Spring 2008

Contents:

Finding Books
Finding Journal Articles
    · Journal of Rangeland Management/Rangeland Ecology and Management
    · Indexes to Journal Articles
    · Full-Text Journal Collections
Evaluating Information Resources
Government Web Sites
Scholarly and Science Web Search Engines
Need More Help?

Finding Books

How to Request Books and Journals Stored Off-Campus
Most books and all bound journals are stored off-campus. You can request specific items be delivered to the library via the library catalog.

Library Catalog
Search the library catalog to find books, journals, and other material in the Madden Library.
Keyword Searching (to search some "key" words in the title, author, and/or subjects)
    for example:   rangelands and restoration
Use * for alternate word endings:
    e.g., root* retrieves root, roots, rooted, etc.
Use the pull-down menu to specify subjects, titles or authors.

To search for Fresno State theses:
search by keyword for: thesis fresno [word from department name]
e.g.,   thesis fresno plant
Finding Journal Articles

Rangeland Ecology and Management/Journal of Rangeland Management
Agricola includes citations to articles in these journals, and links to online content where available.
Rangeland Ecology and Management.   2005-  
Library catalog
Select a volume/issue to view its table of contents and abstracts. The full text of articles is not available online, but you can get these issues from the library.

Rangeland Ecology and Management was previously called:
Journal of Range Management.   1948-2004
Library catalog
The library catalog record includes a link to the full text of the articles online. You can search the journal or browse the individual issues.
Indexes to Journal Articles
The Library might have the articles and books you find through these indexes that are not full-text:
Journal Articles
    · Follow the Madden ArticleLink that appears in the 1st two databases listed below.
    · If Madden ArticleLink doesn't find it, check the title of the journal in the library catalog.
Books
    · If the MaddenArticleLink doesn't work, check the book title in the library catalog
If the Library doesn't have it
    · Request the item via our Interlibrary Loan service.

Academic Search Premier
Off-campus connection requires login.
Index to news magazines and scholarly journals in a wide variety of subjects.
· Use and between search terms unless you want to search a phrase
· Use *   for alternate word endings
  e.g. child* and obesity and nutrition
· Limit your search to the scholarly journals by checking the box: Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals

Agricola   1970-
Off-campus connection requires login.
Covers material acquired by the National Agricultural Library (NAL) and cooperating institutions in the agricultural and related sciences. Citations are primarily to journal articles and book chapters, but include other type of resources.
· Use and between search terms unless you want to search a phrase
· Use *   for alternate word endings
e.g., micropropagat* retrieves micropropagated, micropropagation etc.

CAB Abstracts. (1973-   )
Off-campus connection requires login.
Subscription is limited to 2 simultaneous users.
Provides international coverage of agriculture, forestry, and allied life and applied sciences. Contains citations to journal articles, books, conference papers, and reports in the fields of agriculture; animal and veterinary sciences; environmental sciences; human health, food and nutrition; leisure and tourism; microbiology and parasitology; and plant sciences.
· Use and between search terms unless you want to search a phrase
· Use * for alternate word endings

Biological Abstracts . (1969-   )
Off-campus connection requires login.
Citations with abstracts to worldwide biological and medical literature.
· Use * for alternate word endings

More Databases and Article Indexes


Full-Text Journal Collections
The indexing databases above should include citations and links to most of the content in these full-text journal databases.
Annual Reviews Journals
Off-campus connection requires login.

Wiley Interscience
Off-campus connection requires login.
You can restrict you searches to just journal articles, and to the Life Sciences.

ScienceDirect Elsevier
Off-campus connection requires login.
You can restrict your searches to just journal articles, and to the Agricultural and Biological Sciences.

JSTOR Journal Collection Scholarly Journal Archive
Off-campus connection requires login.
Browse or search full text of journals in the collection. In Advanced Search, you can focus your search on a discipline or specific journals.

Springer LINK
Off-campus connection requires login.
Evaluating Information Resources

Distinguishing Scholarly Journals from Other Periodicals Cornell University Library

Evaluating Web Sites A Northwest Vista College Library Tutorial
Brief outline of criteria.

Evaluating Web Pages UC Berkeley Libraries
Longer description of a process that starts with looking at search results, investigates the page contents, and then looks beyond the page for information about it or its author(s).
· Web Page Evaluation Checklist

Evaluating Scholarly Content Online UC Berkeley Online Tutorial
Includes a section on Google Scholar.

Government Web Sites

U.S. Bureau of Land Management
Rangeland Inventory, Monitoring, and Evaluation Report

National Agricultural Library
· Forestry and Grasslands
· National Invasive Species Information Center
Gateway to invasive species information, covering federal, state, local, and international sources.

USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service
· NRCS Grazing Lands
· PLANTS Database: Invasive and Noxious Weeds
The PLANTS Database provides standardized information about the vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories.

Rangelands West Agriculture Network Information Center (AgNIC)

Noxious Weed Information Project Calif. Dept. of Food & Agriculture

Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports:
CRS provides nonpartisan analytical research for Congress.
· Reports on Environmental and Related Topics posted by the National Library for the Environment
· CRS Reports hosted by the University of North Texas Libraries

Scholarly and Science Web Search Engines

Science.gov
A unified search of the government’s vast stores of scientific and technical information., Science.gov allows users to search the surface web as well as the deep web, where traditional search engines cannot go. Science.gov is an interagency initiative of 16 U.S. government science organizations within 12 Federal agencies.

Scirus.com Science Specific Search Engine
In the Advanced Search you can restrict your results by type of resource and subject (Agricultural and Biological Sciences)

Google Scholar
Peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.
1. Click on Scholar Preferences
2. Type fresno in the Library Links box.
3. Select California State University, Fresno - Article Link: Full Text.
4. Click on Save Preferences.
Need More Help?

I am your Agricultural Sciences & Technology librarian. Feel free to email me: carol_doyle@csufresno.edu. However, since I am not always here to answer quickly:
    · Ask a librarian at the main reference desk in UC123, 278-2174.
Revised 11 September 2008        
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