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This guide provides an overview of electronic resources for research and coursework in Agricultural and Resource Economics (AREC), Animal and Avian Sciences (ANSC), Environmental Science and Policy (ENSP), Environmental Science and Technology (ENST), the Institute of Applied Agriculture (IAA), Nutrition and Food Science (NFSC), Plant Science & Landscape Architecture (PSLA), and Veterinary Medicine (VTMD).

Core Scientific Databases

Below are a list of major scientific literature indexes and tools that you should consult first when conducting a literature review in support of a thesis, dissertation, article, or monograph. After consulting some of these, view the databases by subject page for additional suggested resources in your subject discipline.

Web of Science Core Collection
The Web of Science Core Collection provides comprehensive coverage of the sciences, social sciences, and arts, and humanities across journals, books and conference proceedings. It indexes more than 5,700 major journals across 164 scientific disciplines. The best database for finding what papers have cited other papers. Cited references can be traced forward in time. Web of Science Training Materials available here: http://wokinfo.com/training_support/training/web-of-science
Scopus
Scopus is an abstract and citation database with over 80 million records and 1.8 billion cited references that date back to 1970. Includes over 27 thousand serial titles and 249 thousand monographs in the social, physical, life and health sciences, as well as over 44 million patent records. More information on using Scopus is available at: https://elsevier.libguides.com/Scopus.
Academic Search Ultimate
Multi-disciplinary database providing information for nearly every area of academic study. Includes an enormous collection of the most valuable peer-reviewed full text journals, as well as additional journals, magazines, newspapers and books. Multidisciplinary subjects including: social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language & linguistics, arts & literature, medicine, ethnic studies. 1965- present.
PubMed
The National Library of Medicine's Medline database that provides abstracts and indexing for about 4,600 biomedical journals published in the U.S. and 70 foreign countries, and includes additional older citations and out of scope citations from Medline journals. Medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, psychiatry, pre-clinical sciences, medical education, public health, health care planning and administration of services. Also includes additional life science journals. mid-1960s - present

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