Agriculture Resources  Tags: agriculture  

Use this tool to locate a specific journal, or to find an article if you have a complete citation.

I need to find scholarly/peer reviewed articles for my paper.

What are "scholarly" or "peer-reviewed" articles?

• Journal articles written by experts, faculty, or scholars on the topic
• The information has been evaluated by editors or other experts
• Articles most always contain a bibliography documenting sources

If you want to check to see if the journal is scholarly or peer-reviewed, search the journal title in Ulrich's Periodicals Directory.

Question: Is "Ecology" a scholarly/peer reviewed  journal?

If you look it up in Ulrich's, this is what you find...

Answer: Yes, Ecology is a refereed journal.

These are the core Research Databases for Agriculture. Use them to help track down articles about your topic.

Other Agriculture Databases can be found here.

Look for the  button to help you get to the full-text of articles. 

Searching in the research databases can be a bit tricky. If you keep a few tips in mind, you will create better search strategies.

Boolean logic or boolean searching (named after George Boole) uses logical words/terms (and  or not)  to combine words or terms.

Truncation symbols, usually the asterisk * symbol, give you extra searching options for the endings of words.

Wildcard symbols, usually the question mark ? symbol, replaces a letter or letters in the middle of a word.

Phrase searching, to keep words together as a phrase, you usually use the quote marks around the phrase "words together"

Abbreviations when searching, it is better to spell out the words rather than just use the abbreviations

Boolean Examples

mountain pine beetle AND colorado:  articles must have the words mountain pine beetle and also the word colorado

mountain pine beetle OR Dendroctonus ponderosae: articles may have EITHER the words mountain pine beetle OR Dendroctonus ponderosae

      IT is always a good idea to search for both the common name and the scientific name for an animal, plant, organism, etc.

dolphins NOT Miami: articles must have the word dolphins but CAN NOT have the word Miami (NOT is very powerful, be careful how it is used in your searches.)

Truncation Examples

wol*   searches for wolf, wolves, wolverine

agricultur*  searches for agriculture, agriculturally, agricultural

Wildcard Examples

wom?n  searches for woman or women

col?r  searches for color or colour

Phrase Examples

"global warming" keeps the words together so articles must have these two words side-by-side, global warming

Abbreviation Example

Don't use MPB, search using mountain pine beetle or then also use the scientific name