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- Gale ebooks (Gale Virtual Reference Library) This link opens in a new windowCoverage: Varies
Provides access to encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. - Oxford ReferenceCoverage: Varies
Online reference product, spanning 25 different subject areas, bringing together 2 million digitized entries across Oxford University Press’s Dictionaries, Companions, and Encyclopedias.
Online Compendia
- Animal Health and Production CompendiumCoverage: Varies
The Animal Health and Production Compendium (AHPC) is a comprehensive, encyclopedic resource for information on animal health and production, to support sound decision-making in animal husbandry and food production worldwide. - Crop Protection CompendiumCoverage: Current
A mixed-media tool that draws together scientific information on all aspects of crop protection. It features extensive global coverage of pests, diseases, weeds and their natural enemies, the crops that are their hosts, and the countries in which they occur. - Forestry CompendiumCoverage: Current
Encyclopedic resource for information on forestry, with worldwide coverage of tropical, subtropical, temperate and boreal tree species of major economic importance and lesser-known species of local importance. Covering many of the pests that damage these trees. - Horticulture CompendiumCoverage: varies
An encyclopedic resource of scientific information on horticultural food crops. Includes authoritative datasheets and a bibliographic database of peer-reviewed articles (abstracts and full text). Regularly updated with new information. - Invasive Species CompendiumCoverage: Varies
An encyclopedic resource of different types of science-based information to support decision-making in invasive species management worldwide. It comprised of datasheets, edited by an independent scientific organization, peer-reviewed, and data from specialist organizations, images, maps, and a bibliographic database of abstracts and full-text articles. New datasheets and data sets continue to be added, and new scientific literature is included on a weekly basis.
More Encyclopedias
- Encyclopedia of Food Security and Sustainability (2019)Investigates the focal issue of sustainable food production in relation to the effects of global change on food resources, biodiversity and global food security.
- Encyclopedia of Applied Plant Sciences (2017)Presents both foundational and applied information on plants used by humans as sources of food, raw materials, and amenity purposes. It highlights how the underlying science and information links through to applications in practical situations.
- Encyclopedia of Agriculture and Food Systems (2014)The broad themes of food systems and people, agriculture and the environment, the science of agriculture, agricultural products, and agricultural production systems are covered in more than 200 separate chapters of this work.
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