Library - Databases - Agricola

AGRICOLA is a bibliographic database consisting of literature citations for journal articles, monographs, proceedings, theses, patents, translations, audiovisual materials, computer software, and technical reports pertaining to all aspects of agriculture. This extensive database provides selective worldwide coverage of primary information sources in agriculture and related fields. The literature cited is primarily in English, but over one-third of the database comprises citations in Western European, Slavic, Asian, and African languages. Since 1985, the CAB Thesaurus has been used to select controlled vocabulary terms for subject indexing. Library of Congress Subject Headings are used as controlled vocabulary for cataloging records.

Major areas of coverage include:

• Agriculture Products
• Agriculture (General)
• Animal Sciences
• Biotechnology
• Botany
• Chemistry Conservation
• Cytology
• Economics, Agricultural
• Education, Agricultural
• Energy, Agriculture
• Engineering, Agricultural
• Entomology
• Farm Management
• Feed Science
• Fertilizers
• Fibers and Textiles
• Food and Nutrition
• Forestry
• History, Agricultural
• Horticulture
• Human Ecology
• Human Nutrition
• Hydrology
• Hydroponics
• Information Systems for Agriculture
• Microbiology
• Natural History
• Natural Resources
• Pesticides
• Physiology
• Plant Sciences
• Pollution
• Public Health
• Rural Sociology
• Soil Sciences
• Veterinary Medicine
• Water Quality
• Weather and Climate
• Wildlife
• Zoology

Dates of Coverage
1970 - current

Update Frequency
Monthly

Size
Over 3,651,000 records as of October 2001

Supplier
National Agricultural Library