Research Guides: AGRO 3203W: Environment, Global Food Production, and the Citizen: Home

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Library Home Page
A great place to get started looking for resources. Request a "Get It" to have a book placed on hold for you, browse article databases, or get in contact with a subject librarian to help you on your way.
Google Scholar (UMN setup required)
To gain off-campus access to articles from library journal subscriptions, change the Library Settings to University of Minnesota Twin Cities in Google Scholar (see this tutorial) Use Google Scholar to find articles from academic publishers, professional societies, research institutes, and scholarly repositories from colleges and universities. Look for the "FindIt@U of M Twin Cities" links in your Google Scholar search results to access library subscriptions. Learn more: Google Scholar FAQ

Academic Search Premier
A great place to start your research on any topic, search multidisciplinary, scholarly research articles. This database provides access to scholarly and peer reviewed journals, popular magazines and other resources.

AGRICOLA -Agriculture (Ovid)
Search agriculture, animal husbandry, animal and human nutrition, forestry, plant pathology, plant science, human ecology, agricultural economics, and rural sociology.

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CAB Abstracts Plus Full Text Select
CAB Abstracts covers agriculture in its broadest sense, including crop production, forestry, environment, animal health and nutrition, veterinary science, agricultural engineering, biotechnology, soil and water, agricultural economics, recreation and tourism, rural sociology, and human nutrition and health.
Scopus
Search for information from scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. Covers the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities.
Web of Science
A comprehensive interdisciplinary collection of journal article citations. Subjects generally covered are within science and technology, arts and humanities, and social sciences.
PubMed
Searches MEDLINE, which is the primary source of journal articles for the health sciences (fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, public health, health care systems, and basic sciences). Coverage is from the 1940s to the present.

Tutorial: What are citations?
Understand what citations are, why they are important, and how to create and use them.
Citation Managers
If you are interested in using a citation manager like Zotero or Mendeley to organize your citations and create your bibliography, use this link and talk to your librarian to learn more.
Citation Guides and Style Manuals
A guide to different citation styles.

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