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The Food & Agriculture Collection

AGRICOLA: an essential tool for anyone interested in US agricultural and life sciences information

Students gathering information on animal breeding or dairy science.

Farmers researching approaches for improving crop management.

Policymakers locating technical reports that provide data related to important agricultural issues.

Consumers examining how particular types of fertilisers or pesticides affect agricultural products.

Journalists studying the backgrounds of particular agricultural industries.

Librarians assisting patrons studying trends in food and agriculture.

Source:US National Agricultural Library; US National Technical Information Service

Print Equivalent: None

Frequency: Quarterly

Number Of Records: 3,400,000+

Coverage Dates: 1970-Present

Type Of Records: Bibliographic

A Vital Source of Agricultural Information

AGRICOLA is the most comprehensive source of bibliographic citations covering US agricultural and life sciences information.

AGRICOLA offers vital agricultural information covering 1970 to the present. It contains over 3.4 million citations to journal articles, monographs, theses, patents, software, audio-visual materials, and technical reports related to agriculture. AGRICOLA serves as the document locator and bibliographic control system for the NAL collection. The extensive file provides comprehensive coverage of newly acquired worldwide publications in agriculture and related fields.

As one of the most comprehensive sources of U.S. agricultural and life sciences information, the AGRICOLA (Agricultural Online Access) Database contains bibliographic records for documents acquired by the National Agricultural Library (NAL) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). AGRICOLA covers the field of agriculture in the broadest sense.

The Power of electronic information on SilverPlatter

With your choice of SilverPlatter�s search and retrieval software (SPIRS) for Web, Windows, Macintosh, PC or UNIX clients, you can easily: search the entire database in a single keystroke; target your search to a specific area of interest; free-text search through the database; use Boolean and proximity operators for searching, including AND, OR, NOT, WITH, NEAR, ADJ; switch easily from brief to full record; search US National Agricultural Library & US National Technical Information Services� Agricola AND other databases at the same time for truly comprehensive results; combine current and previous search statement and much, much more!

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