Research Guide for
Plant Pathology 101
Pests, Pesticides, People and Politics
Periodical Indexes
News Resources
Government Resources
Internet Resources
Find It Yourself on the Internet
Research Help Online
Reference Help in Person
PERIODICAL INDEXES
- Applied Science and Technology Index
- More than 350 international, English-language periodicals, covering engineering, mathematics, physics, and computer
technology. Includes articles, interviews, meetings, conferences, exhibitions, new product reviews/announcements, and
more. Coverage from October 1983 to the present with abstracts beginning March 1993.
- Biological and Agricultural Abstracts
- Nearly 250 English-language periodicals in life sciences and agricultural subjects, published in the U.S. and elsewhere.
Includes book reviews. July 1983 to the present. Updated monthly.
- AGRICOLA
- Over 2.9 million records covering every major agricultural subject. 1970 to the present. Updated monthly.
- Enviroline (Dialog)
- Enviroline covers the world's environmental information. It provides indexing and abstracting
coverage of more than 1,000 international primary and secondary publications reporting on all
aspects of the environment.
- Environmental Sciences and Pollution Mgt.
- An index of comprehensive, multidisciplinary coverage of relevant fields across the environmental sciences from all the
primary sources for 11 abstracts journals for the current year plus 5 previous years. Updated monthly.
An index of comprehensive, multidisciplinary coverage of relevant fields across the environmental sciences. This database is available through multiple interfaces. The OCLC Web interface is useful for printing and downloading multiple records and allows you to e-mail search results to yourself.
- FactSearch
- The FactSearch Database is a guide to statistical statements on current social, economic, political, environmental and
health issues, derived from some 1,000 newspapers, periodicals, newsletter and documents such as the Christian
Science Monitor, the Congressional Record, Congressional hearings, Daily Press Briefings of the White House,
State Department and Department of Defense, and Australian, British and Canadian Parliamentary Debates. Web
links to free full text are included frequently. Covering 1984 to present and updated every six weeks, FactSearch is
the FirstSearch implementation of the A Matter of Fact database produced by Pierian Press, in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
- Pollution Abstracts (Dialog)
- Pollution abstracts is a leading resource for references to environment-related literature on pollution,
its sources, and its control.NEWS RESOURCES
- World News Connection
- World News Connection (WNC) is an online news service, only accessible via the World Wide Web, that offers an extensive
array of translated and English-language news and information. Particularly effective in its coverage of local media sources,
WNC provides you with the power to identify what really is happening in a specific country or region. Compiled from
thousands of non-U.S. media sources, the information in WNC covers significant socioeconomic, political, scientific, technical,
and environmental issues and events.
- Newsbank
- An excellent full-text source for national, business and international news.
- Newspaper Abstracts
- Coverage of over 25 national and regional newspapers. 1989 to the present. Updated weekly. GOVERNMENT RESOURCES
- Congressional Compass
- A superb gateway to government resources, includes not just congressional material, but also sources like the CFR and the Federal Register
INTERNET RESOURCES
- Britannica Online
- Internet Reference Resources chosen by the O*K*U Reference staff
- Yahoo's Electronic Reference Desk
- Writing Help
- Environmental News Network
- University of Virginia's Virtual Library--Environment
- Environmental Protection Agency
FIND IT YOURSELF ON THE INTERNET
- Search the Internet
- Internet Subject Guides
- Library Web Servers World-Wide
- Library Catalogs World-Wide
- Listserv and Discussion List Directories
RESEARCH HELP ONLINE
- The Reference Home Page at O*K*U Libraries
- Library Research at Cornell: A Hypertext Guide
- Library Vocabulary: Definitions of Library Terms
REFERENCE HELP IN PERSON
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10/24/1997
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