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Database Description

As one of the most comprehensive sources of U.S. agricultural and life sciences information, the AGRICOLA (AGRICultural OnLine Access) database serves as the catalog and index to the collections of the National Agricultural Library (NAL) and the research of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). AGRICOLA has been available online since 1970 and contains more than 4.1 million citations to journal articles, book chapters, monographs, theses, patents, software, audiovisual materials, and technical reports related to agriculture. The database contains thousands of records with links to online full-text documents.

AGRICOLA encompasses all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines, including animal and veterinary sciences, entomology, plant sciences, forestry, aquaculture and fisheries, farming and farming systems, agricultural economics, extension and education, food and human nutrition, agricultural engineering and technology, and earth and environmental sciences. The NAL Agricultural Thesaurus (NALT) and Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) serve as the controlled vocabularies for indexing and cataloging records.

This extensive database has been maintained since 1970 to provide selective worldwide coverage of primary information sources in agriculture and related fields. The former File 110 is now included within File 10.

Subject Coverage

AGRICOLA covers the field of agriculture in its broadest sense. Some of the specific areas covered are:

• Agricultural Products
• Animal Science
• Aquaculture
• Biotechnology
• Botany
• Conservation
• Cytology
• Agricultural Economics
• Agricultural Education
• Energy
• Engineering
• Feed Science
• Fertilizers
• Fibers and Textiles
• Food and Nutrition
• Forestry
• Horticulture
• Human Ecology
• Human Nutrition
• Hydrology
• Hydroponics
• Microbiology
• Natural resources
• Pesticides
• Physiology
• Plant and Animal
• Plant Sciences
• Pollution
• Public Health
• Rural Sociology
• Soil Sciences
• Veterinary Medicine
• Water Quality

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Contact

AGRICOLA is produced by the National Agricultural Library (NAL) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA):

Terms and Conditions

The contents of the AGRICOLA Database are compiled from a variety of United States Government, foreign government, and non-government sources. Many of the materials contained within the Database have been copyrighted by these other sources, who have granted the National Agricultural Library (NAL) of the United States Department of Agriculture permission to include their copyrighted materials in the Database. You are responsible for complying with all applicable copyright, export control or other laws that may affect your use of any information contained within the Database. Records originating with the National Agricultural Library are copyrighted outside the U.S.A.

The Database is licensed "as is" without warranty of any kind, either express or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose.

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