Fact Sheet AGRICOLA  

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Available Formats: BiblioLine Number of Records: 4,812,332
Dates of Coverage: 1970 - present Update Frequency: Monthly
Subject Category: Life Sciences

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AGRICOLA provides global coverage of the primary information sources in agriculture and related fields. Records are drawn from literature citations of journal articles, monographs, theses, patents, translations, microforms, audiovisuals, software, and technical reports. AGRICOLA is sponsored and maintained by the National Agricultural Library and serves as their document locator and bibliographic access control system. AGRICOLA records are used to produce the printed Bibliography of Agriculture, as well as other bibliographic series and products of NAL.

Database Content

AGRICOLA
(1970-present) — AGRICOLA has used the CABI Thesaurus since 1985 as the source for controlled vocabulary terms for subject indexing. Library of Congress Subject Headings are used as the controlled vocabulary for cataloging records. More than 2,000 serial titles are reviewed for indexing. Books, pamphlets, conference proceedings, translations, book chapters, research reports, government documents, in both English and many non-English languages, are included in the database.

Subject Coverage

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