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A
bibliographic database of citations to the agricultural
literature created by the National Agricultural Library
(NAL) and its cooperators. Production of these records
in electronic form began in 1970, but the database
covers materials in all formats, including printed
works from the 15th century. The records describe
publications and resources encompassing 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, and earth and environmental
sciences. Although the AGRICOLA database does not
contain the materials, thousands of AGRICOLA records
are linked to full-text documents online, with new
links added daily. AGRICOLA is searchable on the World
Wide Web. For information on how to obtain library
materials, see How to request materials from NAL.
The AGRICOLA database is organized into two bibliographic
data sets. Each data set may be searched separately,
or they may both be searched together. One data set
is the NAL Online Public Access Catalog, known as
"NAL Catalog", containing citations to books,
audiovisual materials, serial publications, and other
materials in the NAL collection. AGRICOLA also contains
some bibliographic records for items cataloged by
other libraries but not held in NAL's collection.
The second database is NAL's Article Citation Database,
also known as: "Journal Articles". It includes
citations, many with abstracts, to journal articles
(see Journals Indexed in AGRICOLA), book chapters,
reports, and reprints, selected primarily from the
materials found in the NAL Catalog. Both data sets
are updated daily with newly cataloged and indexed
materials
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