Food Production Systems and Sustainability : Articles
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Newspapers & Current Events
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Newspapers Research GuideUse this guide to access current, historical, national, international, and alternative presses.
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Newspaper Source PlusNewspaper Source Plus includes 1,520 full-text newspapers, including The New York Times, Wisconsin State Journal, and Wall Street Journal.
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Opposing Viewpoint in ContextOpposing Viewpoints in Context provides viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles related to controversial social issues.
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Environment and Energy PublishingDaily coverage of environmental and energy policy and markets. Key areas covered: U.S. federal legislation, U.S. environmental regulation and federal agencies, International and U.S. climate policy issues, Global energy resources and markets, Unconventional energy, Electric utilities, Alternative energy, Air and water issues, Hazardous and toxic substances, Public lands, Endangered species, Mining and agriculture, Technology.
Core Databases
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AGRICOLA (United States National Agricultural Library) (EBSCO)(National Agricultural Library)
Indexes 2500 research journals, USDA publications, FAO publications, conference proceedings and books. Covers agricultural economics, agricultural engineering, agricultural products, animal industries, animal nutrition, botany, plant science, soil science, and environmental impact. -
Agriculture & Environmental Sciences DatabaseCross-disciplinary resource of full-text content along with indexing of global literature across these fields and related disciplines. Peer-reviewed journals, trade publications, magazines, and grey literature as well as working papers, conference papers and proceedings are included.
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Sustainability Science AbstractsPart of the Agriculture & Environmental Sciences database, this option limits search results to research literature on sustainable development, human population and demography, as well as societal issues involving natural resource management and conservation of natural resources.
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CAB (Agriculture & Veterinary) Abstracts (ISI)Leading scholarly database covering agriculture and natural resources worldwide.
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Environmental Sciences and Pollution ManagementTopic coverage includes pollution, bacteriology, ecology, toxicology, environmental engineering, environmental biotechnology, waste management and water resources.
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Google ScholarSearch for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research.
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GreenFILEAccess to journal literature, government, and general interest publications covering aspects of human impacts upon the environment--climate change, pollution, renewable energies, etc.
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PubMed (special access for UW campus full text enhanced)Covers the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, pharmacy, allied health, health care systems, and pre-clinical sciences. Indexes nearly 4,500 journals
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ScopusScopus is a multidisciplinary abstract and citation database that covers science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities.
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Sociological AbstractsIndexes and abstracts 2,000 worldwide journals in sociology, as well as dissertations and websites. Includes Social Planning Policy and Development Abstracts.
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Web of ScienceIncludes predominately scholarly articles on a wide range of scientific disciplines.
Business & Economics Databases
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ABI InformExcellent source of information on management and business including consumer behavior.
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AgEcon Search: Research in Agricultural and Applied EconomicsProvides full text reports of scholarly research in the field of agricultural and applied economics. Adobe Acrobat reader softward 2.0 or higher required for viewing.
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Business Source Complete (EBSCO)Scholarly, trade, and popular business publications covering all business disciplines. Includes market research reports, industry reports, country reports, company profiles and SWOT analyses.
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EconLitIndexes and abstracts more than 300 scholarly periodicals and books in the field of economics.
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IBISWorld: Industry ReportsMarket research reports on over 700 different industries in the United States. The reports include key statistics, market segmentation, life cycle, regulation, market share, industry outlook, and more.
Getting Full Text
Follow the Find It button or Find It at UW Madison link in most databases to:
- access online full text (when available)
- see if the journal is available in print (Library Catalog)
- request a free pdf of the article if full text is not available online (Request a Copy/Book and Article Delivery)
If you already have a citation, use this citation search to search for your article.
Social Justice Databases
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American Indian ExperienceThe American Indian Experience is a portal and full-text online library of more than 150 titles; hundreds of primary documents and images, including treaties, speeches, traditional tales, and captivity narratives with contextual annotation; a wealth of maps and photographs; and hundreds of vetted websites.
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Black FreedomThe ProQuest History Vault offers researchers the opportunity to study the most well-known and also unheralded events of The Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century from the perspective of the men, women, and sometimes even children, who waged one of the most inspiring social movements in American history.
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Chicano DatabaseProduced by the Ethnic Studies Library at the University of California, Berkeley, the collection covers a wide range of materials focused on the Mexican-American and Chicano experience, as well as the broader Latino experience of Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans and Central American immigrants from 1992 onwards.
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GenderWatchFocuses on gender, women, and LGBT issues. Contains full-text articles from magazines, journals, newsletters, and publications. Material is from 1970 to present.
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Women's Studies InternationalWomen's Studies International indexes women's studies, women's issues, and gender-focused books, book chapters, journal and magazine articles, dissertations, and reports from throughout the world, starting in about 1972.