Food Production Systems and Sustainability : Articles
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Core Databases
- AGRICOLA (United States National Agricultural Library)Includes 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.
- CABI CAB Abstracts (Agriculture & Veterinary)Leading scholarly database covering agriculture and natural resources worldwide.
- Environmental Sciences and Pollution ManagementTopic coverage includes pollution, bacteriology, ecology, toxicology, environmental engineering, environmental biotechnology, waste management and water resources.
- FSTA - Food Science & Technology AbstractsSearch scholarly materials, standards, legislation, and patents covering beverages, cocoa and chocolate, commodity technology, dairy products, dietetic foods, fats and oils, fermentation technology, fish, flour and bakery products, food additives and engineering, food hygiene, food laws, meat and poultry, sugars, and toxicology.
- Google ScholarMultidisciplinary search engine to find scholarly materials. Log in through the UW-Madison Libraries website in order to access articles.
- GreenFILEAccess to journal literature, government, and general interest publications covering aspects of human impacts upon the environment--climate change, pollution, renewable energies, etc.
- PubMedDeveloped by the National Library of Medicine (NLM), provides free access to thousands of scholarly articles in the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, pharmacy, health care systems, and more.
- ScopusLarge, multidisciplinary database that covers science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities.
- Sociological AbstractsIndexes and abstracts 2,000 worldwide journals in sociology, as well as dissertations and websites. Includes Social Planning Policy and Development Abstracts.
- 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.
- Web of ScienceIncludes predominately scholarly articles on a wide range of scientific disciplines.
Business & Economics Databases
- AgEcon Search: Research in Agricultural and Applied EconomicsFree, open access repository of scholarly materials, working papers, and government documents covering agribusiness, food supply, environmental economics, policy issues, economic development, and other areas of agricultural economics.
- Business Source CompleteScholarly, trade, and popular business publications covering all business disciplines. Includes market research reports, industry reports, country reports, company profiles and SWOT analyses.
- EconLitIndexes and abstracts more than 300 scholarly periodicals and books in the field of economics.
- 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.
- ProQuest One Business (formerly ABI Inform)Online business library database of millions of full-text items across scholarly and popular periodicals, newspapers, market research reports, dissertations, books, videos and more. The database includes company, industry and country reports; in-depth analyst reports from J.P. Morgan; and scholarly journal and ebook coverage from hundreds of publishers. Includes full text of Wall Street Journal, the Economist and the Financial Times. ProQuest One Business contains all content previously available in other databases, including Business Premium Collection, ABI/INFORM, and J.P. Morgan Research.
Social Justice Databases
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- GenderWatchFocuses on gender, women, and LGBT issues. Contains full-text articles from magazines, journals, newsletters, and publications. Material is from 1970 to present.
- 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.
Newspapers & Current Events
- Newspaper Source PlusSearch major newspapers such as The New York Times, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and others.
- Newspapers Research GuideUse this guide to access current, historical, national, international, and alternative presses.
- 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.
- 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.
Getting Full Text Articles & Book Chapters
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