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Community Gardening and Urban Agriculture : Articles, Extension & Government Publications
Discover campus and community resources for cultivating the art and science of gardening.
Databases for Finding Research Literature (Library-Licensed)
"Library-licensed" resources require a visit to a subscribing library in order to use the resource. Off-campus access to UW-Madison library-licensed databases is permitted to registered students, faculty and staff who may log in with their UW-Madison NetID and password.
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Academic SearchMultidisciplinary database providing full text for more than 4,600 journals, including approximately 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. A total of 8,500 journals are indexed and abstracted.
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Agriculture and Environmental ScienceCross-disciplinary database of full-text content along with indexing of global literature across these fields and related disciplines.
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America: History & LifeIndexes and abstracts more than 1700 social science and humanities journals in the field of United States and Canadian history.
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Avery Index to Architectural PeriodicalsIndexes broad range of articles on architecture from such fields as archaeology, decorative arts, interior design, landscape architecture, city planning, and housing.
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CAB AbstractsComprehensive database of the applied life sciences. Subject matter covers agriculture, entomology, forestry, horticulture, plant breeding and pathology, rural sociology, and soil science.
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Google ScholarMultidisciplinary search engine to scholarly articles.
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GreenFILECovers aspects of human impact on the environment, including such topics as global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.
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SocINDEXSearchable access to sub-disciplines of sociology and closely related areas of study, including demography, ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, marriage & family, religion, rural & urban sociology, social development, social structure, social work, socio-cultural anthropology, and more.
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Web of ScienceCombination of three databases: Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. It indexes more than 8,000 peer-reviewed journals.
Open Access Databases
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AgEcon SearchFull-text, agricultural and applied economics scholarly literature.
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AgrisDocuments database from the Food and Agriculture Organization, United Nations.
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ERIC, Institute of Education SciencesResearch literature in education--learning and instruction (some full-text). See also the BadgerLink edition.
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PubAg, National Agricultural LibraryPortal to USDA-authored and other agricultural research literature.
Extension Programming & Publications
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Journal of ExtensionOpen-access, peer-reviewed journal.
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Lawn & Garden Publications, The Learning Store, ArchiveUniversity of Wisconsin-Extension
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Urban & Community Gardening Publications, The Learning Store, ArchiveUniversity of Wisconsin-Extension.
Selected US Government Publications
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Farm to School: A Selected and Annotated BibliographySpecial reference briefs series (June, 2011).
Compiled by: Stephanie M. Ritchie, Alternative Farming Systems Information Center, National Agricultural Library and Wei-Ting Chen, Center for a Livable Future, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health