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Agriculture Subjects

Research guides for subjects in the College of Agriculture, Food and Environment are listed below. You can also view a full list of research guides available at the University of Kentucky.

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Hello FOR 110 students!

This resource was created to assist you with your FOR 110 assignments as well as provide a basic understanding of finding and using information effectively generally. You will find links for all of the databases I covered in class as well as much more. Please feel free to contact me or any other personnel at the Agricultural Information Center with questions you may have. Good luck this semester!

Databases and Online Resources

Below is a short list of electronic resources particularly good for FOR 110 students, to find even more related databases click here.

Academic Search Complete
Covers a broad range of subjects. Indexes more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. Indexes and abstracts more than 12,500 journals and a total of more than 13,200 publications including monographs, reports, and conference proceedings. Searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,400 journals. Includes an Image Collection.
Access World News (NewsBank)
Full-text of over 600 U.S. newspapers, including the Lexington Herald-Leader (1983 - present) and other Kentucky newspapers. Access World News also covers over 1,300 foreign English-language news resources.
InfoKat Discovery
Provides keyword, title, author, and subject searching of the system's 10 libraries' holdings, including books, journals, journal articles, and other resources, both paper and electronic.
LexisNexis Academic
Includes access to over 5,600 news, business, legal, medical and reference publications (most full-text, the rest abstracted), primarily newspapers, magazines and journals. Covers local, regional and international newspapers (in English and non-English languages). Includes broadcast transcripts, case law, legal codes, regulations, Shepard's Citations to Supreme Court cases (back to 1789), company financial information, and SEC filings and reports.
Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL)
Collection of full-text encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources.

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Subjects:Agriculture