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Use The CAT for finding books owned by Penn State. CAT Search Tips: The CAT provides information on how to access information resources available to PSU students, faculty and staff. Use Browse when looking for a specific title or author (type last name first). Use Keyword and combine terms to search on a topic, then check the subject headings from relevant books to find additional search terms. Write down the call number and location for the resource or click on the Online Content URL. For more detailed searching information go to the Quick Guide to the CAT. Suggested CAT Search Terms: Search for organisms (i.e.soybean or Glycine max), processes (i.e. cell culture) or concepts (i.e. alternative crops or other terms such as genetically modified). Call Numbers: At University Park, most materials in the life sciences are located on the 4th floor of Paterno Library. Pennsylvania Soil Surveys are located at the Reference Desk. Soil Surveys for the 50 states including Pennsylvania are located in the Reference Area. General call numbers and subject areas are:
Books Elsewhere: WorldCat Libraries Borrowing Policies: Find your books, then bring them to be checked out at the nearest lending desk or self check-out station. Loan periods are usually four weeks but books can be recalled for another user, so respond promptly to library notices. For more information ee the University Libraries Lending Code. Article Search Tips: Finding the articles on your topic requires a number of steps:
Databases To Use:
Get the full text: Once you find the citation in a database,
try the Already have a citation? Use Citation Linker to see if Penn State has it online or in print! For technical terms consult printed dictionaries of agricultural science, such as and The Agriculture Dictionary, Dictionary of Soil Science, or the Handbook of Soil Science. Or online the Glossary of Soil Science Terms from the Soil Science Society of America or the Glossary of Crop Science Terms from the Crop Science Society of America. Also the Life Sciences Dictionary from BioTech. Agropedia a compilation of agriculture encyclopedias, such as Encyclopedia of Agricultural, Food, and Biological Engineering, Encyclopedia of Plant and Crop Science, Encyclopedia of Pest Management, Encyclopedia of Soil Science, Encyclopedia of Water Science. Access Science provides encyclopedia articles for scientific subjects. In print it is the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. AGRIS and CARIS Homepage provides access to several databases focusing on international information for the agricultural sciences and technology. It was created by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. CRIS is Current Research Information System (CRIS) of the USDA. CRIS provides short reports of ongoing and recently completed research and education projects in agriculture, food and nutrition, and forestry. Projects are conducted or sponsored by USDA research agencies, state agricultural experiment stations, land-grant universities, other cooperating state institutions, and participants in CSREES-administered grant programs. Crop Protection Reference is a compilation of product labels for agricultural chemicals. It includes brand name, company, common name, product category, site use, and pest use indexes. The Literature of Crop Science and The Literature of Soil Science are bibliographies that highlight the major publications in the subject of crop and soil sciences. Evaluating Resources for Content To evaluate print sources and web sites, you should ask a series of questions concerning the source’s currency, authority, validity, intended audience and bias. See this How to Evaluate Information site for details. When using information from another source you must give credit to the original author or you are plagiarizing. You give credit by citing the source. Make sure your citation contains everything you would need to backtrack and find the information again. No particular style guide is exclusively used by the plant pathology journals. You might consult Council of Science Editors style. Plagiarism, whether you copy a paragraph from a book or cut and paste someone else's words from an e-mail, is a violation of Penn State's academic integrity policy. See this Statement on Plagiarism and Academic Dishonesty. You can look for information on the Internet by using one of the 'guides' listed below, or by using an Internet Search Engine like Google. Or if you are looking for scholarly journal articles use Google Scholar or CAB, Biological Abstracts or AGRICOLA. Penn State Crop and Soil Sciences Resources
USDA Crop and Soils Resources Four major starting points for USDA resources:
Agricultural Charts and Maps produces charts and maps displaying crop yields, crop weather, micromaps, crops by county and crop acreage animations. Crop Production Reports contains crop production data for the U.S., including acreage, area harvested, yields, etc.. Harvesting Information provides planting and harvesting dates for major field crops by state. Crop Biosecurity provides information on several strategic science-based regulatory programs designed to protect crops and natural resources. Field Crop Reports links to numerous reports related to crop production information such as acreage, areas harvested, and yield. Agricultural Outlook Reports are comprehensive forecast reports for U.S. agricultural commodities. Crop Weather Reports provides information such as crop bulletins, historical data, planting and harvesting dates, and plant hardiness zone maps to assist producers in planning and managing the production of their crops. Crop Progress and Conditions Report is a weekly report during the growing season listing planting, fruiting, and harvesting progress and overall conditions in the major planting states. Trends in Agriculture provides articles about important events in U.S. agriculture over the past century. Agriculture Statistics Book is published each year with tables on agricultural production, supplies, consumption, facilities, costs, and return. Agricultural Statistical Highlights of 2004-2005 provide a concise review agricultural statistics and data reports, charts, and maps annually. Census of Agriculture, taken every five years, is the most comprehensive source of statistics portraying U.S. agriculture. The most recent is 2002. Quick Stats Database provides access to significant U.S. and state information with ability to request statistics by commodity, state, and year. The PLANTS Database is a single source of standardized information about plants. It focuses on vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and it territories. The PLANTS Database includes names, checklists, automated tools, identification information, species abstracts, distributional data, crop information, plant symbols, plant growth data, plant materials information, plant links, references, and other plant information. From USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service. Noxious Weed Program provides links to APHIS information for potentially invasive weeds such as what form of the plant is most likely to enter the United States, likely pathways of entry into the United States, general notes, photographs or line drawings, distribution maps, etc. From APHIS. MaizeGDB Maize Genetics and Genomics Database is a comprehensive source of information on the genetics and molecular biology of maize. From USDA/ARS. List of Online Soil Surveys provides links to soil surveys accessible online. As of February 2007, there are few Pennsylvania surveys online. List of Published Soil Surveys provides a list of the published county soil surveys. NSSC Soil Survey Laboratory Research Database. allows users to generate, print and download reports containing soil characterization data stored and maintained by the NSSC Soil Survey Laboratory. Official Soil Series Descriptions and Soil Taxonomy, a Basic System of Soil Classification for Making and Interpreting Soil Surveys, Second Edition (PDF) provide classification. Soil Moisture Monitoring. A series of maps showing most recent day, monthly and 12 months calculated soil moisture, anomalies and percentiles; 25-year average soil moisture & soil wetness that are used in the soil moisture outlook. This site is provided by the Climate Prediction Center, National Weather Service. Soil Quality Information. Improving how your soil works. Other sites from Universities and Businesses: ProSoil Problem Soils Database contains information on different types of agricultural problem soils such as acid soils, calcareous soils, histosols, salt-affected soils, sandy soils, steeplands, and vertisols. From FAO. NewCROP provides detailed information on new and specialty crop profiles. CropINDEX A-B is a list of scientific and common names of crops for information access with links to much of the information. CropMAP is a site-specific retrieval system to identify current and alternative crops. From Center for New Crops and Plant Products, Purdue University. KingCorn.Org, also known as the Corn Growers' Guidebook, is a World Wide Web site devoted to more profitable corn management systems. From Department of agronomy, Purdue University. PlantFacts provides links to over 20,000 pages of Extension Fact Sheets and bulletins which provide a concentrated source of plant-related information. From Ohio State University. Plant Management Network is a unique cooperative resource for the applied plant sciences. The Plant Management Network offers an extensive searchable database comprised of thousands of web-based resource pages from the network's partner universities, companies, and associations. In addition, the network has four peer-reviewed citable journals, Applied Turfgrass Science, Crop Management, Forage and Grazinglands, and Plant Health Progress. StratSoy provides information and searches the Internet to link to information and resources on production, utilization, supply and demand, market outlook, strategies, and other topics relevant to the soybean industry. From the University of Illinois. The Wheat Page contains information on organizations, research, varieties, production systems, economics, storage and handling, and links to other internet sites related to wheat. From Kansas State University. International Survey of Herbicide Resistant Weeds. This survey monitors the evolution of herbicide-resistant weeds and assesses their impact throughout the world. New Jersey Agricultural Weed Gallery is a collection of photos and descriptions of agricultural weeds found in New Jersey. From Cooperative Extension Service, Rutgers University. Weed Identification provides an easy to use Web key for identifying and classifying weeds. Images of the weeds are also provided. From the Illinois Council on Food and Agricultural Research. Compendium of Pesticide Common Names. This electronic compendium is intended to provide details of the status of all pesticide common names, together with their systematic chemical names, molecular formula and Chemical Abstracts Registry Numbers. NAWQA Pesticide National Synthesis Project. National assessment of pesticides in the streams, rivers, and ground water of the United States. Pesticides is the starting point to the web pages of the EPA's Office of Pesticide Programs. The PAN Pesticides Database brings together a diverse array of information on pesticides from many different sources, providing human toxicity (chronic and acute), ecotoxicity and regulatory information for about 5,400 pesticide active ingredients and their transformation products, as well as adjuvants and solvents used in pesticide products. Pesticide Information Profiles (EXTOXNET) provides summaries of basic pesticide information such as trade names, regulatory status, toxicological effects, ecological effects, environmental fate, physical properties, etc.. American Society of Agronomy (ASA) is dedicated to the development of agriculture enabled by science, in harmony with environmental and human values and supports scientific, educational, and professional activities that enhance communication and technology transfer among agronomists and those in related disciplines on topics of local, regional, national, and international significance. Crop Science Society of America (CSSA) is dedicated to the advancement of crop science by acquiring and disseminating information about crops in relation to seed genetics and plant breeding; crop physiology; crop production; quality and ecology; crop germplasm resources; and environmental quality. The Soil Science Society of America (SSSA) is dedicated to the advancement of soil science. by acquiring and disseminating information about soils in relation to crop production, environmental quality, ecosystem sustainability, bioremediation, waste management and recycling, and wise land use. Weed Science Society of America promotes the development of knowledge concerning weeds and and fosters awareness of weeds and their impacts on managed and natural ecosystems. North Central Weed Science Society. Northeastern Weed Science Society. Southern Weed Science Society. Western Society of Weed Science. |
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