What Is AGRICOLA?
AGRICOLA (AGRICultural OnLine Access)
is a bibliographic database of citations to the agricultural literature
created by the National Agricultural Library and its cooperators. Production
of these records in electronic form began in 1970, but the database covers
materials in all formats, including printed works from the 15th century.
The records describe publications and resources encompassing all aspects
of agriculture and allied disciplines, including animal and veterinary
sciences, entomology, plant sciences, forestry, aquaculture and fisheries,
farming and farming systems, agricultural economics, extension and education,
food and human nutrition, and earth and environmental sciences. Although
AGRICOLA does not contain the materials, thousands of AGRICOLA records
are linked to online full-text documents, with new links being added every
day.
The AGRICOLA database is organized into two bibliographic data sets,
which must be searched separately. One data set is the Online Public
Access Catalog, known as "Books, etc.," that contains citations
to books, audiovisual materials, serial publications, and other materials
in the NAL collection. AGRICOLA also contains bibliographic records for
items cataloged by other libraries and not held in NAL's collection. The
other data set is the Journal Article Citation Index, known as "Articles,
etc." It includes citations, many with abstracts, to journal articles
(see List of Journals
Indexed), book chapters, reports, and reprints, selected primarily
from the materials cataloged in Books, etc. Both data sets are updated
daily with newly cataloged and indexed materials.
For more information about AGRICOLA, see AGRICOLA
Technical Notes.