Using the Agricultural, Environmental, and Food Literature (Books in Library and Information Science)

This reference provides the groundwork, tools, and terminology required when conducting specialized searches for information and resources pertaining to traditional and emerging fields of agriculture. The editors present 16 contributions from librarians and other information workers that offer information on research resources across the academic agricultural disciplines. They offer information on library catalog search strategies, abstracts and indexes, bibliographies and literature guides, search engines, government documents, and other research related information. Each contribution addresses research in a particular sub-field of the general discipline of agricultural sciences. "This reference provides the groundwork, tools, and terminology to conduct specialized searches for information and resources pertaining to traditional and emerging fields of agriculture, such as food and nutrition, rural development, farming, conservation management, veterinary science, soils, genetic engineering, biological control, and the environment, as well as discussing a wide range of print and electronic media to locate hard-to-find documents, navigate poorly indexed subjects, and investigate specific research topics and subcategories."--BOOK JACKET This text discusses a wide range of print and electronic media to locate hard-to-find documents, navigate poorly indexed subjects and investigate specific research topics and subcategories. It includes a chapter on grey and extension literature covering technical reports and international issues When we study agriculture, just what is it that we are studying?