Core Databases
- Agricultural & Environmental Science Database (AESD) This link opens in a new windowThe Agricultural & Environmental Science database (AESD) facilitates in-depth research and comprehensive literature reviews across the earth, atmospheric & aquatic sciences. Includes Agricola.
- CABI Digital Library This link opens in a new windowArticles, ebooks, and data sheets on agriculture, animal health, crop protection, forestry, global health, human nutrition, horticulture, and natural resources management. Includes Cab Abstracts & Global Health databases.
- Scopus This link opens in a new windowSearch citations and abstracts for journal articles, conference proceedings, and other resources in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. Can also be used for cited reference searches, citation analysis of research and searching by affiliation.
- Web of Science Core Collection This link opens in a new windowMultidisciplinary database of journal articles and conference proceedings, used for citation analysis of research. Includes access to EndNote Basic, a web-based version of EndNote.
More Databases
- Business Source Ultimate This link opens in a new windowProvides access to journal articles, books and videos related to business, management, economics, banking, finance, and accounting. Use for finding articles, case studies, and company and industry information.
- Compendex Engineering Village This link opens in a new window
Premier engineering database, covering the core literature of the engineering field, including related specialties and technologies.
pinecone - FAO : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations This link opens in a new windowInternational portal to publications and statistics on food, agriculture, fisheries and forestry.
- Federal Science LibrarySearch across the catalogues and repositories from seven federal science libraries (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Health Canada, National Research Council, Natural Resources Canada, Public Health Agency of Canada)
- PAIS Index This link opens in a new windowPAIS is an index to the literature of public policy, social policy, and the social sciences in general.
- PubAg This link opens in a new windowPubAg is a portal to USDA-authored and other highly relevant agricultural research. It delivers over 40,000 full-text journal articles by USDA staff and citations to an additional 340,000 articles. Updated daily.
- Social Sciences in Forestry This link opens in a new windowSocial Sciences in Forestry from the University of Minnesota Natural Resources Library indexes publications in the areas of legislation, policy and planning, management, economic development, investment and finance.
- TreeSearch (US Forest Service) This link opens in a new windowTreesearch indexes publications from all Research Stations of the US Forest Service as well as papers written by the scientists but published in journals, conference proceedings, or books.
Search Strategy Worksheets
- Forestry Research Search Strategy DocumentationThis worksheet can help you develop your research question using PICO, translate it into an effective literature search, and track what you find.