Research Guides: Animal Science: Databases / Finding Articles

Databases / Finding Articles

Below are a few selected databases for animal science and agriculture more broadly. Additional databases can be found under the Databases button on the library homepage.

CABI Digital Library This link opens in a new window
Offers a combination of scholarly articles, book chapters, and proceedings in a wide variety of agriculture disciplines. Incorporates CAB Abstracts and Global Health. Includes research from international and U.S. sources.
AGRICOLA (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Provides access to the collections of the U.S. National Agricultural Library. Includes citations to journal articles, books, technical reports, and other formats in the field of agriculture. Has a U.S. focus.
CAB Abstracts (Ovid) This link opens in a new window
A major resource for agriculture, forestry, human nutrition, animal health, and natural resources.
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
A multidisciplinary database with 90 million records from articles in 22,000 journals and 300,000 conferences.
PubMed This link opens in a new window
National Library of Medicine's interface to MEDLINE, NLM's bibliographic database covering the fields of medicine, dentistry, nursing, veterinary medicine, healthcare administration, and the pre-clinical sciences. PubMed also provides access to additional biomedical journals not indexed by MEDLINE.
Animal Health and Production Compendium This link opens in a new window
An interactive multimedia encyclopaedia which focuses on all aspects of animal health and production, including diseases, nutrition, husbandry and breeding. Compendium covers several hundred topics in food-animal production (cattle, buffaloes, sheep, goats, pigs, poultry), including husbandry, housing, handling, identification, transport, behaviour, nutrition, genetics, reproduction, techniques, welfare, slaughter, meat, milk, eggs, products and legislation.
Searchable Proceedings of Animal Conferences This link opens in a new window
This searchable electronic database of proceedings and presentations from major animal production conferences held in the U.S. and Canada is the most comprehensive animal production and management conference proceeding database.
Food Science and Technology Abstracts This link opens in a new window
For more than 30 years FSTA has been the essential source of information on food science, food technology, and human nutrition for anyone working in the food sector, whether in industry, government or academia.
ProQuest Agriculture Journals This link opens in a new window
ProQuest Agriculture Journals offers the complete text as well as complete images from such journals as Agricultural Research, Forest Products Journal, Journal of Animal Science, Journal of Soil and Water Conservation and Plant Physiology.

Google Scholar
This search engine is good for supplementing CABI Digital Library, Web of Science, etc., but should not replace those databases. The traditional databases have attributes and features that Google Scholar does not.