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Subjects: Agribusiness & Food Industry Management, Agricultural Education, Agriculture, Animal & Veterinary Science, Animal Science, Apparel Merchandising & Management, Food Science, Nutrition, Plant Science

Introduction

Welcome to this research guide! If you are off-campus, many of the resources featured here require that you login with your BroncoName and BroncoPassword.

OneSearch - Find Books, Articles, Journals, and more

OneSearch is the Library's search engine

With a single search you can find books, articles, and other materials on any research topic. If you have any questions, please ask us!

Helpful links:

Using OneSearch (video tutorials) - How to Find Books (4:52), E-books (3:12), and Articles (6:22)
How can you tell if a source will be good for your assignment? Also, what is a Scholarly journal, versus a Newspaper or Magazine?
Tips for creating advanced keyword searches
How do I place an Item on Hold?
Need a book or article we don't have? Learn how to order it through our Interlibrary Loan service!
Ways to get research help from CPP Library

Recommended Databases

AGRICOLA
Agriculture, animal science, foods & nutrition, and landscape architecture. Look for the "Find IT!" button after clicking on the title of the desired article.
Biological Abstracts
Journal articles in the life sciences and biomedical research.
Biological and Agricultural Index Plus
Contains citations to articles from more than 250 journals. Subject coverage includes all of the biological sciences with about 45% of the focus on agriculture.
PubAg
PubAg is the National Agricultural Library (NAL) portal to USDA-authored and other agricultural research. It covers core topics of the agricultural sciences including nutrition, food safety, food quality, animal and crop production and protection, natural resources, sustainable agricultural systems, rural development, agricultural economic and policy issues, agricultural imports and exports, agricultural statistics, extramural research, and extension education. See the PubAg FAQ to learn more about PubAg and how it augments AGRICOLA, also from NAL. Search tips can be found on the Advanced Search page.
PubMed
Provides access to the Medline database and other biomedical sources. Medline is a worldwide Index to medical literature (including sports medicine) and supporting disciplines (including human nutrition and animal science). Look for the "Find IT!" button after clicking on the title of the desired article. For more details on searching PubMed, please refer to our PubMed Guide. Access the public version of PubMed here.
Scopus
Scopus is Elsevier's abstracting and indexing database that indexes content from thousands of scholarly books, journals, and conference proceedings over a wide range of disciplines. Scopus also provides access to detailed author profiles and analytical tools to compare journals, citation impact, and citation trends.
Web of Science Core Collection
Provides seamless access to Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Science Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Over 10,000 journals are indexed in this multidisciplinary database. Web of Science also provides a unique search method, cited reference searching. 1991 to present. Read more about this resource or watch an introductory how-to video.

See other recommended databases for Animal & Veterinary Sciences at the Library's Databases page.

Recommended Journals

This is a sample list of peer-reviewed journals related to Animal and Veterinary Sciences research.

Use these links to work with the list of journal titles:

American Journal of Veterinary Research
Animal: The International Journal of Animal Bioscience
Animal Reproduction Science
California Veterinarian
Canadian Journal of Animal Science
Equine Veterinary Education
Equine Veterinary Journal
Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association
Journal of Animal Science
Journal of Dairy Science
Journal of Swine Health and Production
Livestock Science
Meat Science
Poultry Science
Preventive Veterinary Medicine
Small Ruminant Research
Theriogenology
Veterinary Microbiology
Veterinary Parasitology
The Veterinary Record
Veterinary Surgery

Also See

Agriculture research guide
Guide to Agriculture Research in the Cal Poly Pomona Library. Covers Animal Science, Agribusiness & Food Industry Management, Agricultural Education, Food Science, Human Nutrition and Plant Science.

Animal Science