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ruralfarmgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
4309 Posts
Rene'
Prosser
WA
USA
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 Posted - Jan 28 2010 : 09:57:24 AM
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The National Agricultural Library (NAL) includes not just agriculture, but everything you can think of that is related to agriculture. Subjects
include: animals and livestock; education and outreach; food and nutrition; history, art and biography; laws and regulations; marketing and trade; natural resources and environment; plants and crops; research and technology; rural and community development. Resources:
http://www.nal.usda.gov/
Use the search function, or browse by subject.
http://agclass.nal.usda.gov/
NAL Thesaurus - 72,000+ terms, x-refs, hierarchies; in English and Spanish
http://agclass.nal.usda.gov/glossary.shtml
Glossary with definitions for 2500+ terms, in English and Spanish
When you need any kind of science information:
http://www.science.gov
This searches databases and websites across U.S. government agencies.
Search results provide clusters of data on the left, the wikipedia article on the right, and links to articles and information in the middle of the screen.
http://worldwidescience.org/
Access to information from international sources. Click on a country to see what is available.
http://www.agnic.org/
Ag information from organizations and land grant universities. Resource database, news, expertise. Cool feature is their events calendar. Each event has a city hyperlink to tourist information for that city.
http://www.cendi.gov/projects/proj_terminology.html
Access to the online thesauri and indexing resources of the various federal scientific & technical agencies
http://www.cabi.org/cabthesaurus/
CAB Thesaurus (global health)
http://aims.fao.org/website/AGROVOC-Thesaurus/sub
AGROVOC is a multilingual, structured and controlled vocabulary designed to cover the terminology of all subject fields in agriculture, forestry, fisheries, food and related domains (e.g. environment).
http://www.onelook.com/
Need a definition? This site searches multiple dictionaries. You can specify which group of dictionaries to search (general, art, business, computing, medicine, miscellaneous, religion, science, slang, sport, tech, phrases). Also has a reverse dictionary feature.
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Sisterhood Coordinator
Farmgirl Sister #185
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Lessie Louise
True Blue Farmgirl
1406 Posts
Carol
PECULIAR
MO
USA
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Posted - Jan 28 2010 : 12:01:34 PM
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Thank you Rene, these are great resources, Carol
Forget buns of steel, I'd rather have buns of cinnamon!
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Great Resources from the NAL
