Wednesday, September 22, 2010

AFS101 & AFS201

Resources for Agricultural & Food Systems courses

Reference - use to define and narrow your topic

Oxford Reference Online - Science

Gale Virtual Reference

CQ Researcher
See below a few sample CQ Research reports:
--Slow Food Movement

--Food Safety Battle: Organic Vs. Biotech

--Biotech Foods

--Biofuels Boom

AccessScience - scholarly science and technology encyclopedia and dictionary

Books

CBC Library Catalog: Search for print and online books

ebrary: Search for online books

Articles

EBSCOhost - thousands of magazines and 3500+ peer-reviewed journals in numerous disciplines; has 'Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals' search limiter

Agricola: More than 4.8 million citations of journal articles, monographs, theses, patents, software, audiovisual materials, and technical reports dates back to 1970 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library. Check "Linked Full Text" and "Other Full Text" when searching.

ProQuest - thousands of magazines, newspapers and over 1000 peer-reviewed journals; has 'Scholarly journals, including peer-reviewed' limiter

Peer-Reviewed Article Checklist

Citations
CBC Library Guide to APA Style when citing library databases

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Thursday, September 16, 2010

Who Speaks for Islam? - PHIL 131



"A Link TV original production that explores Islam in an age when Muslim extremists are laying claim to the religion." More information and viewing options at http://www.linktv.org/programs/who_islam.