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Animal Welfare

Animal Welfare Information Center
From the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library. This website provides information for improved animal care and use in research, testing, and teaching. Includes guidelines, training, and literature search guides.

Alternative Farming Systems Information Center: Aquaponics
From the USDA National Agricultural Library, a selection of resources on Aquaponics. Articles and links out to multi-media from credible sources.
Alternative Farming Systems Information Center: Hydroponics
From the USDA National Agricultural Library, a selection of resources from credible sources. Includes articles and links out to multimedia.
NASA
NASA scientists have conducted hydroponics and aquaponics research for decades to provide food for astronauts. Use the search bar on the NASA home page to find articles.
European Commission. Community Research and Development Information Service
Search for articles, news, and project results on the research, development, and practice of hydroponics, aquaponics, and biofarming supported by the EU

FPS Grape Registry
Formerly the National Grape Registry. Database of grape varieties and selections, with photos, pedigrees, and alternate names. Open access.
International Wine Research Database
Indexes journals (closed and open access), newspapers, and other sources. Links to full text where available. Search by keyword, author, article/journal title; or browse topics.
Viticulture Enology Abstracts (Vitis-VEA)
Indexes abstracts of international scientific articles and conference proceedings on viticulture. Mostly in English. Very current. Search by author, journal title, conference title, year, or browse using its thesaurus of topics.
Vitis International Variety Catalog (Vitis-VIVC)
Open-Access database of 23000 cultivars, breeding lines and Vitis species, existing in grapevine repositories and/or described in scientific literature. Includes cultivar-specific passport data, SSR-marker data, comprehensive bibliography and photos

Food Safety Research Information Office
From the US Dept. of Agriculture, the FSRIO provides a searchable database of research projects, publications, reports and assessments. Food Safety Topics page provides an easy index.
Selected Internet Resources on Food Safety
Peer-Reviewed Webliography, includes Inter-governmental organizations, federal agencies, educational, non-profit, and professional organizations

GMO is a topic in many disciplines. Try an interdisciplinary search in Research Library (ProQuest) or EBSCOhost.

example searches: GMO or "genetically modified organism" AND food

"transgenic plants"

Subject: Transgenic organisms

ProQuest Research Library This link opens in a new window
Journals, Trade magazines, News reports. Select for full-text articles and date range. Use the Subjects drop-down menu to view a subset of the results.
EBSCOhost This link opens in a new window
Interdisciplinary databases are selected by default. Add Food Science Source. Select for Full Text and Date range. From Results page, open the Subjects drop-down list to see specific subsets

Farm Field and Fireside newspapers collection
Keyword searchable collection of digitized farm newspapers. Historically significant publications from the late 1800s to the early 1900s document a time of transition in American agriculture. Part of the Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections.

American History Online (FoF) This link opens in a new window
Timelines, biographies, videos, primary sources, maps, and more.
Search for "agriculture."

Keyword suggestions: homesteading, gardening, aquaculture, beekeeping, mushroom cultivation.

Small Farmer's Journal
The publication covers agriculture as well as general topics including rural life. Focus on small, family run farms and homesteading.
Mother Earth News
Popular magazine focusing on homesteading, gardening, and how to. Full text available.
Hobby Farms
Online news and product reviews for amateur and small-scale farmers. Not all content is open access full text.
Countryside & Small Stock Journal
Articles aimed at the general reader and at the homesteader in particular, dealing with raising animals and food, establishing homesteads, nutrition, well-being and personal self-reliance.

Try a Subject search: "organic agriculture" in IvyCat or when searching databases.

Organic Agriculture
Organic Agriculture is a multidisciplinary journal aiming to publish outstanding research papers on organic agriculture and related food systems. Open access.

Search the phrase "urban agriculture" in quotes in Ivy Cat or Discover

Urban Agriculture & Regional Food Systems
Urban Agriculture & Regional Food Systems is a multi-disciplinary gold open access journal that focuses on urban and peri-urban agriculture and systems of urban and regional food provisioning in developing, transition, and advanced economies.
Open access full text.
Urban Agriculture Magazine
RUAF is an international organisation that aims to accelerate food systems transformation for greater environmental, social, and economic sustainability, resilience, and equity in cities and city regions around the world.