Animal and poultry science

APSC 4004: Contemporary issues in the animal sciences

Note this guide is to be used as a starting point to find materials for your topic, and should not be mistaken as an all inclusive list of resources

Search Help and Other Information

Concept Table (DOC)
Evaluating Information Sources (DOC)
More on evaluating internet resources
Search Tips and Strategies (DOC)
Understanding "Boolean" (PDF)

Peer Review

What is Peer-Review? (PDF)
Types of Journal Publications (PDF)

Source for determining peer reviewed journals
Ulrich's Periodical Index

Addison Catalog Searching
Keywords: broad/general terms found anywhere in the record; use as starting point to find information, then move to subject searches based on items returned of interest in your search.
Type terms in order of importance (e.g. watershed resources instead of resources watershed)

Subject headings (specific classifications given to materials about their subject area):

Finding Background and Other Reference Sources

Animal and food related topics 
Encyclopedia of Animal Science (library use only)
Encyclopedia of Farm Animal Nutrition (can be checked out)
Encyclopedia of Food Science and Technology (library use only)
Feed Additive Compendium (library use only)
Veterinarian's Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior (2 copies, one library use only)

Land and Water topics
Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy (online)
Encyclopedia of Rural America: the Land and People (library use only)
Encyclopedia of Water Science (can be checked out)
Our Earth's Changing Land: An Encyclopedia of Land-Use and Land-Cover Change (can be checked out)

If the above are not related to your topic, try searching Addison for one of your key terms (or over-arching terms) with "encyclopedia" or "handbook" (minus the quotation marks) to find a general starting point.

If you're still not sure where to go, contact Kiri for more assistance.

Recommended Databases to Search
General & News Sources
Academic Search Complete (both news and scholarly sources)
LexisNexis Academic (international scope)
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center

Agriculture
Agricola
Animal Behaviour Abstracts
Animal Health and Production Compendium
FSTA (Food Science Technology Abstracts)
NewCrop
Plant Management Network
Plant Science
S-PAC (animal production conferences) 

Life Sciences
Biological Abstracts
CABDirect
CSA Natural Sciences
Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management
Pollution Abstracts
Water Resource Abstracts
Web of Science

Health
Genetics Abstracts
Health & Safety Science Abstracts
Medline/Pubmed, different search interfaces:
    Medline from CSA
    Medline from EbscoHost
    Medline from FirstSearch 
    PubMed (free version)

Business
ABI / Inform
Business Source Complete
Business & Industry

Social sciences (education, ethics, and policy)
CSA Social Sciences
Education Research Complete
Philosopher's Index
Policy Archive
Sociological Abstracts

Writing your paper
Understanding paraphrasing
Avoiding plagiarism: a guide for graduate students at Virginia Tech (applies to undergraduates to!)
Paraphrase: Write it in your own words (from Purdue)
Successful vs. unsuccessful paraphrases (UW-Madison)

Citing your sources
Citation styles & manuals
Using information appropriately

Need more help?
Writing Center

List of all subject guides

Librarian Contact Information:
Kyrille Goldbeck College Librarian for Natural Resources and
Liaison for Animal & Poultry Science and Dairy Science
Email: kgoldbec@vt.edu
Office Hours