Key Resources

• National Agricultural Library Catalog - AGRICOLA - "The AGRICOLA catalog provides citations to agricultural literature. AGRICOLA includes two different databases, the NAL Catalog and the Article Citation database."

• Current Research Information System (CRIS) - "CRIS is the U.S. Department of Agriculture's documentation and reporting system for ongoing and recently completed research and education projects in agriculture, food and nutrition, and forestry. All projects included are conducted or sponsored by USDA." Some reports are available full text.

• Agricultural Research Service - Research - Research webpage provides a broad overview and links to the ARS national and international research projects, Office of Scientific Quality Review, and Research Initiatives.

• Food Safety Research Information Office (FSRIO) - The food safety research database is "an ongoing effort providing users with information on research projects through the cooperation of government agencies, educational institutions and other agencies. The database provides more than 1700 records with abstract, principal investigator, agency, funding information and more." Some are available in full text.

• Agriculture Network Information Center (AgNIC) - "AgNIC is a voluntary alliance and partnership ofnearly 60 member institutions and organizations working to offer quick and reliable access to quality agricultural information and sources. The AgNIC portal covers a full range of agriculture, environmental, and food related disciplines and contains web sites, image collections, lists of publications, documents, databases, and other unique resources. Full text resources are available throgh the AgOAI (Open Archive Initiatives)."

• Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Soils Website - NRCS website offers links to state, national, and international soil information and reports on soils. Some reports available in full text. http://soils.usda.gov/

• Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) - Provides centralized access to all of Department of Defense's scientific and technical information on DoD's multidisciplinary research, development, engineering, and studies programs. Some reports available in full text.

• National Technical Information Service (NTIS) - NTIS is an agency responsible for collecting for government-funded scientific, technical, engineering, and business related since the 1950s. The NTIS database provides citation information for over 3 million publications from 1964 to the present.

• Science.gov - Search engine providing single search access to over 50 million pages of government science and reseach results. Many results are available in full text. Site is maintained by the Science.gov Alliance, a group of STI government agencies.