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First Year Experience

Getting Started; Working Session

Download the worksheet below and work on during your Tues/Wed working session. You will start as a team to determine who will work on the different parts of your topic, then individual work to bring back to your group.

Guided worksheet for Tues/Wed working sessions

Recommended databases to start with to find scientific information about your topic:

AGRICOLA from ProQuest
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This database indexes citations for journal articles, books, proceedings, theses,and several other information sources that discuss a variety of aspects related to agriculture, life sciences, nutrition, and environmental science. 1970-present.

AGRICOLA (AGRICultural OnLine Access) serves as the catalog and index to the collections of the National Agricultural Library, as well as a primary public source for world-wide access to agricultural information. The database covers materials in all formats and periods, including printed works from as far back as the 15th century.
Animal Health and Production Compendium from CABI
This database provides detailed information on agricultural and biological sciences. It contains datasheets (HTML and PDF) on: livestock and the diseases that affect them, food safety and quality, and statistical data on animal and economic production. It also provides an index to citations for agricultural publications and nearly 2,000 images. 1910s-present.
CAB Abstracts from CAB Direct
This database indexes citations and abstracts from journals, books, reports, handbooks, conference proceedings, field notes, and theses in agriculture, environmental sciences, natural resources, veterinary sciences, and several other life sciences fields. 1910s-present.
PubMed from NLM
In addition to covering human medicine topics, this database covers a number of veterinary journals, conferences, case studies, news reports, and other sources of information related to a variety of aspects related to animal health. 1946-present.

PubMed citations and abstracts include the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and preclinical sciences. PubMed also provides access to additional relevant Web sites and links to the other NCBI molecular biology resources.

PubMed is a free resource that is developed and maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM), located at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

A mobile version is available.
Wildlife & Ecology Studies Worldwide from EBSCOhost
This database is included primarily for those working on the wild horse topic, as mustangs are considered to be managed more like wildlife, though there are a lot of intersections with grazing rights that are covered in the other agricultural databases.

Wildlife & Ecology Studies Worldwide indexes literature on wild mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians. Coverage includes more than 1.6 million bibliographic records many of which include abstracts. Most of the records in this database are from Wildlife Review Abstracts, formerly Wildlife Review. Wildlife Review Abstracts offers a global perspective and is the most comprehensive resource on wildlife information. Major topic areas include studies of individual species, habitat types, hunting, economics, wildlife behavior, management techniques, diseases, ecotourism, zoology, taxonomy and much more.

Tuesday's Class Session

Access the Google Spreadsheet assigned to your table number below. Work on filling this out with one of your reliable sources and 2 scientific articles that support or refute the statements made in the reliable source you found about your topic.

Make sure to cite the source information following the Journal of Animal Science citation style (examples on the 3rd tab).

More databases available at:

Animal & Poultry Science Subject Guide
or choose another subject guide in a related discipline about your topic

Wednesday's Class Session