Books and Journals Available Electronically

Penn State University Libraries E-Resource List

Google Books

Journal Title Abbreviations

Abbreviations.com

Journals Indexed in AGRICOLA (JIA)

Statistical Resources

Census of Agriculture

FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) Statistics

Foreign Trade Statistics (U.S. Census Bureau)

National Agricultural Statistics Service (U.S. Department of Agriculture)

Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture Data & Statistics

Online Reference Resources

Penn State University Libraries Life Sciences Library

Penn State University Libraries Online Reference Shelf

Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture Legal Library

AGRICOLA (National Agricultural Library Catalog)

Agriculture Network Information Center

Cornell University Poisonous Plants Informational Database
The website "includes plant images, pictures of affected animals and presentations concerning the botany, chemistry, toxicology, diagnosis and prevention of poisoning of animals by plants and other natural flora (fungi, etc.)."

National Agricultural Law Center (U.S.). United States Farm Bills
"Full text and resources for all U.S. Farm Bills from 1933 to the present."

Plant Management Network International

The Virtual Library of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Professional Associations and Societies

APSnet (The American Phytopathological Association)

The American Pomological Society

American Society for Microbiology

American Society of Agronomy

The International Society for Mushroom Science (ISMS)

The Mycological Society of America

Pan-American Aerobiology Association

Society of Nematologists

Government Agencies and Government-affiliated Organizations

Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture

Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences Cooperative Extension & Outreach County Offices

United States

United States Department of Agriculture

United States Food and Drug Administration

National Plant Diagnostic Network (NPDN)
A network of "land grant university plant disease and pest diagnostic facilities from across the United States."

Canada

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

International

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Glossaries

National Agricultural Library (NAL) Glossary

Glossary: Genetics Home Reference (U.S. National Library of Medicine)

Thesauri

National Agricultural Library (NAL) Agricultural Thesaurus

AGROVOC Thesaurus (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations)
"AGROVOC is a multilingual, structured and controlled vocabulary designed to cover the terminology of all subject fields in agriculture, forestry, fisheries, food and related domains" (Source: AGROVOC Thesaurus introduction page).

Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN)

UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) Thesaurus

Agricultural Libraries

National Agricultural Library (NAL) (U.S. Department of Agriculture)

Canadian Agriculture Library

Agricultural Archives and Museums

Pasto Agricultural Museum (Penn State University)

Citation and Style Guides

Using CBE (Council of Biology Editors) Style to Cite and Document Sources

Guide for Citing Resources--CBE Manual Style

Chicago-style Citation Quick Guide

National Library of Medicine Recommended Formats for Bibliographic Citation (PDF file, 106 printed pages)

Other Selected Citation and Style Guides

Citation Management Software

Endnote

• Connection Files
• Import Filters
• Output Styles

ProCite

RefWorks

Author and Editor Guides

American Phytopathological Society (APS) Press

Cell

Crop Protection (Elsevier)

Canadian Journal of Plant Pathology

Crop Management

Mycologia

Phytopathology

Plant Disease

Copyright, Plagiarism, Professional and Research Ethics

Copyright Resources (PDF document)

The American Phytopathological Society Code of Professional Conduct

Penn State: A Statement on Plagiarism and Academic Dishonesty

Copyright information (The Pennsylvania State University)

Web Resource Evaluation and Creation

Evaluating and Creating Information Quality on the Web