US government agriculture database (NOT LINKED TO WTAMU RESOURCES) providing citations for various topics in journals, books, theses, dissertations, etc. Contains two separate databases, one for the NAL Catalog (books in the National Agricultural Library) and one for article citations.
Format: Citations, Coverage: 1970 - present, Truncation and Wildcard: Assumed and None, Search Tips: For all searches, select books or articles first. Quick search assumes truncation, searches multiple words as an exact phrase, and searches in all fields.
Contains the full citation information from the National Agricultural library, with the advantage of full-text linking to other EBSCO databases, and linking out to full text in other WTAMU databases.
Coverage: 1970-present, Truncation and Wildcard: * and ?, Search Tips: Use quotation marks to phrase search. Allows Boolean AND, OR and NOT searching. May limit to full-text, scholarly journals, date, length, publication name and type. HELP link on each screen, which includes Citation information.
Developing Keywords
Make a research question from your topic.
For example: "What is currently being done to help conserve the endangered Giant Panda population?"