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"Intute is a free online service providing access to high quality Web resources for education and research. The service is created by a network of UK Universities and partners. Subject specialists select and evaluate the websites in the database." |
Agriculture,
Food and Forestry by Intute: "This site offers free access
to a searchable catalogue of Internet sites covering agriculture,
food and forestry."
Agriculture Network
Information Center: "AgNIC is a guide to quality agricultural
information on the Internet as selected by the National Agricultural
Library, Land-Grant Universities, and other institutions."
Agrifeeds: "AgriFeeds is a service that allows users to search and filter news and events from several agricultural information sources. It's a "one-stop shop" on recent news and upcoming events related to agriculture."
Agriscape
Directory on Agriculture: "An online
directory on agriculture and its surrounding
industry. Includes press releases, a discussion
forum, links to companies, universities,
publications, conferences, weather, news
and more"
California Agricultural Technology Institute:
The California Agricultural Technology Institute (CATI)located on the campus of California State University, Fresno, is a non-profit, educational institution committed to improving the profitability of California agriculture. The research specialists have provided a very extensive list of AG links including a number of related links to viticulture sites. Publications include a quarterly newsletter, as well as a variety of research reports, technical bulletins and resource booklets.
California Plant Names: This site, compiled by Michael L. Charters is a dictionary of botanical and biographical ethymology, including Latin and Greek Meanings and Derivations.
CiteSeer: A
research index to digitized scientific documents and other literature
sponsored by The National Science Foundation and Nasa. Search capability provided
by Google and hosted by Penn State's College of Information Sciences
and Technology.
Core Historical Literature of Agriculture:
"CHLA is a core electronic collection of agricultural texts published between the early nineteenth century and the middle to late twentieth century. Full-text materials cover agricultural economics, agricultural engineering, animal science, crops and their protection, food science, forestry, human nutrition, rural sociology, and soil science. Scholars have selected the titles in this collection for their historical importance. Their evaluations and 4,500 core titles are detailed in the seven volume series The Literature of the Agricultural Sciences, Wallace C. Olsen, series editor."
Encyclopedia of Earth: The "a new electronic reference about the Earth, its natural environments, and their interaction with society. The Encyclopedia is a free, fully searchable collection of articles written by scholars, professionals, educators, and experts who collaborate and review each other's work. The articles are written in non-technical language and will be useful to students, educators, scholars, professionals, as well as to the general public."
Foreign
Agricultural Service Online:
United States Department
of Agriculture: The United States Department of Agriculture has provided links
to reports on weather conditions
affecting agriculture around
the world. These sites can be browsed by subject or keyword.
Forest Protection Portal:
This site works to end deforestation, preserve primary and old-growth forests, conserve and sustainably manage other forests, and to commence the age of ecological restoration.
National Agricultural Library: This site is part of the USDA Libraries with a focus on links to food and nutrition. "This library houses one of the world's largest and most accessible agricultural information collections and serves as the nexus for a national network of state land-grant and U.S. Department of Agriculture field libraries."
Neartica - Natural History
: "This page has a list of the more common groups of plants and animals: Butterflies of North Amercia, Conifers of North America, Eastern Birds, Insects of North America, and Eastern Wild Flowers."
University
of Florida Extension: Institute of Food and
Agricultural Sciences:
Resources on agriculture including crop topics,
animal topics, organic production topics, major
programs, pest management guides, publications
by department, and much more.
Be sure to use the Topic Index as a resource guide. Virtual
Farm: "This
site was created to bring
the benefits of the Intenet
to all people engaged
in agriculture and related
industries. All the links
found in our various
categories are carefully
reviewed before inclusion."
Web Index of California Wild Plants: This site is a thumbnail-illustrated web index for the plants of California found outside of cultivation. At present, its purpose is to integrate access to resources at eight sites. It uses a combination of the CalFlora and CNPS Inventory lists to generate links to content.
World
Wide
Web Virtual
Library: Agriculture:
Extensive
list
of categorized
links
about
everything
having
to do
with
agriculture.
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