AGRICOLA
Producer
Languages
Access
Providers
United States National Agricultural Library,
United States Department of Agriculture
Cost
Free and Subscription
Coverage
Disciplines
Record depth
Index, some abstracts
Format coverage
Journals, Books, Audiovisual, other
Temporal coverage
17th century - present
Update frequency
Daily
Links
Website
Title list(s)
AGRICOLA (AGRICultural OnLine Access) is an online database created and maintained by the United States National Agricultural Library of the United States Department of Agriculture.[1]
The database serves as the catalog and index for the collections of the United States National Agricultural Library. It also provides public access to information on agriculture and allied fields.[2]
AGRICOLA indexes a wide variety of publications covering agriculture and its allied fields, including, "animal and veterinary sciences, entomology, plant sciences, forestry, aquaculture and fisheries, farming and farming systems, agricultural economics, extension and education, food and human nutrition, and earth and environmental sciences."[2] Materials are indexed using terms from the National Agricultural Library Glossary and Thesaurus.[3]
A related database, PubAg, was released in 2015 and is focused on the full-text publications from USDA scientists, as well as some of the journal literature.[4] PubAg was designed for a broad range of users, including farmers, scientists, scholars, students, and the general public.[5]
The distinctions between AGRICOLA and PubAg include: