Current Awareness Services

Agricola (via EBSCO) Description: Index to publications and resources encompassing all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines, 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. Provided by the National Agricultural Library. [Details] Full Text: N Community of Science (COS) Description: COS is the leading Internet site for the global R&D community. COS brings together the world's most prominent scientists and researchers at more than 1,600 universities, corporations and government agencies worldwide. COS provides tools and services that enable these professionals to communicate, exchange information and find the people and technologies that are important to their work. These services include: COS Expertise®, the database of detailed, first person profiles of more [Details] Full Text: Y Notes1: The North Dakota University System (NDUS) subscribes to COS for use by all 11 ND institutions. The initial year subscription cost $90,000 with set-up - paid by the State Board of Higher Ed, the ND Dept. of Commerce, and ND EPSCoR. SPIRS System (WinSpirs, MacSpirs, WebSpirs) Description: The SilverPlatter Information Retrieval System (SPIRS) is an interface to several important bibliographic databases at NDSU: Biological Abstracts, AGRICOLA (agriculture), CAB Abstracts (agriculture), Life Sciences, MEDLINE (medicine), PsycINFO (psychology), Transport (transportation engineering), INSPEC (physics, electrical engineering, computer science), the Art Index, Current Contents, MLA Bibliography (literature and linguistics), the ERIC Database (education), and GeoRef (Geology). [Details] Full Text: N Notes1: Winspirs or Webspirs databases can be limited by update code. Each record has a code indicating the date the citation was added to the database. By limiting a search to update codes since the last time you searched the database, you will select only the research you have not already identified. Choose the Limit button after performing a search, and select Update. You will need to keep track on which updates you have used. Web of Science Description: Web of Science provides access to the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Science Citation Index. Science Citation Index Expanded is a multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the sciences. It fully indexes 5,900 major journals across 150 scientific disciplines. The Science Citation Index Expanded includes all cited references captured from indexed articles. In addition, the Science Citation Index Expanded: - Provides access to current information and [Details] Full Text: Y CRIS (Current Research Information System) Description: Searchable full text reports of ongoing and recently completed USDA and State university sponsored agricultural research. Project summaries, including all progress reports and lists of publications coming out of the research, are currently in this file. Subjects covered by CRIS include:management and use of natural resources; protection of crops and livestock from pests and other hazards; production management systems for crops, livestock, poultry, and fish; farm and forest product [Details] Full Text: Y Notes1: For Canadian agricultural research reports go to ICAR. For FAO sponsored research in progress, go to CARIS. Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center: Description: Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center draws on the acclaimed social issues series published by Greenhaven Press, as well as core reference content from other Gale and Macmillan Reference USA sources to provide pro and con arguments for a broad range of current social issues. You can access viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles. [Details] Full Text: Y Notes1: Educational guide for Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center.