Agricultural and Biosystems
Engineering
Index
Hot Topics
Student Pages
Bibliographic Resources
General Agriculture sites
Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering sites
Company and Product Resources
Agricultural Statistics
Patents
Regulations & Laws
Standards
Selected Reference Resources
Hot Topics
Biodiesel:
Collection of selected Web resources produced by The NSDL Scout
Report for the Life Sciences, Copyright Internet Scout Project
1994-2005. http://scout.wisc.edu/
Resources for NDSU ABEN classes
Bibliographic resources
General Agriculture sites
U.S. and State Government
agencies Links to US and state agricultural agencies, directories,
and search engines.
General Agriculture
web browsers and indexes Links to major agriculture directories
and search engines.
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Online Canada agricultural information, research and technology,
and policies and programs.
Agricultural Engineering Sites
- ASAE:- Society information
and services, and links to other agricultural engineering, and
standards sites.
- NDSU Dept of Agricultural
and Biosystems Engineering: Information about NDSU department,
programs, and staff; the Department also provides Hotlinks
to other internet sites, university departments, government web
sites of special interest to agricultural and biosystems engineering.
Company and Product information:
Our Company
and Product information page provides descriptions, call
numbers and/or web links to various business directories, product
directories, sources of company information.
Thomasnet.com Thomas
Register of American Manufacturers and Thomas Register Catalog
FileDirectory information on American companies, including product
information, online catalogs, fax numbers, etc.; Thomas also makes
available free to qualifying users CAD CD-Rom's including a searchable
database of thousands of parts with drawings ready to insert into
CAD drawings. Registration may be required.
Agricultural Statistics
Selected
Farm Machinery Statistics: U.S. production, shipments, industry
and farm inventories, farm expenditures for capital purchases, repairs,
and depreciation, and other financial information.
Our Agricultural
Statistics site provides descriptions, call numbers and
links to production and trade information and datasets, and commodity
markets.
Patents
U.S. Patent and
Trademark Office (USPTO) patent database. Includes all U.S.
Patents issued since 1790 to the most recent weekly issue date
(usually each Tuesday). Full text keyword searching is available
for patents issued since January 1, 1976. Patents from 1790 through
1975 are currently searchable only by patent number and current
US classification. Text files are directly viewable with a web
browser; images require a TIFF G4 plug-in for your browser. Free
TIFF image software is available from Alternatiff.
Drawings of all patents, and patents released prior to 1976 are
viewable only with image software. A quick
guide to key word searching is available on this site; further
tips and help for advanced searching is available on the USPTO
page.
Regulations and Laws
- Federal Rules and regulations in effect are available
in the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR): Ref KF70.A3. CFR is
updated by the daily Federal Register which details new and proposed
rules and regulations(Ref KF70.A2). Both are also electronically
available on the web from the GPO
Access site
- Federal laws in effect are arranged by subject (i.e.
codified) in the U.S. Code (Ref KF62). The U.S. Code is also electronically
available from the in the GPO
Access site Bills submitted to congress, and laws recently
passed are easily accessible from Thomas,
a searchable congressional database provided by the Library of
Congress.
- North Dakota state laws and regulations are available
in the North Dakota Century Code: Ref KFN8630 .A2 1959. The Century
Codes is also available electronically on PC's located in the
Reference Department of the Main Library: look for the Premise
or N.D. Code software, in the "Various Other CD's"
icon. (A freely available version is also available from the N.D.
State web site, however, no index is available.)
- Also, check basic reference books on subject areas-many have
chapters outlining regulations.
Standards
ASAE Standards. Standards, engineering practices and data
adopted by the American Society of Agricultural Engineers. The
index to ASAE Standards is publically available on the ASAE
Technical Library web site; text of standsrds is available
online to ASAE members. Print edition of the standards is available
in the NDSU Main Library Reference collection .(REFERENCE 671.A32);
earlier editions are located in the stacks.
Annual Book of ASTM Standards (REFERENCE TA401 .A653)
Standards published by the Association for Testing and Materials.
NDSU has 2002-current.
National Resource for Global Standards
serves as a central point to search for industry, government and
international standards from many sources. The NSSN database contains
over 250,000 references to standards from more than 600 developers
worldwide, including ANSI (American National Standards
Institute). NDSU does not have access to the text of most standards
(except for ASTM and ASAE). They can be requested from our interlibrary
loan, or purchased.
Online standards
More
information about Industry standards
Selected NDSU Reference Resouces for Agricultural
Biosystems Engineering, and Agricultural Systems Management
- Appropriate Technology. A collection of thousands
of books and documents relating to technology appropriate to small
scale enterprises. Index is available on the Appropriate
Technology web site; also, index and full text is available
on CD-ROM (ask at the reference desk)
- CIGR Handbook of Agricultural Engineering. S675
.C54 edited by CIGR, the International Commission of Agricultural
Engineering, published by ASAE. 1999. A 5 volume set including:
v. 1. Land and water engineering v. 2. Animal production &
aquaculture v. 3. Plant production engineering v. 4. Agro process
engineering v. 5. Energy and mass engineering
- Dictionary of Agricultural and Environmental Science.
( REFERENCE S411 .T76 2003) General dictionary of agricultural
terms.
- Doanes Agricultural Report (Ref HD1769 D6) A compendia
of information including custom rates, Nebraska tractor test
summaries, and other information.
- Encyclopedia
of Water Science (online access available from NDSU
campus computers only) (REFERENCE S494.5.W3 E54 2003)
- Encyclopedia
of agricultural, food, and biological engineering (online
access available from NDSU campus computers only) (REFERENCE TP368.2
.E57 2003)
- Engineering handbooks and manuals: NDSU Library maintains
a collection of current handbooks and manuals for all areas of
engineering. Check the PALS online catalog, include terms such
as "handbook#" or "tables" in your search.
- Industry ratios:
RMA annual statement studies (Ref HF5681.B2 R6)
Industry norms and key business ratios : (Ref HF5681.R25
I53)
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Last Updated: March 11, 2008