Databases may contain newspaper articles, peer-reviewed journal articles, scholarly reports, e-books or e-journals that pertain to a certain topic. These materials might have been first published in an international publication and later made available to one or more information services that aggregate these materials into a searchable database. These materials can exceed their normal print publication lifespan, some materials are decades old.
The subscription resources marked with a padlock are available to researchers on-site at the Library of Congress. If you are unable to visit the Library, you may be able to access these resources through your local public or academic library.
Examples of topics covered in the collection: Organic Farming/Small Farms, School lunch programs, Childhood nutrition, Marketing and advertising, Packaging, Food industry, Environmental impact of GMOs, US food programs during WWI/WWII, Food security, Famine, Vegetarianism, Labor practices, Food safety, Wine making, Obesity, Gender roles through history, Food habits around the world and more.
Phase I of PubAg provides access for searches of 340,000 peer-reviewed agriculturally related scientific literature, mostly from 2002 to 2012, each entry offering a citation, abstract and a link to the article if available from the publisher. This initial group of highly relevant, high-quality literature was taken from the 4 million bibliographic citations in NAL's database.
Phase II of PubAg, planned for later in 2015, will include the remainder of NAL's significant bibliographic records.
PubAg has been specifically designed to be easy to use and to serve a number of diverse users including the public, farmers, scientists, academicians and students.
The site also provides a link to the NAL Agricultural Thesaurus.
NOTE: USDA has brought AGRICOLA, PubAg, and NALDC together into one search interface. Visit SEARCH from the USDA National Agricultural Library.