LibGuides: Soil Sciences: Find Scholarly/Peer-Reviewed Research

Selecting the Best Agricultural Scholarly Database

This video will walk you through selecting the appropriate agricultural scholarly databases available at WSU. Read transcript of video

Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics)
Includes Arts & Humanities, Social Sciences and Science Citation indexes, Journal Citation Reports, BIOSIS Previews, BIOSIS Citation Index, Derwent Innovations patent searching, MEDLINE, and Zoological Record. Updated weekly.
AGRICOLA (EBSCO)
AGRICOLA contains bibliographic records from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library.

Washington State University Library Catalog (Search It)
Search It is the WSU library catalog. You can search among many different types of resources and order materials from other institutions if they are not immediately available through WSU. You will find the most resources in Search It but you will also find the most noise.

Want to learn more about verifying if an article is peer-reviewed? Take a look at this link (in the Soil Sci 201 Research Guide).

BIOSIS Previews
BIOSIS Previews¨ is the online version of Biological Abstracts¨ and Biological Abstracts/RRM¨ (Reports, Reviews, and Meetings), the largest collection of biological sciences records in the world.
GeoRef (EBSCO)
Produced by the American Geological Institute, GeoRef is a comprehensive geoscience database containing over 2.2 million bibliographic records from more than 3,000 journals and other sources. GeoRef provides coverage in subject areas such as mineralogy and crystallography, general mineralogy, mineralogy of silicates, and mineralogy of non-silicates.
SciFindern Scholar
This service works best with Internet Explorer. First time users MUST register. Full text access to: Chemical Abstracts since 1907, Chemical Abstracts Registry CASREACT: since 1974, Medline since 1985, Chemcats and ChemList since 1979. To learn how to get the most out of CAS SciFinderN, see the SciFinder FAQ and collection of on-demand training videos, webinars, and how-to guides.
PubMed
This link to PubMed is for those affiliated with WSU. PubMed comprises more than 30 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.