Agricultural Education, Leadership and Communications

A multidisciplinary research database that indexes thousands of journals, magazines, and trade publications. Primary coverage back to the 1990s, but some content goes back much further.

Indexes USDA publications, core journals in agricultural and related sciences, and items acquired by the National Agricultural Library (NAL) and cooperating institutions. Primary coverage is back to 1970, with some coverage back to the early 1900s.

"ERIC provides unlimited access to more than 1.4 million bibliographic records of journal articles and other education-related materials, with hundreds of new records added multiple times per week." You can limit search results by education level such as Early Childhood Education, etc. Coverage back to 1960s.

This multidisciplinary database is "the world’s largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature."

• Over 100 million records of journal articles, conference papers, and more
• Good coverage of all areas of STEM, as well as social sciences, engineering, and business.
• Offers sophisticated tools to track, analyze and visualize research

Indexes the websites of commercial publishers, governments, universities, and other organizations. It can be very useful when trying to find a PDF of a specific article.

• Remember, for a good literature review, Google Scholar should be seen as a supplement rather than a substitute for other library databases.
• If you see a “Find It@MSState Libraries” on the right, then click on that link to get the full article.
• When off-campus, you can get more access to full articles by using the MSU VPN.

This peer-reviewed, open-access, online journal, is sponsored by MSU's School of Human Sciences.

"This service allows you to search the resources provided by your Cooperative Extension Service using a Google Custom Search Engine that includes many of the Cooperative Extension web sites provided by your Land-Grant institutions."