Other Resources

Databases

In addition to Academic Search Premier and Web of Science, here are a few more useful databases to find scholarly articles on dairy science:

Agricola (Ebsco)
- Over 4.8 million citations to journal articles, monographs, theses, patents, software, audio-visual materials, and technical reports. Covers agriculture, plant and animal sciences, forestry, entomology, soil and water resources, and food and nutrition.
CAB Direct
- Subjects covered include animal science; crop protection; plant science; parasitology; human and animal nutrition; natural resources and ecology; forestry, forest products and agroforesty; soil science; rural development, tourism and economics; food science and food products; biotechnology; and agricultural engineering. Some full-text content is available on the CABDirect platform. Sample search: Consumption AND “pasteurized* milk” AND “raw milk”
AGRIS
- AGRIS is an international cooperative system that provides citations to journal literature, theses, reports and other publications in the agricultural sciences. CARIS is an international cooperative system that provides citations to current research in all aspects of agriculture, forestry, fisheries, nutrition, rural development, agricultural economics, and topics in environmental and natural resource areas as they apply to agriculture.
Google Scholar
- Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. Search across a wide variety of disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions.

Journals

The library subscribes to the following diary science journals, most of which are online. The articles published by these reputable journals are generally authoritative.

Print Books

One viable search strategy to find print books on a topic is stack browsing. That is to visit the library and locate the physical bookshelves to browse the book collections with a particular subject focus area using LC call number. For example, if you are interested in Dairy processing and Dairy products, you would want to look for call numbers that start with SF250.5-275. Other relevant call numbers include:

SF1-1100	Animal culture
SF94.5-99	Feeds and feeding. Animal nutrition
SF191-275	Cattle
SF221-250	Dairying
QP1-(981)	Physiology
QP501-801	Animal biochemistry

Use the floor maps to locate the shelves that contain the specified call number groups.

Government Documents

When searching the library catalog, you can filter the results by Government Documents under Resource Type. These documents are located on the library basement. You can click this link or email Rami Attebury to learn more about how to access government documents.

You can use Google to search for government documents as well. Add site:gov at the end of your keyword search terms will yield results from government webpages. For instance, if your topic is on Contribution of dairy industry to greenhouse gases, you can search for dairy AND “greenhouse gas” site:gov.

Data and Statistics

If you are looking for contextual background information and overview of issue at stake for your presentation, consider incorporating some data and statistics on production, consumption, price, or standards of dairy products:

Citation

Remember to cite your sources and format them according to the reference style of either Journal of Animal Science or Journal of Dairy Science.

You may also consider using a citation manager (if you have never used one before) to cite your sources. A citation manager can be a time saver, and is incredibly useful if you are thinking about pursuing a master’s or doctoral degree in which considerable writing is expected. Check out the recording of library workshop on Citation Management with Zotero below if interested.

Citation Management with Zotero