Useful Links by ACES Department


Animal Sciences
 Databases for Animal Science

  • AGRICOLA
    Contains bibliographic records of materials acquired by the National Agricultural Library (NAL) and cooperating institutions in the agricultural and related sciences. Areas covered include, but are not limited to animal science, aquatic science, fisheries, and feed science.

  • Agricultural and Environmental Biotechnology Abstracts
    Covers agricultural products involving both plants and animals, new applications across the food industry, and wide-ranging environmental developments. Scientists and other professionals working in agricultural fields will find this a useful source. Some major areas of coverage include breeding techniques and transgenic plants and animals.

  • Biological Abstracts
    The major database for life sciences. Provides citations and abstracts to articles in more than 6,000 research journals in the life sciences, including the fields of biochemistry, biology, botany, cell biology, medicine, microbiology, molecular biology, physiology and zoology.

  • CAB Abstracts
    Coverage includes but is not limited to all aspects of agriculture, veterinary and animal science. It contains references from over 10,000 scholarly, professional, and commercial journals, and a limited number of book chapters, theses, proceedings and technical reports.

  • Dissertation Abstracts
    Identifies doctoral dissertations from U.S. & Canadian institutions. Read the full text (PDF) of dissertations produced at CIC institutions (including UIUC) from 1997 to the present. Abstracts only are available for dissertations from 1980-1996; and citations only on material from 1861-1979.

  • PubMed (MEDLINE)
    PubMed is the free, online version of Medline, the National Library of Medicine (NLM)'s bibliographic database. It contains over 12 million references from 4,600 biomedical and life sciences journals published in the U.S. and 70 other countries. Subjects covered include but are not limited to all aspects of human and animal health (medicine).

  • Web of Science [Science Citation Index]
    Provides the most current index to over 8000 of the world's leading scholarly research journals in all disciplines; includes abstracts. Updated weekly. Avail: 1982 - present. Includes a unique "cited reference" feature, to find articles that have cited a given article. Some of the disciplines covered include Agriculture, Veterinary Science, and Zoology.