Agriculture

Engage in Research: The interactive resource for bioscience students

Published: Mon, 2011-08-22 17:48 by Jacky Cribb

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The Engage in Research site has been designed to help science undergraduate students with advice and assistance on the most important aspects of scientific research you'll be involved in.

This easy to use online tutorial helps take students from getting started in research, reviewing the literature to writing and presenting scientifically. Whether you're interested in research in general and want more information, or you're struggling with statistical analyses, you'll find the information here.

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Agronomy and Horticulture

Getting Started

If you are not sure what your topic is about, try one or more of the following:

Encyclopaedias:

Encyclopedia of soil science

Encyclopedia of water science

Handbooks:

Basics of horticulture resource

Dictionaries:

Dictionary of agriculture resource

How-to Guides:

Explaining Journal Articles

Internet (Web) Searching

Image Collections

Image Collections:

What Bug is That? The guide to Australian Insect Families

Pest and Diseases Image Library

Key to the Invertibrates (step by step guide to identifying invertibrates)

Journal Articles

For recent information, journal articles are often the best sources. Looking through individual journals in the hope of finding relevant material is time-consuming. It is better to use the databases to find articles on your topic.

Journal Articles:

Find Australian content at CSIRO online journals

Find international articles at Web of Knowledge and ScienceDirect

Maps

Maps:

Australian Soil Resource Information System

Statistics

Statistics:

Australian commodity statistics

Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences

Australian Bureau of Statistics - Agriculture

Web Sites

Web Sites:

Weed Identification & Information (Australia)

CRC for Australian Weed Management (archived website)

Grains Research and Development Corporation

Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation

Atlas of Australian Resources (land use)

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations: Corporate Document Repository

Published: Mon, 2011-07-25 12:29 by Jacky Cribb

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The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) works on four main areas that inform their mission: access to information, sharing policy expertise, meeting space for nations, and bringing knowledge to the field. Although they work in both developed and developing countries, as well as rural and urban areas, the FAO has concentrated their efforts on rural areas, as that is where the majority of poor and hungry people reside.

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Australian National Herbarium

Published: Thu, 2011-06-02 12:00 by Jacky Cribb

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Agriculture

The Australian National Herbarium arose from the amalgamation over the years of several herbaria managed by the Commonwealth Government. These included several CSIRO herbaria, the Forest Research Institute Eucalypt Collection, the Forest Research Institute's Atherton Rainforest Collection, and the Australian National Botanic Gardens Herbarium. The CSIRO's core collection, previously known as 'Herbarium Australiense', was renamed 'Australian National Herbarium' in 1984.

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Agribusiness

Getting Started

If you are not sure what your topic is about, try one or more of the following:

Handbooks:

Handbook of marketing

E-agriculture and e-government for global policy development: implications and future directions

Complete A-Z business studies handbook

Dictionaries:

A dictionary of business and management

A dictionary of marketing

Key concepts in marketing

How-to Guides:

Have a look at the How-to Guides. The following ones can help you get started:

There are also a number of online tutorials available.

Journals

Journals:

Agribusiness

Supply Chain Management

Australasian Farm Business Management Journal

Harvard Business Review

Looking through individual journals in the hope of finding relevant material can be time-consuming. It is better to use the databases to find articles on your topic.

Useful Databases for Agribusiness:

ScienceDirect

contains scientific, technological and medical full text and bibliographic information published by Elsevier Science and its various imprints.

Emerald

specialist database developed for business schools and departments of management.

Web of Knowledge

integrated platform for searching individual ISI products or multiple products simultaneously.

Scopus

multidisciplinary abstract and citation database of research literature and quality web sources.

Agriculture and Natural Resources Index (ANR)

bibliographic database with informative abstracts and links to full text for agriculture and natural resources including sustainable Australian agriculture, food, forestry and fisheries industries and the promotion of conservation and sustainable use of Australia's environment, water and natural resources.

ABI/Inform Global

contains business periodicals for information on advertising, marketing, economics, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, and companies.

Dat Analysis

provides comprehensive reports for all companies listed on the ASX.

Fin Analysis

provides a 12-year history of detailed financial information for all companies listed on ASX.

Connect 4

Australian Company which specialises in providing information on companies that are listed on the Australian Stock Exchange.

Other databases in the area of agriculture and business

Statistics

Statistics:

Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES)