Open access journals (those freely available online) vary in their quality as much as subscription journals. Evaluation of journals comes with practice, and any journal may contain good or bad (or better or worse) content. The SPARC tool below evaluates journals by their degree of openness, not by particular quality.
We subscribe to many journals and proceedings beside these examples.
Note: records for many older proceedings and earlier volumes of journals are listed in the catalog-- they are on the shelves, on microfilm or in the offsite library annex, but they are still available. You can request materials in the Annex using interlibrary loan.
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These publications are only available online for Arkansas from the mid-1990's, roughly, although we have digitized older copies of many Arkansas agricultural publications. There are many more reports and bulletins in the Libraries.
Articles in journals are found by searching in the databases and seeing if we have the content. Some databases cover a lot of ground (e.g. Agricola or CAB) and some are specialized (like Turfgrass Information File). Web of Science is interdisciplinary, and shows who is citing whom within the journals and conference proceedings that they index. Extension publications are often indexed in Agricola, and should show up in the catalog. We may have them on the shelves, online, or in Special Collections. This includes from Arkansas, from other states, and some federal documents.
For tips on using the databases, use the "Getting Started...." series, like "Getting Started with Agricola."
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) publishes an array of data across multiple sites, from their own specific site to the Economic Research Service (ERS), the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS), and the World Agricultural Outlook Board (WAOB), to name a few.
The data from the USDA supports not only agriculture, but a host of other disciplines, including biotechnology, business, economics, social work, sociology, urban planning, rural sociology and rural studies, international studies, and more. The links below are some examples of content.