Subject Guides: Animal Science: Articles

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Animal Health and Production Compendium
The Animal Health and Production Compendium draws together scientific information on all aspects of animal health and production. It includes information on diseases, breeds, nutrition, husbandry and treatment of livestock and poultry.
AGRIS: International Information System for the Agricultural Sciences and Technology
Includes literature dealing with all aspect of agriculture from participating countries around the world

To date, 240 national, international and intergovernmental centres participate. The AGRIS repository is continuously updated and currently contains over 2.3 million bibliographi references.

Find articles, book chapters, conference papers, and other types of scholarly writing for your research. Try searches such as:

( "farm animal*" or livestock ) AND behav*
(behav* or habit* or character* or temperament) AND (cattle or beef or cow or cows or bovine or calf or calves) AND (farm*)
(train* or teach or learn* or instruct* or coach* or condition*) NEAR/3 (cattle or beef or cow or cows or bovine or calf or calves)

CAB Abstracts
Includes international coverage of all aspects of agriculture, horticulture, animal production and forestry.
Zoological Record
Includes systematic and taxonomic information for 27 animal groups including Mammalia, Aves, Reptilia, Amphibia, Pisces, Protochordata, Hemiptera, Insecta, Crustacea, and Protozoa. Topics include taxonomy, physiology, morphology, parasitology, biochemistry, biophysics, evolution, ecology, genetics, behavior, biometrics, communication, disease, habitat, histology, immunology, life cycle and development, locomotion, nomenclature, techniques, and zoogeography.

Interdisciplinary Databases

Web of Science - All Databases
A major multidisciplinary database for the sciences and the social sciences, as well as a great research metrics tool. Cab abstracts and Zoological Record are both included in this search (along with many more).
Academic Search Complete
Includes peer-reviewed full text for STEM research, as well as for the social sciences and humanities.

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