Digital library on Animal and Food Science
Access to essential electronic resources on Animal and Food Science, including electronic books, databases and digital journals.
Databases
AGRICOLA
The AGRICOLA (AGRICultural OnLine Access) bibliographic database indexes the collection of the National Agricultural Library. It cites articles from academic journals, monographs, conference papers, theses, patents, translations, audiovisual materials, software, and technical reports, covering all aspects of agriculture and related fields.
Agris
Global technical bibliographic information on food and agriculture. Maintained by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Open access.
BioOne
Database focused on the biosciences. It offers full-text access to over 200 journal titles from 135 societies and non-profit publishers. Key titles include Crop and Pasture Science, Journal of Agricultural and Urban Entomology, and Weed Technology.
CABI Digital Library
Platform offering e-books across six collections: Agriculture; Animal and Veterinary Sciences; Environmental Sciences; Human Health & Nutrition; Leisure & Tourism; Plant Sciences. The books are indexed and can be accessed by chapter. Users can read online, print, and download PDFs.
Also included: AHPC (The Animal Health & Production Compendium)
Encyclopaedic resource on animal health and production (covering pigs, poultry, and ruminants) developed by CABI. It features references, images, and datasheets on over 300 diseases, pathogens, and breeds from 150 countries. It includes up-to-date geographic distribution data from the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) and information from Cornell University's Consultant Database. It also offers definitions from the Saunders Comprehensive Veterinary Dictionary (Elsevier), the World Dictionary of Livestock Breeds, and the Encyclopaedia of Farm Animal Nutrition.
Codex Alimentarius
This code compiles all the standards, codes of practice, guidelines, and recommendations from the Codex Alimentarius Commission, an international body under the FAO and WHO. Its primary purpose is to set global food standards, acting as a reference point for consumers, producers, food processors, national food control agencies, and international trade.
Knovel Food Science Academic
E-book platform specialising in food safety, nutrition, food microbiology, preservation, functional foods, and supplements. It is an essential resource for food technologists, chemists, and chemical engineers. The books are indexed and can be accessed by chapter. Users can read online, print, and download PDFs.
Natural Science Collection
Included databases:
- Agricultural & Environmental Science Collection
- Biological Science Collection
- Earth, Atmospheric & Aquatic Science Collection
Reference Module in Food Science
Collection of seven key food encyclopaedias: Agriculture and Food Systems, Meat Sciences, Dairy Sciences, Food Grains, Food Microbiology, Food Safety, and Food and Health. It includes over 2,900 journal articles and 7,000 images. The content is continuously updated and available for download.
S-PAC (Searchable Proceedings of Animal Conferences)
Database containing proceedings from various conferences in the field of Animal Science, as well as a calendar of upcoming events. It provides additional information on specific conferences, including registration details for many, and instructions on how to request printed copies of proceedings.
International scope
Academic Video Online
Platform offering over 80,000 educational videos for streaming, including documentaries, TV programmes, series, concerts, plays, and dance performances, covering a wide range of subjects such as business, film, health, history, and anthropology. It is especially useful for finding audiovisual teaching resources and supporting learning, and provides tools for embedding interactive activities directly into videos.
DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals)
Comprehensive collection of nearly 20,000 open access journals from around the world, available in 80 languages. Covering all academic disciplines, it allows users to search and retrieve full-text articles from over 9 million indexed publications
JSTOR
Multidisciplinary database providing full-text access to the historical archives of 117 leading academic journals, primarily from the Anglo-Saxon world.
PubMed
Biomedical literature search engine, including life sciences, chemistry, and bioengineering, among others. Known as Medline when accessed via providers, PubMed is a free resource developed and maintained by the National Centre for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Scopus
One of the largest databases of peer-reviewed abstracts and citations, Scopus offers both content and added services such as bibliometrics, author identification, and affiliation tracking. Updated daily, it covers publications in 40 languages and provides extensive coverage of non-English sources (6,900 European journals, with more than 50% from Europe, South America, and the Asia-Pacific region).
Web of Science (WoS)
Platform primarily focused on Anglo-Saxon content, Web of Science from Clarivate Analytics offers access to a wide range of bibliographic and bibliometric databases across multiple disciplines. It enables users to perform subject-based searches or search by cited work and/or author, and includes bibliometric indicators such as citation counts, H-index, and journal impact factors.
Regional scope
ÍnDICEs CSIC
Reference database developed by the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), covering scientific, social, and biomedical research. It includes scientific publications from Spain dating back to the 1970s. For articles available online, links to the full texts are provided.
Dialnet Plus
Database created by the University of La Rioja, offering access to over 1 million articles from Spanish and Ibero-American scientific journals.
OpenGrey: system for information on grey literature in Europe
Resource developed by the Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (INIST), OpenGrey provides bibliographic citations of grey literature produced across Europe. It covers documents in science, technology, biomedicine, economics, social sciences, and the humanities, including technical reports, research papers, doctoral theses, conference proceedings, official publications, and other types of grey literature. Open access.