AGRICOLA (Agriculture Online Access Database)
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RecordContent• Worldwide coverage of agriculture and related fields• Records contain bibliographic information, geographic terms, controlled terms, andsupplementary terms that include GenBank Numbers• Abstracts are available for more than 50% of records

File SizeMore than 8.2 million records (02/2023)

Coverage

1970-present

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Language

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User Aids• Online Helps (HELP DIRECTORY lists all help messages available)• STNGUIDE

Cluster• AGRICULTURE• AUTHORS• ALLBIB• BIOSCIENCE• CHEMISTRY• COMPANIES• CORPSOURCE• ENVIRONMENT• FOOD• MEETINGS• NPS• TOXICOLOGYSTN Database Cluster information:
https://www.cas.org/support/training/stn/database-clusters

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Search and Display Field Codes
Fields that allow left truncation are indicated by an asterisk (*).

Search Field Name

SearchCode

Display
Codes

Search Example

Basic Index* (contains single
words from the title (TI), CABA
and Library of Congresscontrolled term (CT),supplementary term (ST),abstract (AB), named person(NA), corporate name (CO),note (NTE), geographic term,
CABA and other (GT) fields)None(or /BI)S FORAGING
S NATURAL PEST CONTROL?
S STATE (L) COUNCIL#
S GENBANK U35001

AB, CO, CT,
GT, NA, NTE,
ST, TI

Abstract*
Accession Number
AuthorAvailability (contains codes forfiling and holding locations,
NAL and Library of Congress
call numbers designations)Classification Code (1)

/AB
/AN
/AU
/AV

S ORGANIC COMPOUND?/AB
S 1998:2795/AN
S LEMASTERS J?/AU
S L1 AND DNAL/AVS MARINE SCIENCES AND DLC/AVS MIU/AV

AB
AN
AU
AV

/CC

CC

Corporate Name (1)Controlled Term, CABA and
Library of Congress (2)Controlled Word (contains single
words from CABA controlledterms and Library of Congresscontrolled terms)
Corporate Source (1)

/CO
/CT

S DAIRY/CC
S CONSUMER ECONOMICS/CCS RESEARCH CENTER/COS CINCHONA/CT
S ACID RAIN+ALL/CT
S (AGRICULTUR? (S) WORK#)/CW

CS

Country of Publication(ISO code and text)
Document Number
Document Type(code and text)
Entry Date (3)Field Availability
File Segment
Geographic Term, CABA andother (2)International Standard(Document) Number (contains
CODEN, ISSN, and ISBN)
Journal Title (contains full andabbreviated title)
Language (ISO code and text)
Meeting Title (1)Meeting Location (1)Meeting Year (3)Named Person
Note
Number of Report/CY

S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE/CSS "ROSS LABORATORIES"/CS
S L1 AND GB/CY
S IND20496956/DN
S L5 AND C/DT

DN
DT

S ED>=JAN 2012
S AB/FA
S TRANSLATION/FSS EAST ASIA/GTS SHANGHAI+BT/GT
S 1000-1298/ISN

ED
FA
FS
GT

S JOURNAL OF AGRIBUSINESS/JTS J AGRIBUSINESS/JTS FR/LAS WORLD PARKS/MTS SAN DIEGO/ML
S 1995-1996/MY
S OBAMA MICHELLE/NAS NOTEBOOK#/NTE
S AEC/NR

JT, JTA, JTF,
SO
LA
MT, SO
ML, SO
MY, SO
NA
NTE
NR

/CW

/CS

/DN
/DT
(or /TC)
/ED
/FA
/FS
/GT
/ISN

/JT
/LA
/MT
/ML
/MY
/NA
/NTE
/NR

CO
CT
CT

CY

ISN, SO

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Search and Display Field Codes (cont'd)
SearchCode

Search Field Name
Publication Year (3)Publisher
Source (contains publication title,collation information (volume,
issue, pagination), meeting
information, ISBN, ISSN,
CODEN, publication date,publication frequency, Libraryof Congress control number,publication status, publisher,
editors, government source,etc.)
Summary Language(code and text)
Supplementary Term (includes
GenBank Numbers)
Title*
Update Date (3)Word Count, Title (3)Display
Codes

Search Example

/PY
/PB
/SO

S 1996/PY
S SPRINGER NEW YORK/PB
S (CHROMATOGRAPHY AND ELSEVIER)/SOS JCRAEY/SOS VOLUME/SOPY, SOPB, SOSO/SL

S EN/SLSL/STS NEST ABANDONMENT/ST
S GENBANK U51451/ST
S (RUN OFF OR RUNOFF)/TI
S L4 AND UP>NOV 2012
S WC.T<3

ST

/TI
/UP
/WC.T

TI
ED
WC.T

(1) Search with implied (S) proximity is available in this field.
(2) There is an online thesaurus associated with this field.
(3) Numeric search field that may be searched using numeric operators or ranges.

Property Fields1)
In AGRICOLA a numeric search for a specific set of physical properties (/PHP) is available within the abstract
and title fields. The numeric values are not displayed as single fields, but highlighted within the hit displays.
Use EXPAND/PHP to search for all available physical properties. A search with the respective field codes will
be carried out in the abstract and title fields. The /PHP index contains a complete list of codes and related text
for all physical properties available for numeric search.

Field Code
/AOS
/BIR
/BIT
/CAP
/CDN
/CMOL

Property

Unit

Search Examples

Mol
Bit (Bit)
Bit
Farad
Ampere/Square Meter
mol/l

S 10/AOS
S 100000-160000/BIR
S BIT > 3 MEGABIT (10A) STORAGE
S 1-10 MF/CAPS CDN>5 A/M**2
S MOLYBD?/BI (S) 2/CMOL

/CON
/DB
/DEG
/DEN

Amount of substance
Bit Rate
Stored Information
Capacitance
Current Density
Molarity (Concentration,amount of substance)
Conductance
DecibelDegreeDensity (Mass Density)

S (Siemens)
DecibelDegree
Kg/m3

/DEQ
/DOS
/DV

Dose Equivalent
DosageViscosity, dynamic

SievertMilligram/Kilogram
Pa * s (Pascal * second)

S 1E-2/CON
S DB>50
S (POLARI? (S) ANGLE)/BI (S) 45/DEG
S (METHOD? (S) COMPO?)/AB (S) 5E3-10E-3/DEN
S DEQ>0.5 (S) RADIATIONS DOS>0.8
S DV>5000

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Property Fields1) (cont'd)
Field Code

Property

Unit

Search Examples

/ECD
/ECH
/ECO

Electric Charge Density
Electric Charge
Electrical Conductivity

m/z
Coulomb
Siemens/Meter

/ELC
/ELF
/ENE
/ERE
/FOR
/FRE
/IU
/KV
/LEN (or /SIZ)/LUMEElectric Current
Electric Field
EnergyElectrical Resistivity
Force
Frequency
International Unit
Viscosity, kinematic
LengthLuminous
Emittance/IlluminanceLuminous Flux
(Luminous Power)
Luminous Intensity
Mass
Mass to Charge Ratio
Magnetic Flux Density

AmpereVolt/MeterJ(Joule)Ohm * Meter
N(Newton)Hz(Hertz)
none
m2/s
Meter
Lux

S 1-20/ECD.EX(XA)ELECTRICAL
S 15/ECHS ECO>5000 (XA) GEOTHERMALEFFECTS
S 1-10/ELC
S 1-10/ELF
S NUTRIENTS AND 100/ENE
S ERE>10
S 50 N/FORS ANALY?/AB (10A) 0-3/FRE
S IU>100 (P) INTERFERONS LUBRICANT/BI (S) 10E-5/KV
S 1-4/LEN
S 10-50/LUME

Lumen

S FLUID (P) LUMF>3

CandelaKg(Kilogram)
none
Tesla
Kilogram/Second
g/mol
mol/kg
g/10min/NUC/PER

Mass Flow Rate
Molar Mass
Molality of Substance
Melt Volume Rate;
Melt Flow Rate
Nutrition Content
Percent (Proportionality)

S 5<LUMI<15
S ALLOY/BI (30A) 1E-10-1E-5/M
S MCH=3
S MFD>0E-3(S)MAGNETICRESONANCES MFR>1.2
S 2000-3000 G/MOL/MM
S 01.-10 mol/kg/MOLS
S 5-10/MVR

/PERA
/PHV
/POW

Permittivity, absolute
pH
Power

Farad/Meter
pH
W(Watt)/PRES (or /P)

Pressure

Pa(Pascal)

/RAD
/RES

Bq
Ohm

(Becquerel)

/RSP
/SAR

Radioactivity
Electrical
Impedance/resistance
Rotational Speed
Area /Surface Area

/SOL
/STSC
/TCO
/TEMP (or /T)

Solubility
Surface Tension
Thermal Conductivity
Temperature

Gram/100 gram
J/m2
K
(Kelvin)K(Kelvin)/TIM/VEL (or /V)
/VELA
/VLR
/VOL
/VOLT

Time
Velocity
Velocity, angular
Volumetric Flow Rate
VolumeVoltage

S(Second)m/s(Metre per Second)rpm
Cubic Meter/Secondm3
V(Volt)

/LUMF
/LUMI
/M
/MCH
/MFD (or /MFS)/MFR (or /MFL)
/MM
/MOLS
/MVR

g/100kcal
Percent

Revolution/Minutem2

S NUC<100 (XW) NUTRIENTS (TITAN? (3A) DIOXID?)/AB (S)53/PERS 1-10/PERA (S) BUFFER
S 7.4-7.6/PHV
S (SOLAR? OR PHOTOVOLTAIC?)/BI(10A) 5-10/POW
S (VACUUM (5A) DISTILL?)/BI (S) 10001100/PRESS RAD>100
S VOLTAGE/AB (P) 1-10/RES
S 5000-8000/RSP AND PARAFFIN
S (COATING? OR FOIL?)/BI (S) 10100/SAR
S SOL>20 (10W) WATER
S 60 J/M**2 /STSC
S 2-17/TCO (S) THERM?
S (STABILITY (25A) VITAMIN?) (S)
10/TEMPS CONDUCT?/AB (10W) 0-1/TIM
S EVOL?/BI AND 2E-4-5E-4/VELS VISCO?/AB (S) VELA<350
S 1-10/VLR (XA) VARIABILITY
S ?EFFECT?/BI (15A) 1E-8-2E-8 /VOLS APPLICATION/BI(10A) 5E3<VOLT<7E-3(1) Exponential format is recommended for the search of particularly high or low values, e.g. 1.8E+7 or 1.8E7 (for 18000000) or 9.2E-8(for 0.000000092).

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Thesaurus Fields
Thesauri are present for the Controlled Term (/CT) and Geographic Term (/GT) search fields in the
AGRICOLA File. The following Relationship Codes may be used with both the SEARCH and EXPAND
commands in these fields.

Controlled Term (/CT)
Relationship
Code

Content

ALL
AUTO (1)All associated terms (SELF, BT, USE, UF, NT, RT)
Narrower Terms (SELF, NT)BT
HIEBroader Terms (SELF, BT)
Hierarchy terms (all broader andNarrower Terms) (SELF, BT, NT)
Keyword Terms (SELF, KT)
Narrower Terms (SELF, NT)
All Preferred and Forbidden Terms (SELF, USE)
Related (see also) terms (SELF, RT)
All Broader, Narrower, and Related Terms(SELF, BT, NT, RT)
Used For terms (Forbidden Terms) (SELF, UF)
Use terms (Preferred Terms) (SELF, USE)

KT
NT
PFT
RT
STD
UF
USE

ExampleE BACTERIAL INSECTICIDES+ALL/CT
E ORGANOCHLORINEINSECTICIDES+AUTO/CT
E WEED CONTROL+BT/CT
E VIRAL INSECTICIDES+HIE/CT
E CONTROL+KT/CTE ECOLOGY+NT/CT
E NATURAL BALANCE+PFT/CT
E RAINY SEASON+RT/CT
E DISEASE CONTROL+STD/CTE DROUGHT RESISTANCE+UF/CT
E DROUGHT TOLERANCE+USE/CT(1) Automatic Relationship Code is SET OFF. If you SET RELATION ON, the result of EXPAND without any relationship code is thesame as described for AUTO.

Geographic Term (/GT)
Relationship
Code
ALL
AUTO (1)
BT
HIE
KT
NT
PFT
RT
STD
UF
USE

Content
All associated terms(SELF, BT, NOTE, USE, UF, NT, RT)
Narrower Terms (SELF, NT)
Broader Terms (SELF, BT)
Hierarchy Terms (all Broader and Narrower Terms)(SELF, BT, NT)
Keyword Terms (SELF, KT)
Narrower Terms (SELF, NT)
All Preferred and Forbidden Terms (SELF, USE, UF)
Related (see also) Terms (SELF, RT)
All Broader, Narrower, and Related Terms(SELF, BT, NT, RT)
Used For terms (Forbidden Terms)(SELF, UF)
Use terms (Preferred Terms)(SELF, USE)

ExampleE UK+ALL/GTS SCOTLAND+AUTO/GT
E CONNECTICUT+BT/GT
E USA+HIE/GT
E AMERICA+KT/GTS ECUADOR+NT/GTE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA+PFT/GT
E PUERTO RICO+RT/GT
E CARIBBEAN+STD/GT
E USA+UF/GT
E BRITAIN+USE/CT(1) Automatic Relationship Code is SET OFF. If you SET RELATION ON, the result of EXPAND without any relationship code is thesame as described for AUTO.

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Thesaurus Field Descriptors
Code

Description

SELF (-->)
BT
KT
NOTE
NT
RT
UF
USE

Thesaurus Term
Broader Term
Keyword Term (Permuted Index)
Note
Narrower Term
Related Term
Forbidden Term
Preferred TermDISPLAY and PRINT Formats
Any combination of formats listed below may be used to display or print answers. Multiple codes must be
separated by spaces or commas, e.g., D L1 1-5 TI SO, D L1 1-5 TI,SO. The fields are displayed in the orderrequested.
Hit-term highlighting is available in all fields. Highlighting must be on during SEARCH in order to use the HIT,KWIC, and OCC formats.
Format
AB
AN
AU
AV
CC
CO
CS
CT
CY
DN
DT (TC)FS
GT
ISN
JT (1)JTA (1)
JTF (1)LA
ML (1)MT (1)MY (1)NA
NTE
NR
PB (1)PY (1)SL
SO
ST
TI
WC.T (1)Content
Abstract
Accession Number
AuthorAvailability
Classification CodeCorporate Name
Corporate Source
Controlled Term, CABA and Library of CongressCountry of Publication
Document Number
Document Type
File Segment
Geographic Term, CABA and other
International Standard (Document) Number (CODEN, ISBN, ISSN)
Journal Title (JTF and JTA)
Journal Title, Abbreviated
Journal Title, Full
Language
Meeting Location
Meeting Title
Meeting Year
Named Person
Note
Number of Report
Publisher
Publication Year
Summary Language
SourceSupplementary Term
Title
Word Count, Title

ExamplesD TI ABD AN
D AU CS 1-5
D AV
D 2 4 6 CC
D CO
D CS
D CT
D CY
D DN
D DT
D FS
D GT
D ISN
D JT
D JTA
D JTF
D LA SL
D ML
D MT
D MY
D NA
D NTE
D NR
D PB
D JT PY
D LA SLD SO
D CT ST
D TI
D WC.T

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AGRICOLADISPLAY and PRINT Formats (cont'd)Format
ABS
IABS
ALL

Content

ExamplesAN, AB
ABS, with a text label
AN, DN, TI, AU, CS, NR, SO, NTE, CY, DT, FS, LA, SL, AV, ED, AB, CC, GT, CT,
ST, NA, CO
ALL, delimited for post-processing
ALL, indented with text labels
AN, DN, TI, AU, CS, NR, SO, NTE, CY, DT, FS, LA, SL, AV, ED(BIB is the default)
BIB, indented with text labels
AN, CC, GT, CT, ST, NA, CO
TI, CC, GT, CT, ST, NA, CO(random display without answer numbers)

D ABS
D IABS
D L3 2 ALL

TRIAL (TRI,
SAM,
SAMPLE,FREE)

TI, CC, GT, CT, ST, NA, COD SAM 2-4, 10

HIT
KWIC

Fields containing hit terms
Hit terms plus 50 words on either side
(Key-Word-In-Context)
Number of occurrences of hit terms and fields in which they occur

D HIT
D KWIC

DALL
IALL
BIB
IBIB
IND
SCAN (2)OCC

D DALLD L7 6 IALL
D 1D IBIBD IND
D SCAN

D OCC(1) Custom display only.
(2) SCAN must be specified on the command line, i.e., D SCAN or DISPLAY SCAN.

SELECT, ANALYZE, and SORT Fields
The SELECT command is used to create E-numbers or an L-number containing terms taken from thespecified field in an answer set.
The ANALYZE command is used to create an L-number containing terms taken from the specified field in ananswer set.
The SORT command is used to rearrange the search results in either alphabetic or numeric order of thespecified field(s).
Field Name
Abstract
Accession Number
AuthorAvailability
Citation
Classification Code
CODEN
Controlled Term, CABA and Library of Congress
Corporate Name
Corporate Source
Country of Publication
Document Number
Document Type
File Segment
Geographic Term, CABA and otherFebruary 2023

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AB
AN
AU
AV
CIT
CC
CODEN
CT
CO
CS
CY
DN
DT (TC)FSGTANALYZE/
SELECT (1)Y
YYY
Y (2,3)
Y
N
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y

SORT
N
N
Y
Y
N
Y
Y
N
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y

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SELECT, ANALYZE, and SORT Fields (cont’d)Field Name
International Standard Book Number
International Standard (Document) Number
International Standard Serial Number
Journal Title
Journal Title, Abbreviated
Journal Title, Full
Language
Meeting Location
Meeting Title
Meeting Year
Named Person
Note
Number of Report
Occurrence Count of Hit Terms
Publisher
Publication Year
SourceSummary Language
Supplementary Term
Title
Word Count, Title

Field Code
ISBN
ISN
ISSN
JT
JTA
JTF
LA
ML
MT
MY
NA
NTE
NR
OCC
PB
PY
SO
SL
ST
TI
WC.T

ANALYZE/
SELECT (1)

SORT

N
Y (4)
N
Y
Y (5)
Y (5)
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
N
Y
Y
Y (6)
Y
Y
Y (default)
Y

Y
N
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
N
Y
Y
Y
Y
N
Y
N
Y
Y

(1) HIT may be used to restrict terms extracted to terms that match the search expression used to create the answer set, e.g., SEL HITCT.
(2) SELECT HIT and ANALYZE HIT are not valid with this field.
(3) Extracts first author, publication year, volume, and first page with a truncation symbol appended and with /RE appended to the terms
created by SELECT.
(4) Selects or analyzes the CODEN, ISBN, and ISSN with /ISN appended to the terms created by SELECT.
(5) Appends /JT to the terms created by SELECT.
(6) Selects or analyzes the CODEN, ISBN, and ISSN with /SO appended to the terms created by SELECT.

Sample Records
DISPLAY ALL OF JOURNAL
AN
2022:564162
AGRICOLADN
IND607951225
TI
Wildland fire prevention: the impact of the Modifying Industrial
Operations Protocol on the growth of industrial forestry-caused wildland
fires in Ontario, Canada
AUGranville, Kevin; Woolford, Douglas G.; Dean, C. B.; McFayden, Colin B.
CS
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Windsor,
Windsor, ON, Canada.; Department of Statistical and Actuarial Sciences,
University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada.; Department of
Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON,
Canada.; Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry, Aviation,
Forest Fire and Emergency Services, Dryden, ON, Canada.
SOInternational journal of wildland fire, Volume 31, Number 9, pp.
825-834, 10 p.
ISSN: 1049-8001
NTE
https://dx.doi.org/10.1071/WF22074
DT
JournalLA
EnglishEDEntered STN: 5 Oct 2022
Last updated on STN: 5 Oct 2022
AB
Background Industrial forestry operations in Ontario, Canada, may be
restricted to reduce the risk of wildland fires. This is currently done
according to the Modifying Industrial Operations Protocol (MIOP), which
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was implemented in 2008 as a replacement for the Woods Modification
Guidelines that had been in place since 1989. One of MIOP’s
objectives is to limit the negative impact or damage caused by fires
ignited by industrial forestry operations. Aims Treating the incremental
growth between discovery and final sizes as a measure of suppression
effectiveness, we aimed to characterise and contrast growth
distributions for three successive time periods using data spanning
1976–2019 on Crown forest areas of Ontario. Methods Stratifying
by first responding group (Ontario Ministry vs forestry personnel), we
tested for evidence of changes in the growth distribution using the
Kruskal–Wallis and Mann–Whitney U tests. Key results We
found iterative improvements between successive time periods (Pre-Woods,
then Woods Guidelines, then MIOP) in the growth distribution of fires
first responded to by forestry personnel. Conclusions MIOP appears to be
successfully limiting the negative impact of industrial forestry fires
while increasing operational flexibility relative to the Woods
Modification Guidelines. Implications MIOP has been implemented in amanner that still encourages safe operations while not contradicting
this objective.
Ontariofire prevention; forests; human resources; industrial forestry; risk
reduction; wildfires; wildland
empirical cumulative distribution function; fire growth; fire size;
forest fire; initial response group; Kruskal-Wallis test; Mann-Whitney U
test; regulations; wildfire risk mitigation

DISPLAY BIB OF MONOGRAPHY
AN
2019:21982
AGRICOLA
DN
CAT31396536
TI
Drosophila : methods and protocols
Uniform Title: Drosophila (Dahmann).
AU
Dahmann, ChristianSO
Second edition. (2016), xii, 355 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.
Series Title: Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) ; v. 1478.
ISSN: 1064-3745 Springer protocols (Series) ISSN: 1949-2448
ISSN: 1064-3745 ISBN: 9781493963690; 1493963694
Source Note: Pub. Frequency: Annual
NTE
LOC Control No.:
2016948818
CY
United States
DT(Monography)
FS
Other USLA
EnglishAVDNAL (QL537.D76 D73 2016)
ED
Entered STN: 6 Mar 2019
Last updated on STN: 6 Mar 2019

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