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# AGRICOLA

We've brought AGRICOLA, PubAg, and the NAL Digital Collections (NALDC) together in one place.

#### **Introducing SEARCH from the USDA National Agricultural Library.**

 

Please update your AGRICOLA bookmarks to use the new SEARCH URL.

-  Journals Indexed in AGRICOLA 
-  How to Get a Journal Indexed in AGRICOLA 

## How to SEARCH

SEARCH provides access to physical and electronic materials held or licensed by the National Agricultural Library. If you've used AGRICOLA, PubAg, or NALDC in the past -- all of those records can now be found in SEARCH!

### Simple Search

A **simple search** can be done from the search box at the top of the SEARCH home page by entering keywords and pressing the Search button. You terms will be searched across multiple fields including title, subjects, abstract, and more. You can also:
                  - Search for an  exact phrase  by surrounding your words in double quotes. Searching for  "edible mushrooms"  will search  only  for the two words together as a phrase, while searching for  edible mushrooms  will search for  edible  anywhere in the record as well as  mushrooms  anywhere in the record.
                  - Search for variations of a word using a question mark(?) for a single character variation and an asterisk (*) for multiple characters. Searching for  mushroom?  will return records which include mushroom and mushrooms. Searching for  mushroom * will return mushroom, mushrooms, mushroomed, and mushrooming.
                  - Use the Boolean operators  AND ,  OR , and  NOT . Note that these operators  must be capitalized  or SEARCH will not recognize them as Booleans.                       - mushrooms AND fungus  will return results that include both words
                    - mushrooms OR fungus  will return results that include mushrooms, fungus, or both words
                    - fungus NOT mushrooms  will return results that include fungus and  do not  include mushrooms 

 

For more information on what you can do with the simple search box, see the documentation on Performing Basic Searches in Primo VE from Ex Libris. 

### Advanced Search

To the **right** of the basic search box is a link for **ADVANCED SEARCH**.

Clicking this will open the advanced search form which allows you to:
                  - Select a search  scope  of either                       - PubAg  -- which includes peer-reviewed journal articles related to agriculture
                    - Everything  -- which includes everything held or licensed by the library, including what was previously available in AGRICOLA (NAL's catalog), PubAg, and NALDC (Digital Collections) 
                  - Build complex, field-specific searches                       - You can limit your search term to a specific field by selecting that field from the rightmost dropdown
                    - In the next dropdown, choose whether the field should:                         - Contain   all of your search terms, in any order
                      - Start with  your search terms
                      - Contain your search term(s) as an exact phrase 
                  - Add another term to your query with AND, OR, or NOT
                  - Limit your search to a specific type of material, e.g. Article, Image, etc. Only one value can be selected.
                  - Limit your search to a specific language. Only one value can be selected.
                  -  Limit your search to results published within a specific date range.                       - Entering both  Start  and  End  dates will return results that fall between the two.
                    - Entering only a  Start  date will return results published on or  after  the date.
                    - Entering only an  End  date will return results published on or  before  the date 
                  - When you have finished constructing your query, click the  SEARCH  link at the bottom of the form.

 

For more information on what can be done with the Advanced Search Box, see the documentation on Performing Advanced Searches in Primo VE from Ex Libris.