Using the Agricultural, Environmental, and Food Literature (Books in Library and Information Science)
Contributors: Barbara S. Hutchinson (Editor); Antoinette Paris-Greider (Editor)
Publisher: CRC
Published: July 17, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 536
ISBN-13: 9780824708009
Subjects: Agriculture & Farming; Agriculture & related industries; Food manufacturing & related industries; Library & Information Sciences; Reference works; The Environment; Technology; Environmental literature; Agriculture (General); Ecology; Technology & Industrial Arts; Science/Mathematics; Life Sciences - Ecology; General; Agriculture - General; Library & Information Science; Technology / Agriculture & Animal Husbandry; Bibliographies & Indexes; Agricultural literature
First sentence: When we study agriculture, just what is it that we are studying?
Description: "This reference provides the groundwork, tools, and terminology to conduct specialized searches for information and resources pertaining to traditional and emerging fields of agriculture, such as food and nutrition, rural development, farming, conservation management, veterinary science, soils, genetic engineering, biological control, and the environment, as well as discussing a wide range of print and electronic media to locate hard-to-find documents, navigate poorly indexed subjects, and investigate specific research topics and subcategories."--BOOK JACKET.