Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics (JABES)

The International Biometric Society has chosen Springer as the new publisher of their Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics (JABES), beginning in March 2010 (v.15). Backfiles to 2001 (v.6-14) will also be made available on SpringerLink.

JABES is a quarterly journal publishinging papers of interest to applied researchers and consultants in the agricultural, biological (including biotechnology), and environmental sciences (including natural resources). The focus of the journal is on new, interdisciplinary, and important statistical methods using real-world data.

JABES volumes from 2001-2009 (v.6-14) were previously made available from the website of the American Statistical Association. Volumes from 1996-2003 (v.1-8) will continue to be available from JSTOR.

Related journals:

• Biometrics
• Biometrika
• Journal of the American Statistical Association
• Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics
• Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series C - Applied Statistics
• Environmental and Ecological Statistics
• Environmetrics

Related books and proceedings:

• Statistical data analysis explained: applied environmental statistics with R
• Environmental statistics: methods and applications
• Statistical tools for environmental quality measurement
• Guide to QTL mapping with R/qtl
• Mixed effects models and extensions in ecology with R
• Standard methods for sampling North American freshwater fishes
• Statistics in human genetics and molecular biology
• Multiscale phenomena in biology: proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Mathematics and Biology, Okinawa, Japan, 4-6 November 2008
• Statistics at the bench: a step-by-step handbook for biologists
• Biostatistical analysis
• Bayesian methods for measures of agreement
• Computational intelligence methods for bioinformatics and biostatistics: 5th international meeting, CIBB 2008, Vietri sul Mare, Italy, October 3-4, 2008: revised selected papers
• Biostatistics and microbiology: a survival manual
  

Dow Jones Factiva periodical database

The UW-Madison libraries subscribe to the Factiva database of business and finance publications, newswires, photographs and multimedia content.

New features:

• Automated translation from Spanish, French, Italian, German, Russian, Japanese & Chinese (traditional and simple) into English, and vice versa


• Exclusive online content from The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, and Dow Jones Newswires


• "Concept Explorer" uses semantic technology to connect words, ideas & people from multiple industries, including Agriculture & Forestry

Periodicals searched include:

AgExporter
AGRA Alimentation (Abstracts)
Agra Europe
Agrarisch Dagblad (Agricultural Daily) (Dutch)
Agrarnaya nauka (Russian)
Agrarwirtschaft (German)
Agrarzeitung Ernährungsdienst (German)
Agri Marketing (Abstracts)
Agribusiness (Abstracts)
Agricultural Chemical News (Abstracts)
Agricultural Research
Agriculture Week
Agropromyshlennaya gazeta Yuga Rossii (Russian)
Agrow Online Plus
AGROW World Crop Protection News
Agweek (MCT) (N.D.)
AIZ - Agrarisches Informationszentrum Pressedienst (German)
American Gardener (Abstracts)
Apply
Arable Farming (U.K.)
ASI Agricultural Supply Industry News
ASI Online Plus
Australian Cotton Outlook
Australian Farm Journal
Australian Life Scientist
Avicultura Profesional (Spanish)
Bee Culture
Biomolecular Diagnostics News
Bit (Dutch)
Boerderij (Dutch)
Boerderij Melkvee 100Plus (Dutch)
Boerderij Regionaal (Dutch)
Boerderij Verdieping (Dutch)
Cap Weekly
China Green Times (Chinese - Simplified)
China Green Times (Chinese - Traditional)
China Land and Resources Newspaper (Chinese - Simplified)
China Land and Resources Newspaper (Chinese - Traditional)
Corn & Soybean Digest
Cotton Grower (Abstracts)
Crop Science (Abstracts)
Croplife (Abstracts)
CropLife (Abstracts)
Crops (Abstracts)
Delta Farm Press
Department of Agriculture Documents
Ekonomika selskogo hozyaistva Rossii (Russian)
Europolitics Agriculture
Europolitique Agriculture (French)
Farm Chemicals (Abstracts)
Farm Chemicals International (Abstracts)
Farm Industry News
Farm Journal (Midwest/Central Edition)
Farm Weekly
Farmers Guardian
Farmers Weekly
Farmers Weekly (Abstracts)
Farming News
Feed & Grain
Feed Mix
Feed Tech
Feedmagazine Kraftfutter (German)
Focus on Intermediates & Contract Chemicals (Abstracts)
Food Review
Fruit & Veg Tech
Global Pesticide Campaigner (Abstracts)
Grain: World Markets and Trade
Greenhouse Grower (Abstracts)
Groenten en Fruit (Dutch)
Grounds Maintenance
Grower
Hay & Forage Grower
Het Schaap (Dutch)
Horticulture
Horticulture News [NZ]
Horticulture Week
Interfax: China Commodities Daily - Grain & Softs
Interfax: Food & Agriculture Report (Russian)
Interfax Food and Agriculture (Abstracts)
Interfax: Russia & CIS Food & Agriculture Weekly
Irrigation Journal
The Japan Agricultural News (Japanese)
Journal of Soil and Water Conservation
Kiplinger Agriculture Letter
Krestyanskaya Rossiya (Russian)
Krestyanskie vedomosti (Russian)
KZ Press-Club: Agriculture (Russian)
Land Letter
The Land
Landcare
Lesnoi region (Russian)
Lesnye novosti (Russian)
Magasin Agricole (Abstracts)
Milling & Baking News
Montana Business Quarterly
New York State Conservationist
NOVECON: Russia/CIS Agribusiness Digest (Russian)
Oilseeds: World Markets and Trade
Outlooks on Pest Management (Abstracts)
Pluimveehouderij (Dutch)
Pro
Pro Farmer
Ranch and Rural Living
Relations Culture (Abstracts)
Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems (Abstracts)
Resource Engineering & Technology for a Sustainable World
Resource News International
Ryba Kamchatskogo kraya on-line (Russian)
Rybak Severa (Russian)
Selskaya gazeta (Russian)
Selskaya zhizn (Russian)
SinoCast Agriculture Beat
Soil Science Society of America Journal (Abstracts)
Southeast Farm Press
Southwest Farm Press
Straight Furrow [NZ]
The Tablelander
Tasmanian Country
Terra e Vita (Abstracts)
Terre & Nature (French)
The Main Report’s Profitable Agri-Business
Timber Trade Journal
Top Producer
Trekker (Dutch)
TTJ - The Timber Industry Magazine
UkrAgroConsult (Russian)
Vakblad AGF (Dutch)
The Weekly Times
Western Farm Press
What's new in Farming
Xinhua CEIS - Agricultural & Food Product News (Chinese - Simplified)
Xinhua CEIS - Agricultural & Food Product News (Chinese - Traditional)
Yard & Garden
Zemedelske Noviny (Czech Republic, Abstracts)

UW impact ranking in agricultural sciences

Thomson Reuters, vendors of ISI Web of Science, have released "Institution Rankings in Agricultural Sciences, 1998-2008" based on citations per paper among institutions with 5,000 or more citations.

The University of Wisconsin is ranked #5 with 1,428 indexed papers garnering 14,326 citations, averaging 10.03 citations per paper.

Institutions ranked highly include:

#1 Tufts University - 18.08 citations per paper
#4 Cornell University - 10.98
#5 University of Wisconsin - 10.03
#6 University of California - Davis - 9.96
#10 Oregon State University - 9.63
#14 Rutgers State University - 9.3
#15 University of Massachusetts - 9.05
#16 Penn State University - 8.87
#17 University of Nebraska - 8.86
#18 Michigan State University - 8.82
#19 University of Illinois - 8.8

Related links:

• Web of Science / Web of Knowledge (h-index)
  
• Journal Citation Reports (impact factor, eigenfactor)
  

2009 Agriculture Glossary & Thesaurus

Agricultural Thesaurus & Glossary (USDA National Agricultural Library)

Available in English and Spanish. "The 2009 edition is the 8th edition of the Agricultural Thesaurus, first released by the National Agricultural Library in 2002. Terminology associated with herbicides, forestry, and fire science was expanded this edition. The taxonomic classification of fungi was realigned based on the 2007 international collaborative work published by D.S. Hibbett in Mycological Research, “A higher-level phylogenetic classification of the Fungi”. The common and scientific names of many insects and mites were added this edition. There are 85 new definitions in Spanish and English."

Statistics:

• English Thesaurus terms = 73,194; Glossary definitions = 2,574
• Spanish Thesaurus terms = 69,118; Glossary definitions = 2,574

New words include:

• alfalfa gall midge
• corn blotch leafminer
• corn root aphid
• cranberry weevil
• cucurbit longicorn
• Cucurbita evodicarpa
• Cucurbita odorifera
• Cucurbitaria
• Cucurbitariaceae
• herbicide antagonists
• herbicide antidotes
• herbicide safeners
• honey bee mite
• inorganic herbicides
• insecticidal plants
• phenoxy herbicides
• phenoxyacetic herbicides
• phenoxybutyric herbicides
• phenoxypropionic herbicides
• phenylacetaldehyde
• phenylenediamine herbicides
• potato bean
• solanaceous treehopper
• Solanum acaule x Solanum stenotomum
• Solanum acaule x Solanum stenotomum x Solanum tuberosum
• Solanum ajanhuiri
• Solanum chaucha
• Solanum coeruleiflorum
• Solanum curtilobum
• Solanum goniocalyx
• Solanum hygrothermicum
• Solanum juzepczukii
• Solanum mamilliferum
• Solanum mammosum
• Solanum phureja subsp. hygrothermicum
• Solanum sessiliflorum
• Solanum stenotomum subsp. goniocalyx
• Solanum tenuifilamentum
• Solanum topiro
• Solanum tuberosum Ajanhuiri Group
• Solanum tuberosum Chauca Group
• Solanum tuberosum Curtilobum Group
• Solanum tuberosum Juzepczukii Group
• Solanum tuberosum Phureja Group
• Solanum tuberosum Stenotomum Group
• Solanum tuberosum x Solanum stenotomum
• Solanum x ajanhuiri
• Solanum x chaucha
• Solanum x curtilobum
• Solanum x juzepczukii
• vegetated roof covers
• vegetated roofs
• vegetation canopy
• wheat wireworm

Related tools:

• AGROVOC - "multilingual, structured and controlled vocabulary designed to cover the terminology of all subject fields in agriculture, forestry, fisheries, food and related domains (e.g. environment)"
  
• CAB Thesaurus - choose "Descriptors" from the drop-down menu, then click

NEW! CAB Abstracts on Web of Knowledge

New as of January 9, 2009...

Search 1000's of journals in these databases from the familiar Web of Knowledge site:

• CAB Abstracts
• Food Science & Technology Abstracts
• Medline
• Zoological Record
• Biological Abstracts
• Web of Science

CAB Abstracts (1973-present)

• Agricultural and environmental sciences
• CAB Thesaurus, CABICODES, CAB Registry Numbers
• Journals, books, conference proceedings, technical reports & more
• Backfiles coming soon
  

Food Science & Technology Abstracts (1969-present)

• Complete food manufacturing cycle, from initial market research to final packaging
• Journals, books, conference proceedings, reports, theses, patents, standards & legislation

Medline (1950-present)

• U.S. National Library of Medicine database
• Biomedicine & life sciences, bioengineering, public health, clinical care, plant & animal science
• MesH terms, CAS registry numbers, links to PubMed & NCBI databases
  

Zoological Record (1864-present)

• The world’s leading taxonomic reference & oldest continuing database of animal biology
• Determine the first appearance of an animal name; track classification changes; keep up with new & endangered species

Biological Abstracts (1969-present)

• Life sciences journal literature, with topics ranging from botany to microbiology to pharmacology
• BIOSIS indexing, MeSH terms, CAS registry numbers

Web of Science (1965-present)

• The world’s leading scholarly literature in the sciences, social sciences, arts & humanities
• Journals and conference proceedings
• Cited reference searching, Author Finder, Analyze Tool identifies trends & patterns

Library hours & bus schedule

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Bus Routes 11, 28, 38, 44

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Agriculture + state laws

Hein Online - Subject Compilations of State Laws
A directory of 18,000+ articles, books, government documents, court opinions & websites that compare state laws on hundreds of subjects.

Subjects include:

• Agricultural Cooperatives
• Agricultural Districts
• Agriculture
• Biotechnology
• Corporate Farming
• Environmental Protection
• Farm Machinery
• Farm Products
• Farmland
• Farms and Farming
• Flowers
• Food
• Grain Dealers
• Insects
• Land Use
• Organic Farming and Food
  
• Pesticides
• Plants
• Right to Farm
• Scientific Research
• Viruses
• Wetlands
• Wildlife

Wisconsin State Statutes
There's also a Subject Matter Index for the Wisconsin Statutes. Topics of interest include:

• Agricultural societies
• Agriculture, Trade, and Consumer Protection Dept.
• Agriculture and farming
• Animals
  
• Cranberries
• Endangered species
  
• Fertilizer
• Fish and game
  
• Food regulation
  
• Forest croplands
  
• Forests, logging and trees
  
• Groundwater protection
• Insect pests
• Irrigation
• Lyme disease
• Managed forest lands
• National Forests
• National Parkways
• Natural Resources Department
• Nurseries
• Pesticides
• Plants and plant industry
• Pollution
• Rural planning
• Soil
• Soil and water conservation
• State Geologist
  
• Statistics
  
• Weeds