Electronic Journals
Journals are an excellent source of specific information, and recent information. Searching across a number of journals is best done using a database like CAB.
Many electronic journals require a paid subscription and entry of a username and password for access. The titles below can be accessed without these requirements:
Journal of Agricultural Science (http://ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/jas/index)- full text access from 2009 via DOAJ (see below)
Journal of Animal Science (http://jas.fass.org/) - free access to all but the last 12 months of this journal’s articles
Journal of Extension (http://www.joe.org/) - free access to this journal form 1978 via DOAJ (see below)
National Geographic (http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com)
Some websites offer free access to more than one electronic journal. Those listed below are free:
Agzines: a harvest of free agricultural journals (http://usain.org/agzines.html) - a list compiled by US Agricultural Information Network but worldwide in coverage. Includes newletters and other titles that are not peer reviewed and complements DOAJ.
Asia Journals online (http://asiajol.info/index.php/index/) - access to full text journal articles from six Asian countries. Browsable, or using a search box.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ): http://www.doaj.org/ - lists open access electronic journals across all disciplines and contains almost 250 journals in agricultural and forestry sciences. All the full text of the journal from a certain date is browsable and downloadable. The website includes a search function. The simple search box is found at:
http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=searchArticles
A simple search on <> resulted in 116 hits – all full text. The next step would be to search each journal itself, if you haven’t used a database to provide you with specific article references.
Highwire - (http://highwire.stanford.edu/cig/search) “the largest archives of free full text articles on Earth...” has a significant agricultural and forestry component. You can browse by title, create a search or arrange alerting services. Most journals have a 12 month embargo on downloading the latest full text articles.
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