NAL Agricultural Thesaurus
Access: Publicly available resource
Description: NALT is an online vocabulary look-up tool for agricultural and biological terms. Subject scope includes terminology in the supporting physical and social sciences; recent updates cover terminology associated with geospatial technology, agricultural economics, tropical trees, and fire science, and the taxonomic classification of fish was reviewed and updated according to nomenclature approved by the American Fisheries Society. Researchers can also search the thesaurus in Spanish .
Also visit the National Agricultural Library Digital Repository NALDR , which provides access to publications either digitized by NAL or through NAL’s partnerships with other institutions. The majority of the publications available in the NALDR were published by the USDA. Examples include the Agriculture Information Bulletin, the Agricultural Economic Report, and the Yearbook of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. A comprehensive list of full text publications is provided on the Publications - Additional Information page.
Coverage: Various Dates
Subject(s):
Cataloging Resources
Dictionaries
Publicly Available Resources
Science & Technology
Related Databases
Biological and Agricultural Index Plus
Encyclopedia of Agricultural, Food, & Biological Engineering
Related Links
AgNIC: Agriculture Network Information Center
AGRICOLA ** http://agricola.nal.usda.gov/ **
AGRIS ** http://www.fao.org/agris/search/search.do **
FAOSTAT ** http://faostat.fao.org/default.aspx **
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