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Indexes current acquisitions of the National Agricultural Library and cooperating institutions, including books, serials, pamphlets, government documents, research reports, FAO and USDA publications, conference proceedings, and translations, patents, audiovisuals and technical reports. Acquisitions encompass all aspects of agriculture, forestry, and animal science.

Provides selective subject and bibliographic access to periodicals, books, hearings, reports, gray literature, government publications, Internet resources, and other international publications on global public policy and other issues. Dates of coverage begin with 1972 onwards.

A general reference source that includes biographies, encyclopedia entries, facts, and statistics. The World Almanac database includes the contents of: the World Almanac and Book of Facts, the World Almanac of the U.S.A., the World Almanac of U.S. Politics, the World Almanac for Kids, and Funk & Wagnall's New Encyclopedia.

Contains citations to proceedings of every congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received at The British Library from October 1993 to the present.

Indexes articles from legal journals, yearbooks, institutes, bar association organs, law reviews, and government publications originating in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. Includes book reviews. Coverage: 1981-present.

Using the OCLC FirstSearch interface, provides access to over 8.5 million citations for periodicals held by OCLC member libraries. User interface available in English, French, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.

Provides access to citations and some abstracts in architecture, art and art history, city planning, industrial design, interior design, and landscape architecture. Indexes English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as European periodicals in a number of different languages.

Interdisciplinary database covering physical and human geography, geology, ecology, and their related disciplines. Includes citations and abstracts published in several print journals: Geographical Abstracts. Human Geography; Geographical Abstracts. Physical Geography; International Development Abstracts; the Geological Abstracts Series (Geophysics and Tectonics, Economic Geology, Palaeontology and Stratigraphy, Sedimentary Geology); Mineralogical Abstracts; and Ecological Abstracts. Database coverage: 1980-present.

Using an OCLC FirstSearch interface, provides access to complete indexing and abstracting of leading English-language business magazines. Includes links to many full-text articles. User interface available in English, French, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese.

Presents the environmental forces currently reshaping the information landscape, defines how organizations operate at "webscale", and takes a closer look specifically at how the challenges and opportunities of operating in a worldwide connected information environment impact libraries, and how operating at webscale can increase efficiencies and impact for both local and global communities. Also addresses the increased importance of collaboration to achieve these results.

FactSearch contains full-text statistical statements concerning current social, economic, political, health and environmental issues. The texts are excerpted from more than 1,100 periodicals. Coverage: 1984-present.

Indexes biographical articles from periodicals and books, including autobiographies, bibliographies, biographies, critical studies, fiction and drama, pictorial works, poetry, juvenile literature, obituaries, journals, collections of letters, book reviews and interviews. Coverage: July 1984 to present.