Identifying the Core Periodical Literature of the Agricultural Communications Documentation Center
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| Title: | Identifying the Core Periodical Literature of the Agricultural Communications Documentation Center |
| Author(s): | Zumalt, Joseph R. |
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Library Microsoft Access database Web searching core journals periodicals |
| Abstract: | “Agricultural communications” is an emerging field which is naturally both part of the “agriculture” and “communications” literature. However, it is much broader than just a subset of each. The coverage of standard databases such as CAB Abstracts and Communication Abstracts, while a good start, does not sufficiently cover the field. The Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has, over the last quarter century, worked to help define and collect this literature, by identifying relevant documents and entering them into a Web-searchable Microsoft Access database. An analysis of this database reveals important clues concerning the literature of agricultural communications. Of the nearly 30,000 documents within the ACDC collection, periodical articles comprise a little over one half, from a core list of 45 periodicals within the ACDC collection. More than one half of these core periodicals are outside the traditional agriculture and life science literature; approximately one third are scholarly journals. |
| Issue Date: | 2007 |
| Publisher: | Haworth Press, Inc. |
| Citation Info: | Journal of Agricultural & Food Information, vol. 8, no. 3, 2007 |
| Genre: | Article |
| Type: | Dataset / Spreadsheet Text |
| Language: | English |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2142/3495 |
| Publication Status: | published or submitted for publication |
| Peer Reviewed: | is peer reviewed |
| Date Available in IDEALS: | 2008-01-11 |
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