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AGRICOLA

Revised 2/17/2003

Database name: AGRICOLA
Short database name: AGRI
Available on: New FirstSearch Test Server

Why select this database?

  • AGRICOLA includes over 3.5 million citations to material acquired by the
    National Agricultural Library and cooperating institutions.
  • It abstracts articles, audiovisual materials, books, book chapters, computer
    databases and software, maps, manuscripts, serials, and sound recordings.
  • It is produced by the National Agricultural Library.
Subjects included
agricultural economics agricultural engineering animal science chemistry energy entomology
cooperative extension food science forestry geography home economics human nutrition
life sciences natural resources plant diseases insect pests and their control rural sociology veterinary medicine

Coverage/update frequency

Covers 1970 to the present.
New records are added monthly.

Record display information

List of FirstSearch fields for GPO Monthly Catalog and the MARC fields to which they correspond:

Field Name MARC field(s)
Date 008/<date1>
008/<date2>
ISBN 020/a,z
ISSN 022/a,z
SICI 024/a,2,3
CODEN 030/a,z
Accession Number 035/a
NAL Call Number 070/a
NAL Item Number 070/b
Category Code 072/a,b
Depository Item Number 074/a
Government Document Number 086/a,z
LC Classification Number 090/a
Author 100/a-g,k,l,n,p-t
Corporate Author 110/a-g,k,l,n,p-t
Conference Name 111/a-g,k,l,n,p-t
Uniform Title 130/a,d,f,g,k-p,r,s,t
Acronym or Short Title 211/a
Variant Access Title 212/a
Augmented Title 214/a
Key Title 222/a,b
Uniform Title 240/a,d,f,g,k-p,r,s
Translated Title 242/a,b
Part 242/n,p
Uniform Title, Collective 243/a,d,f,g,k-p,r,s
Title Statement 245/a,b,h,n,p
Varying Forms of Title 246/a,b,n.p
Former Titles/Variations 247/a,b,f,n,p,w,x
Edition Statement 250/a,b
Cartographic Mathematical Data 255/a-e
Computer File Characteristics 256/a
Place/Publisher of Book 260/a,b,c,e,f
Producing Company 262/a
Releasing Company 262/b
Date of Production 262/d
Physical Description 300/a-f
Current Publication Frequency (Serials) 310/a,b
Former Publication Frequency (Serials) 321/a,b
Dates of Publication/Volume Designation 362/a
Author Series Statement 400/a-e,k,n,p,q,t,v
Corporate Author Series Statement 410/a-e,k,n,p,t,v
Meeting Series Statement 411/a-e,k,n,p,q,t,v
Title Series Statement 440/a,b,n,p,v
Series Statement 490/a
Volume Designation 490/v
Dissertation Note 502/a
Formatted Contents Notes 505/a
Abstract 520/a,b
Chronological Coverage Note 523/a
Physical Forms 530/a
Funding Information Note 536/a-c
System Details Note 538/a
Language 546/a
Complexity Note 580/a
Subject 600/a-e,k,p,q,t,v,x-z
Subject Added Entry, Corporate Name 610/a-d,k,n,t,x-z
Subject Added Entry, Conference Name 611/a,c,d,n,x
Subject Added Entry, Uniform Title 630/a,d,k,t,x
Subject Added Entry, Topical 650/a,b,s,x-z
Subject Added Entry, Geographic 651/a,b,x-z
Subject Added Entry, Uncontrolled 653/a
Added Entry, Author 700/a-g,k,l,n,p-u
Added Entry, Corporate Name 710/a-g,k,l,n,p-u
Added Entry, Conference Name 711/a-g,k,l,n,p-t
Added Entry, Uniform Title 730/a,d,f,g,k-p,r,s,t
Added Entry, Title Traced 740/a,n,p
Location 752/a-d
System Details 753/a-c
Main Series Entry 760/a,q,s,t,v
Subseries Entry 762/a,q,s,t,v
Supplement Issue Entry 770/a,g,s,t
Host Item Entry 773/a,b,d,g,k,p,r-u,x,z
Preceding Entry 780/a,q,s,t
Succeeding Entry 785/a,q,s,t
Nonspecific Relationship Entry 787/a,g,q,s,t
Parent Serial 798/a,b,d,g,k,l,p,s,t,x,y,8,9
Parent Book 799/a,b,d,k,l,r,u,t,x,z,8,9
Series Added Entry, Personal Name 800/a-e,k,n,p,q,t,v
Series Added Entry, Corporate Name 810/a-e,k,n,p,s,t,v
Series Added Entry, Meeting Name 811/a-e,k,n,p,q,s,t,v
Series Added Entry, Uniform Title 830/a,d,k-p,r,s,t,v
Subfile/Location 852/a,b,c,h,i
Language 917/b,d-h
Date 2 917/v
Producer Doc Type 917/w
Library Holdings 948
Detailed holdings information is available in FirstSearch Z39.50 Configuration Guide - Element Set Names.
Volume 949/a
Issue 949/b
Pagination 949/c
Publication Date 949/e
First Page Number 949/f
Marketing Standardized Date 949/g
Document Type 949/i
Julian Date 949/j
SICI 949/m,n,s
OCLC Display Type 949/x
Personal Name Identifier 984/a,d,q,t,x
Corporate Name Identifier 985/a,b,d,x
Conference Name Identifier 986/a,c,d,n
Uniform Title Identifier 987/a
Topical Identifier 988/a,b,x-z
Geographic Identifier 989/a,b,x
Relationship Information 991/b
Publishing Agencies 991/c
Type of Serial 991/d
Type of Material 991/e
Reproduction 991/f
Special Format Characteristics 991/g
Content Type 991/h
Conference Publication 991/i
Source Code 991/j
Country of Publication 991/l
Romanized Title 991/m
Physical Description 991/n-y
Added Entry, Performer 991/z,1,2,3,4
Relationship Information 991/7
Online Availability Flag 993/a
Access Key 993/b
Journal ISSN Index 993/c
Fulltext per URL Flag 993/d
Online Availability 994/a-g

Notes for the subject phrase indexes (cf=, de=, na=, su=)

Each portion of the subject heading (e.g., subheading in 650/a,x,y,z) will be handled as a distinct phrase search.  The suggested strategy in searching for records that contain those subheadings is to and those terms together.

Example:  650 #a Nuclear Power Plants #x Safety Measures is searched by entering:

nuclear power plants and safety measures.

If: Use attribute:
cf= 5611
de= 5650
gc= 58
na= 1009
nc= 5610
su= 21

Indexes

What follows is a list of FirstSearch indexes and the combination of USE and STRUCTURE attributes that can be used to access them.

  1. For any FirstSearch label where multiple USE attributes are listed all the attributes will provide the exact same search result sets.
  2. Any USE attribute that is not marked as a restrictor is available via the SCAN service.
  3. Restrictors are specially implemented indexes and are not available for scanning. Terms for these must be ANDed with other terms to limit the size of the result set. See the table provided for each restrictor to determine valid terms and their associated meaning.

FirstSearch Indexes and USE and STRUCTURE attributes used to access them:

Index Description Use Attribute Structure Attribute Indexed Fields and Subfields
Keyword (kw) Any 1016 2 Includes fields in the following indexes:

Extended Title
Notes
Subject
255/a-e
410/n,p,t
411/n,p,t

Abstract (ab) Abstract 62 2 520/a,b
National Agricultural Library Call Number (ag=) Classification-NAL 18 1 070/a
Author (au, au=) Author-name 1003 1, 2 100/a-e,k,n,q
110/a-e,k,n
111/a-e,k,n,q
700/a-e,k,n,q
710/a-e,k,n,q
711/a,c,d,e,k,n,q
798/a,b
799/a,b
Chapter's Book (cb, cb=) OCLC Defined 5030 1,2 799/t
Named Conference (cf=) OCLC Defined 5611 1 611/a,c,d
Conference Name (cn, cn=) Author-name-conference 1006 1,2 111/a,c,d,e,k,n,q
711/a,c,d,e,k,n,q
Corporate Name (co, co=) Author-name-corporate 1005 1,2 110/a-e,k,n
710a-e,k,n
Descriptors (de, de=) OCLC Defined 5650 1, 2 650/a,b,x-z
Date 2 (dy) OCLC Defined 5939 2 917/v
Extended Title (et, et=) OCLC Defined 5245 1,2 130/a,d,g,k,m-p,r-t
211/a
212/a
214/a
222/a,b
240/a,d,f,g,k,m-p,r,s
242/a,b,n,p
243/aa,d,f,g,k,m-p,r,s
245/a,b,n,p
246/a,b,n,p
247/a,b,n,p
400/n,p,t
410/p,t
411/p,t
440/a,n,p,v
490/a,v
700/k,n,p,s,t
710/d,g,n,p,r,s,t
711/d,g,n,p,s,t
730/a,d,g,k,m-p,r-t
740/a,n,p
770/a,g,s,t
773/p,s,t
780/s,t
785/s,t
787/s,t
800/n,p,t
810/d,n,p,t
811/p,t
830/a,d,k,m-p,r-t,v
Geographic Coverage (gc=) Name-geographic 58 1 600/z
610/z
650/z
651/a,z
Government Number (gn) Classification-government-publication 50 2 086/a,z
074/a
Identifier (id) Subject-local 29 2 653/a
984/a,b,x-z
985/a,b,x-z
986/a,b,x-z
987/a,b,x-z
988/a,b,x-z
999/a,b,x-z
Issue (is) OCLC Defined 5004 2 949/b
Language (ln=) Code-language 54 1 546/a
917/b
Named Person (na=) Subject-name-personal 1009 1 600/a-e,q
Named Corporation (nc=) OCLC Defined 5610 1 610/a-e
Accession Number (no) Control number-local 12 2 035/a
Notes (nt) Note 63 2 256/a
502/a
505/a
523/a
530/a
536/a-c
538/a
580/a
753/a-c
991/y
Publishing Agency (pa) OCLC Defined 5675 2 991/c,j
Publisher (pb) Name-publisher 1018 2 260/b
262/b
773/d
798/d
799/d
Publication Date (pd) Date 30 2 949/e,g
Place of Publication (pl) Name-geographic-place-publication 59 2 260/a
262/a
752/a-d
773/d
991/L
Series (se) Title-series 5 2 400/a-e,k,n,p,q,t,v
410/a-e,k,n,p,t,v
411/a,c,d,e,k,n,p,q,t,v
440/a,n,p,v
490/a,v
760/a,s,t
762/a,s,t
773/k
798/k
799/k
800/a-e,k,n,p,s,t,v
810/a-e,k,n,p,s,t,v
811/a,c,d,e,k,n,p,q,s,t,v
830/a,d,k,n,p,s,t,v
Subject Category Code (sj) OCLC Defined 5676 2 072/a,b
Subject Category Code (sj=) OCLC Defined 5676 1 072/b
Standard Number (sn) Identifier-standard 1007 2 020/a,z
022/a,z
030/a,z
773/x,z
798/x
799/z
Source (so, so=) Title-host-item 1033 1,2 773/s,t
798/t
Subject (su) Subject 21 2 072/a,b
600/a-e,k,p,q,t,v,x-z
610/a-e,k,n,t,x-z
611/a,c,d,n,x
630/a,d,k,t,x
650/a,b,x-z
651/a,x-z
653/a
Subject (su=) Subject 21 1 072/b
600/a-e,k,p,q,t,v,x-z
610/a-e,k,n,t,x-z
611/a,c,d,n,x
630/a,d,k,t,x
650/a,b,x-z
651/a,x-z
653/a
Title (ti, ti=) Title 4 1, 2 245/a,b,n,p
246/a,b,n,p
740/a,n,p
Uniform Title (ut, ut=) Title-uniform 6 1,2 130/a,d,g,k,m-p,r-t
240/a,d,g,k,m-p,r,s
242/a,b,n,p
243/a,d,f,g,k,n,o,p,r,s
700/k,n,p,r,t
710/d,g,k,n,p,r,s,t
711/d,g,k,n,p,s,t
730/a,d,g,k,m-p,r-t
830/a,d,k,m-p,r-t,v
Volume (vo) OCLC Defined 5013 2 949/a

Restrictors

The following restrictors can be used only in conjunction with an index search.   They must be added to an index search with the Boolean AND in order to receive results:

Restrictor Type Input Use Attribute> Structure Attribute
Year All years
Single year
Range of years		 --
19xx, 20xx
19xx - 20xx		 31 5
Document Type All records
Article
AV Media
Book
Book Chapter
Machine-readable data files
Manuscript (or archival subunit)
Map
Score
Serial
Sound Recording		 --
art
med
bks
chp
mrf

mss

map
sco
ser
rec		 10011
Language English
Non-English		 eng
noneng		 5951 1

Sorting

Search results in the AGRICOLA database can be sorted by Author (1003) and Title (4).

General punctuation rules

(exceptions are made, but these are generally correct):

Punctuation Rule Punctuation Rule
" Delete and collapse $ Delete and collapse
' (apostrophe) Delete and collapse % Delete and collapse
. Delete and collapse * Delete and collapse
, (comma) Delete and collapse + Delete and collapse
; Delete and collapse > Delete and collapse
: Delete and collapse < Delete and collapse
() Delete and collapse @ Delete and collapse
<> Delete and collapse ? Delete and collapse
{} Delete and collapse -- Delete and collapse
[] Delete and collapse / Substitute a space
= Delete and collapse - Retain and index
! Delete and collapse & Retain and index
# Delete and collapse

Searching tips

Keyword searches (1016): The Keyword search finds information in these fields: Extended Title, Notes, Subject, and 255/a-e, 410/n,p,t, 411/n,p,t.

Using limiters: You can limit searches by Year (31),  Document Type (1001), and Language (54).

Copyright

Compiled by the National Agricultural Library of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and distributed by the National Technical Information Service of the Department of Commerce of the United States of America. All rights  reserved. ( 2008 ).

Neither the United States Government, nor any agency thereof, nor any of their contractors, subcontractors or employees makes any warranty expressed or implied including any warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose; nor assume any legal liability or responsibility for any party's use, or the results of such use, of the Database.