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Horticulture

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Databases (Journals)
Government sites
Agriculture
Floriculture
Horticulture
Irrigation, drainage and hydroponics
Landscape
Nursery
Pests & Diseases
Plant Science
Soil Science
Weeds

Databases

Search databases using Supersearch

AANRO - Australian agriculture and natural resources online
Access Science - online encyclopedia of science and technology, includes agriculture, forestry and soils
Agricola - US Agricultural Library database including journal article index
EBSCOhost
- Academic Search Premier - multi-disciplinary database, includes full text articles. Topics include plant and soil sciences
- World Magazine Bank - multidisciplinary database, includes full text articles
Informit
- ANR index 2000- a bibliographic database with informative abstracts and links to full text for agriculture and natural resources including sustainable Australian agriculture, food, forestry and fisheries industries and the promotion of conservation and sustainable use of Australia's environment, water and natural resources.
InfoTrac
- Expanded Academic ASAP - multi-disciplinary database, includes full text articles
Oxford Reference Online - collection of online dictionaries and reference sources including Dictionaries of Plant Sciences, Ecology, Earth Sciences
SAGE (Science & Geography Education, Aust.) - indexes articles on science, geography, agriculture, and environment. Comprehensively indexes Landscape Australia.
Synergy - full text journals, topics include plant sciences

Government

Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Australia (AFFA) - includes access to ABARE (Australian Bureau of Agricultural Research Economics), AQIS (Australian Quarantine & Inspection Service) and BRS (Bureau of Rural Sciences)
Agriculture.gov.au - portal to government services and information in the areas of resource management for sustainable agriculture, agricultural industries and products, and agribusiness
Department of the Environment & Heritage
Environment portal -portal to government services and information in the areas of land, natural resources and biodiversity
NSW Department of Primary Industries: Agriculture
Queensland Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries
SA Primary Industries and Resources
Tasmanian Department of Primary Industries, Water & Environment
Victorian Department of Primary Industries
Victorian Department of Sustainability & Environment
WA Agriculture

Agriculture

Online journals
Agriculture
- ABC Rural
- National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service (US) - free publications available in the areas or horticulture, greenhouses, sustainable farming etc
- Bureau of Meteorology, Australia
- CSIRO
- farmonline - network of agricultural news from around Australia
- Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO)- United Nations
- Infarmation (Aust)
- National Agricultural Library (US)
- National Farmers Federation
- Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation (RIRDC)
- Victorian Farmers Federation
- Web-Agri - Agricultural search engine
- WWW Virtual Library - Agriculture
Fertiliser

Floriculture

Online journals
- Ohio Floriculture Newsletter (US Ohio State Uni)
Floriculture
- American Orchid Society
- Ausflora Pacific - Proteas
- Chrysanthemum Breeders Association (Netherlands)
- Floriculture.com (US)
- FlowersVictoria - Flower Industry Assocation, Victoria
- Flowerweb - inc. Flowerbase picture database
- Tesselaar Bulbs & Flowers - includes growing guides

Horticulture

Online journals
- Acta Horticulturae
- American fruit grower
- American vegetable grower
- Australian House & Garden
- Burpee
- Global garden magazine (Aust.)
- Horticulture (US)
- National gardening association (US)
Botanic Gardens
- American Association of Botanical Gardens and Arboreta (AABGA)- inc. links to plant-related online databases
- Australian National Botanic Gardens - including Directory of Australian Botanic Gardens and Arboreta
Herbs
- Alternative Nature Online Herbal (US) - includes image collection
- HerbMed - Alternative Medicine Foundation, links to scientific data underlying the use of herbs for health. Individual plant pages inc links to images
Horticulture
- American Society for Horticultural Science
- Australian Institute of Horticulture
- Australian Natural Resources Atlas - includes Agriculture,Irrigation, Soils, Water. Agriculture section includes information on distribution and state of the Australian horticultural industry.
- Australian Society of Horticultural Science
- Canberra Organic Growers Society
- Garden Gate (US)
- GardenGuides (US)
- GardenWeb Australia
- Horticulture Australia - includes industry profiles (brief), industry reports, proceedings and newsletters
- HortNet (NZ) - includes HortFacts
- International Society for Horticultural Science
- Permaculture International Ltd
Companies, machinery see Horticultural Industry company website

Irrigation, drainage and hydroponics

Online journals
- Irrigation and drainage
- Irrigation and drainage systems
- Irrigation journal in Factiva
- Irrigation science
- Journal of irrigation and drainage engineering
- Landscape & irrigation
- Practical Hydroponics & Greenhouses (Aust.) - selected articles from back issues
Hydroponics
- Growing edge - from Hydroponic Merchants Association (US)
- Hydroponic Farmers Federation (Aust)
Irrigation and drainage
- British Turf & Landscape Irrigation Association
- California Dept of Water Resources - guides to landscape water use efficiency
- Center for Irrigation Technology
- European Irrigation Association
- Irrigation Association (US)
- Irrigation Association of Australia
- MicroIrrigation Forum - drip, trickle and microspray irrigation systems
- South African Irrigation Institute
- UK Irrigation Association
- USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service - Irrigation page
- WWW Virtual Library - Irrigation

Landscape

Online journals
- Landscape & irrigation
- Landscape Australia. Full text articles available in APA -Full text on Informit. Also comprehensively indexed in the database SAGE. See Library catalogue for holdings of print journal
- Landscape journal
- Landscape management
- Grounds maintenance
- Topos - European Landscape magazine
Concrete & Masonry
- Cement and concrete Association of Australia
- Clay Brick and Paver Institute
- Concete Masonry Association of Australia
- Natural-stone.com - access two natural stone industry websites: natural-stone.com and stoneinfo.com
Landscape
- American Society of Landscape Architects
- Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA)
- Australian Institute of Landscape Designers & Managers
- Landscape Contractors Association of NSW
- Landscape design, installation and maintenance information leaflets - North Carolina Co-operative Extension
- Landscape Industries Association Victoria
- Landscape Institute (UK)
- landscape.co.uk
- NATSPEC construction information systems
- Outdoor Design Source (Aust) - directory of services and products for the landscape and amenity horticulture industries
- Turfgrass Producers International
Timber structures
- Outdoor Structures Australia
Water gardens & features
- Australian water gardener - water gardening resource centre
- PondTrader - global website for the water gardening industry. Includes an Australian edition.

Nursery

Online journals
- American Nurseryman
- Greenhouse grower (US)
- Nursery papers (Aust.)
Nursery
- Nursery & Garden Industry Australia (NGIA) - includes links to State associations
- Nursery Traders (Aust.)
- Nursery World - gateway to NZ Nursery industry

Pests & Diseases

Online journals
- Agricultural and Forest entomology (UK)
Pests & diseases
- Botanic Gardens Trust (NSW) Fact sheets
- Horticulture:Pests & Diseases from Victorian Dept of Primary Industries
- Plant Health Australia
- Radcliffe's IPM world textbook - integrated pest management

Plant Science

Online journals
Plant images
- ASGAP photo gallery - Society for Growing Australian Plants
- Australian plant images - Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research
- Botanical Society of America - online image collection
- CalPhotos:plants - Uni of California, Berkeley, inc ability to search by color.
- Flowering plant families - Uni of Hawaii
- HortiPlex - plant images and data as well as links to information sources, images and vendors at other sites
- Australian plant image index - Australian National Botanic Gardens
- Plant anatomy images - Uni of Rhode Island
- Plant image gallery - US Dept Agriculture
- Vascular plant image gallery - Texas A&M University
- Virtual Foliage - Uni of Wisconsin image collections inc general botany, trees, plant diversity and fungi
Plant science
- Association of Societies for Growing Australian Plants (ASGAP)
- Australian Botanical databases - Australian National Botanic Gardens
- Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research and Australian National Herbarium
- Ecocrop - FAO database to identify plants for specific uses, environments etc.
- Electronic Flora of South Australia
- Flora of Australia online
- FloraBase - Western Australia flora
- FloraBank (Aust.) - collection, storage and use of native seeds
- International Plant Names Index
- International Plant Propagators Society
- PlantFacts (US) - merges an internet search engine on plants, dictionary of plant images, videos, FAQs and a glossary to provide a concentrated source of plant-related information.
- PlantPatent.com (US) - plant variety protection

Soil Science

Online journals
- Australian journal of soil research
- Journal of soil and water conservation
Soil science
- See Australian Natural Resources Atlas in Horticulture section
- Australian Soil Classification - CSIRO
- Describing Australian soils - Grains Research & Development Corporation (GRDC), includes images
- Victoria, Department of Primary Industries: Soils

Weeds

Online journals
- Weed research
Weeds
- Australian Plants as weeds - Society for Growing Australian plants
- CRC for Australian weed management - includes weed management information, guides and fact sheets
- Environmental weeds in Australia - Australian National Botanic Gardens
- Invasive Species - Department of Environment and Heritage
- Sustainability & Environment: plants & animals (Vic)
- NSW Agriculture: weeds
- WA Agriculture: pests, weeds and diseases
- Which Weed? from the Tamar Valley Weed Strategy Working Group (Tas.)
- Weeds Australia

Author: Jane Wilson (jawilson@swin.edu.au)