General Public

Welcome to the University of Kentucky Agricultural Information Center Web Site.

The Agricultural Information Center has made available as many of its programs and services as possible to the general public. The majority of the products and services on this page have unrestricted access, meaning you can use them without any sort of registration process or cost. Click on a link to visit a particular site.

Library Services with Unrestricted Access

• Borrowing library materials
• Ask Us
• Interlibrary Loan
  Copies of journal articles, chapters from books, and other library materials can be obtained. Contact your local public library for details about borrowing from the university.
• InfoKat
  UK Libraries' Online Catalog. Includes books, journals, government documents and media materials owned by the University of Kentucky.
  

Web Sources for Publications

Please note: These are just a few of the options currently available. User registration, a subscription fee or some other information may be required to access the full-text of articles.

Journals
Highwire Press
One of the two largest archives of free full-text science, currently assisting in the online publication of 423,703 free full-text articles and 1,199,230 total articles.
AgZines: A Harvest of Free Agricultural Journals
As the name implies, free access to a large number of electronic journals dealing with agricultural issues. Maintained by North Carolina State University.

Books
E-Books (UK Chandler Medical Center Library) (selected books restricted to UK faculty, staff, and students)
Online Publications from Agricultural Communications Services
University of Kentucky Research and Extension Publications.
Querri
A Multi-state Extension Materials Database, compiled by Iowa State University.

If you are a healthcare professional in the state of Kentucky, visit the Medical Center Library's Outreach pages for additional information.

Agriculture Information Resources

• Agricola
  Indexes major journals in Agriculture.
• Agricultural Weather Center
  Provides weather and other climatological data for the state.
  
• Agripedia
  General Information on Agriculture.
  
• AgNIC
  AgNIC is a guide to quality agricultural information on the Internet as selected by the National Agricultural Library, Land-Grant Universities, and other institutions.
  
• AGRIS
  Database from the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations. Includes international agricultural research information. Extremely useful source of data on African and Asian countries.
  
• CRIS (USDA Current Research)
  U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) documentation and reporting system for ongoing and recently completed research projects in agriculture, food and nutrition, and forestry.
• Digital Dissertations
  Dissertations and theses from institutions in North America and Europe.
• Extension Publications
  Searches University of Kentucky Extension Publications available full text.
  
• FirstGov
  Consolidates 20,000 government web sites into one. It provides the capability of searching for specific subjects as well as going to federal and state agencies.
• GPO Access
  US Government Printing Office official web site. Includes a variety of documents from the legislative, executive, and judical branches, plus additional US government-related content.
• InfoKat
  UK Libraries' Online Catalog. Includes books, journals, government documents and media materials owned by the University of Kentucky.
• ingenta
  The general public access point to the ingenta web site. Lists articles from thousands of journals ("uncover plus" covers 20,000 journals back to 1988; "online article" covers 4,500 back to 1997). Patron is responsible for purchase of full text articles downloaded using this link.
• KYVL (Kentucky Virtual Library)
  Provides 50 databases, sources, and library catalogs. Selected databases restricted to Kentucky residents. ID and password available from your local public library.
• ToxNet
  The Toxicology Data Network is actually a cluster of databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, and related areas.

Other Information Resources