Identifying the Core Periodical Literature of the Agricultural Communications Documentation Center
Zumalt, Joseph R.
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Title
Identifying the Core Periodical Literature of the Agricultural Communications Documentation Center
Author(s)
Zumalt, Joseph R.
Issue Date
2007
Keyword(s)
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.
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