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Identifying The Core Periodical Literature Of The Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Joseph Zumalt
Identifying The Core Periodical Literature Of The Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Joseph Zumalt
Joseph R. Zumalt
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 …