Background/reference sources
Use these sources to help you pick a topic and to provide context to your research-based argument
Encyclopedia of animal rights and animal welfare / edited by Marc Bekoff ; foreword by Jane Goodall.
2nd ed. Santa Barbara, Calif. : Greenwood Press, c2010.
Green Library » Information Center » HV4708 .E53 2010 V.1
Santa Barbara, Calif. : Greenwood, c2010.
Green Library » Information Center » TX392 .C85 2010
Earlier edition ONLINE.
Farmington Hills, MI : Macmillan Reference USA/Gale Cengage Learning, c2009.
Green Library » Information Center » GE42 .E533 2009 V.1
Santa Barbara, Calif. : Greenwood, c2010.
Green Library » Information Center » HD9005 .E645 2010
ALSO ONLINE.
[5th ed.] Los Angles : Pine Forge Press, c2008.
Green Library » Social Sciences Resource Center » HM706 .R58 2008
Selected subject terms
For books and databases
- Animal welfare
- Human – animal relationships
- Factory farms
- Meat industry and trade
- Sustainable agriculture = organic
Limit results by TOPIC, also try adding these terms to initial search: environmental aspects, health aspects, moral and ethical aspects
Selected books
Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, c2012.
Biology Library (Falconer) » Stacks » HV4757 .A55 2012
1st ed. New York : W. W. Norton & Co., c2009.
SAL1&2 (on-campus shelving) » Stacks » TX371 .M37 2009
Summertown, Tenn. : Book Pub. Co., c1996.
SAL1&2 (on-campus shelving) » Stacks » SF487 .D27 1996
London ; New York : Earthscan, 2011.
Green Library » Stacks » HD9000.5 .C258 2011
1st ed. New York, NY : Collins Living, c2009.
SAL1&2 (on-campus shelving) » Stacks » TD930.2 .N56 2009
Selected databases
- Academic Search Premier– “choose databases” to add: Agricola (agriculture), Alternative Press Index, Business Source Complete, Environment Index, GreenFile, Left Index
- ISI Web of Knowledge – many science databases, including CABI: CAB Abstracts® and Global Health® (1910-present; agriculture +), also some social sciences
- ProQuest Research Library - good general database, with options to add others
Selected websites
- Amber Waves - the economics of food, farming, natural resources, and rural America (U.S. Department of Agriculture)
- American Farmland Trust
- Food Politics - Marion Nestle's great blog
- Good Medicine - journal of PCRM, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, 1997-, prevention, nutrition, and research
- Institute for Critical Animal Studies - publishes Journal for Critical Animal Studies, v.1, 2003- online
- Michael Pollan's blog - many links on food politics