Soil Science

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Soil Survey
Taxonomy
Statistics
Reference Sources
E-journals
Old Literatures
Plant Patent
Other websites

Soil Survey

Nationwide Soil Survey
http://soils.usda.gov/survey/printed_surveys/
Pacific Northwest Soil Reports
http://www.or.nrcs.usda.gov/pnw_soil/mo1_reports.html
Pacific Northwest Soil survey region
http://www.or.nrcs.usda.gov/pnw_soil/index.html
You can find out the status of soil survey in this site.
We also have Soil Surveys (in printed form) from around the United States. Most of them can not be checked out. S599 A22 H6 to S599 W82 W4 (many are in storage)

Taxonomy

Soil Taxonomy
http://soils.ag.uidaho.edu/soilorders/

Statistics

Comparative Climatic data by National Climatic Center
Ref QC 983 C6 1986
National Climatic Data Center
http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/ncdc.html
Land Use Data (ERS Economic Research Service)
http://www.ers.usda.gov/Briefing/LandUse/majorlandusechapter.htm

Reference Sources

Federal Land management in Oregon by different agencies
http://nationalatlas.gov/printable/images/pdf/fedlands/or.pdf
Federal Land Management nationwide by different agencies
http://nationalatlas.gov/printable/fedlands.html#list
National Atlas (data in multidisciplinary areas, interactive maps land use etc.)
http://nationalatlas.gov/
Dekker's Encyclopedia of Water Science
http://0-www.dekker.com.oasis.oregonstate.edu/servlet/product/productid/E-EWS
Dekker's Encyclopedia of Soil Sciences
http://0-www.dekker.com.oasis.oregonstate.edu/servlet/product/productid/E-ESS
Agriculture Handbook Series
Call Number# S21 .A42
Index to Agriculture Handbook by USDA
http://www.nal.usda.gov/ref/USDApubs/aghandbk.htm
Index to Agriculture information Bulletins
http://www.nal.usda.gov/ref/USDApubs/aib.htm
Index to UDSA Technical Bulletins
http://www.nal.usda.gov/ref/USDApubs/tb.htm
NWISWeb Data for the Nation Data Category
http://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/
USGS Topographical Maps
http://topomaps.usgs.gov/
Land Use (USDA)
http://www.ers.usda.gov/Briefing/LandUse/majorlandusechapter.htm
Publication Handbook and Style Manual
Call Number # S494 A96 P381 1998; behind the Reference desk.

E-Journals in life-Sciences and Agriculture Areas

You must be OSU Faculty, staff or students in order to access these journals

Databases

Subject specific and multidisciplinary Databases related to Agriculture (owned by OSU)
http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/research.php/subject.php?sname=2
USLE (Universal Soil Loss Equation) Database
http://topsoil.nserl.purdue.edu/usle/
ARS Water Database
http://hydrolab.arsusda.gov/wdc/arswater.html

Finding old publications in agriculture

Agricultural Index Z 5073 A2
Index to Publications of the U.S.D.A. Z5071 U5 1901-25
Bibliographies and Literature of Agriculture S405 .B48
Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature A13 R4
Index to USDA Handbook Series
http://www.nal.usda.gov/ref/USDApubs/aghandbk.htm
Index to USDA Technical Bulletins
http://www.nal.usda.gov/ref/USDApubs/tb.htm
Index to USDA Agriculture Information Bulletins
http://www.nal.usda.gov/ref/USDApubs/aib.htm

Plant Patent

http://www.uspto.gov/web/menu/search.html

Other Websites

National Sedimentation Laboratory
http://ars.usda.gov/main/site_main.htm?modecode=64-08-05-00
Early Soil Maps of the U.S.D.A. Soil Survey Series
1899-1962 Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Alaska and Hawaii
http://www.csuchico.edu/~rsoares/Soil_Maps/Author_Index_to_Soil_Maps.htm
Soil Climate Analysis Network
http://www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/scan/
ARS Corvallis Location Web Pages
http://www.ars.usda.gov/main/site_main.htm?modecode=53-58-00-00

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