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- Agricultural & Environmental Science Collection (ProQuest)This collection offers full-text scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, and government publications. It also includes specialized, editorially-curated A&I resources as well as the AGRICOLA and TOXLINE databases. This collection is a part of the SciTech Premium Collection. SciTech Premium Collection > Natural Science Collection > Agriculture & Environmental Science Collection. (VIVA)
- Associates Programs Source (EBSCO)Journals on subjects commonly taught in community colleges, including accounting, agriculture, automotive, child care, cosmetology, culinary arts and food service, forestry, graphic arts, hospitality management, interior design, journalism, plumbing, heating & air conditioning, veterinary technology and welding. (VIVA)
- Food Science Source (EBSCO)A full-text database of information on topics relevant to the food industry. (NVCC)
- Global Plants (JSTOR)Contains the contributed collections of more than 300 herbaria from around the globe. (NVCC)
- GreenFILE (EBSCO)Citations and abstracts for scholarly journals and government documents on environmental topics. (VIVA)
- Plant Science (ProQuest)Citations and abstracts of scientific literature on plant science, focusing on all plant scientific aspects, especially on pathology, symbiosis, biochemistry, genetics, biotechnology, techniques and environmental biology. This database is part of the SciTech Premium Collection. SciTech Premium > Natural Science > Biological Science > Biological Science Index > Plant Science Database. (VIVA)
- ScienceDirectIncludes e-books, encyclopedias and journal articles in the Physical Sciences, Life Sciences, Health and Social Sciences & Humanities fields. After doing your search, you can limit your results to just books, reference, or journals. (VIVA)
- Agricola (ProQuest)Journal articles, monographs, proceedings, and theses pertaining to all aspects of agriculture. This database is included in the SciTech Premium Collection. SciTech Premium Collection > Natural Science Collection > Agriculture & Environmental Science Collection > Agricultural Science Collection > Agricola. (VIVA)
- Business Source Complete (EBSCO)Articles from journals, magazines and newspapers that are business oriented, company reports, industry reports and country reports. (VIVA)
- Wiley Online LibraryOver 1400 full text journals covering a variety of subject areas. Note: NOVA subscribes only to the Journals portion; other parts (such as Online Books and Reference Works) will display summaries and tables of contents only. (VIVA)
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European gardens AND history
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"garden design" AND history
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