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American Farmland Trust: Science Direct

A guide to resources and databases available to AFT staff.

Science Direct

ScienceDirect is the world’s leading full text peer reviewed information solution for scientific, technical and medicall research journal articles and book chapters. It hosts over 14 million publication from over 3,800 journals and more than 35,000 books, more than 1800 journals partially in open access and more than 590 journals fully in open access and contains backfiles (digital archives) dating back to 1823.

Accessing and Exploring Science Direct

We have enabled a Single-Sign On option for staff that allows you to access ScienceDirect through your farmland.org email address. Use the Elsevier SSO Instructions.pdf to setup your Elsevier account and access articles. If you have any trouble, contact Lou Judge, Farmland Information Specialist, for help. 

You can also find these instructions by going to the National Programs Sharepoint Page and looking under “Resources.”

ScienceDirect provides AFT staff access to over 4,000 scientific journals. This includes top journals requested by staff in our initial survey:

  • Agricultural Systems
  • Agricultural Water Management
  • Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment
  • Applied Soil Ecology
  • Ecological Economics
  • Food Policy
  • Geoderma
  • Journal of Environmental Management
  • Journal of Rural Studies
  • Land Use Policy
  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Science of the Total Environment
  • Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Quick search

With a quick search you can filter your results after entering at least one of the following:

  • Keywords
  • An author name
  • Or the title of a journal or book

Start a quick search

Advanced search

With an advanced search you can filter before searching by:

  • ISSN or ISBN
  • Author affiliation
  • Volume/issue number in specific journal/book searches
  • and view your recent searches

Start an advanced search