Library Guides @ VIU: Horticulture: Articles & Databases

Finding Articles in Journals and Magazines

The databases listed below are good ones to start searching for articles on topics about horticulture. These databases are listed alphabetically by title.

Canadian Newsstream This link opens in a new window
- for Canadian newspaper articles
CBCA This link opens in a new window
- for Canadian newspaper, magazine, and journal articles

Horticulture Magazines in the VIU Library

The Following titles are examples of some of the journals/magazines about horticulture:

American Nurseryman

Canadian Gardening

Fine Gardening *

Garden History

Grounds Maintenance

Greenhouse Canada *

Grower Talks *

Grounds Maintenance

Garden History

Horticulture

Horticulture Week

Hortwest

Landscape Architecture

Landscape Journal

Landscape Management

Landscape Online

Organic Gardening (OG)

Pacific Horticulture *

Note: The above titles may be available in print, online or both. Print titles designated with an * are located at the G.R. Paine Horticultural Centre.

Additional Databases

Databases are listed alphabetically by title.

Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
- provides information on the business side of horticulture such as trends, some company information, management and marketing information
Cambridge Core This link opens in a new window
Cambridge University Press peer-reviewed journals across the sciences, social sciences and humanities. Cambridge University Press book titles may be available through other Library collections.
GreenFILE This link opens in a new window
GreenFILE offers information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment: scholarly, government and general-interest titles include content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts together with links to Open Access full text.
JSTOR Journals Archive This link opens in a new window
Multidisciplinary, full text, scholarly journal archive with strong retrospective coverage.
Oxford Journals Online This link opens in a new window
Oxford University Press’s full collection of academic and research journals covering a broad range of subject areas, Date of coverage for most journals is 1996 forward.
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
Weekly publication focusing on scientific news, commentary, and cutting-edge research. Science was founded in 1880 and is published by the non-profit American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
Springer Nature Link This link opens in a new window
STM journals, book series, books, reference works and the Online Archives Collection.
Taylor & Francis Online This link opens in a new window
Full text journals published by Taylor & Francis, representing Science & Technology, Social Sciences and Humanities disciplines. Coverage from 1997 to the present.
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
- aka 'Web of Knowledge'
Wiley Online Library This link opens in a new window
Scientific, technical, medical and social science scholarly journals, books, and reference works.