A NEW Index available online for ASL's patrons:

Garden, Landscape & Horticulture Literature Index     (sorry, remote access only for UNLV researchers, others may access in the ASL)
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Garden, Landscape & Horticulture Literature Index (GLHLI) is the premier resource for access to articles about plants and gardens. Topics include horticulture, garden and landscape design and history, botany, ecology, plant and garden conservation, garden management, and horticultural therapy. A highlight of the database is its focus on environmentally-sustainable horticultural and design practices. This index and abstract product is designed for gardening enthusiasts, professionals, and students of horticulture and of garden and landscape design and history.

Garden, Landscape & Horticulture Literature Index covers a wide range of serial titles including general gardening titles of national, international, and regional interest, and titles devoted to specialty gardens and plant groups. It includes periodicals of the major learned societies in horticulture, botany, ecology, entomology, and plant pathology, and of many plant societies and trade associations. Publications of commercial horticulture, landscaping, and retailing are represented. Indexed and abstracted are more than 300 core titles, the majority of which are published in English. Coverage for many titles extends back more than a decade. Garden, Landscape & Horticulture Literature Index is a unique resource that brings together articles about plants and gardens into a single source, and it includes titles that are not available in any other index.

 

The article below is taken from Library Journal at: http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6282618.html

Garden, Landscape & Horticulture Literature Index

EBSCO; www.epnet.com

Garden, Landscape & Horticulture Literature Index (GLHLI) indexes and abstracts over 300 journals on gardening, horticulture, landscape design, botany, ecology, plant conservation, garden management, and horticultural therapy, with a special emphasis on environmentally sustainable gardening practices. Its target audience ranges from gardening enthusiasts to horticulture students to professional landscape designers. Most titles are in English and include, among many others, Agroforestry Systems, American Horticulturist, Better Homes & Gardens, Biodiversity & Conservation, Carolina Gardener, Community Gardener, Ecological Landscaper, Gardener for the Prairies, Journal of Environmental Horticulture, Journal of the Bromeliad Society, Martha Stewart Living, PlantAmnesty, Southern California Gardener, and Wildflower: Journal of the National Wildflower Research Center .

HOW DOES IT WORK? GLHLI uses the well-designed and effective EBSCO host interface, with its Basic Search (a straightforward Find box), along with the Advanced Search and its power to limit results to full text, by dates, authors, and certain publications, with Expanders to search for related words within the full text and Boolean operators. I like this interface, but, more important, the students and other researchers I work with find it easy to use across subjects and are enthusiastic about it.

CAN YOU AND YOUR PATRONS USE IT? Good gads, yes! The question should really be: Can they stop using it? My first Basic search, for “hydrangeas and blue,” found 20 articles, the first of which was “Top 10 Gardening Tips,” from People, Places & Plants: New England & NY, Early Summer 2005, Issue 50, which includes in its abstraction notes the "suggestion on how to turn pink hydrangeas to blue.” Bingo! A perusal of the entire list of abstracts revealed that changing the pH of the soil achieves the blue color. My next search, for “Japanese beetles and roses,” found three articles, from Plants and Garden News, Flower and Garden, and Horticulture, and all three discussed ways of dealing with these garden pests. A search for “drought resistant shrubs” found six results in publications ranging from Fine Gardening and Brooklyn Botanic Garden Handbook to American Horticulturist, American Nurseryman, and Sunset (this one listed 100 such plants, a real find).

My search for “arbor design” found 77 articles that ranged all over the gardening continuum, from “Smart Trellis Solution” (in GC P&S: Garden Center Products & Supplies ) to “Ecological theory to enhance infectious disease control and public health policy” (in Frontiers in Ecology & the Environment).

It was the “stump removal” search that won me over completely. Not only did I get a citation to an “Ask Martha” solution from Martha Stewart Living, but I was offered a variety of solutions, including recommendations for specific stump cutters and grinders as well as chemical approaches.

JUST HOW GOOD IS IT? It's 9.9. The only enhancement I can think of would be having full text of the more esoteric titles.

WHAT'S THE COST? The annual subscription for unlimited access for a single site is reasonable. Depending upon the number of participating sites, FTE, and population served, it ranges from $1000 to $2500.

THE BOTTOM LINE: This is the only game in e-town to find popular, practical, scholarly, and R&D literature on gardening and horticulture in one place. How pleasant and convenient that it's a very well-done and unique product. Highly recommended for all public, academic, and special libraries