Full-text access is included as a benefit of ASABE membership. Individuals desiring access to the full-text are encouraged to become a member. The "Join ASABE" button on the home page provides more details. Access is also available to all employees and students affiliated with institutions and companies purchasing access via site license. The "Subscribe/Order" button provides more details. Plans are under development to provide opportunities for purchasing access to individual documents and subscriptions on-line.

The site was launched in January 2001 with technical documents added as they were published through out the year. Each year nearly 20,000 pages of content will be added. Some material published prior to 2001 has been added to the site in PDF only format. More is scheduled to be added as funds allow.

Note that this site is not integrated with the ASABE Home Page located at http://www.asabe.org. Changing your password on the ASABE site does not change the password you use to access the full-text in the Technical Library. To access the full text on this site, do a search or find a document on the Publications Included page. Click on the underlined document title or PDF link. You will be prompted for your member number and birth year. It is only necessary to log in once every 24 hours to this site if using the same computer. If your university or company has purchased access for all via site license no log in is required. The connection is via IP address.

You'll note that most documents offer the option of viewing and downloading in HTML or PDF format. The PDF format replicates the original printed page but is not normally as easy to view on screen as the HTML format. You are likely to find the HTML format faster to print but the appearance of the printed page is limited by the options available in that format. Some documents may be available in PDF format only, especially any material published before late 2000. You will need Adobe Acrobat available on your machine to read the PDF files. If you don't have Adobe Acrobat, click here for a free download.

The material on this site is protected by copyright. Please do not duplicate the material in electronic or print format other than for your personal use or as defined in your organization's site license agreement with ASABE. If you have questions, contact your library staff or ASABE. Usual copyright rules apply.

A complete list of previously published books and other materials can be found on the Society website at http://www.asabe.org.

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Use the options listed under the "Search In" section on the home page to refine your search:

Select a specific type of publication using the pull down Category menu. For instance you may only want to locate peer-reviewed journal articles. Then check one or more of the boxes below the Category menu to limit the search to a particular portion of the document. If no boxes are checked it will search the complete document for a match to your query. Checking just the Key Word List box will limit the search to the author assigned keywords. Checking both the Title and Key Word List box will search both of these fields.

Entering your query in the box:

Do not use punctuation such as . , - in your query. For instance, to find ASABE Standard S201.4 by document number key S201 in the query box, leaving off the .4. To find ASABE paper number 01-1234 key in 011234.

Microsoft tips for basic query language used on this site:

At its simplest, a query can be just a word or a phrase. But with the tips on this page, you can expand the focus of your query to give you more complete results. These tips will get you started with basic query language and acquaint you with the full power of Microsoft Index Server.

Look for words with the same prefix. For example, in your query form type key* to find key, keying, keyhole, keyboard, and so on.

Search for all forms of a word. For example, in the form type sink** to find sink, sinking, sank, and sunk.

Search with the keyword NEAR, rather than AND, for words close to each other. For example, both of these queries, system and manager and system near manager, look for the words system and manager on the same page. But with NEAR, the returned pages are ranked in order of proximity: The closer together the words are, the higher the rank of that page.

Refine your queries with the AND NOT keywords to exclude certain text from your search. For example, if you want to find all instances of surfing but not the Net, write the following query:

surfing AND NOT the Net

Add the OR keyword to find all instances of either one word or another, for example: Abbott OR Costello

This query finds all pages that mention Abbott or Costello or both.

Put quotation marks around keywords if you want Index Server to take them literally. For instance, if you type the following query:

"system near manager"

Index Server will literally look for the complete phrase system near manager. But if you type the same query without the quotation marks:

system near manager

Index Server searches all documents for the words system and manager.

Use Free Text Queries if you want to enter queries using natural language. Index Server will examine your query, extract nouns and noun phrases and construct a query for you. With free text queries you can enter any text you want, from a proper question, to a string of words and phrases, without worrying about the query language. For example, if you type in the following query:

"How do I use the Index Server administration snap-in?"

Index Server will create a query for you automatically and begin the search. Note that when you're using free text queries, the regular query language features are disabled and keywords such as AND, OR, and NEAR are interpreted as normal words.

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The American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers is a professional and technical organization dedicated to the advancement of engineering applicable to agricultural, food, and biological systems.

Founded in 1907 and headquartered in St Joseph, Michigan, ASABE comprises 9,000 members representing more than 90 countries. Members of ASABE serve in industry, academia, and public service. They all share a key commonality: ASABE members are uniquely qualified to determine and develop more efficient and environmentally sensitive methods of cultivating food and fiber for an ever-increasing world population.

Membership in the Society is open to engineers and non-engineers alike. For more information about membership and other ASABE opportunitites visit our web site at http://asae.org.

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Over 1,500 information resources are published each year including technical papers from meetings and conferences, peer-reviewed journal articles, a membership magazine, textbooks, reference books, and standards. A separate book series highlights the history of agricultural equipment.

The publications are targeted to engineers, scientists, technicians, and others interested in the subject areas covered by ASABE. Researchers, equipment or system designers, consultants, extension specialists, students, instructors, and other technically oriented industry and agri-business personnel are frequent users of ASABE information.

ASABE's three journals, Applied Engineering in Agriculture, Journal of Agricultural Safety and Health and Transactions of the ASABE, are refereed publications that must go through a rigorous peer-review before being approved for publication.

ASABE also publishes papers presented at its meetings and conferences. These technical papers and proceedings are not subject to a peer-review process nor are they edited before publication. The documents are created directly from author supplied files. As there is little lag time between presentation at the meeting and posting to the site, these documents often provide leading-edge information on new research or application developments.

Technical books including textbooks and monographs are approved for publication by the ASABE's Textbook and Monograph Committee.

ASABE Standards and Engineering Practices are voluntary, consensus industry standards developed and adopted by ASABE. All standards pass through extensive reviews by experts to confirm technical accuracy and to assure that consensus has been achieved.

For more information on our journals, books, or standards, visit the ASABE website at http://www.asabe.org.

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