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Agricultural, Environmental, and Developmental Economics
Journal Article Indexes
Business Source Complete contains indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly, peer-reviewed business journals back to 1886. Searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,200 journals. Full text is availble for many articles.
Includes research and development literature in the fields of agriculture, forestry, human health, human nutrition, animal health and the management and conservation of natural resources. CAB Direct is the most current and complete of the agricultural databases.
EconLIT provides comprehensive information on accounting, capital markets, econometrics, economic forecasting, government regulations, labor economics, monetary theory, urban economics and much more. EconLit records include abstracts of books, journal articles, and working papers published by the Cambridge University Press.
Web of Science (ISI Citation Indexes)
Web of Science provides the most current journal indexing of all databases. It indexes 7,435 major journals across 214 subject disciplines. A unique feature of this database is cited reference searching.
Statistical Databases
FAOSTAT contains integrated and compatible statistics coverage of 200 countries, 15 years, and more than 200 primary products and input items related to the production, trade, resources, consumption and prices of food and agricultural products.
World Development Indicators Online
World Development Indicators (WDI) publication is the World Bank's premier annual compilation of data about development. The 2006 WDI includes more than 900 indicators in over 80 tables organized in 6 sections: World View, People, Environment, Economy, States and Markets, and Global Links
Other Indexes
AGRICOLA [EBSCO]
AGRICOLA is the agricultural database prepared by the National Agricultural Library. It is especially good for identifying USDA, cooperative extension and agricultural experiment station publications.
AgEcon Search collects, indexes, and electronically distributes full text copies of scholarly research in the broadly defined field of agricultural economics including sub disciplines such as agribusiness, food supply, natural resource economics, environmental economics, policy issues, agricultural trade, and economic development. AgEcon Search will serve as the permanent archive for this literature and encourages authors and organizations to use this electronic library as the storehouse for additional appropriate scholarly electronic works. AgEcon Search can searched by university, name, title, etc.
AGRIS, the International System for the Agricultural Sciences and Technology,is an international bibliographic database. It is produced by the AGRIS Coordinating Centre, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Rome, Italy, in cooperation with participating countries and international organizations.
Contains citations for dissertations and theses done at U.S., Canadian and some foreign institutions including some OSU Master's nursing theses. Can preview the first 24 pages of dissertations published since 1997. Free PDFs of all dissertations done since 1997 (1 year trial from March 2006-Feb 2007).
Wall Street Journal via Proquest Direct
WorldCat is a database of information about the things more than 10,000 libraries own; WorldCat is constantly updated by information professionals. WorldCat makes it easier to find and obtain reliable, validated information.
United States Department of Agriculture
- Briefing Rooms
- Census of Agriculture (1992,1997,2002)
- Economic Research Service
- Foreign Agricultural Service
- FAS Weekly Precipitation Maps
- Joint Agricultural Weather Facility
- Housed at USDA, JAWF monitors the weather and assesses its likely impact on crops around the world.
- National Agricultural Statistics Service
- World Agricultural Outlook Board