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Resources for AGRICULTURAL AND RESOURCE ECONOMICS

Contents:

• Library Liaison
• Faculty Liaison
• Selected Library Databases
• Library Databases Available in UConn Only
• Library Guides and Helps
• Books and Journals
• Statistics, Data
• Document Delivery and Interlibrary Loan Service
• Government Sources
• Meta Web Sites
• Career Opportunities
• Food Marketing Policy Center (UCONN)

Resources for other subjects

Faculty Liaison

Emilio Pagoulatos, Professor and Department Head, 486-2739

Selected Library Databases

• Research Database Locator
  The University of Connecticut subscribes to over 240 Web-Based, commercially-produced research and citation databases.
• ABI/Inform with Fulltext
  An abstracting and fulltext business database with a management focus. Covers 1000+ business and economics journals and is international in scope. Not all articles are full-text.
• Academic Search Premier
  This full-text, multidisciplinary magazine & journal database provides the full text of over 4,500 journals and magazines, and indexes a total of more than 8,000 titles in all disciplines.
• AgEcon Search
  a free Web resource with full-text of working papers, conference papers and journal articles in agricultural, resource, environmental, consumer, and other areas of applied economics. It is coordinated by two librarians at the University of Minnesota, and co-sponsored by the American Agricultural Economics Association.
• Agricola
  Agricola 1970+ is the most comprehensive source of bibliographic citations covering U.S. agricultural and life sciences information.
• AGRIS International
  AGRIS International database serves as a comprehensive inventory of worldwide agricultural literature which reflects research results, food production, and rural development to help users identify problems involved in all aspects of world food supply. Emphasis in AGRIS International is non-U.S.
• D & B Million Dollar Database
  information on over 1,000,000 public and private US businesses with sales greater than $1 million or employees total greater than 20.
• Dissertation Abstracts
  Provides citations and abstracts for doctoral dissertations and master's theses completed at colleges and universities worldwide from 1861 to the present. Lengthy abstracts are included for dissertations beginning with July 1980 and for master's theses since 1988.
• Global Insight
  This database contains many leading macroeconomic indicators for the United States of America. Some of the statistics provided are: Money Supply, Interest Rates, Stocks; Construction & Housing; Industry Production, Capacity, Labour; Population Counts and Estimates and Foreign Trade and Interest Rates.
• Econlit
  Produced by the American Economic Association, this indexing service includes citations with abstracts from the Journal of Economic Literature and the Index of Economic Articles in Journals and Collective Volumes.
• Factiva
  This academic version of the commercial product provides full text searching for 4600+ general and business publications. Public company and securities information is also included.
• Global Development Finance
  Online provides financial data on 136 developing countries for indicators including long-term debt, public and publicly guaranteed debt, private nonguaranteed debt, official creditors, and private creditors
• InfoTrac
  An abstracting and fulltext service which provides indexing to 1550 general interest journals.
• Lexis/Nexis Statistical
  Statistical Universe provides the most comprehensive access to statistical data from federal government sources, state and private-sector publications, and international governmental and non-governmental organizations on the Web.
• NBER Working Papers
  The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Working Papers 1994- are aimed at professional economists. The UConn Libraries subscribe to the electronic papers only and others can be ordered through the liaison librarian. The subject areas covered are corporate finance, economic fluctuations and growth, economics of the elderly, health and health care, industrial organization, international finance and macroeconomics, international trade and investment, labor studies, monetary economics, productivity and technological change, stocks, bonds, and foreign currency, and taxation.
• SourceOECD
  SourceOECD is the online publications portal of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. When complete, it will comprise 19 Studies by Themes, contain all OECD monographs and reports; 19 periodicals online; some reference titles online; and the OECD statistical databases online.
• Stat-USA
  From the U.S. Department of Commerce, this database includes economic and trade data from the National Trade Data Bank (NTDB), Economic Bulletin Board, Global Business Procurement Opportunities (Globus), and Bureau of Economic Analysis Economic Information.
• Tablebase
  Table base provides text and tabular information such as: market share, market size, capacity, production, imports, exports, sales, product and brand rankings, forecasts, healthcare statistics and demographics
• Web of Science
  This citation database 1994 to the present includes the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), and the Arts and Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI). For older years in electronic form, the University of Connecticut Libraries has CD-Roms which cover SCI 1986-1999 (Storrs), SCI 1989-1997 (Avery Point) and SSCI 1992-1999 (Storrs). To go further back with the print collections, use the SCI 1964-1991 Ref. Q1 .S45,(Storrs), SCI 1985-1988, Z7401 .365 (Avery Point), SSCI 1966-1991 Ref. H1 .S63 (Storrs) and A&HCI 1977-1992 Ref. Z5937 .A795 (Storrs).
• WDI Online (World Development Indicators)
  provides statistics on the economies of over 200 developing countries, including time series data on agriculture, manufacturing, health indicators, education, natural resources, and foreign investment.
• World Monitor Data and Statistics (WOMDAS)
  It includes country-level data on demographic, economic, and other marketing indicators.
• WRDS (Wharton Data Research Service)
  WRDS is a data management service which enables users to access databases via a web-based interface or via a Unix server. Data on the Unix server is generally available both in binary format and in SAS format. Includes 24/7 help. Sign up for an account on the WRDS site.

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Library Databases Available in UConn Libraries (Storrs) Only

• International Financial Statistics (IFS)
  From the International Monetary Fund's Statistics Department, the IFS provides time series data covering 26,000 economic concepts back to 1948. It includes all the data found in the IFS print version.

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Library Guides and Help:

• Research Guides to Print and Electronic Resources
  Includes Research Guides for Companies, Ratios, Small Business in Connecticut, Investments and Industry
• How To Guides to Electronic Reference Services

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Books and Journals:

• Citation Styles
• Journal Table of Contents/Current Awareness Service:
  A citation database for 17,000 multidisciplinary journals. The REVEAL feature provides a user with the ability to set up a search profile and receive the citation results every week on email. Available to University of Connecticut faculty, staff and students.
• Document Delivery and Interlibrary Loan Service
  Available only to members of the UConn Storrs community.
• Electronic Journal Locator
  The University of Connecticut Libraries purchases access to over 10,000 journals, online and in full text, through various databases and commercial online journal providers. This can be used to determine if a title is available through one or more of the Libraries' electronic resources, and to connect to the database or online journal directly.
• Request for Purchase Form
  Use this form to suggest titles to be added to the Libraries' collections.
• UCONN Libraries Catalog: HOMER
  UCAT is the UConn Libraries electronic catalog of books, periodicals and other material held by the Libraries.
• WorldCat
  This gateway provides a number of database. WorldCat locates books and other materials in libraries worldwide. Books in Print indexes current books which are published or distributed in the United States.

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Statistics, Data

• FedStats A-Z
• Lexis/Nexis Statistical
  Statistical Universe provides the most comprehensive access to statistical data from federal government sources, state and private-sector publications, and international governmental and non-governmental organizations on the Web.
• Stat-USA
  From the U.S. Department of Commerce, this database includes economic and trade data from the National Trade Data Bank (NTDB), Economic Bulletin Board, Global Business Procurement Opportunities (Globus), and Bureau of Economic Analysis Economic Information.

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Meta Web Sites

• Agricultural and Resource Economics Department
• Agricultural Market Information Virtual Library
• UConn Agricultural and Resource Economics links
• UConn Agricultural Economics Department Records
• Social Science Research Network (SSRN)
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Career Opportunities

• Social Science Research Network

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The Library Liaison Program provides faculty and students with a personal contact to whom library-related issues and questions may be addressed.