Library

Searching the Internet:

Across the Internet:

Search Engines - broad searches across the Internet

• Google - Excellent search engine - offers advanced searching techniques to target results
• Ixquick metadata, Meta search engine
• Meta-Search Engines - University of Minnesota Libraries, make a choice of 7 search engines that search multiple search engines at once.
• Search Engines - University of Minnesota Libraries, make a choice of ten highly rated search engines.

Links to World Search Engines:

• Search Engines Worldwide, Has identified more than 3000 Internet search engines by country and region and provided links to each.

Reviews and Tips:

• Search Engine Watch, Reviews, rates and lists of search engines, offers search tips.

Using Agricultural and Economic Gateways

• AAEA Online, Resources and Links for Economists
• Agribiz, a free information resource for the global agriculture community
• AGRIGATE, an agricultural information gateway for Australian researchers
• AgriGator, Insitute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida
• AgriFor, your guide to quality internet resources in agriculture, food and forestry
• AGRIMINE, information for agriculture - European agricultural business, markets and news
• CRS (Congressional Research Service) Report for Congress (RL30313: Agriculture: a List of Websites)
• Institute for International Economics, devoted to study of international economic policy

Searching for Internet for:

Government Information

Guides to US Federal Departments

• Federal Government Resources on the Web University of Michigan
• Federal Citizen Information Center, Guides user quickly to needed information and forms
• The Federal Web Locator, Connects to departments, agencies, Boards, etc.
• U.S. Federal Government Agencies Directory, Lousiana State University

Search Engines for locating publications of U.S. and Other Country/state publications

• First Gov, guide to U.S. Government Departments and publications, Searches full text of all documents
• SearchGov.com, Includes state and local sites
• Google<UncleSam>, Searches for all government organizations with information on the web - US, state, and publications of other governments and govermental organizations

Library Catalogs/Archives on the Internet

Library Gateway

• Libweb - library catalogs available on the Web - lists thousands of library catalogs in the US and world available to be searched - easy to find appropriate library

Virtual Libraries

• WWW Virtual Library - Lists all virtual libraries by subject, some of interest are: agecon, agricultural marketing, economics, environment, finance, and sustainable development

Individual libraries of interest

British Library for Development Studies, Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK
• Center for Development Research, CDR Library, Copenhagen
• CIGAR Core Collection Database, Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research
• FAO - Virtual Library of the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations
  • The FAO Corporate Document Repository
  • FAO Library Catalogue on-line
  • The FAO Sales Catalogue
  • David Lubin Memorial Library on-line
• National Agricultural Library, Washington, DC. Online access to public catalog.
• Waite Library, University of Minnesota, Dept. of Agricultural and Applied Economics
• World Bank & IMF Libraries Network
• World Resources Institute Library Catalog

 

Indexes targeted to specific kinds of information

• AgEcon Search - Full text scholarly research in agricultural and applied economics
• AGRICOLA, National Agriculture Library, Washington, DC.
• AGRICOLA Subject Category Code Scope Notes
• Journals indexed in AGRICOLA, National Agriculture Library, current and previously indexed searchable list
• Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Index to papers on communications related broadly to Agriculture, food, natural resources and rural affairs
• Catalog of United States Government Publications (MOCAT), 1994 - to date.
• Current Research Information System (CRIS),USDA - reports on current and recently ompleted research projects in food, agriculture and forestry.
• ECONbase, index to 67 Economics, Econometrics and Finance Journals published by Elsevier Press, 1994 - to date. No full text available here.
• Energy Citations Database, Dept. of Energy Information Bridge. 1948-date. Full text usually available from some source.
• FAO - The virtual library of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
  • AGRIS - Index to the world's literature on agriculture
    • AGRIS, 1996 - to date
    • AGRIS Archive 1975-1995
  • AGRIS/CARIS Subject Category Codes - Use to better define searches
  • CARIS - Current (on-going) projects database.
  • FAO Online Catalogue - Full text of FAO publications available here. Some outside publications also included.
• Federal Reserve Bank: Fed in Print: a database of Federal Reserve System Economic Research
• GPO Access, Database List - Guide to search pages or search across databases.
• Handbooks in Economics - Indexes papers in the multi-volume handbook series published by Elsevier. Introductory chapters are in full text.
• INGENTA (formerly known as Uncover) - Provides free searching of 25,000 current journals. Full text available for a price.
• New Electronic Titles, A GPO Access Finding Aid to recently published reports from the US Government
• OECD Index, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Search page of OECD publications.
• REED Database - Research in Economics Education Database, University of Nebraska
• Search Adobe PDF Online - Searches the Web for and connects to full text PDF files
• StateList: The Electronic Source for State Publication Lists, University of Illinois Documents and Law Library.
• World Bank Research - Index of World Bank publications

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