Catalogs and Databases
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IFPRI and CGIAR Catalogs and Databases
- Access to more than 11,000 records held by the IFPRI Library.
- Search by Journal title.
- Access to information about IFPRI's research and related documents. Most documents are available for download in PDF.
- Centralized access to libraries, catalogs and databases held by the CGIAR centers.
- A global link to leading research on food crops, livestock, fisheries, water resources, forestry, plant genetics, and food and nutrition policy.
Bibliographic Databases
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- Database of publications on public policy, regulatory, and risk assessment expertise for products of biotechnology
- Full text library of research in Agricultural and Applied Economics
- National Agricultural Library Online Public Access Catalog of records and Journal Article Citation Index; over 3 million bibliographic citations.
- Bilingual Agricultural Virtual Library includes Agri2000 (the Agricultural megadata base for the Americas) plus four other international catalogs: AgNIC, Agrícola, AGRIS, and AgriCat, all accessible at one site.
- Worldwide bibliographic coverage of agricultural science and technology literature. Assembled by AGRIS. Coordinating Center, FAO; over 2.7 million references.
- Searches AGRIS, AGRICOLA, and others at the same time.
- Multilingual Agricultural Thesaurus
- Agricultural Market Access Database (AMAD)
Agricultural Market Access Database (AMAD) includes a broad set of recent data related to tariffs and trade for 50 countries. - Maintained by Australian scholar and agricultural analyst, John Chudleigh, directs you to sites that provide useful information on agriculture and the economy.
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Agricultural Research Organizations on the Web from ISNAR
Worldwide directory of organizations and universities working in agricultural research. -
Database of publications on improving common social, economic, and environmental problems of an urbanizing world
For access, please contact IFPRI Library - British Library for Development Studies at IDS: Europe's largest research collection on economic and social change in developing countries.
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Access to the most recent three years of CAB abstracts--information in the applied sciences--at no charge. Developed and hosted by CGNET Services, for IVDN networked Centers.
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- Intellectual property resource that contains information about more than 5.5 million patents related to plant biotechnology in America, Europe under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT).
- Current Agricultural Research Information System
- Child Health and Nutrition Research in Africa
A Database of Research Organisations and Researchers in sub-Saharan Africa
Searchable database of researchers and research institutions working in the areas of child health and nutrition in Africa. - Scientific literature digital library that can be used to search for documents and for citations by title, author, and subject. Provided by the School of Information Sciences and Technology, Penn State and NEC Research Institute.
- Copac provides free access to the merged online catalogues of major UK and Irish university research libraries, plus the British Library & the National Library of Scotland.
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Search the most comprehensive source of funding opportunities worldwide.
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Developing Library Network (DELNET)Network of libraries for resource sharing.
For access, please contact IFPRI Library - An interactive food security portal for information on development and poverty reduction.
- Digital Library of the Commons
A gateway to the international literature on the commons, common-pool resources, and common property. - The environmental information portal of the World Resources Institute (WRI)--a comprehensive online database focusing on environmental, social and economic trends that shape our world.
- American Economic Associations' electronic bibliography of world-wide economics literature.
- Search the world's largest collection of online economics working papers, journal articles, and software.
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Access to seven leading international abstracting journals with over 25,000 abstracts updated monthly.
For access, please contact IFPRI Library
- EARD-InfoSys+ is the web-based Information System on European Agricultural Research for Development (ARD). It gathers data on European ARD organizations, funding, projects, training, experts, news and events.
- Statistics, research, prices, projections, market data on 20+ commodities and maintains constant watch on world market situation and outlook.
- Agricultural censuses and surveys for a group of countries together with concepts, definitions, and methodological issues to carry out agricultural censuses.
- FAOSTATFAO multilingual databases containing over 1 million time-series records covering international statistics in agricultural areas.
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- Commodities and Elasticity databases from the Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI).
- This is a search engine, like a mini-google, that searches both free and not-free articles in thousands of journals They say that the journals are "leading academic, industry and general interest publications". Journals include everything from American Journal of Agricultural Economics to Auto Racing Digest and from Journal of Asian and African Studies to Jet.
- Access to technical publications on tropical agriculture, with an emphasis on lowcost technology for small farms, focusing on the Asia Pacific Region
- The Forum on Agricultural Resource Husbandry program of the Rockefeller Foundation--an initiative of a consortium of 10 universities in east and southern Africa.
- New service from Google draws on newly developed algorithms to list online academic research relevant to search request.
- Information on resources and materials from Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs
- Research papers in economics.
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India-specific socio-economic statistical facts and figures.
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- International Monetary Fund's Statistics Department database contains time series data from 1948, including all series from the IFS Country pages and its World Tables.
- Intute hosts a number of subject-specific databases, which are maintained by a network of UK universities and partners.
- Expert gateway to the world's most highly cited researchers.
- Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs
- World Bank Group Library Network
- Access to 250,000 books, 4,500 current journals, 30,000 articles, 25,000 maps and 800 atlases from the Royal Tropical Institute.
- The Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam (KIT) developed and manages an information portal on Rural Innovation Systems (RIS) which gives access to free, full-text electronic documents on the Rural Innovation Systems (RIS) approach, which is used for both conceptual analysis and as a practical tool. In addition, this information portal links to many other Internet sources related to the field of RIS. (e.g., newsletters, discussion groups, websites, bibliographic databases, and directories).
- National Library of Medicine search service to access the 15 million citations and biomedical articles back to the 1950s in MEDLINE and Pre-MEDLINE.
- The premier source of information for and about the microfinance industry including research and publications.
- More than 3,000 reports from the National Academies are available online free for the reading.
- Economic research working papers
- A database of internet resources for public health from Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs
- OECD - International Development Statistics online (IDS/o)
- Development Assistance Committee online (DAC/o)
Provides data on the volume, origin and types of aid and other resource flows to recipients. It includes each recipient's intake of Official Development Assistance (ODA), Official Aid (OA), other official and private funding from members of the DAC, multilateral agencies and other donors. -
Creditor Reporting System online (CRS/o)
An information system comprising data on individual aid activities on Official Development Assistance (ODA) and Official Aid (OA). - Joint BIS-IMF-OECD-World Bank Statistics (Debt/o)
Brings together data that are currently compiled and published by the contributing international agencies (BIS-IMF-OECD-World Bank) on components of countries' external debt and official reserve assets.For more information see the Background Summary
For access, please contact IFPRI Library - Development Assistance Committee online (DAC/o)
- Online library of statistical database, book, and periodicals.
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- Statistics portal to OECD databases as well as extracts from other databases classified by topic.
- Online access to 25+ databases, including WorldCat, ArticleFirst, GEOBASE, SocScience Index, AGRICOLA, BioAgIndex.
- An easily searchable broad collection of freely available, previously difficult-to-access, academically-oriented digital resources provided by the research library community. Project of the Digital Library Production Service of the University of Michigan.
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OLISNet provides access to OECD's full text documents, publications and statistics on economic and social sciences.
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- A database of photographs available for non-profit educational use from Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs
- POPIN - Population Information Network of the UN Economic and Social Council on Western Asia
- Demographic and socio-economic indicators
Direct access to tables containing demographic and related socio-economic indicators for the countries of Western Asia - Demographic, policy and socio-economic data
Links to databases that provide numerical and textual demographic, policy and socio-economic data from various sources.
- Demographic and socio-economic indicators
- Bibliographic reproductive health database from Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs
- Scientific and Technical Publishers and Journals
- Large bibliographic database dedicated to providing information about working papers and published research to the economics profession.
- Global site for news, views and information on science, technology and the developing world.
- Elsevier Science's search engine "spider" locates data, both free and fee-based, in agricultural, biological, environmental, economic, social, and behavioral sciences.
- The Scout Report is a weekly publication offering a selection of new and newly discovered Internet resources of interest to researchers and educators.
- Sociological Abstracts (formerly sociofile) is a fundamental bibliographic resource providing access to information in the field of sociology and related disciplines in the social sciences. For access, please contact IFPRI Library
- The Sociometro is a dataset of Latin American economic indicators to support research on socioeconomic conditions. It offers access to data on social topics: demographic; education; labor market; houseing; and income. The data is from household surveys done in 21 Latin American countries, covering the period, 1990-2004. It is a service of the Research Department of the InterAmerican Development Bank (IDB).
- Disseminates social science research worldwide and is composed of a number of specialized research networks in each of the social sciences.
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Library document delivery service for articles and books. Millions of titles available electronically.
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- Publishes and archives dissertations and theses; sells copies on demand; and maintains the bibliographic record for over two million doctoral dissertations and master's theses.
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Comprehensive collection of data relevant for the analysis of world trade, investment and development for over 190 countries and territories and 50 economic or trade groups.
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- USAID's Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) project provides free access to data and analysis on the population, health, and nutrition of women and children for regional and national family planning and health programs in developing countries.
- Web-agri (French)Agricultural search engine--searches in over 750,000 agricultural web pages.
- WHO Statistical Information System--a guide to health and health related epidemiological and statistical information from the World Health Organization.
- Web-based Information Services for Agricultural Research for Development
- World Bank World Development IndicatorsThe premier annual compilation of data about development. Includes approximately 800 indicators organized in six sections: World View, People, Environment, Economy, States and Markets, and Global Links.For instructions to install the database on your desktop, please contact IFPRI Library
- Search this database of constantly updated information from hundreds of libraries to locate books, research abstracts and full-text articles. Find out immediately if a book is in the IFPRI Library or in a nearby Library where it can be requested through InterLibrary Loan.
- World Economic and Financial Surveys