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- AGRICOLA (agricultural sciences)
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.Index to publications on all aspects of agriculture and agricultural research.
- AGRICOLA contains bibliographic records from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library and covers every major agricultural subject. The citations consist of journal articles, book chapters, monographs, theses, conference proceedings, serials, technical reports, patents, software, and other materials on a broad range of agricultural topics.
- Coverage Dates: 1979 to the present
- Updated: Monthly
- Database Provider: ebsco
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=zbag
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- Business Source Complete
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.Business-related articles from many peer-reviewed and other journals, reports, company profiles, and other sources.
- Business Source Complete is a scholarly business database that provides full-text access to many peer-reviewed business related journals, including disciplines such as marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. Indexing and abstracts for the many important scholarly business journals as far back as 1886 are included. In addition to the searchable cited references provided for more than 1,200 journals, Business Source Complete contains detailed author profiles for the 20,000 most-cited authors in the database. Additional full-text, non-journal content includes financial data, books, monographs, major reference works, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses and more.
- Coverage Dates: Dates vary. Some content goes as far back as 1886.
- Updated: Daily
- Title List
- Database Provider: ebsco
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=zbbc
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- CABDirect
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.
Internet Explorer Users: cookies must be set to low for this database to function properly.Index to research on agriculture, forestry and allied life sciences.
- CABDirect (formerly CAB Abstracts) provides bibliographic citations in the fields of agriculture, forestry and their allied life science disciplines. Specific topics include animal and crop husbandry, animal and plant breeding, plant protection, genetics, forestry engineering, economics, veterinary medicine, human nutrition, travel and rural development.
- Coverage Dates: 1973-
- Updated: Quarterly
- Languages: English and non-English (abstracts in English)
- Database Provider: CABI Publishing
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=xcab-uga1
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- EconLit
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.Abstracts and full-text links to articles in economics journals.
- EconLit, the American Economic Association's electronic database, includes citations and abstracts to economic research dating back to 1969. This EBSCOhost offering provides links to full-text articles in all fields of economics, including capital markets, country studies, econometrics, economic forecasting, environmental economics, government regulations, labor economics, monetary theory, and urban economics. EconLit contains six types of records: journal articles, books, collective volume articles, dissertations, Abstracts of Working Papers in Economics from Cambridge University Press, and full-text book reviews from the Journal of Economic Literature.
- Coverage Dates: 1969-present
- Updated: Monthly
- Languages: English
- Database Provider: ebsco
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=zbec
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Related / Narrower Databases
- Historical Statistics of the United States
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.Historical statistical data for the United States
- Historical Statistics of the United States presents the numerical history of the United States. The database contains over 37,000 tables of quantitative historical data covering population, the economy, social conditions, health, and governance. Each topic area includes introductory essays to place the data in historical context.
- Coverage Dates: 18th - 20th centuries
- Languages: English
- Database Provider: cambridge_univ
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=hioo-uga1
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Broader Databases
- Academic Search Complete
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.Articles from some peer-reviewed journals as well as monographs, reports, conference proceedings, and other sources.
- Academic Search Complete is a comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 10,900 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database is updated daily and features PDF content going back as far as 1865, with the majority of full-text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for nearly 1,000 journals.
- Coverage Dates: Dates vary. Some content goes as far back as 1865.
- Updated: Daily
- Title List
- Database Provider: ebsco
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=zbac
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- Blackwell Synergy
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.Blackwell journals in full text, covering the arts and humanities, sciences, and social sciences.
- Blackwell Synergy provides the full text of over 800 journals offered by the publisher, Blackwell.
- Coverage Dates: Dates vary
- Updated: Ongoing
- Title List
- Languages: English and non-English
- Database Provider: Blackwell
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=blaw-uga1
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- Factiva
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.
Internet Explorer Users: cookies must be set to low for this database to function properly.The Wall Street Journal. Other U.S. and foreign newspapers, magazines and trade journals. Company financial information. Factiva Search Tips.
- Factiva combines Dow Jones and Reuters content from over 8,000 publications:
- 1,000 U.S. and foreign newspapers
- 6,500 news magazines and trade journals
- 270 newswires - Dow Jones, Reuters, AP, Asia Pulse
- Transcripts of leading media news broadcasts - BBC, CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, NPR
- Company profiles and reports
- European Union official documents
Factiva is the only database that provides the full text of the Wall Street Journal, 1984-present.
Limiting to the Wall Street Journal:
- Add and rst=j at the end of your search statement. For example: federal reserve and rst=j
- Leave the Search for free-text terms in box set at the default Full Article. Otherwise you will get a 0 hits result.
The truncation symbol is an *. Adding it to the end of a search term will find any term with that basic stem. For example: bank* will find bank, banks, banker, banking, etc.
- Coverage Dates: Varies
- Updated: Daily
- Title List
- Languages: English and various foreign languages
- Database Provider: Dow Jones & Reuters
- 19 simultaneous users allowed, shared with Georgia Tech and Georgia State University.
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=faci-uga1
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- Factiva combines Dow Jones and Reuters content from over 8,000 publications:
- LexisNexis Academic
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.Full text news, business, legal, medical, and reference information.
- LexisNexis Academic contains approximately 5,000 publications, virtually all include full text. Many types of publications are included: newspapers (in English, other languages, and translations of international papers), legal news, general interest magazines, medical journals, trade publications, company financial information, transcripts, wire service reports, government publications (such as the federal case law, U.S. Code, Code of Federal Regulations, Congressional Testimony, etc.), law reviews, and reference works (such as the Forbes Annual Directory, the Official Guide/American Marketplace and the US Global Trade Outlook).
If you wish to search for articles published in only a specific publication, click on 'Sources' in the black bar at the top of the screen. Search for the publication, click on 'Find Title', then choose "Search This Title" next to the publication you want to search. This will paste the name of the publication into the search screen, and will ensure that you are searching the correct section of LexisNexis.
- Coverage Dates: Dates of coverage vary by publication
- Updated: Varies by publication (hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, annually)
- Title List
- Languages: Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish
- Database Provider: lexis_nexis
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=zxau
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- LexisNexis Academic contains approximately 5,000 publications, virtually all include full text. Many types of publications are included: newspapers (in English, other languages, and translations of international papers), legal news, general interest magazines, medical journals, trade publications, company financial information, transcripts, wire service reports, government publications (such as the federal case law, U.S. Code, Code of Federal Regulations, Congressional Testimony, etc.), law reviews, and reference works (such as the Forbes Annual Directory, the Official Guide/American Marketplace and the US Global Trade Outlook).
- LexisNexis Statistical
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.Statistics published by the U.S. government and other agencies
- LexisNexis Statistical consists of:
- Search Tables Base Edition: selected statistical tables drawn mainly from sources published by the U.S. government since about 1998.
- Search Abstracts:
- American Statistics Index (ASI) abstracts (1970-) and full text (ca 2004-) of Federal government sources
- Statistical Reference Index (SRI) abstracts (1980-) of state and private sources
- Index to International Statistics (IIS) abstracts (1983-) of international and inter-governmental sources
Coverage ranges across many topics including income, production, retail and wholesale trade, interest rates, economic indicators, demographics, energy, environmental protection, agriculture and fisheries, crime, medicine, and education.
- Coverage Dates: 1970s-
- Updated: Biannually
- Database Provider: cis
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=xstu-uga1
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- LexisNexis Statistical consists of:
- ScienceDirect
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.Articles from scholarly journals on all the sciences, including the social sciences.
- ScienceDirect provides full text access to scholarly journals published by Elsevier and its subsidiaries.
- Coverage Dates: 1995 - present (Academic Press journals: 1996 - present)
- Updated: Ongoing
- Title List
- Database Provider: Elsevier
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=xsdi-uga1
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- Web of Science (at Web of Knowledge)
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.
Internet Explorer Users: cookies must be set to medium for this database to function properly.Provides access to the combined Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index.
- Web of Science provides access to the Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index covering over 8,000 journal. These three databases can be searched separately, in any combination, or all at once. These databases are unique in that the user can search to find which articles have cited a certain author or article. This technique of doing research, called pearl growing, allows researchers to find articles that are related to an earlier work. Often this technique turns up articles which are not found through traditional subject and keyword searches.
- Coverage Dates: 1945- (Science Citation Index); 1956- (Social Science Citation Index); 1975- (Arts and Humanities Citation Index)
- Updated: Weekly
- Languages: English and non-English
- Database Provider: isi
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=xwos-uga1
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Agricultural Statistics, Georgia
- Georgia Statistics and Georgia Publications
Online Access: On/Off Campus- This is the website for the Georgia Field Office of USDA-NASS. It provides statewide and county data for agricultural products, and includes links to the Census of Agriculture for Georgia and the annual Agricultural Facts.
- URL: http://www.nass.usda.gov/Statistics_by_State/Georgia/index.asp
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- Georgia Statistics System
Online Access: On/Off Campus- Data on 1,500 variables describing each of the 159 counties in Georgia. Produced by the UGA Center for Agribusiness and Economic Development.
- URL: http://www.georgiastats.uga.edu/
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Agricultural Statistics, United States
- Agricultural Statistics
Online Access: On/Off Campus
Call Number: Sci Ref J84 A1.47:yr- Annual yearbook on agricultural production, including dairy and poultry statistics. Foreign production and imports are covered as well.
- URL: http://www.usda.gov/nass/pubs/agstats.htm
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- Agricultural Statistics Data Base
Online Access: On/Off Campus- Contains national, state, and county level data for agricultural commodities, and for the last Census of Agriculture. The Quick Stats function allows searching by geographic level, commodity, and year(s).
- URL: http://www.nass.usda.gov/QuickStats/
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- Census of Agriculture
Online Access: On/Off Campus- Complete accounting of United States agricultural production. Individual volumes are provided for each state. Taken every five years covering the years ending in "2" and "7."
- URL: http://www.nass.usda.gov/Census_of_Agriculture/index.asp
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- ERS Farm Income and Costs Briefing Room
Online Access: On/Off Campus- "The ERS farm income and costs program measures, forecasts, and explains indicators of economic performance for the U.S. farm sector and major crop and livestock farm groups" (ERS website).
- URL: http://www.ers.usda.gov/Briefing/FarmIncome/
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- U.S. State Fact Sheets
Online Access: On/Off Campus- Contain information on: Population, Per-capita income, Unemployment rate, Farm & farm related jobs, Top export commodities, Farm characteristics, Farm financial indicators and more. The data are from a variety of sources, including the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Bureau of Economic Analysis, the Census Bureau, and the Economic Research Service (USDA).
- URL: http://www.ers.usda.gov/statefacts
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- USDA Economics, Statistics, and Market Information System
Online Access: On/Off Campus- Contains 2,500 reports and datasets from USDA statistical agencies, covering U.S. and international agriculture. Includes current and historical statistics.
- URL: http://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/
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Agricultural Statistics, World
- Agricultural Statistics
Online Access: On/Off Campus
Call Number: Sci Ref J84 A1.47:yr- Annual yearbook on agricultural production, including dairy and poultry statistics. Foreign production and imports are covered as well.
- URL: http://www.usda.gov/nass/pubs/agstats.htm
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- FAOSTAT
Online Access: On/Off Campus- Online and multilingual databases currently containing over 1 million time-series records covering international statistics in: Production, Fertilizer and Pesticides, Land Use and Irrigation, Agricultural Machinery and more.
- URL: http://faostat.fao.org
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- Trade & International Markets
Online Access: On/Off Campus- Contains data on the production, consumption, and trade of important U.S. agricultural products, as well as data on countries and regions important to U.S. agriculture. Signature publications include the quarterly Outlook for U.S. Agricultural Trade and the annual International Baseline Projections.
- URL: http://www.ers.usda.gov/Browse/TradeInternationalMarkets/
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- USDA Economics, Statistics, and Market Information System
Online Access: On/Off Campus- Contains 2,500 reports and datasets from USDA statistical agencies, covering U.S. and international agriculture. Includes current and historical statistics.
- URL: http://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/
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- World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates
Online Access: On/Off Campus- World Agricultural Outlook Board forecasts, 1973-present.
- URL: http://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/MannUsda/viewDocumentInfo.do?documentID=1194
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Books
- GIL Library Catalog
Online Access: On/Off Campus- Search the UGA Libraries catalog for books, journals, CD-ROMs, and other media. Use title, author or subject searches, or perform a keyword search.
- URL: http://gil.uga.edu
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Commodity Options & Futures
- Chicago Board of Trade
Online Access: On/Off Campus- URL: http://www.cbot.com
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- Chicago Mercantile Exchange
Online Access: On/Off Campus- URL: http://www.cme.com
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- CRB Commodity Yearbook
Call Number: Main Ref HC 14 .C734- A useful compendium of production, price, and futures data on agricultural products. Data usually covers the last ten years. Frequency is primarily monthly and/or annual. Includes charts for varying numbers of years. Also covers energy, metals, and financial instruments. The latest edition is in Main Reference. Earlier volumes are in the Main Library, 5th floor, under the call number H14.C734. Pre-1976 volumes are at the Repository.
- Location: Main Library Reference Collection
- Datastream
Call Number: Main Reference special access workstation- Contains extensive economic time series for many countries, U.S. and foreign stock price data, and commodity futures data. Available via the Internet. Use is restricted to UGA students and faculty.
- Location: Main Library Only
- Global Insight
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.Vast archive of international economic statistics.
- Global Insightis an enormous statistical database with many thousands of time series. The database is especially rich in economic data, covering the U.S. and many foreign countries; IMF monetary data; and market indices data. Frequency of data varies by times series: daily, monthly, quarterly, annual. Years of coverage vary by time series, extending back to the early 1900's in some cases.
Usage tip: To access the data, select DataInsight Web on the left side of the first screen. This will take you to a screen where you select the Geography (country) and Concept (time series).
- Coverage Dates: Varies, in some cases back to the early 1900s
- Updated: Varies
- Database Provider: Global Insight
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=gloa-uga1
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- Global Insightis an enormous statistical database with many thousands of time series. The database is especially rich in economic data, covering the U.S. and many foreign countries; IMF monetary data; and market indices data. Frequency of data varies by times series: daily, monthly, quarterly, annual. Years of coverage vary by time series, extending back to the early 1900's in some cases.
- Kansas City Board of Trade
Online Access: On/Off Campus- URL: http://www.kcbt.com
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- New York Board of Trade
Online Access: On/Off Campus- URL: http://www.nybot.com
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- New York Mercantile Exchange
Online Access: On/Off Campus- URL: http://www.nymex.com/intro.aspx
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Directories
- Economics Departments, Institutes and Research Centers in the World
Online Access: On/Off Campus- A list of thousands of institutions in over 200 countries.
- URL: http://edirc.repec.org
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Economic Statistics
- Business Cycle Indicators
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.
Internet Explorer Users: cookies must be set to low for this database to function properly.250 economic indicators (GDP, CPI, etc.). for the United States.
- Business Cycle Indicators provides data for 250 economic indicators for the United States. These indicators are used in determining current economic conditions and predicting the future direction of the economy. Examples of these indicators are:
- Employment and unemployment
- Consumer price indexes (CPI)
- Producer price indexes (PPI)
- Gross domestic product (GDP)
- Orders for manufactured goods
- Consumer confidence and expectations
Data can be downloaded into spreadsheets.
- Coverage Dates: 1945 to present
- Updated: Ongoing
- Database Provider: Conference Board
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=xbci-uga1
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- Business Cycle Indicators provides data for 250 economic indicators for the United States. These indicators are used in determining current economic conditions and predicting the future direction of the economy. Examples of these indicators are:
- Georgia County Guide
Call Number: Main Ref F284 .G34- Demographic, economic, agricultural, and educational data, primarily recent. Published annually. Latest edition at Main Reference Desk. Some earlier editions from 1981-present are shelved in the Main Reference stacks and on the 5th floor.
- Location: Main Library Reference Collection
- Georgia Statistical Abstract
Call Number: Main Ref HA 326 .G3- Data on many topics, primarily from the past few years. Statewide and some county/city coverage. Published every two years. Latest edition shelved at Main Reference Desk. Editions from 1951-present are shelved in the Main Reference stacks and in the Georgia Room (Main Library, 3rd floor) under the call number LXJ 11 .A45.
- Location: Main Library Reference Collection
- Georgia Statistics System
Online Access: On/Off Campus- Data on 1,500 variables describing each of the 159 counties in Georgia. Produced by the UGA Center for Agribusiness and Economic Development.
- URL: http://www.georgiastats.uga.edu/
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- Global Insight
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.Vast archive of international economic statistics.
- Global Insightis an enormous statistical database with many thousands of time series. The database is especially rich in economic data, covering the U.S. and many foreign countries; IMF monetary data; and market indices data. Frequency of data varies by times series: daily, monthly, quarterly, annual. Years of coverage vary by time series, extending back to the early 1900's in some cases.
Usage tip: To access the data, select DataInsight Web on the left side of the first screen. This will take you to a screen where you select the Geography (country) and Concept (time series).
- Coverage Dates: Varies, in some cases back to the early 1900s
- Updated: Varies
- Database Provider: Global Insight
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=gloa-uga1
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- Global Insightis an enormous statistical database with many thousands of time series. The database is especially rich in economic data, covering the U.S. and many foreign countries; IMF monetary data; and market indices data. Frequency of data varies by times series: daily, monthly, quarterly, annual. Years of coverage vary by time series, extending back to the early 1900's in some cases.
- SourceOECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development)
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.
Internet Explorer Users: cookies must be set to low for this database to function properly.Full text access to OECD publications, 1998-present.
- SourceOECD provides access to the full text of publications from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, a group of major developed countries. Covers all OECD books and periodicals published 1998-present. Contains extensive statistical data which can be downloaded into spreadsheets. The database is especially rich in annual economic surveys of member countries, industry reports, and statistical reports.
- Coverage Dates: Varies
- Updated: Weekly
- Languages: English
- Database Provider: OECD
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=xoec-uga1
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- World Development Indicators
Call Number: Main Reference CD-ROM workstation- Contains a broad range of economic and social data, gathered by the World Bank. Provides the ability to create comparative country tables, individual country tables, and thematic maps; and to download data. A small subset of the data is on the Web at http://www.worldbank.org/data/
- Location: Main Library Only
Government Publications
- Business Cycle Indicators
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.
Internet Explorer Users: cookies must be set to low for this database to function properly.250 economic indicators (GDP, CPI, etc.). for the United States.
- Business Cycle Indicators provides data for 250 economic indicators for the United States. These indicators are used in determining current economic conditions and predicting the future direction of the economy. Examples of these indicators are:
- Employment and unemployment
- Consumer price indexes (CPI)
- Producer price indexes (PPI)
- Gross domestic product (GDP)
- Orders for manufactured goods
- Consumer confidence and expectations
Data can be downloaded into spreadsheets.
- Coverage Dates: 1945 to present
- Updated: Ongoing
- Database Provider: Conference Board
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=xbci-uga1
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- Business Cycle Indicators provides data for 250 economic indicators for the United States. These indicators are used in determining current economic conditions and predicting the future direction of the economy. Examples of these indicators are:
- Census of Agriculture
Online Access: On/Off Campus- Complete accounting of United States agricultural production. Individual volumes are provided for each state. Taken every five years covering the years ending in "2" and "7."
- URL: http://www.nass.usda.gov/Census_of_Agriculture/index.asp
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- ERS Farm Income and Costs Briefing Room
Online Access: On/Off Campus- "The ERS farm income and costs program measures, forecasts, and explains indicators of economic performance for the U.S. farm sector and major crop and livestock farm groups" (ERS website).
- URL: http://www.ers.usda.gov/Briefing/FarmIncome/
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- ERS Food CPI, Prices, and Expenditures Briefing Room
Online Access: On/Off Campus- URL: http://www.ers.usda.gov/Briefing/CPIFoodAndExpenditures//
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- USDA Economic Research Service (ERS)
Online Access: On/Off Campus- Provides collections of data and reports on agricultural baseline projections, agricultural resources, the food economy, commodity market analysis, and farm business economics.
- URL: http://www.ers.usda.gov/
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- USDA Economics, Statistics, and Market Information System
Online Access: On/Off Campus- Contains 2,500 reports and datasets from USDA statistical agencies, covering U.S. and international agriculture. Includes current and historical statistics.
- URL: http://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/
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- USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS)
Online Access: On/Off Campus- Online NASS publications, charts, maps, historical and current data, including the Census of Agriculture.
- URL: http://www.nass.usda.gov/
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Major Agricultural Statistics Agencies
- Food and Agriculture Organization
Online Access: On/Off Campus- Largest autonomous agency within the United Nations system. Works to improve the access of all people at all times to the food they need for an active and healthy life.
- URL: http://www.fao.org/
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- USDA Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS)
Online Access: On/Off Campus- Provides current market data on cotton, dairy, fruits, vegetables, livestock, poultry, and tobacco.
- URL: http://www.ams.usda.gov
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- USDA Economic Research Service (ERS)
Online Access: On/Off Campus- Provides collections of data and reports on agricultural baseline projections, agricultural resources, the food economy, commodity market analysis, and farm business economics.
- URL: http://www.ers.usda.gov/
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- USDA Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS)
Online Access: On/Off Campus- Useful site for data and reports on U.S. agricultural imports/exports and foreign market research.
- URL: http://www.fas.usda.gov/
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- USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS)
Online Access: On/Off Campus- Online NASS publications, charts, maps, historical and current data, including the Census of Agriculture.
- URL: http://www.nass.usda.gov/
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Major Statistical Resources
- Business Cycle Indicators
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.
Internet Explorer Users: cookies must be set to low for this database to function properly.250 economic indicators (GDP, CPI, etc.). for the United States.
- Business Cycle Indicators provides data for 250 economic indicators for the United States. These indicators are used in determining current economic conditions and predicting the future direction of the economy. Examples of these indicators are:
- Employment and unemployment
- Consumer price indexes (CPI)
- Producer price indexes (PPI)
- Gross domestic product (GDP)
- Orders for manufactured goods
- Consumer confidence and expectations
Data can be downloaded into spreadsheets.
- Coverage Dates: 1945 to present
- Updated: Ongoing
- Database Provider: Conference Board
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=xbci-uga1
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- Business Cycle Indicators provides data for 250 economic indicators for the United States. These indicators are used in determining current economic conditions and predicting the future direction of the economy. Examples of these indicators are:
Organizations/Associations
- American Agricultural Economics Association (AAEA)
Online Access: On/Off Campus- URL: http://www.aaea.org/
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- Food and Agriculture Organization
Online Access: On/Off Campus- Largest autonomous agency within the United Nations system. Works to improve the access of all people at all times to the food they need for an active and healthy life.
- URL: http://www.fao.org/
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Price Value & Consumption
- Agricultural Prices
Online Access: On/Off Campus- Prices received by farmers, 1964-present. Print editions are shelved in the Science Library Government Documents Collection under the call number J84 A 92.16.
- URL: http://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/MannUsda/viewDocumentInfo.do?documentID=1002
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- Crop Values
Online Access: On/Off Campus- Average annual U.S. and state prices and value of production for major field crops and specialty crops. Coverage: 1963-present
- URL: http://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/MannUsda/viewDocumentInfo.do?documentID=1050
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- ERS Food CPI, Prices, and Expenditures Briefing Room
Online Access: On/Off Campus- URL: http://www.ers.usda.gov/Briefing/CPIFoodAndExpenditures//
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- Food Consumption, Prices, and Expenditures, 1970-1997
Online Access: On/Off Campus- URL: http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/sb965/
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- Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry Outlook
Online Access: On/Off Campus- Monthly livestock, dairy and poultry information, focusing on current production, price, and trade statistics. Coverage: 1995 to present
- URL: http://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/MannUsda/viewDocumentInfo.do?documentID=1350
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- Outlook Reports
Online Access: On/Off Campus- "ERS outlook reports provide current and prospective information on commodity supply, demand, and price conditions. Annual yearbooks include historical data series on acreage, yield, supply, domestic use, foreign trade, and price and topical articles pertinent to understanding the U.S. and global markets" (from web site). Coverage: 1995 to current.
- URL: http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/outlook/
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- Poultry Yearbook
Online Access: On/Off Campus- Historical data, mostly 1960-2004, on production, prices, and cost.
- URL: http://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/MannUsda/viewDocumentInfo.do?documentID=1367
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- Prices Received by Farmers: Historic Prices & Indexes 1908-1992
Online Access: On/Off Campus- "Monthly and annual average U.S. prices by commodity, most for 1908-92" (from web site).
- URL: http://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/data-sets/crops/92152/
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- USDA AMS Market News
Online Access: On/Off Campus- Current prices of many agricultural commodities.
- URL: http://www.ams.usda.gov/marketnews.htm
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Production Statistics
- Crop Production
Online Access: On/Off Campus- Crop production data for the U.S., including acreage, area harvested, yield, etc. Monthly with links to annual summaries. Coverage: 1964 to present.
- URL: http://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/MannUsda/viewDocumentInfo.do?documentID=1046
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- FAOSTAT
Online Access: On/Off Campus- Online and multilingual databases currently containing over 1 million time-series records covering international statistics in: Production, Fertilizer and Pesticides, Land Use and Irrigation, Agricultural Machinery and more.
- URL: http://faostat.fao.org
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- Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry Outlook
Online Access: On/Off Campus- Monthly livestock, dairy and poultry information, focusing on current production, price, and trade statistics. Coverage: 1995 to present
- URL: http://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/MannUsda/viewDocumentInfo.do?documentID=1350
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- Outlook Reports
Online Access: On/Off Campus- "ERS outlook reports provide current and prospective information on commodity supply, demand, and price conditions. Annual yearbooks include historical data series on acreage, yield, supply, domestic use, foreign trade, and price and topical articles pertinent to understanding the U.S. and global markets" (from web site). Coverage: 1995 to current.
- URL: http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/outlook/
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- Poultry Yearbook
Online Access: On/Off Campus- Historical data, mostly 1960-2004, on production, prices, and cost.
- URL: http://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/MannUsda/viewDocumentInfo.do?documentID=1367
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- Production, Supply, and Distribution Online
Online Access: On/Off Campus- Current and historical data on agricultural commodities for the U.S. and key countries.
- URL: http://www.fas.usda.gov/psdonline/psdhome.aspx
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Statistics
- Georgia County Guide
Call Number: Main Ref F284 .G34- Demographic, economic, agricultural, and educational data, primarily recent. Published annually. Latest edition at Main Reference Desk. Some earlier editions from 1981-present are shelved in the Main Reference stacks and on the 5th floor.
- Location: Main Library Reference Collection
- Georgia Statistical Abstract
Call Number: Main Ref HA 326 .G3- Data on many topics, primarily from the past few years. Statewide and some county/city coverage. Published every two years. Latest edition shelved at Main Reference Desk. Editions from 1951-present are shelved in the Main Reference stacks and in the Georgia Room (Main Library, 3rd floor) under the call number LXJ 11 .A45.
- Location: Main Library Reference Collection
- U.S. State Fact Sheets
Online Access: On/Off Campus- Contain information on: Population, Per-capita income, Unemployment rate, Farm & farm related jobs, Top export commodities, Farm characteristics, Farm financial indicators and more. The data are from a variety of sources, including the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Bureau of Economic Analysis, the Census Bureau, and the Economic Research Service (USDA).
- URL: http://www.ers.usda.gov/statefacts
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- World Trade Analyzer
Call Number: Main Reference CD-ROM workstation- Contains data for 180 countries and 800 commodities, from 1980 forward, with approximately a two-year time lag. Provides great flexibility in creation of comparative tables; and downloading of results to Excel. Published annually. Produced by Statistics Canada from data supplied by the UN.
- Location: Main Library Only
Trade Statistics
- FAOSTAT
Online Access: On/Off Campus- Online and multilingual databases currently containing over 1 million time-series records covering international statistics in: Production, Fertilizer and Pesticides, Land Use and Irrigation, Agricultural Machinery and more.
- URL: http://faostat.fao.org
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- FAS Online U.S. Trade Internet System
Online Access: On/Off Campus- Data on agricultural, fish, forest, and textile products, 1989-present.
- URL: http://www.fas.usda.gov/ustrade/
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- SourceOECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development)
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.
Internet Explorer Users: cookies must be set to low for this database to function properly.Full text access to OECD publications, 1998-present.
- SourceOECD provides access to the full text of publications from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, a group of major developed countries. Covers all OECD books and periodicals published 1998-present. Contains extensive statistical data which can be downloaded into spreadsheets. The database is especially rich in annual economic surveys of member countries, industry reports, and statistical reports.
- Coverage Dates: Varies
- Updated: Weekly
- Languages: English
- Database Provider: OECD
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=xoec-uga1
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- Trade & International Markets
Online Access: On/Off Campus- Contains data on the production, consumption, and trade of important U.S. agricultural products, as well as data on countries and regions important to U.S. agriculture. Signature publications include the quarterly Outlook for U.S. Agricultural Trade and the annual International Baseline Projections.
- URL: http://www.ers.usda.gov/Browse/TradeInternationalMarkets/
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- U.S. Agricultural Trade Update
Online Access: On/Off Campus- U.S. exports and imports, 1995-present.
- URL: http://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/MannUsda/viewDocumentInfo.do?documentID=1412
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- World Trade Analyzer
Call Number: Main Reference CD-ROM workstation- Contains data for 180 countries and 800 commodities, from 1980 forward, with approximately a two-year time lag. Provides great flexibility in creation of comparative tables; and downloading of results to Excel. Published annually. Produced by Statistics Canada from data supplied by the UN.
- Location: Main Library Only
Web Subject Guides
- AgNIC (Agriculture Network Information Center)
Online Access: On/Off Campus- AgNIC is a guide to quality agricultural information on the Internet as selected by the National Agricultural Library, Universities, and other institutions (AgNIC website). It features numerous subject-related links, on specific plants and on plant-related subjects.
- URL: http://www.agnic.org
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- Agricultural & Applied Economics
Online Access: On/Off Campus- A site maintained by Texas Tech University, containing many government agency and market links.
- URL: http://www.aaec.ttu.edu/links/useful_links.php
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- Organizations & Associations
Online Access: On/Off Campus- Provides links to over one hundred economics organizations worldwide, including academic institutes, research organizations, societies, and associations.
- URL: http://rfe.org
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