IITA Publications
Access to publications about IITA's research and related documents.
Statistical databases
CGIAR Library Gateway
Centralized access to libraries, catalogs and databases held by the CGIAR centers.
CGVLibrary
A global link to leading research on food crops, livestock, fisheries, water resources, forestry, plant genetics, and food and nutrition policy.
Bibliographic databases
AGbios
Database of publications on public policy, regulatory, and risk assessment expertise for products of biotechnology
AgEcon
Full text library of research in Agricultural and Applied Economics
AGRICOLA
National Agricultural Library Online Public Access Catalog of records and Journal Article Citation Index; over 3 million bibliographic citations.
Agri2000
Bilingual Agricultural Virtual Library includes Agri2000 (the Agricultural megadata base for the Americas) plus four other international catalogs: AgNIC, AgrÃcola, AGRIS, and AgriCat, all accessible at one site.
AGRIS
Worldwide bibliographic coverage of agricultural science and technology literature. Assembled by AGRIS. Coordinating Center, FAO; over 2.7 million references.
http://www.fao.org/agris/
AGRIS-MHS - Multi-Host Based and Cross-Database Bibliographic Search Engine
Searches AGRIS, AGRICOLA, and others at the same time.
AGROVOC
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.
Analyzing Agriculture
Maintained by Australian scholar and agricultural analyst, John Chudleigh, directs you to sites that provide useful information on agriculture and the economy.
AROW
Agricultural Research Organizations on the Web from ISNAR
Worldwide directory of organizations and universities working in agricultural research.
BLDS
British Library for Development Studies at IDS: Europe's largest research collection on economic and social change in developing countries.
CARIS
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.
CiteSeer.IST
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
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.
Development Gateway
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.
Earth Trends
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.
Econpapers
Search the world's largest collection of online economics working papers, journal articles, and software.
EARD-Infosys+
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.
FAO Commodities and Trade
Statistics, research, prices, projections, market data on 20+ commodities and maintains constant watch on world market situation and outlook.
FAO World Census of Agriculture
Agricultural censuses and surveys for a group of countries together with concepts, definitions, and methodological issues to carry out agricultural censuses.
FAOSTAT
FAO multilingual databases containing over 1 million time-series records covering international statistics in agricultural areas.
FREE Access
FAPRI
Commodities and Elasticity databases from the Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI).
Find Articles
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.
Food and Fertilizer Technology Center (FFTC)
Access to technical publications on tropical agriculture, with an emphasis on lowcost technology for small farms, focusing on the Asia Pacific Region
FORUM
The Forum on Agricultural Resource Husbandry program of the Rockefeller Foundation--an initiative of a consortium of 10 universities in east and southern Africa.
Google Scholar
New service from Google draws on newly developed algorithms to list online academic research relevant to search request.
HIV/AIDS, STDs and TB
Information on resources and materials from Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs
IDEAS/RePEc
Research papers in economics.
ISIHighlycited.com
Expert gateway to the world's most highly cited researchers.
JHCCP Publications
Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs
JOLIS
World Bank Group Library Network
KIT Library Catalogue
Access to 250,000 books, 4,500 current journals, 30,000 articles, 25,000 maps and 800 atlases from the Royal Tropical Institute.
MEDLINE
National Library of Medicine search service to access the 15 million citations and biomedical articles back to the 1950s in MEDLINE and Pre-MEDLINE.
Microfinancegateway
The premier source of information for and about the microfinance industry including research and publications.
NAP (National Academies Press)
More than 3,000 reports from the National Academies are available online free for the reading.
NBER (National Bureau of Economic Research)
Economic research working papers
Netlink
A database of internet resources for public health from Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs
OECD Worldwide Statistical Sources
Statistics portal to OECD databases as well as extracts from other databases classified by topic.
OAIster
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.
Photoshare
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.
POPLine
Bibliographic reproductive health database from Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs
PUB SCIENCE
Scientific and Technical Publishers and Journals
RePEc/IDEAS
Large bibliographic database dedicated to providing information about working papers and published research to the economics profession.
SCI-DEV NET
Global site for news, views and information on science, technology and the developing world.
SCIRUS
Elsevier Science's search engine "spider" locates data, both free and fee-based, in agricultural, biological, environmental, economic, social, and behavioral sciences.
Scout Report
The Scout Report is a weekly publication offering a selection of new and newly discovered Internet resources of interest to researchers and educators.
The Sociometro
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).
SSRN (Social Science Research Network)
Disseminates social science research worldwide and is composed of a number of specialized research networks in each of the social sciences.
UMI Dissertation Services
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.
Web-agri
Agricultural search engine--searches in over 750,000 agricultural web pages.
WHOSIS
WHO Statistical Information System--a guide to health and health related epidemiological and statistical information from the World Health Organization.
WISARD
Web-based Information Services for Agricultural Research for Development
WoPEC
Working Papers in Economics--lastest research results in economics.
WorldCat
Search this database of constantly updated information from hundreds of libraries to locate books, research abstracts and full-text articles.