Agricultural & Resource Economics

This guide is designed to help you find databases, web resources, books, journals, and data, as well as policy resources and professional organizations, related to Agricultural and Resource Economics.

Finding articles

Begin your search for journal articles with these databases:

Agriculture Databases (Web of Science)
This is the first place anyone searching for scholarly and peer-reviewed articles in agriculture should start. The agriculture databases through Web of Science searches premier databases such as CABI and Biological Abstracts, searching as far back as 1900.
AgEcon Search
A free, open-access repository of full-text scholarly literature in agricultural and applied economics. AgEcon searches working papers, conference papers, and journal articles. Subfields indexed include: agribusiness, food supply, natural resource economics, environmental economics, policy issues, agricultural trade, and economic development.
EconLit (1969-present)
EconLit is an index of nearly 1.3 million economics publications, including peer-reviewed journal articles, working papers, books, collective volume articles, conference proceedings and book reviews with citations and abstracts dating back to 1886.

Tools

Citation Management
These tools organize resources and can sync with Microsoft Word to automatically generate in-text citations and bibliographies.
Browzine
This app works on computers, smart phones, and tablets for browsing, reading, and saving journal articles.
Proxy Bookmarklet Instructions
If you often do your research from off-campus, you can add the proxy bookmarklet to your browser's bookmarks toolbar. In many cases, the bookmarklet lets you log into the proxy (which will give you access to content that UT Libraries own) without having to browse from the UT Libraries website.
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Ulrich's
Use Ulrich's to determine if an article is from a peer-review journal. First, type the journal name in the search bar, and select it from the results. Then, look in the Basic Description table for the Refereed and Content Type sections to determine whether a journal is scholarly and/or peer-reviewed. (Ulrich's uses the term refereed, which is the same as peer-reviewed.)