The following groups have recently begun adding their papers to AgEcon Search:
Agricultural Economics Society, 82nd annual conference
American Agricultural Economics Association, 2008 annual meeting
Caribbean Agro-Economic Society
Florida Department of Citrus
The most frequently downloaded papers in AgEcon Search in 2007 are listed at http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/top07.pdf
The most highly downloaded paper compares organic and conventional milk production. Of the top 35, 10 cover ethanol or biofuels.
AgEcon Search was singled out for additional analysis in a recent article by Chuck Thomas and Robert McDonald. They look at the number of papers submitted per author. At the time of the study, 10% of authors had contributed 5 or more papers.
The article appears in the Sept/Oct 2007 issue of in D-Lib Magazine, at http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september07/mcdonald/09mcdonald.html
Welcome to the Newest Contributors to AgEcon Search!
American Agricultural Economics Association 2008 Annual Meeting Selected Papers
Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society 2008 Annual Meeting Conference Papers
European Association of Agricultural Economics 107th (2008) Seminar Papers (Seminar Title: Modelling Agricultural and Rural Development Policies)
Humboldt University Berlin, Institute for Agricultural Economics and Social Sciences, Analysis and Action for Sustainable Development of Hyderabad, Research Reports
International European Forum on Innovation and System Dynamics in Food Networks 2007 Seminar Papers
Southern Agricultural Economics Association 2008 Annual Meeting Conference Papers
University of Alberta, Department of Rural Economy, Consumer and Market Demand Network Papers
The Western Agricultural Economics Association (WAEA) has lifted the embargo on the Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, including the most recent issues in AgEcon Search. The journal is published 3 times per year. WAEA also publishes Western Economics Forum, which is included in AgEcon Search.
Here are the newest journal issues, conference papers and working paper series that have been added to AgEcon Search:
German Association of Agricultural Economists (GEWISOLA)47th Annual Conference Papers, Freising/Weihenstephan, Germany, September 26-28, 2007
European Association of Agricultural Economists-International Association of Agricultural Economists, 104th Seminar, Economics and Transition -- What Was Expected, What We Observed, The Lessons Learned, Budapest, Hungary, September 6-8, 2007
University of Alberta, Consumer and Market Demand Agricultural Policy Review Network Project Reports
Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, articles from 2006 and 2007
Hebrew University Jerusalem, Department of Agricultural Economics and Management, Discussion Paper Series updated through 2007
International Food and Agribusiness Management Review, articles from 2004 and 2005
Marine Resource Economics, articles from 2006
Universitaet Hohenheim, Department of Agricultural Economics and Social Sciences in the Tropics and Subtropics, Research in Development and Policy Discussion Paper Series
AgEcon Search was recently named a SPARC Partner. As a Partner in the Scientific Communities program, AgEcon Search is recognized as one of a growing number of non-profit portals that serve the needs of a discrete scientific community by aggregating peer-reviewed research.
SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) is an international alliance of more than 800 academic and research libraries working to create a more open system of scholarly communication. SPARC's advocacy, educational, and publisher partnership programs encourage expanded dissemination of research. SPARC is on the Web at http://www.arl.org/sparc.
The SPARC/AgEcon Search press release may be viewed at http://www.arl.org/sparc/partner/07-0614.html
AgEcon Search has been selected as this year's recipient of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Science and Technology Section (STS) Oberly Award for Bibliography in the Agricultural or Natural Sciences.
"AgEcon Search is an outstanding example of a successful and highly used subject bibliography in electronic format," said award committee co-chairs Martin Kesselman and Paul Kelsey. "AgEcon Search is a wonderful example of an effort to manage the grey literature of a discipline in an accessible and easily used format."
The full press release is available at http://tinyurl.com/2corfe
Southern Agricultural Economics Association 2007 Annual Meeting Conference Papers
Review of Marketing and Agricultural Economics (Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society)
Agrekon (Agricultural Economics Association of South Africa)
University of Saskatchewan, Knowledge Impact in Society (KIS) Project
University of Kentucky, Department of Agricultural Economics
New Zealand Agricultural and Resource Economics Society 2006 Conference Papers
Australian Journal of Agricultural Economics (Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society), vol.1, 1957 - vol.40, 1996
AgEcon Search is happy to announce that the back issues of the Australian Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1957-1996 have been digitized and added to AgEcon Search. Thanks go to the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society for providing access to their back issues free to the world - and to member Dave Pannell for providing digitization services.
The Review of Marketing and Agricultural Economics from the Australian Society is also being digitized for AgEcon Search. A few issues are already available and more will follow. This journal was published from 1945-1996.