Research Guides: FAES3797.04 Study Abroad-Panama: Databases, Online Sources, and Books

Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences Library

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Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences Library
045C Agricultural Administration Building
2120 Fyffe Road
Columbus, OH 43210

(614) 688-8413

Subjects: Agriculture

Latin American Studies Librarian

Pamela Espinosa de los Monteros

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305H Thompson Library,
1858 Neil Ave, Columbus, OH 43210

614-688-1725

Subjects: International & Area Studies

Databases, Online Sources, and Books

Agriculture, Natural Resources, Environmental Science and Economic Resources Databases

CAB Abstracts [Selected Full Text] This link opens in a new window
CAB Abstracts covers research and development literature in the fields of agriculture, forestry, human health, human nutrition, animal health and the management and conservation of natural resources. Includes CAB Abstracts Archive.
Agricola (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Contains the current file of the AGRICOLA (Agricultural Online Access) database, which provides citations to agricultural literature acquired by the National Agricultural Library and cooperating institutions, and subfiles of related subjects, such as food and nutrition, agricultural economics, parasitology, forestry, aquaculture, wildlife, and environmental science supplied by information centers.
Web of Science (All Databases search) This link opens in a new window
Web of Science (formerly Web of Knowledge) is a cross-searchable interface for numerous Thompson Reuters databases including: Web of Science Core Collection, BIOSIS Citation Index, BIOSIS Previews, Derwent Innovations Index, and Journal Citation Reports.
Scopus This link opens in a new window
Scopus is a citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality web sources with smart tools to track analyze and visualize research. Tools to sort, refine and quickly identify results help researchers focus on the outcome of their work.
Environment Complete This link opens in a new window
Environment Complete contains all of the content available in Environment Index, as well as full text for 400 journals, including many of the most used journals in the discipline, such as Environment (back to 1975), Ecologist, Conservation Biology, etc. Environment Complete also provides full text for 80 monographs, such as Encyclopedia of World Environmental History (3 volumes), Advances in Water Treatment & Environmental Management, etc. Further, the database offers full text for the conference papers of the North American Association of Environmental Education.
Garden, Landscape, and Horticulture Index This link opens in a new window
Garden, Landscape & Horticulture Index™ (GLHI) is the premier resource for access to articles about plants and gardens. Topics include horticulture, garden and landscape design and history, botany, ecology, plant and garden conservation, garden management, and horticultural therapy. This index and abstract product is designed for gardening enthusiasts, professionals, and students of horticulture and of garden and landscape design and history. Indexed and abstracted are more than 300 core titles, the majority of which are published in English.
Ecology Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Ecology Abstracts focuses on how organisms of all kinds - microbes, plants, and animals - interact with their environments and with other organisms. Included are relevant papers on evolutionary biology, economics, and systems analysis as they relate to ecosystems or the environment. With coverage ranging from habitats to food chains, from erosion to land reclamation, the journal provides an important cross-section of current findings in target research areas. Detailed information on resource and ecosystems management and modeling contributes to the journal's practical value, as does material on the impact of climate, water resources, soil, and man or growing environmental problems such as depletion, erosion, and pollution all topics which are covered in depth.
Business Source Complete [Selected Articles in Full Text] This link opens in a new window
This is one of the best databases to search for scholarly literature on business research topics. The database contains indexing and abstracts for scholarly, peer-reviewed business journals back from 1886 to the present. Searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,400 journals.
CountryWatch This link opens in a new window
Select "Country Review" from the home page and search for Panama.

Multidisciplinary Databases

JSTOR [Selected Articles in Full Text] This link opens in a new window
Find Panama sources on zoology, economics, environmental sciences, and more.
Hispanic American Periodicals Index Online (HAPI) This link opens in a new window
HAPI is a source for information about Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States. HAPI Online contains complete bibliographic citations to articles, book reviews, documents, original literary works, and other materials appearing in more than 400 key social science and humanities journals published throughout the world.

Grey Literature Sources

Inter-American Institute for Cooperation in Agriculture (IICA)
USDA Foreign Agricultural Service-Panama
Includes information on agricultural imports/exports, trade agreements, and news.
FAO Panama Page
Includes news, reports, publications, FAO, and data FAO profiles for Panama.
El Instituto de Investigación Agropecuaria de Panamá
CGSpace
Gardian
AGRIS
AgEcon Search
AgEcon Search: Research in Agricultural and Applied Economics collects, indexes, and electronically distributes full text copies of scholarly research in the broadly defined field of agricultural economics including sub disciplines such as agribusiness, food supply, natural resource economics, environmental economics, policy issues, agricultural trade, and economic development. The majority of items in AgEcon Search are working papers, conference papers, and journal articles, although other types such as books chapters and government documents are included.
International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
International Institute for Environment and Development
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
World Food Programme (WFP)
The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository
This is the World Bank's open access collection of over 18,000 publications on issues of international development, aid and economics. Search "Panama" to find reports on this country.

General Information

eBooks and Digitized Books

Project Muse ebook and ejournal collections This link opens in a new window
Search for book on Panama. Filter by subject.

Print Books/Monographs

The LAT Collection materials are located throughout different campus libraries including Thompson Library, 18th Avenue, Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, Fine Arts Library (Wexner Center) and the off-site depository.

Books and other materials including CDs, DVDS, and more, can be found using the library's online catalog

Books, Print Magazines, and Journals can be found using the library catalog. Materials are organized using the Library of Congress (LOC) classification system. Below are a listing of call numbers associated with Spanish and Portuguese Languages

See the Columbia University Libraries Call Number Ranges for Latin American Studies or Call Numbers for Linguistics for a comprehensive list. Below is a library call number starting point.

Spanish: PC4001-PC4977

Portuguese: PC5001-PC5498

Sources on Panama

Latin American History-Panama: F1561-1577

Canal Zone F1569.C2

Literature: PQ7520-7529.3

Reference Sources

Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
Oxford Bibliographies - Latin American Studies This link opens in a new window
This resource offers annotated bibliographies and research guides on the subject of Latin American studies. It addresses the various disciplinary approaches to the study of this region including history, sociology, economics, anthropology, and political science.

LAT Environmental History Bibliography
Review suggested resources on Central America.
AGROVOC
AGROVOC is a controlled vocabulary covering all areas of interest of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, including food, nutrition, agriculture, fisheries, forestry, environment etc. Consists of over 34,000 concepts available in 29 languages.

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