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Is the Article Scholarly or Popular?
- Research 101 The Basics: Popular Scholarly and Trade Publications
- criteria for determining how these are different and what they look like
- Distinguishing Scholarly from Popular and Trade Publications
- examples of what these look like and practice telling them apart
Commodity Chain Research
What is it?
- Powerpoint from the FAO's EasyPOL portal - defines distinction between value chain, global commodity chain, and commodity chain analysis
- Books about Commodity Chains
Additional books, videos, etc are available - search the WorldCat Local Catalog (BETA) . Material not available at UW can be delivered on request.
- Geographies of commodity chains. 2004.
- Talbot, John. 2004. Grounds for agreement : the political economy of the coffee commodity chain.
- Gereffi, Gary. 2002. The international competitiveness of Asian economics in the apparel commodity chain.
- Free trade and uneven development : the North American apparel industry after NAFTA. 2002.
Process and Resources
- EasyPOL from the FAO
Online materials for policy making from a number of international agencies. See for example this document: Commodity Chain Analysis: Constructing the Commodity Chain Functional Analysis and Flow Charts- FRAME an online portal for the natural resources management community.
A variety of resources on Value Chains research provided. Follow this pathway using the Explorer menu on the left side on the page: Library -> Thematic Information -> Environmental Economics and Economic Tools -> Value Chains Governance. For example, A Handbook for Value Chain Research.
Sources of Background & Statistical Information
- Information about Companies
- Hoover's Online UW restricted Provides company profiles, corporate directory (searchable by company name, industry, ticker symbol, sales, location), market quotes, and business news.
- Mergent Online UW restricted - Covers approximately 10,000 public companies and their SEC filings
- Information about Countries
- Country Studies/Area Handbooks published by the Federal Research Division, Library of Congress. These book length reviews cover history, society and environment, government and politics, economics, culture, health, education systems, etc.
- Economist Intelligence Unit. UW restricted Country Reports analyse political and economic trends in nearly 200 countries. Country Profiles outline a country's economic and political status and background.
- Information About Markets
- STAT-USA - the primary source for U.S. Dept of Commerce data, press releases, reports, etc. See especially the National Trade Data Bank which provides market research reports to support sale of US goods in other countries (available in the Globus & NTDB portion of the site).
- FedStats, one-stop portal for statistical data provided by U.S. federal agencies (census, labor, trade, consumer price indexes, etc.).
- Foreign Agricultural Service of the U.S. Dept of Agriculture
- Trade Statistics Online an information sheet from the International Trade Administration US Dept of Commerce
- Dictionaries & Encyclopedias
- Food and fitness : a dictionary of diet and exercise UW restricted
Encyclopedia of Food & Culture UW restricted - Encyclopedia of Nutrition and Good Health (book on shelf)- Odegaard Reference QU 13 R775n 2003
- McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science Technology 9th ed 2002 (book on shelf) - Natural Sciences Reference Q121 .M3 2002 - See especially the sections on Agriculture, Medicine, or Food Science & Technology
- Oxford Reference Online: Political & Social Science UW restricted dictionaries defining concepts in geography, politics, psychology, sociology, history, U.S. government, etc.
CQ Researcher UW restricted Topical overviews with leads to additional reading.
Articles in Magazines & Journals
Multi-Subject
- Expanded Academic Index UW restricted
- Provides access to articles in approximately 1,500 scholarly and general interest periodicals, covering all major fields of study in the humanities, social sciences, and science and technology. Full text of ~700 publications is included in the database.
- Proquest Research Library UW restricted
- Popular and scholarly articles on all major fields of study in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
- Web of Science UW restricted
- Includes Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), 1965-present; Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), 1975-present; and Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI), 1975-present.
Business/Economics
- ABI/Inform Global UW restricted
- Covers approximately 1800 business magazines and scholarly journals for topics such as business and economic conditions, management techniques, theory, and practice of business, advertising, marketing, economics, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, etc. 1971-present.
- ABI/Inform Trade & Industry UW restricted
- Covers 750 business periodicals and newsletters with a trade or industry focus. Very good for practicioners needing the latest industry news, product and competitive information, marketing trends, etc. Contains publications on every major industry, including finance, insurance, transportation, and construction.
- EconLIT UW restricted
- Scholarly articles, conference proceedings and working papers in economics.
Environment
- Agricola UW restricted
- Produced by the National Agricultural Library, this database provides access to journal articles and book chapters about agricultural and related sciences
- CAB Abstracts UW restricted
- CAB Abstracts covers the applied life sciences, including agriculture, forestry, human nutrition, veterinary medicine and the environment. Useful for international development research.
- Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management UW restricted
- Multidisciplinary database providing comprehensive coverage of the environmental sciences.
Geography
- GeoBASE UW restricted
- Provides access to articles in journals of human geography (including urban, political and economic geography), physical geography (ecology, geology, geomechanics), oceanogeography and international and development studies
Health Care
- CINAHL UW restricted
- Provides access to articles in over 700 journals in nursing and 17 allied health disciplines from 1982-present.
- Proquest Research Library Complete UW restricted
- Indexing and full text for general-interest, humanities, social science and science periodicals and newspapers; 1986 to present. Divided into Newspapers and periodicals sections. News, popular and scholarly articles accessible here.
- PubMed
- PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, includes over 14 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950's. These citations are from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. To find full text of articles, look for the UW Holding button OR search the list of e-journals provided on HealthLinks.
- News
- ABI/Inform Trade & Industry UW restricted
- Covers 750 business periodicals and newsletters with a trade or industry focus. Very good for practicioners needing the latest industry news, product and competitive information, marketing trends, etc. Contains publications on every major industry, including finance, insurance, transportation, and construction.
- Alt-Press Watch UW restricted
- Provides fulltext of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the alternative and independent press. This interdisciplinary resource of over 170 titles provides a valuable source of viewpoints and perspectives to complement and challenge the coverage of the mainstream media.
- Factiva UW restricted
- Provides access to global news and business information, including newswires, newspapers, magazines, and trade publications; including Dow Jones and Reuters newswires, Wall Street Journal, and New York Times; sources are from 118 countries in 22 languages
- Lexis-Nexis UW restricted
- Access to news and business publications from across the US and around the world.
Public Policy
- CIAO Columbia International Affairs Online UW restricted
- The most comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs.
- PAIS International UW restricted
- Provides access to magazine and journal articles, selected books, and selected publications from agencies of the U.S. federal government and the United Nations published 1972-present on the topics of public policy and international relations.