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Emerging Markets Library Programs & Resources

Emerging Markets Library Programs & Resources. Jaron Porciello, Librarian, Mann Library. Objectives. TEEAL & You Research Paper Resources Knowing how & where to ask for help. The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library (TEEAL). What is TEEAL?.

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Emerging Markets Library Programs & Resources

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  1. Emerging MarketsLibrary Programs & Resources Jaron Porciello, Librarian, Mann Library

  2. Objectives • TEEAL & You • Research Paper Resources • Knowing how & where to ask for help

  3. The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library (TEEAL) What is TEEAL? Considering a career in development? • Access to the thousands of full-text PDF articles from many of the world’s best journals. • Offline product • Severely limited bandwidth is a huge issue for many developing world economies. • TEEAL is produced at Mann Library. We recently received a grant from the Gates Foundation to support training, production and outreach. • Information is an increasingly valuable commodity in emerging markets. • Contact TEEAL if you’d like to network with universities, ministries, NGO’s, when you go abroad. teeal@cornell.edu

  4. Library Resources

  5. Factiva • Get to Factiva from the Library Web Sitewww.library.cornell.edu • How can Factiva help you? • Factiva provides access to more than 20,000 news sources from more than 159 countries in 22 languages, including more than 400 continuously updated newswires. • Search news sources by company, industry, geography – perfect for creating a synthesis of information

  6. Conducting a Factiva Search

  7. Refining your query

  8. Additional Factiva tools

  9. Google Trends

  10. FAOStat http://faostat.fao.org/ Provides time-series and cross sectional  data relating to food and agriculture for some 200 countries.

  11. International Financial Statistics Information on exchange, lending, and financial and economic indicators, such as GDP growth, inflation, and external debt.

  12. Web Resources versus Library Resources Web Resources Library resources • Government (USDA) Agency (World Bank) Organization (Nokia) • Wikipedia • Use it. Don’t cite it. • Books, images, journals and other material found via the library catalog. • Databases provide a subject or topic based approach. Offers access to a wealth of peer-reviewed articles.

  13. CUL Labs www.library.cornell.edu

  14. Getting in touch:www.mannlib.cornell.edu • Email us: mann_ref@cornell.edu • Phone: Reference Desk: 607-254-5406 • Chat Service: 24/7 Chat with reference librarians (Cornell Librarians 10am-5pm, Monday through Friday) www.library.cornell.edu

  15. Text a Librarian Beta Save us in your phone as CULIB Number: 66746 Culibmessage culib are there book drops on north campus?

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