Julia Kelly and Louise Letnes

AgEcon Search 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.

AgEcon Search currently contains papers from over 140 educational institutions and associations plus the back issues of the Agrarwirtschaft und Agrarsoziologie/Economie et Sociologie Rurales, Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, Agricultural Economics Review (Greek Association of Agricultural Economists), Australian Journal of Agricultural Economics, Economia Agraria y Recursos Naturales, eJADE electronic Journal of Agricultural and Development Economics, Estey Centre Journal of International Law and Trade Policy, International Food and Agribusiness Management Review, Journal of Agribusiness, Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics,, Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Journal of Food Distribution Research, Marine Resource Economics, Northeastern Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Southern Journal of Agricultural Economics, Western Economics Forum.

AgEcon Search was selected as the 2007 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 co-founders Louise Letnes, Librarian, University of Minnesota, and Patricia Rodkewich, former Reference Bibliographer, University of Minnesota, and contributor Julie Kelly, Reference Librarian and Instruction Coordinator, University of Minnesota, received a plaque and cash prize at the American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference in Washington D.C. during the STS Program on Monday, June 25, 2007, at 8:00 a.m.

“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.”

AgEcon Search includes publications emanating from over 150 academic institutions, professional societies, and government agencies, and offers full text access to literature not always covered in the major agricultural and economic indexes. With over 144,00 visits in 2005 and 1.25 million document downloads since 2001, AgEcon Search continues to offer enormous benefits to researchers in field of agricultural economics.

AgEcon Search is maintained and co-sponsored by the University of Minnesota Libraries, the Department of Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota, and the American Agricultural Economics Association (AAEA).

The Oberly Award was established in 1923 in memory of Eunice Rockwood Oberly. This biennial award is given in odd-numbered years for the best English-language bibliography in the field of agriculture or a related science.