Databases & tools
Databases
The databases listed below are designed to help researchers find academic publications and reference material on a wide variety of topics, beyond the scope of FAO Library's collection. For example, when conducting a literature review or looking for reports
from partner institutions.
In the spirit of Open Access, all of FAO Library's bibliographic research databases and tools are listed on this page. Some of these are available for FAO staff-use only and some are available to everyone:
both internal and external users.
Kindly note that the resources below are only accessible to FAO staff through the library's authentication app, EZproxy. Staff will be recognized automatically by the app and led directly to full-text publications if they are logged-in to any FAO device, e.g. Outlook, Teams etc. Otherwise, a login box appears where staff should enter their usual FAO email and password.
Important to highlight is that the option “Access through your institution” is not in use and does not work, nor do any other alternative access options.
Researchers and Representatives from member countries may access subscribed content from the library Reading Room at headquarters in Rome.
African Studies Companion Online is a ‘live’ online textbook containing over 1800 curated links and guides to African news outlets, language resources, libraries and archives, film resources, African studies programs worldwide and many other topics. |
| Africa Yearbook Online is an annual digest of domestic politics, foreign affairs, and socio-economic developments in Sub-Sahara Africa. Sections are organized into four sub-regions (West, Central, Eastern, Southern Africa) and by individual country. It also contains articles on major cross-border developments, one article on overall continental developments, and one article on European-African relations. |
| Business Source |
Full text from more than 5,400 premium business magazines and journals. BSC Plus also provides AP wires and thousands of newsfeeds, updated in real time. Additional sources include more than one million substantial company listings; over 2400 newspapers, 850,000 transcripts and more than 1,600 country economic reports. |
| Newswires |
| A database of applied life sciences literature, covering a variety of FAO subject areas. Subject coverage includes agriculture, the environment, veterinary sciences, applied economics, fisheries, aquaculture, nutrition, and much more. Includes access to over 1,250 full-text journals as well as abstracts, conference proceedings, and reports. |
| CAB Full-text (2011-) through the FAO Library Discovery interface. CAB Archives (1910-1972) through Ovid - citations only. |
| Econlit |
| The American Economic Association's electronic database, is the world's foremost source of bibliographic references to economic literature. The database contains more than 1.1 million records from 1886-present. |
| Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) |
| The EIU is the research and analysis division of the Economist Group, providing forecasting and advisory services through research and analysis, such as monthly country reports, five-year country economic forecasts, country risk service reports, and industry reports. |
| Hein Online |
| More than 2,300 law-related periodicals, the entire Congressional Record, Federal Register, and Code of Federal Regulations, complete coverage of the U.S. Reports back to 1754, and entire databases dedicated to treaties, constitutions, case law, world trials, classic treatises, international trade, foreign relations, U.S. Presidents, and more. |
| OECD iLibrary |
| The gateway to OECD’s analysis and data. |
| ProQuest Central |
| A multidisciplinary research database providing access to all major subject areas, with a collection of thousands of partially full-text scholarly journals, newspapers, magazines, dissertations, working papers, case studies, and market reports. |
| Web of Science (WOS) |
| The world’s largest publisher-neutral abstract and citation platform of leading peer-reviewed international and regional scientific literature (published serially) in the natural sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities. |
| See also Incites in the 'Tools' section on this page. This research evaluation tool is based on the data in the Web of Science. |
Tools
| CABI Compendium |
| The Compendium brings together data and research across species, pests, and diseases into one comprehensive resource, including images, maps, and diagnostic and links to decision support tools such as The Horizon Scanning Tool, Pest Risk Analysis Tool, and the Invasive Species Discovery Tool. |
| The Chicago Manual of Style |
| English grammar and usage, but also source citations. |
| InCites Benchmarking & Analytics |
| A research evaluation tool based on the data coming from the Web of Science. The app allows you to analyse institutional productivity, monitor collaboration activity, identify influential researchers, showcase strengths etc. |
| Oxford English Dictionary |
| Includes the definition, history, and pronunciation of over 600,000words. |
| Yearbook of International Organizations |
| A database of intergovernmental and international non-governmental organizations worldwide. |