112 · Representative Documents: AgEcon Search
AgECON SEARCH
Report to the AAEA Board
Support
AAEA generously provides funds to AgEcon Search, covering the exhibit at the annual meeting,
some travel expenses and the personnel to add conference papers to the database. Other groups
also contributed to the project during the last year:
The CME Foundation gave us a grant for $12,000 to digitize and upload two ceased
journals from Stanford’s Food Research Institute (Food Research Institute Studies and
Wheat Studies). The project is nearly complete.
The National Agricultural Library extended the small grant we received in 2011, allowing us
to continue digitizing older working papers we obtained from UC-Berkeley.
The University of Minnesota Libraries awarded us a $3,000 grant to cover student
expenses for uploading copies of papers that were already in digital format but were not
held in a repository.
AAEA covered the scanning and uploading costs for making the print-only volumes of
Choices (1986-2002) available.
IAAE provided travel funds and waived our expenses to have an exhibit at their meeting in
Brazil.
AARES provided travel funds and provided booth space for us at their 2012 meeting in
Fremantle, and this allowed us to make progress on our data archiving project.
University of Minnesota Department of Applied Economics and the University Libraries
provided travel funding as well as in kind support for librarian and computer professional
salaries, student salaries, supplies, hardware, and software.
A University of Minnesota Libraries team provides technical support for AgEcon Search as
needed, and the group includes a Web application developer, a Web designer, and the
manager of the Libraries’ Digital Library Services group.
In 2012, the AgEcon Search Special Purpose Fund was chartered at the AAEA meeting so we will
be able to begin utilizing proceeds from the fund next year.
On the Horizon
A move to a new software platform will be finalized in 2013.
In order to make the journal articles even more easily accessible, we hope to arrange for DOIs
(digital object identifiers) for each article.
We will offer the possibility of hosting data in Dataverse to additional groups in the upcoming year.
In an effort to include more research produced in the developing world, we are negotiating with
journals from Ethiopia, Nigeria, and Pakistan and hope to be adding them soon.
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