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Resources in this Guide are intended to support the study and teaching of Food and Resource Economics, including food marketing and commodities, farm management, ecological economics, resource policy, and biological and agricultural statistics.

Included in this Guide are resources in a variety of formats, including:

• Encyclopedias and Books
• Journals and Journal Articles
• Indexes and Databases
• Resources freely available on the Web
• Local University Resources

Choose a research topic that interests you. Once you have thought of a topic, try stating it in the form of a question. This will help to narrow your topic and focus upon the aspect of the topic that you are going to research. So if you first thought of writing about Economics and Food Products, try stating it in the form of a question: "How do the costs of agricultural inputs affect the price of vegetable food products?"

Reading an overview of your topic from a general source such as an encyclopedia provides background information, key words, and often a list of books and articles for further reading. This is the only step at which using Wikipedia is appropriate. Use the background information you located to determine key words or phrases that might be used to describe your topic. You may want to focus on a particular commodity (corn) or a particular aspect of economics (land values).

You can use these keywords to search for books or magazine, journal and/or newspaper articles. Use the tabs on this guide to learn about each of these formats.