i need a source to find a bunch of academic case studies

where the hell do i even find them?
they're always cited in other sources... but where do they come from???

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On what topic? Cause depending on what case studies you need, there are a whole variety of different sources open to you. Google Scholar is a good start.

Yeah, or what field in general? Academic journals. I don't do Google scholar but your school's library website should have a lot of electronic journal resources. And in citations it should say where those case studies came from--either another article or book or from the author's original research.

i need a case study, less than 50 pages, on sustainable agriculture in latin america.

it's bizarre.
and i learned that these case studies are few, and impossible to obtain (no longer being published.. etc).

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go to the closest university website and see if you can find it in their stock of journals and if they do see if you can access online for a fee or go copy them at the uni.. thats my suggestion

well we do have our own university library. but it's under construction, and all we have now is the godforsaken robot libary (which i've posted about before).

i could trot over to Stanford, but it's due by friday. today's nearly monday.

last night i talked to a online reference libarian for the association of jesuit collges adn universites, named Diego L. and he tried to help, but i only found one semigood match.

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hmm... well in that case how bout going to the us aggricultural site and see if there are links to what you need from there.

sorry for the shitty suggesgtions i'm trying to be of help not an annoyance

http://www.sendspace.com/file/kqu3rk
http://www.sendspace.com/file/6k1foh
http://www.sendspace.com/file/09a2pp
http://www.sendspace.com/file/7geexs

Like those? I did a short search on our bio databases.

some of those are fabulous.
what genius library has such a well organized database?

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Williams College. I would direct you to them but you need to be on the college network to access them.

seriously.
all hail pablita.
that first case study is the one i'm using. about net agricultural emergy between the US corn industry, family owned blackberry farms, and chipas polyculture.

it was like 14 pages, but took me TWO hours to get through. it was incredibly, dense.

but it's EXACTALY what i needed.

and turns out my university library had the article as well, but you have to search for other terms to find it (how stupid).


THANK YOU!!!!

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No problem. I just thought it was weird that people were giving you misinformation. There is much, much, much written on this subject and it's ridiculous no one could direct you to where you needed to go.

Glad you found something. Otherwise I was going to suggest JSTOR. That tends to hold random articles/case studies on random random topics and your uni should have a subscription to that on site or via remote accessing.

ok.. so this is a 35 page paper that i'm diving into two sections:

statistical analysis
and
commentary/evaluation

i'm tempted to preface it with one of those super pompus descriptive abstract.
but i've never need to use an abstract before.
i'll cringe if i have to. i really feel like they're only ment for assholes who're too wordy for their own good.

ohh god why did i suddenly decide i need a BS along with my BA. the BA papers are ever so much easier to write.

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Abstracts aren't too bad to write, do you ever have to write proposals for papers to get them certified before you actually do the paper? Because its just a bit like that, but then with a bit about your conclusions. Just have a look on something like pubmed (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/q...cgi?DB=pubmed), doesn't matter what you search for, and view some of their abstracts. That gives you a rough outline on what things should look like and the right balance between information on your paper and summarising the whole thing.

Jstor is good for political science, but I don't know if it's Pols specific. It has lots of papers, some of them case studies. But Latin American agriculture? Hmm...

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Yes, JSTOR is definitely only for the humanities and social sociences. The database I found those scientific articles was

Biology Article Databases
Core Resources

Biological & Agricultural Index (1983-Present )
Search a variety of popular and professional scientific journals. Research interdisciplinary biological topics.

http://www.williams.edu/library/inde....php?s=Biology

I'm not sure that sustainable argicultre might not cross the boundary into humanities, particularly in the older papers. I'm always surprised by what IS on jstor. Its a random, random source.