Journal Price Study of Core Agricultural and Biological Journals
This November 1998 study, the first comprehensive look at journal pricing in agriculture and biology, found that the 200 year old practice of using scholarly journals to transmit research is being threatened by high journal prices. Mann staff were actively involved with Cornell faculty in investigating the sources of skyrocketing journal prices in these fields and determining actions for addressing the problem.

Journal Table of Contents Service
A free service to the Cornell community. Subscribe through this service to automatically receive journal tables of contents when the journals arrive at Mann Library. There are over 300 journal titles to choose from.

CUGIR
A recently awarded grant from the United States Geological Survey is enabling Mann Library to establish a world wide web-based clearinghouse for geospatial data and metadata. The Cornell University Geospatial Information Repository, or CUGIR, will provide free, global access to geospatial data and metadata covering New York State. Data from the collections of Mann Library, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, the Soil Information Systems Laboratory at Cornell and other state and local agencies will be included in CUGIR.

BRS Databases
These telnet databases, covering subject areas ranging from education to agriculture and business to biology, are locally loaded by Mann's ITS staff and reside on servers in the library's basement. This ensures a strong measure of control over the workings of these resources and allows Mann to present the information via the well designed BRS interface. The databases, which are available to the Cornell community, are ERIC, Biosis, and Agricola.

USDA Subscription Service
Maintained by Mann, this web resource contains nearly 300 reports and datasets from three economics agencies of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. These materials cover U.S. and international agriculture and related topics.

CHLA
The Core Historical Literature of Agriculture is a representative electronic full-text collection of agricultural texts published during the period 1850-1950. Full-text materials cover agricultural economics, agricultural engineering, animal science, crop protection, food science, forestry, human nutrition, rural sociology, and soil science.