Agricultural Economists in the Information Age: Awareness, Usage, and Attitudes toward Electronic Bibliographic Databases
调查了美国农业经济学协会成员对电子书目数据库的使用情况和态度，发现研究和政府部门的农业经济学家使用较多，而推广和农业综合企业部门的使用较少；数据库平均提供28.9%的有用引用，专业图书馆员可提高这一比例。
Abstract The construction, content, and potential use of electronic bibliographic databases is discussed. A survey of AAEA members indicates that both usage and unawareness of these databases are significant; that research and government agricultural economists are disproportionately users of electronic bibliographic databases, while extension and agribusiness agricultural economists are disproportionately nonusers; that such databases average 28.9% useful citations for agricultural economics searches, though this percentage can be raised with help from a professional librarian; and that AAEA members favor having their literature citations in electronic form.