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AREC 365: The Food Economy – Efficiencies, Gaps, and Policies
Hello students! This guide will give you some starting points for using library resources and services as you study and complete course assignments and projects for AREC/NAFS 365. Contact me or use the Library's Ask Us services if you need help.
Have a great semester!
Jeanne Pfander
Liaison Librarian for the College of Agriculture & Life Sciences
This book offers a broad introduction to food policies in the United States. Real-world controversies and debates motivate the book's attention to economic principles, policy analysis, nutrition science and contemporary data sources. It assumes that the reader's concern is not just the economic interests of farmers, but also includes nutrition, sustainable agriculture, the environment and food security. The book's goal is to make US food policy more comprehensible to those inside and outside the agri-food sector whose interests and aspirations have been ignored...
⇒The UA Libraries has a limited access license (3 simultaneous users) for this title. Here are some tips from the Find & Use Ebooks page on how students can minimize ebook turnaways:
For course use, the library can only guarantee access to unlimited-user ebooks. Students may find ebooks in Library Search with more restrictive licenses. Students are welcome to use these but should plan ahead to avoid access issues. Turnaways happen when a 1-user or 3-user license exceeds its maximum number of simultaneous users.
To reduce ebook turnaways:
Close the browser tab when you're done reading the ebook online. This will make the ebook available for another user.
Don't download the whole ebook at once (Springer and Wiley ebooks are exceptions — they allow you to easily download the entire ebook and keep it).
Download chapters or pages instead of the full ebook (see "Get help" links below). In Ebook Central and EBSCO, there's often a limit on the number of pages you can download at once. This limit for EBSCO ebooks resets when you close the browser tab; the limit for Ebook Central ebooks resets each day. Eventually you can download all of the chapters as PDFs. With Ebook Central and EBSCO chapter downloads, the PDFs don't expire (they sometimes do with full-book downloads).
If ebook content is the basis for homework or test questions, don't wait to access the ebook the night before! Plan ahead and download chapters in advance.