How to Use AGORA Tomaz Bartol Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan August, 2005 FAO Tutorial Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture Traning and Workshop: LIVESTOCK, ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT

How to Use AGORA Welcome to AGORA In this Tutorial You Will Learn 1)what AGORA offers, main features, and appropriate use 2)how to open AGORA, log in and navigate to find journals and download articles 3)how to use CAB Abstracts and publishers’ websites to find citations and download articles

How to Use AGORA What Is AGORA?

How to Use AGORA AGORA = Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture

How to Use AGORA AGORA Is… An Internet gateway with links to major scientific journals, bibliographic databases, and Internet resources related to agricultural sciences

How to Use AGORA Public/Private Partnership Partnership led by Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in partnership with World Health Organization (WHO), major scientific publishers, and Mann Library at Cornell University

How to Use AGORA AGORA’s Founding Publishers Blackwell Publishing CABI Publishing Elsevier Kluwer Academic Publishers Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins Nature Publishing Group Oxford University Press Springer-Verlag John Wiley & Sons

How to Use AGORA AGORA’s Objectives Improve access to high-quality, relevant literature in agriculture Increase the quality and effectiveness of agricultural research and training in developing countries

How to Use AGORA AGORA is for Everyone Anyone can browse AGORA ’ s collection of journals without logging in and get to the publishers ’ websites and abstracts of journal articles. However, only students, faculty and staff at eligible, registered institutions can access full-text articles and CAB Abstracts at no cost.

How to Use AGORA Eligibility 69 countries qualify Only public sector or non-profit educational/research organization (no NGOs) Institutions must register (just once) to receive a username and password All students, faculty and staff use the same password provided to that organization

How to Use AGORA Who is Using AGORA Presently, over 300 institutions in more than 51 countries are registered Most institutions are either National Agricultural Research Institutes or major national universities

How to Use AGORA Users of This Tutorial Check with your librarian to receive the username and password that gives you full access to AGORA so you can save and download full-text articles and search the collection using CAB Abstracts. You will need at least a 56K modem to be able to download full-text articles with any ease.

How to Use AGORA AGORA is Evolving Changes to the website may occur. Technical difficulties occasionally arise. If your password doesn’t work the first time, don’t attempt to log in more than 3X in a row. Any ongoing trouble with AGORA, (describe problem and include print screen).

How to Use AGORA Modules in this Tutorial 1. How to Use AGORA 2. How to Use CAB Abstracts 3. Publishers’ Websites 4.AGORA Terms of Use

How to Use AGORA 1. How to Use AGORA

How to Use AGORA Opening AGORA Homepage Step 1 Start your web browser (Internet Explorer or Netscape). Step 2 Type: in the Address box Step 3 Press Enter on the keyboard

Main navigation bar.

Information about AGORA, including eligibility Help and Contact Us features Information about AGORA provided in different languages: Arabic, English, French or Spanish Register, log in and find journals. MOST IMPORTANT

How to Use AGORA Accessing the Collection Click on Journals

How to Use AGORA Click on log in for free access to: 1. Full-text articles 2. CAB Abstracts

How to Use AGORA Logging In For full-text journal articles: –Users ’ institutions must be registered –Users must log in using institutional user name and password. NOTE: AGORA log in does not give access to all services offered on publishers ’ websites.

How to Use AGORA If you receive either of these messages about security certificates or secure connections, click yes or OK to continue

How to Use AGORA Type in user name and password exactly as provided by your institution. Passwords are case-sensitive. Click Sign On

How to Use AGORA User Authentication Page A new window automatically launches. Do not click anything on this page. DO NOT close this window until you want to log out.

How to Use AGORA You know you are logged in because all URLS are preceded by base AGORA homepage relaunches. Sometimes this can take a minute or two. BE PATIENT. Click on Journals again to continue. You will see the authentication page still open. You may wish to minimize it.

How to Use AGORA 1. Main navigation bar remains

How to Use AGORA AGORA Is Like Your Library You can… Browse the collection, just like in a current periodical room Search for journals in a specific subject area, like departmental libraries Track down a citation if you have one Use CAB Abstracts as a powerful tool for discovery

How to Use AGORA Navigating AGORA to Find What You Need In the next few slides you will learn to: Browse the entire collection Locate specific journals, publishers, subjects Find specific citations

How to Use AGORA “Browse By” Feature Browse by journal title subject or publisher

How to Use AGORA

Search Journal Title Search: Enter all or part of the Journal Title if you know it.

How to Use AGORA Finding Journals Journals titles are organized by: 1. Title (alphabetically) 2. Complete List 3. Subject 4. Publisher

How to Use AGORA 1. Titles Organized Alphabetically Click on the “T”

How to Use AGORA 2. Click on Back or Journals to return to Journals page 1. Page opens with all the Journal titles beginning with the letter “T”

How to Use AGORA 2. List of All Journals in AGORA

How to Use AGORA Lists all Journals (and the name of each journal’s publisher) in the AGORA collection over 500 and growing

How to Use AGORA 3.Titles by Subject Click on orange subject categories to view list of journals in that area.

How to Use AGORA Click on orange subject link to see all journals related to that topic. For example: Forestry Scope Notes Display topics included in that subject category

How to Use AGORA List appears of all journals related to the field of Forestry

How to Use AGORA 4. Titles by Publisher Click on arrow to view list of publishers

How to Use AGORA Click on desired publisher

How to Use AGORA 2. Select different publisher 1. Retrieves list of all journals published by Nature Publishing Group in AGORA

How to Use AGORA Retrieving Full-Text Articles Example

How to Use AGORA EXAMPLE Find the citation: Bokary Allaye Kelly, Jean-Marc Bouvet, Nicolas Picard (2004 ) “Size class distribution and spatial pattern of Vitellaria paradoxa in relation to farmers' practices in Mali.” Agroforestry Systems. 60 (1): Find the journal. Since we know the title, we can browse to find it.

How to Use AGORA 2. Find the journal and click on the title to open journal homepage in a new window EXAMPLE Find the citation: Bokary Allaye Kelly, Jean-Marc Bouvet, Nicolas Picard (2004 ) “Size class distribution and spatial pattern of Vitellaria paradoxa in relation to farmers' practices in Mali.” Agroforestry Systems. 60 (1): 3-11

How to Use AGORA You are now in the Kluwer site (see new url in Address box) and the homepage for Agroforestry Systems. 3. Click on desired Volume and Issue. 60 (1): 3-11 EXAMPLE Find the citation: Bokary Allaye Kelly, Jean-Marc Bouvet, Nicolas Picard (2004 ) “Size class distribution and spatial pattern of Vitellaria paradoxa in relation to farmers' practices in Mali.” Agroforestry Systems. 60 (1): 3-11

How to Use AGORA Scroll down to view all articles in the volume. 4. Click on Abstract for article description Note the size of PDF. Large PDFs take longer to download.

How to Use AGORA Abstract appears 5. Click on full-text PDF link Scroll down to read abstract

How to Use AGORA Article opens up in PDF 6. Click here to save or print

How to Use AGORA Let’s Review What We Learned You should now know how to: Browse journal titles and publishers Explore a subject area Find a known citation Download full-text articles If you are online, try this exercise: Retrieve the full-text article for the following citation. –H. C. C. Meertens, L. J. Ndege and P. M. Lupeja. (1999) “The cultivation of rainfed, lowland rice in Sukumaland, Tanzania.” Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment. 76 (1): 31-45

How to Use AGORA Problems with the Exercise? Remember, technical difficulties occasionally arise. If you have questions about AGORA consult your librarian. Any ongoing trouble with AGORA, please

How to Use AGORA 2. How to Use CAB Abstracts

How to Use AGORA What Is CAB Abstracts? Internationally recognized database of information for applied agriculture and life sciences Covers research and development literature from thousands of international serials Provides abstracts (brief article descriptions)

How to Use AGORA CAB Abstracts and AGORA CAB generously offers a subset of CAB Abstracts to AGORA users Covers about 80% of journals in AGORA You must log in to AGORA to gain access to full-text articles.

How to Use AGORA Using CAB Abstracts: Getting Started Choose Search AGORA journal articles through CAB Abstracts

How to Use AGORA You are now on the CAB Abstracts website, at a special page created for AGORA users. Choose Search Database Click on the button

How to Use AGORA CAB Abstract Search Screen Search Tips Enter search terms

How to Use AGORA CAB Abstract Search Tips Review the Search Tips! They are VERY helpful.

How to Use AGORA Quick Search on CAB Abstracts 1. Enter search words, phrases or author names. 2. Indicate here whether you are searching for an author or free text. You can also specify publication date and date entered into CAB database.

How to Use AGORA Quick Search on CAB Abstracts Click here to Search or start over.

How to Use AGORA Your Search Results: Step by Step Note how many records CAB finds and view first 25 records on the screen.

How to Use AGORA Search Results: Displaying Records You can control how records are displayed.

How to Use AGORA You also have the option of refining or amending your search on this page. Refining Your Search

How to Use AGORA Refining Your Search

How to Use AGORA Example: Refine by Date

How to Use AGORA Example: Results by Date Note that when we ask for articles published before 1998, we get just 8 records returned. This makes finding the right articles easier.

How to Use AGORA Search Results: Tagging Records Check the boxes or disk icons beside the articles that interest you.

How to Use AGORA Search Results: Tagging Records Shortcuts: 1. 1.You can select all the articles; or deselect all View the list of articles you’ve checked.

How to Use AGORA Search Results: Managing Records You can capture the full record or abstract and you can send/save it as HTML or PDF.

How to Use AGORA Search Results: Managing Records Now you can save them, or print them, or export them to a bibliographic reference manager.

How to Use AGORA Here is a CAB Abstract Record Scroll down to see full abstract and specialized fields called descriptors

How to Use AGORA To find similar articles: Put check marks by the subject descriptors you would like to find and click on More Like This

How to Use AGORA OR Choose Advanced Search from the top menu bar and use these terms in the Advanced Search screen

How to Use AGORA Retrieving Full-Text If you would like the full- text of this article, RETURN to AGORA. Be sure you are still logged in. Find the Journal and download the article DIRECTLY from the publisher’s site.

How to Use AGORA 3. Navigating Publishers’ Sites

How to Use AGORA Publishers’ Websites Vary All publishers’ websites are slightly different and even journals within a publisher’s site can vary in appearance and features. –Identical features might be accessed differently or will be located in other places. –Journal coverage (PDF and/or HTML full-text) is generally from 1997 onwards. –Not all publishers offer the same features (e.g., some have table of contents alerting, some do not).

How to Use AGORA Some Common Features You can: Search across all journals on a publisher’s website Register for some personalized services Download, print or citations and/or abstract Download full-text (PDFs and/or HTML files with hyperlinks to other full-text references or websites)

How to Use AGORA Example:Blackwell Publishing

How to Use AGORA Blackwell Journals Page Download full-text (PDFs/ HTML files with hyperlinks to other full-text references or websites

How to Use AGORA Full-text of References Sometimes references are available in full-text from other sources. You must have a subscription to the referenced journal through AGORA or another source for these full-text links to work.

How to Use AGORA Step 1. Mark citations you want to review. Exporting Citations in Elsevier

How to Use AGORA Step 2. Export citations to a disk or to your hard drive. Exporting Citations in Elsevier

How to Use AGORA Step 3. Choose which citations you want to export: all or certain numbers.

How to Use AGORA Step 4. Choose how much of the records you want, and in what format to export them. On some publishers’ websites you may export in RIS (bibliographic reference manager [i.e. EndNote, ProCite, etc] format) or text format

How to Use AGORA Step 5. Click Export. Then save the file to your computer or disk.

How to Use AGORA Personalized Services Registration is often required to: Receive table of contents alerts Save searches and results for later use Re-run searches and results automatically Link to your favorite journals and articles 1. To register click here 2. To access your personalized services after registration, log in and go to My Synergy

How to Use AGORA Registration Page Read carefully and follow Publisher’s instructions on the screen.

How to Use AGORA Registration Page

How to Use AGORA Registration Page

How to Use AGORA To sign up for table of contents service, check the box beside journals you want and choose Submit button at bottom of page

How to Use AGORA 4. Conditions of Use

How to Use AGORA AGORA User Agreement All registered institutions must sign a User Agreement covering: –Use of the AGORA password –Copyright and Fair Use Ask your librarian about the terms of the AGORA User Agreement

How to Use AGORA Use of the AGORA Password DO Share AGORA username and password with colleagues, students, faculty in your institution. Do NOT Share outside your institution. Do NOT Use outside your country.

How to Use AGORA Copyright/Fair Use of Articles Typical copyright and fair use principles apply It is OK to: –Download or print up to 15% of a journal issue or book –Use material for educational purposes (course packs or reserves) –Make copies for institution members Always credit sources Be cautious but sensible

How to Use AGORA Abuse of Publisher Privileges It is NOT OK to: –Charge for documents, except for cost recovery for teaching materials –Post content to websites –Change content –Download all articles from a single issue Violations result in the ENTIRE country denied access for up to a week, until the problem is resolved.

How to Use AGORA Questions? Contact your Librarian OR Contact the AGORA team with any questions or comments. We want/need to hear from users!

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