http://www.fao.org/agora This module is part of the AGORA Basic Course. The AGORA Basic Course highlights the baseline skills necessary to use the AGORA program effectively and efficiently. The AGORA programme (Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture), set up by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) together with major publishers, enables developing countries to gain access to an outstanding digital library collection in the fields of food, agriculture, environmental science and related social sciences. Module 7.3 covers E-journal, E-books and Internet Resources (Agriculture Gateways/Portals)

1. E-journal, E-books and
Internet Resources:
Agriculture Gateways/Portals
AGORA Basic Course: Module 7-3

2. Contents Module 7: E-journal, E-
books and Internet Resources
Module 7.1: Background; Free E-journals
Access
Module 7.2: Free E-book Access
Module 7.3: Agriculture Gateways/Portals
Module 7.4 Other Useful Resources

3. Section D
Agriculture Gateways/Portals
(a brief sampling)
• PubAg - National Agriculture Libraries (USA)
• Commonwealth ILibrary
• United Nations University
• Plant Management Network
• CGIAR Library
• Iowa State University Digital Library

4. Search for winter wheat
production in PubAg – a new
tool (as of 2015 01) with
40,000 full-text journal articles

5. The winter wheat
production results in 498
citations including 176
with Full Text in PubAg
Note the Publication Year,
Subject Term and General
Topics limit options

6. Now displayed are the 176
Full Text in PubAg titles
Check the boxes and
click on Export Marked
Note the article-page.csv
file and open it

7. The exported references
are listed on this Excel
spreadsheet.

8. The Commonwealth iLibrary also has a
digital collection that can be searched
by keyword or via title or year index.
Search for waste management and
developing countries

9. Search Results for the waste
management and developing
countries is 38 articles.
PDFs can be downloaded

10. Displayed is the iLibrary
Advanced Search page

11. The United Nations University contains
210 publication in agriculture related
subjects. Access is via keyword, title
subject and organization.

12. The rice production and pollution
search resulted in a significant
number documents matched by
the query

13. The Plant Management Network also
contains numerous agricultural
resources including full-text journals.
Search bean production

14. Search results for
bean production are
13,000 articles

15. For each citation, the
abstract is displayed.
Note the View options

16. Permission for the full-text
PDF of the article must be
requested from the author

17. The CGIAR (Consortium of International
Agricultural Research Centers) Library
is another resource for full-text articles.
Search bean cultivation

18. Bean cultivation search
results are 275 full-text
articles

19. Displayed is one of the
documents from this search

20. The Iowa State University Digital Repository
contains numerous agriculture related
documents including thesis and dissertations,
journal articles and conference proceedings.
Search for nutrients residue

21. Listed is the initial page
of the 479 results for this
search. Note the
Discipline sub-listings
and other limits.

22. Displayed is one of the
ISU Digital Repository
full-text articles

23. Exercises
This is the end of the AGORA Basic
Course Module 7-3. Exercises for this
module are available after Module 7.4.
Please continue with Module 7-4: E-
journal, E-books and Internet
Resources: Other Useful Resources.
Updated February 2015
Questions? Contact agora@fao.org