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 5 covers searching with Summon

1. Summon Searching
AGORA Basic Course: Module 5

2. What Is Summon?
Summon is a Google-like search engine that
provides fast, relevancy-ranked results:
• Enter the search terms into a single search
box or select Advanced Search options
from the results page
• Refine (limit) results by criteria such as
date, subject, academic journals and other
options
• View results, and link directly to full text or
more details

3. Access Summon from the
‘Search inside AGORA full-
text through database and
article searching’ list
Summon Access

4. Click on ‘Summon – AGORA
Search’ – to access the tool

5. Summon notes that
AGORA is the client which
means that there will be
access to full-text articles
Now opened is the Basic
Search display of Summon.
Enter terrace cultivation
and click on Search
Basic Search

6. Results for the terrace
cultivation are 5,414 citations.
Note the ‘Any’ Content Type
and ‘Any’ Subject Terms.
Remember we are searching AGORA
in Summon. Since this does not
index all the AGORA journals, other
titles may be available from AGORA
portal

7. Click on Full Text Online
for the Marginal Lands
and Erosion… article

8. From the new screen,
choose a link to the article
or journal or provider

9. From the Mountain Research
and Development volume
page, open the contents to
Vol 24, Feb 2001

10. The journal article with
access to Full Text and PDF
options is displayed

11. Now shown is the PDF
version of the article

12. Now displayed is
the ‘Preview’ option
– with abstract and
other information

13. The ‘Save’ option
can be sorted by
Relevance or Date

14. Now shown is the saved
Preview of the article with
‘Email’ and ‘Print’ options

15. The highlighted article is
from an Elsevier Science
Direct journal – with an
extra step to access.
Click on ‘Full Text Online’

16. Click on ‘Science Direct
– Click Here to Log in’
and be redirected the
AGORA login page

17. Log into AGORA again
– to authorize access
to Science Direct

18. Return to the Content
is Available… page and
click on ‘Article’ – to
access the full text

19. Now displayed is the html
version of the article with
the Download PDF option

20. Open Farmers’ attiitudes and
landscape change… by
clicking on ‘Full Text Online’
Check AGORA for Access

21. For this title, access the
‘Article’ or ‘Journal’

22. The contests of vol 27(2) is
displayed. Scroll down the
contents to the Farmers’ attitudes
and landscape change… article.

23. In this case, there is access
to the Abstract only and the
publisher asks the user to
buy or rent the article

24. Return to the AGORA Content
page’s click on ‘Publisher’ list to
locate Springer’s journals including
Agriculture and Human Values

25. In the ‘Browse publisher – Springer’ list,
the ‘All Items’ titles have been opened –
the ! box notes that this publisher has not
granted access to its journals including
Agriculture and Human Values

26. In other cases, the publisher’s offer
would include access to the requested
journal – either via the ‘Publisher’
directory or ‘Journals collection’ A-Z list
Now opened is the ‘Journal collection’
M list and Mountain Research and
Development (the previous example)
can be accessed. Note the Green box

27. In the left column, numerous options to
refine the search are listed. ‘Content type’
incudes all materials available from AGORA
– journals and e-books.
Complete the search for terrace cultivation
Refine (Limit) a Search

28. This search now is limited to
Journal Articles ‘Content
Type’ – a total of 3,633 articles

29. This search is refined (limited) to
Journal articles ‘Content Type’
and agriculture ‘Subject Term’ –
a total of 743 citations
Note the ‘Keep search
references’ and ‘New
Search’ options

30. Other Refine your search
options are ‘Publication
Date’ and ‘Language’

31. This search is limited to Journal
Articles ‘Content Type’ and 1
Jan 2013 ‘Publication Date’

32. Results for this search
are 338 journal articles.

33. Summon also contains an
Advanced Search option.
Note the various ways to
make a search more precise
Advanced Search

34. Scopus and Summon
When logged in to AGORA: Search
inside AGORA full-text through
database and article searching:
- Summon:
http://agoralogin.research4life.org/uniquesigagora.summon.serialssolutions.com/uniquesig0/
- Scopus: https://auth.elsevier.com/ShibAuth/deliverInstCredentials
If not logged in to AGORA:
- Summon pilot http://agora.summon.serialssolutions.com/

35. Exercises
This is the end of the AGORA Basic
Course Module 5. Please complete the
exercises for this module.
Then, please continue with AGORA Basic
Course Module 6: Using Scopus to
Search for Articles
Updated February 2015
Questions? Contact agora@fao.org