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 7.4 covers E-journal, E-books and Internet Resources (Other Useful Resources)

1. E-journal, E-books and
Internet Resources: Other
Useful Resources
AGORA Basic Course: Module 7-4

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 E
Other Useful Resources (a brief sampling)
• WorldWideScience.org
• Open Grey
• OpenDOAR
• Bielefeld Academic Search Engine
• Dgroups

4. In WorldWideScience.org (a
global science gateway that
searches 99 sources),
search pesticide residue

5. Search results are organized
into papers, multimedia and
data sections. Click on
Topics//Full Text Available

6. Open the html link to the
article Pesticide Residue
Reduction in Selected
Vegetables…

7. The Open Source journal
article is open with a link
to the downloadable PDF
version.

8. Open Grey is a database of 700,000
grey literature references in Europe
plus links to many full-text documents -
technical or research reports, doctoral
dissertations, conference papers and
official publications.

9. Results for the wheat production
search are displayed. The results are
organized by author, organization,
discipline, keyword and year.

10. OpenDOAR is a directory of over
2600 academic open access
repositories. Displayed is the Country
and Organizations access page.

11. Displayed is the Search
Repository Contents page.

12. The Bielefeld Academic Search
Engine (BASE) can be used to
identify agriculture related material.
Search terrace cultivation

13. In BASE, 672 hits have been
identified and are organized by
Relevance. Note the other Refine
Search Results options

14. In the BASE abstracts,
Open Access (when
available) is noted

15. Dgroups is a resource for
international development
discussion groups. Join
the groups that interest you

16. Displayed is the list Sub-
communities. Scroll down the list
for agriculture related groups

17. This and the subsequent slide
are examples of agriculture
related dgroups. There is a
link to the registration page

19. Exercises
This is the end of the AGORA Basic
Course Module 7-4. Please complete
the Module 7 exercises.
Then, please continue with Module 8:
Publishers’ Web Sites – Standard
features.
Updated February 2015
Questions? Contact agora@fao.org