E-journal, E-books and Internet Resources: Other Useful Resources

AGORA Basic Course: Module 7-4

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

Section EOther Useful Resources (a brief sampling)

• WorldWideScience.org• Open Grey• OpenDOAR• Bielefeld Academic Search Engine• Dgroups

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Displayed is the Search Repository Contents page.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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