TEEALGet started today using TEEAL to

instantly access thousands of articles from over 325 journals in agricultural and related sciences.

We’ll show you how!

The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library (TEEAL)Contact us at:

Email: teeal@cornell.eduWebsite: http://teeal.org

Objectives• Understand need for and creation of TEEAL• Review content and capabilities• Discuss eligibility, distribution and technological

requirements for TEEAL• Understand how to install and use TEEAL• Review pricing

Agricultural Research in Africa

• Research investment of millions of dollars in the past 3 decades

• Continued limited access to the world’s published knowledge resulting in:– Duplication of efforts– Limits in innovation – Diminished return on investment

Institution Libraries

• Journals have become expensive and inaccessible to the scientist

• Subscriptions increase at an annual rate of 11 -16%, which is beyond the reach of many institutions in Africa

• Most institutions have small, older and incomplete collections

What is Needed• Scientists must have access to the world’s

most important scholarly science journals• The most up-to-date knowledge is found in

scholarly journals• Institutions must have a critical mass of

journals • The journals MUST be affordable• Offline access to literature is still necessary

for some institutions

Why TEEAL• Publishers available on the Internet for free could

charge in future; if institutions cannot pay, access to all issues, past and future, ceases

• TEEAL ownership guarantees access to past issues even if future updates cannot be purchased

• TEEAL is an asset that can be kept whilst one can access the Internet they do not own it

• Faster to access than a document on Internet• With Internet, sometimes unreliable data

communication links• TEEAL is not prone to bandwidth problems

• Crops: crop production, sustainable systems, plant diseases, tropical plants

• Animals: dairy and livestock farming, animal nutrition

• Human Nutrition: human diet, nutrition and health• Environment: natural resources, forestry and the

environment• Economics: rural demographics and agricultural

economics

Subject Areas

Welcome to TEEAL, where the world’s published knowledge is at your fingertips

• 350,000+ full-text articles in PDF• 325+ journals• 80+ publishers• Agriculture and over 10 related

sciences• Updated every year • Articles or abstracts in French and

Spanish • Excellent offline option in eligible

countries

*Above counts are as of January 2014

• Annual Reviews• CABI• CSIRO• Elsevier• FAO• NRC Canada

• Oxford Press• Taylor and Francis• and many more

Over 80 publishers donate their journals to TEEAL

With coverage of so many subject areas, you have a wealth of articles to fit your research needs

Agricultural engineeringAgricultureAnimal sciencesBiology and geneticsBiotechnology and applied microbiologyChemistry, biochemistry and biophysics

Economics and developmentEntomology and pest controlEnvironment and ecologyFisheriesFood and nutritionForestryHuman medicinePlant and soil science

Get started now discovering and instantly accessing articles in the TEEAL collection installed at your institution.

Get started using the Quick Search boxType your search terms in the Search box on the home page to instantly generate a list of article citations

TIP: Try to avoid a very general search, such as farms, because that will slow down your search and your results may not be very useful.

Choose your articles from a list of search results

Your results are displayed in a list of citations. Each citation gives you key information, such as article title, author, journal, and a snippet of the abstract. You can open the full citation for more details or go straight to the article.

What’s in a citation?The full citation gives you a more in-depth description about your article. You can open your article from here, too.

Are full articles provided by TEEAL?YES! Every citation links to its article. Articles open instantly because they are stored on a new class of small processing units. (TEEAL doesn’t use the internet.)

TIP: If you have trouble opening an article, please consult your IT department and someone can help you check your TEEAL set up.

Narrow your search Too many results? Results not relevant enough? Narrow your search results using the facet menu under ‘Limit your search.’ : author, year, journal title and more.

Want to browse TEEAL’s collection?If you already have an article in mind, or wish to browse a journal, go to the Journals A-Z or Subjects A-Z tab. Expand the list of journals to see the years, volumes and article titles of a journal.

Bookmark citationsNeed to bookmark print it for later? Click on the Bookmark link

TIP: You can select multiple citations in your Search Results to print or save.

What have you already searched?Click on the Search History link at the top of the Results page to view your previous searches. You’ll see the amount of results per search. You can re-initiate a past search.

Tips on searchingTake a few minutes to review these helpful tips. Your search results will improve and you’ll save time!

Hands-on – Browse for article

• Try browsing for an article.• Here’s an article: – In Livestock Science

2006, Volume 102, Issue 1-2– Locate in the Table of Contents this article: Effect

of feeding Yucca schidigera extract on performance of lactating dairy cows and ruminal fermentation parameters in steers

Need more help?Answers to most of your questions can be found in the Help tab, along with best-practices for getting the best search results.

TEEAL is produced by Cornell University’s Albert R. Mann Library. We´re proud to have the support of many global and regional organizations.

We hope you are ready to start using TEEAL!

TEEAL ProjectAlbert R. Mann LibraryCornell UniversityIthaca, New York 14853 USAtelephone: 1+ (607) 255-8939e-mail: teeal@cornell.edu website: www.teeal.org Become a fan of TEEAL on Facebook!

Please contact us for additional support. We invite you to also visit our informational website.

version February 2013