E-journal, E-books and Internet Resources: Free E-book Access

AGORA Basic Course: Module 7-2

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

Section C: Free E-book Access

• Google Books• Booksee.org• National Academy Press

In the Google books search box, enter coffee cultivation and click on Search Books. The material comes from the Google Library Project and Partner Programs

For this search, academic, cultural and general coffee cultivation books are listed. Note the links to Google’s adds – as this is a commercial search tool.

If the book is ‘Public Domain’, you can download it. Otherwise, there is online access.

Displayed is one of the coffee cultivation books that have been scanned into the Google Books database. Click on Add to my library

If you have a Google account, you can store the link to the book in your account

Using the Search tools options, the Any books drop down menu has been opened. Search for bean cultivation developing countries and Free Google eBooks

Now displayed are the results for the bean cultivation developing countries search with the Free Google eBooks limit. Note the Sorted by drop down menu

Booksee.org is a huge list of downloadable books that can be searched by ‘subject’ such as agriculture production

Results for the agriculture production are listed. Note the option to download the PDFsDownloading these files can be a slow process

A 7.5 MB pdf has been downloaded. This took approximately 6 minutes

The per search limit is 100 titles. The Exact matches box limits this search to 63 titles.

We have opened the Health and Medicine topics page.. Note also the keyword search box.

The National Academies Press e-books are downloadable for free and can be BROWSE(D) BY TOPIC

Now opened is the BROWSE BY TOPIC listing that includes Agriculture

Completed is a keyword search for nutrients that results in 123 e-books

Each title can be downloaded as a pdf but (free) registration is required – see next slide

Click on I don’t have an account – to register

Exercises

This is the end of the AGORA Basic Course Module 7-2. Exercises for this module are available after Module 7.4.

Please continue with Module 7-3: E-journal, E-books and Internet Resources: Agriculture Gateways/ Portals.

Updated February 2015

Questions? Contact agora@fao.org