E-journal, E-books and Internet Resources: Agriculture Gateways/Portals

AGORA Basic Course: Module 7-3

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 DAgriculture Gateways/Portals

(a brief sampling)

• PubAg - National Agriculture Libraries (USA) • Commonwealth ILibrary• United Nations University• Plant Management Network• CGIAR Library

• Iowa State University Digital Library

Search for winter wheat production in PubAg – a new tool (as of 2015 01) with 40,000 full-text journal articles

The winter wheat production results in 498 citations including 176 with Full Text in PubAg

Note the Publication Year, Subject Term and General Topics limit options

Now displayed are the 176 Full Text in PubAg titles

Check the boxes and click on Export MarkedNote the article-page.csv file and open it

The exported references are listed on this Excel spreadsheet.

The Commonwealth iLibrary also has a digital collection that can be searched by keyword or via title or year index. Search for waste management and developing countries

Search Results for the waste management and developing countries is 38 articles. PDFs can be downloaded

Displayed is the iLibrary Advanced Search page

The United Nations University contains 210 publication in agriculture related subjects. Access is via keyword, title subject and organization.

The rice production and pollution search resulted in a significant number documents matched by the query

The Plant Management Network also contains numerous agricultural resources including full-text journals. Search bean production

Search results for bean production are 13,000 articles

For each citation, the abstract is displayed. Note the View options

Permission for the full-text PDF of the article must be requested from the author

The CGIAR (Consortium of International Agricultural Research Centers) Library is another resource for full-text articles. Search bean cultivation

Bean cultivation search results are 275 full-text articles

Displayed is one of the documents from this search

The Iowa State University Digital Repository contains numerous agriculture related documents including thesis and dissertations, journal articles and conference proceedings. Search for nutrients residue

Listed is the initial page of the 479 results for this search. Note the Discipline sub-listings and other limits.

Displayed is one of the ISU Digital Repository full-text articles

Exercises

This is the end of the AGORA Basic Course Module 7-3. Exercises for this module are available after Module 7.4.

Please continue with Module 7-4: E-journal, E-books and Internet Resources: Other Useful Resources.

Updated February 2015

Questions? Contact agora@fao.org