1. TEEAL Get started today using TEEAL to instantly access thousands of articles from over 275 journals in agricultural and related sciences. We’ll show you how! The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library (TEEAL) Contact us at: Email: teeal@cornell.edu Website: http://teeal.org

2. Welcome to TEEAL, where the world’s published knowledge is at your fingertips 350,000+ full-text articles in PDF 275+ 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 2013

3. Annual Reviews CABI CSIRO Elsevier FAO NRC Canada Oxford Press Taylor and Francis and many more Over 80 publishers donate their journals to TEEAL

4. With coverage of so many subject areas, you have a wealth of articles to fit your research needs Agricultural engineering Agriculture Animal sciences Biology and genetics Biotechnology and applied microbiology Chemistry, biochemistry and biophysics Economics and development Entomology and pest control Environment and ecology Fisheries Food and nutrition Forestry Human medicine Plant and soil science

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

6. Get started using the Quick Search box Type your search terms in the Quick 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.

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. Are full articles provided by TEEAL? YES! Every citation links to its article. Articles open instantly because they are stored locally in a small hard drive at your institution. (TEEAL doesn’t use the internet.) TIP: If you have troubling opening an article, please consult your IT department and someone can help you check your TEEAL set up.

10. Narrow your search Too many results? Results not relevant enough? Try an Advanced Search to limit your search to fields like: author, year, journal title and more. TIP: Search an author by typing the last name in the box and selecting Author as the field. You can add the initial of the first name, like so: Smith- J.

11. 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.

12. Save or print citations and articles Need to save it or print it for later? Click on the links offered in TEEAL and follow the steps for your computer or printer. TIP: You can select multiple citations in your Search Results to print or save.

13. 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.

14. Tips on searching Take a few minutes to review these helpful tips. Your search results will improve and you’ll save time! TIP: The Help section in TEEAL offers great search tips in English, French and Spanish. a wordcassava a number2004 any combination of letters and numbersY2K a phrase“rural development” boolean operators: and, or, and not wheat and rice pest or disease livestock and not feed Spanish boolean operators: y, o, y nobanana y farm French boolean operators: et, ou, et sansmillet ou maize combined boolean operators(wheat or rice) and not disease wildcardsagriculture* wom?n

15. 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. Available in English, French and Spanish.

16. If you also have PROTA installed, you can search its database of over 7.000 plant varieties in tropical Africa. Launch PROTA from your desktop.

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

18. We hope you are ready to start using TEEAL! TEEAL Project Albert R. Mann Library Cornell University Ithaca, New York 14853 USA telephone: 1+ (607) 255-8939 e-mail: teeal@cornell.edu website: www.teeal.org Become a fan of TEEAL on Facebook!teeal@cornell.eduwww.teeal.org Please contact us for additional support. We invite you to also visit our informational website. version February 2013