1. Հայաստանի Հանրապետություն, հունիս / հուլիս 2009
AGORA Overview
This presentation should be accompanied by live demonstrations of the resources – a page of links are included for you to use from within a Web browser on the desk top of your computer. See: workshop-links.html
If the network seems to be running slow, then screen captures are provided to give an overview of the resources. If these are used and live demonstrations are not possible, then this module may not take as much time as planned (the live demonstrations can take a long time to do – be prepared to be waiting for pages to download and display. It’s a good idea to think of some things in advance to say when this happens – notes are given for guidance in this.
Armenia, June/July 2009
Հայաստանի Հանրապետություն, հունիս / հուլիս 2009

2. In this Tutorial You Will Learn
Welcome to AGORA
In this Tutorial You Will Learn
what AGORA offers, main features, and appropriate use
how to open AGORA, log in and navigate to find journals and download articles
how to use CAB Abstracts and publishers’ websites to find citations and download articles

3. What Is AGORA?

4. AGORA = Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture

5. AGORA is Evolving Changes to the website may occur.
Technical difficulties occasionally arise.
If your password doesn’t work the first time, don’t attempt to log in more than 3 times in a row.
Any ongoing trouble with AGORA, (describe problem and include print screen).
A good thing to keep in mind with AGORA and all other electronic resources is to expect the unexpected. All electronic resources change frequently so features may not be where you last saw them or additional features may have appeared. Also, since these are electronic resources, they are prone to mechanical difficulties, connection problems, hardware and software issues, and changing levels of access unlike paper resources. If you are having trouble, check that you are logged in correctly and that all of your equipment is working properly. You may need to reboot your computer, refresh the page you’re working on, close and reopen your browser, or clear your browser’s cache (the list of visited pages stored on your computer). Be patient and try again if you cannot access something you know you should have access to. Also, be aware that you do not have access to everything. AGORA only gives access to a certain subset of a publisher’s journals though all journals are listed on the publisher’s website. The journals with full-text access indicated may not apply to you. Check AGORA for a definitive list of available journals. If you are trying to access a resource and it asks for another log in, this indicates it is not an AGORA-accessible resource. DO NOT enter your AGORA password again. Also, if you are attempting to log in to AGORA initially, do not attempt to do so more than three times or you will be locked out of the system.
If you are continuing to have trouble with AGORA (not the publisher’s websites or the bibliographic databases contained within it), use the Print Screen button on your keyboard, paste the resulting image of the screen showing the problem into a Wordpad or other word processing document, describe the problem in detail and the information to someone will try and assist you.
Despite these caveats, there is a great deal that you can do on with AGORA. It is a powerful resource for your research, study and teaching needs.

6. Modules in this Tutorial
1. How to Use AGORA
2. How to Use CAB Abstracts
3. Publishers’ Websites
AGORA Terms of Use

7. 1. How to Use AGORA

8. Opening AGORA Homepage
Step 1
Start your web browser (Internet Explorer or Netscape).
Step 2
Type:
in the Address box
Step 3
Press Enter on the keyboard

9. Main navigation bar

10. Register and log in Find journals
Information about AGORA
provided in different languages: Arabic, English, French or Spanish
Information about AGORA,
including eligibility
Register and log in
MOST IMPORTANT
Find journals
MOST IMPORTANT
Help

11. Accessing the Collection
Click on Journals

12. for free access to full-text articles
Click on log in
for free access to full-text articles

13. Logging In For full-text journal articles:
Users’ institutions must be registered
Users must log in using institutional user name and password.
NOTE: AGORA log in does not give access to all services offered on publishers’ websites.

14. If you receive either of these messages about security certificates or secure connections, click yes or OK to continue

15. Logging In The Login page appears.
Enter your user name and password exactly as provided to your institution.
Click on the Log In button
Please note: user name and password are case-sensitive!
Animation: as shown on the slide. If there is time, please animate the arrow that goes to the button.
Images:
Slide 4 A, slide 4 B, slide 4 C
Tip: if your password doesn’t work the first time, don’t attempt to log in more than 3 times in a row.
For any difficulties in loggin in to AGORA, send an to: (describe problem and include print screen).

16. After logging in you will be taken to the AGORA Home Page for registered users.
Select ‘Journals’ from the left hand menu.
Let’s go to the Journals Page...

17. The Journals search page launches

18. AGORA Is Like Your Library
You can…
Browse the collection, just like in a current periodical room
Search for journals in a specific subject area, like departmental libraries
Track down a citation if you have one
Use CAB Abstracts as a powerful tool for discovery

19. Navigating AGORA to Find What You Need
In the next few slides you will learn to:
Browse the entire collection
Locate specific journals, publishers, subjects
Find specific citations

20. Search CAB abstracts by use of key words/terms
Browse by
journal title
subject or
publisher

21. Titles Organized Alphabetically
Click on the “M”

22. 2. Click on Back or
Journals to return to
Journals page
1. Page opens with all the Journal titles beginning with the letter “M”

23. Choose the journal
you want to search

24. The journal will open in Publisher’s Journal level page
a new window of the
Publisher’s Journal level page

25. Click on arrow to view list of publishers.
Titles by Publisher
Click on arrow to view list of publishers.

26. Click on desired publisher.

27. 2. Select a different publisher
1. Retrieves list of all journals published by Blackwell Publishing in AGORA.

28. The complete list
of Blackwell journals
in alphabetical order
Choose the journal
you want to search

29. The journal will open in Publisher’s Journal level page
a new window of the
Publisher’s Journal level page

30. e.g. Fisheries/Aquatic Science
Titles by Subject
Pick the subject area
you are interested in,
e.g. Fisheries/Aquatic Science

31. The list of journals in the subject area picked
Choose a new subject by clicking on the arrow.
The list of journals
in the subject area picked

32. Remember you can also browse by title, subject or publisher using the navigation bar.

33. Retrieving Full-Text Articles Example

34. The full list of Journals Starting “A” is displayed
EXAMPLE
Find the citation: Linda J. Thomson and Ary A. Hoffman: (2007) “Effects of ground cover (straw and compost) on the abundance of natural enemies and soil macro invertebrates in vine yards” Agricultural and Forest Entomology, 9(3) :
The full list of Journals
Starting “A” is displayed
Find the journal and
click on the title to
open journal homepage
in a new window

35. Click on desired Volume and Issue. 9 (3) : 159-245
You are now in the Blackwell site and the homepage for Agricultural and Forest Entomology.
Click on desired Volume and Issue. 9 (3) :

36. Click on Abstract for article description
Scroll down to view all articles in the issue.

37. to read article in plain
Click on Full Text HTML
to read article in plain
HTML text.
To read article in
PDF click on the
Full Text PDF link

38. Note the size of PDF. Large PDFs take longer to download.
Article in HTML format
Note the size of PDF. Large PDFs take longer to download.

39. Article in HTML format

40. Article in HTML format : To view graphs and charts
click on them

41. To save article
click here

42. Note: you must have
Acrobat Adobe Reader
On your machine
To print article
click here

43. Let’s Review What We Learned
You should now know how to:
Browse journal titles and publishers
Explore a subject area
Find a known citation
Download full-text articles
If you are online, try this exercise:
Retrieve the full-text article for the following citation.
Elham A. Wassef...et.al (2007)“Effect of dietary vegetable oils on health and liver histology of gilthead sea bream (sparus aurata) growers" Aquaculture Research. 38 (8):

44. Problems with the Exercise?
Remember, technical difficulties occasionally arise.
If you have questions about AGORA consult your librarian.
Any ongoing trouble with AGORA, please

45. 2. How to Use CAB Abstracts

46. What Is CAB Abstracts?
Internationally recognized database of information for applied agriculture and life sciences
Covers research and development literature from thousands of international serials
Provides abstracts (brief article descriptions) and links to full-text articles
CAB Abstracts, the internationally recognized database of information for applied agriculture and life sciences, is generously provided by CABI Publishing, the publishing arm of CAB International. CAB Abstracts covers research and development literature in the fields of agriculture, forestry, human health, human nutrition, animal health and the management and conservation of natural resources. Thousands of serials are scanned annually to ensure only quality, peer reviewed research is included.
CAB Abstracts allows you to search for specific articles or subjects from a range of journals rather than just from one journal or one publisher. The CAB Abstracts database only gives the publication information and brief descriptions for articles; for full-text you will need to return to AGORA.

47. CAB Abstracts and AGORA
CAB generously offers a subset of CAB Abstracts to AGORA users
It also provides full-text articles found in AGORA
Covers about 80% of journals in AGORA
You must log in to AGORA to gain access to full-text articles and must log in to search CAB.
CAB generously provided a subset of the CAB Abstracts database designed specifically for use with AGORA. It covers about 80% of the journals found in AGORA, so you should be able to find most of the citations listed here in full-text. Please note you must log into AGORA to access the full-text articles but do not log in to search CAB.

48. Using CAB Abstracts: Getting Started
From the AGORA Home page
Click on Login

49. Using CAB Abstracts: Getting Started
From the Journals page, choose “Search AGORA journal articles through CAB Abstracts.”
Login using your institutional
Username and password

50. Ensure that you have Java will ask you to download
on the machine that
you are using or a pop
up message
will ask you to download

51. User Authentication Page
Click on AGORA Journal Search if search page does not launch automatically. DO NOT close this window until you want to log out.

52. Using CAB Abstracts: Getting Started
This will take you to the Journals page.
Type in Your search query using Keywords
the more specific and narrowed down,
the better the results.
For example type “Beans” and click search

53. This will give you a list of The results with mainly
the citations and a brief
summary of the contents
One can navigate these
Pages to see more results
Of matching abstracts

54. Using CAB Abstracts: Getting Started
When running the AGORA-CAB CD log-in is not necessary to access the CAB Abstracts Search functionality.  If you are working from the web site, however, you MUST be logged in to use the CAB search.
One can access the
abstract only or the full-text
To view the abstract click
On “Abstract”.

55. The abstract will then pop up In a new window with a link to the
Journal’s home page or full-text

56. Publisher’s website and Get the full-text article
Using CAB Abstracts
To go directly to the
Publisher’s website and
Get the full-text article
click here

57. To view the list of
journals and articles
Click here
The publisher website will then pop up in a new window with details of the journal

58. To view the full-text
Click the PDF link

59. Ensure that you have Adobe Acrobat Reader on your machine to enable the reading of articles in PDF
When a search is run, CAB Abstracts will show how many citations it has found at the top of the page. It will typically display the results in batches of 25. The results themselves will appear in the middle of the page, showing just the document title, authors’ names, journal title, volume and issue and page numbers and number of references included in article
Sort Your Results
CAB automatically sorts the citations in chronological order by when they were added to the CAB Abstracts database.
To sort by CAB’s estimation of how closely the citations match your search terms, choose the dropdown menu at the top of the page by “Sorted by” and choose “Relevance score.”
Search Within Your Results
At the bottom of the page, enter new search terms in the Refine Search box. You may also limit the search by publication year again.
Click the Search button.
Marking and Saving Citations
To save one citation at a time, choose the small floppy disk icon beside the citation.
To save larger numbers of citations, click the check box beside each citation you would like to save. Choose how much of the citation you want to save (just the citation or the full record including abstract) and the format (HTML, which can be opened in a web browser, or text, which can be opened with a word processing program like Word).
To save them to your computer, choose Save, click Save again on the dialog box that appears, choose where on your computer you would like to save them and click Save.
To save them to your computer in a format that can be used in a bibliographic reference management program like EndNote or ProCite, choose the bibliographic reference manager format you are using and choose Export. Click Save, click Save again on the dialog box that appears, choose where on your computer you would like to save them and click Save.
To them to yourself or another person, enter the destination address in the Mail To box and click send.
To print out the record, click Print.

60. Using CAB Abstracts
To save
click here

61. Choose the location
where you want to
save the article
and click save

62. To print
click here

63. copies you want to print
Choose the printer
you want to use and
select the number of
copies you want to print

64. Using the Search Wizard

65. Having done the keyword using the Search Wizard
search you can further
refine your search by
using the Search Wizard
Click on the Search
Wizard link

66. The search wizard
template opens.

67. Alternatively you can
use the Search Wizard
in the Journals page
Click on the Search
Wizard link

68. The search wizard
template opens.

69. which is simply the title
Use the first drop down
arrow to refine your
search using these
Various disciplines
For example one can use
“English Item Title”
which is simply the title
of the article

70. Choosing required in this Case means the article name
Ought to have “bean” in it.
Also refine your search by
using these Boolean
operators- Optional is OR,
Required is AND and Prohibited
is NOT

71. To use more fields to combine and further refine your search
click on any

72. and further refine using The drop down menus
Put more keywords
and further refine using
The drop down menus
Click on search to
get your results
In this case we want
both bean and cultivation to
appear in the article name

73. Combination of our search
Search box shows the
Combination of our search
List of articles and abstracts
with “bean” and “cultivation”
in the titles. Scroll down to
See full list of articles and abstracts

74. To view full abstract
Click on abstract

75. Full abstract opens in new Window. For the full text
Click on Journal home page

76. OR click directly on the on the articles list page
Journal home page link
on the articles list page

77. Full list of articles and
Journal Home Page
opens in new window
Scroll down to view
Full list of articles and
Choose the one you want

78. 2.) To download full text in PDF text click here
Plain HTML text click here

79. Full text article in HTML To download full text in
PDF text you can
also click here
Scroll down
to read

80. Full text in HTML with
links to references

81. To print or save
click here
Full text in PDF format

82. 3. Navigating Publishers’ Sites

83. Publishers’ Websites Vary
All publishers’ websites are slightly different and even journals within a publisher’s site can vary in appearance and features.
Identical features might be accessed differently or will be located in other places.
Journal coverage (PDF and/or HTML full-text) is generally from 1997 onwards.
Not all publishers offer the same features (e.g., some have table of contents alerting, some do not).
Of course, with all these features there are caveats to keep in mind. All publishers’ websites are created and maintained by each separate publisher not by AGORA. Therefore, all the sites are slightly different and may or may not offer the same features or the same types of access to those features. Even within the publisher’s website, each journal may differ slightly in what kind of access is offered (abstract, full-text HTML, PDF) and in how far back full-text holdings go (generally from 1997 onward but variable). Also, while some features, like abstract and full-text access, are standard, others, like table of contents alerts and personalised registration services may or may not be available depending on the publisher.

84. Some Common Features You can:
Search across all journals on a publisher’s website
Register for some personalized services
Download, print or citations and/or abstract
Download full-text (PDFs and/or HTML files with hyperlinks to other full-text references or websites)
In a similar vein, downloading PDFs is not the only feature available from publishers’ websites. It is also possible to link to some references in the bibliography of articles in HTML format; to download, or print citations and/or abstracts (either one at a time or in batches); to search across all journals or browse all journals by subject on a publisher’s website; and to register for personalised services such as table of contents alerts, saved searches and much more.

85. Example: Blackwell Publishing

86. Blackwell Journals Page
To see the various
Journals and articles
Go through the list
Of issues.

87. Search Journals by subject
Advanced search, saved searches and Quick link

88. Advanced Search option, search can be more refined

89. Emailing Articles in Elsevier
articles to your
Or to colleagues and friends

90. Emailing Articles in Elsevier

91. Personalized Services
Registration is often required to:
Receive table of contents alerts
Save searches and results for later use
Re-run searches and results automatically
Link to your favourite journals and articles
Many of the publishers’ websites require that you register with them and create your own user name and password outside of your AGORA log in to access additional services.
Facilitator: If time permits you may wish to demonstrate some of these features on using the My Synergy functionality of the resource.

92. 1. To register click here
2. To access your personalized services after registration, log in and go to My Synergy

93. Read carefully and follow Publisher’s instructions on the screen.
Registration Page
Read carefully and follow Publisher’s instructions on the screen.
Facilitator: The pictures on this page will reveal in three stages: first the user name and password screenshot, then the general demographic information screenshot, then the privacy policy screenshot.
To register click on the Register button at the top right-hand corner of each page and fill out the registration form. You will need to choose a user name and password that you will remember. This should be different from your AGORA user name and password.

94. Registration Page
Then you will need to fill out some demographic and personal information.

95. Registration Page
You may be asked if you would like to receive s on special offers and news on about the publisher and to indicate that you have read the privacy and/or usage agreements and agree to the terms within.

96. 4. Conditions of Use

97. AGORA User Agreement
All registered institutions must sign a User Agreement covering:
Use of the AGORA password
Copyright and Fair Use
Ask your librarian about the terms of the AGORA User Agreement
Once you have registered, you will be contacted by AGORA with the user name and password for the whole institution. There will be instructions on disseminating the user names and passwords and on the terms of the user agreements. As the librarians in charge, you will be responsible for sharing the passwords with the members of your institution, making sure that your users understand the proper use of AGORA, and helping prevent any accidental violations or withdrawal of your institution’s access privileges.

98. Use of the AGORA Password
DO Share AGORA username and password with colleagues, students, faculty in your institution.
Do NOT Share outside your institution.
Do NOT Use outside your country.

99. Copyright/Fair Use of Articles
Typical copyright and fair use principles apply
It is OK to:
Download or print up to 15% of a journal issue or book
Use material for educational purposes (course packs or reserves)
Make copies for institution members
Charge for printing costs for recovery costs
Always credit sources
Be cautious but sensible
For more information see INSAP copyright material and Copyright of Electronic Materials at

100. Abuse of Publisher Privileges
It is NOT OK to:
Charge for documents, except for cost recovery for teaching materials
Post content to websites
Change content
Download all articles from a single issue
Violations result in the ENTIRE country denied access for up to a week, until the problem is resolved.

101. We want/need to hear from users!
Questions?
Contact your Librarian OR
Contact the AGORA team with any questions or comments.
We want/need to hear from users!

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