webinar@asira: access to global online research in agriculture (agora)
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Research4LifeandAGORA:reducingthescientificknowledgegap
ASIRAcourse“AccesstoScientificInformationResourcesinAgricultureforLow-IncomeCountries”
Webinar,22nd February2017
• WhatisResearch4Life?– Hinari,OARE,ARDIandAGORA
• WhocanaccessResearch4Life?• TellmemoreaboutAGORA• Whattypesofresourcesarecovered?• HowdoIregister?• Research4Lifeismakingadifference
USUnivers i t ies
ProgrammesUni ted Nat ions
Partnership
+200 Pub l i shers
Lack of access to currentscientific literature
No budget for importantpeer-reviewed journals
Up-to-dateresearchneededfordiscoveringevidence,sharingfindings,andinformingteaching,practiceandpublicpolicy
Research4Life can help
RESEARCH4LIFE
§ Four programmes that provide lower income countries withfree or low cost access to academic and professional peer-reviewed content online.
§ Cover research in health, agriculture, environment, anddevelopment and innovation
§ Goal:
reducethescientificknowledgegapbetweenhigherincomeandlowerincomecountries
Benefitsofaccess:§ OnlineaccessthroughResearch4Lifetoupto68,000peer-reviewed
internationalscientificjournals,books,anddatabases§ Full-textarticleswhichcanbedownloadedforsaving,printingor
readingonscreen§ Searchingbykeyword,subject,authororlanguage§ Trainingininformationliteracy
Institutionsin72oftheworld’spoorestcountriesreceivefreeaccesstojournalandbookcontentviaResearch4Life.Institutionsinafurther45countriespayUS$1,500peryearforasubscriptiontotheResearch4Lifecontent– aneffectivediscountofover99.9%.FeesgotoResearch4Lifecapacitydevelopment.
Whobenefitsfromaccess
http://www.research4life.org/eligibility/
(freeaccess)(low-costaccess)
Eligibilitycriteria1:Country§ Countrieseligibleselectedonbasisonseveralcriteria:
•TotalGNIandGNIpercapita(WorldBankfigures),•UnitedNationsLeastDevelopedCountry(LDCs)Listand•HumanDevelopmentIndex(HDI).
§ Reviewedannually.
§ Basedonthesefactors,eligiblecountriesaredividedintotwogroups:AandB
GroupAThesearethecountriescomprisingtheUNLeastDevelopedCountryList.
FREEACCESS
GroupBInstitutionsinthesecountriespaynominalannualfee
$1500/year
Eligibilitycriteria2:InstitutionWithineligiblecountries,eligiblecategoriesofinstitutionsare:
•nationaluniversities,•professionalschools(medicine,agriculture,pharmacy,
publichealth,engineering,etc.),•researchinstitutes,•teachinghospitalsandhealthcarecenters,•governmentoffices,•nationallibraries,•agriculturalextensioncentersand•localnon-governmentalorganizations.
AccesstoGlobalOnlineResearchinAgriculture(AGORA)
Upto6,500journals&22,000books
3000institutionsregistered
Topics:agriculture,fisheries,food,nutrition,veterinaryscience,andrelatedsubjectsCoordinatedbyFAOoftheUNinpartnershipwithCornellUniversityandpublishers
AGORAislikeyourlibraryRegistereduserscan…
§ Browsethecollection§ Searchforjournalsorbooksinaspecificsubjectarea§ Trackdownacitation§ UseSummonorScopusaspowerfultoolsfordiscovery
Note: Anyone can browse AGORA’s collection of journalswithout logging in and get to the publishers’ websites andabstracts of journal articles. However, only students, facultyand staff at eligible, registered institutions can access full-textarticles, with institutional credentials. AGORA log in does notgive access to all services offered on publishers’ websites.
http://www.fao.org/agora/
Find journals: IMPORTANT AGORA login: IMPORTANT
Typeinusernameandpasswordexactlyasprovidedbyyourinstitution.Passwordsarecase-sensitive.
ClickSignIn
Note:WerecommenduseofChromeorMozilla.IfyouuseInternetExplorer,youmayneedtologintwice.
In the ‘All Items’ display for ‘R’, the green box
equals access.
The grey box with the ! equals no access.
Thejournalwillopeninanewwindowofthe
Publisher’sJournalPortal
Retrievingfull-textarticles
1.Findthejournal.Usethe‘Journalscollection’‘M’listto
findthejournaltitle-MarineandCoastalFisheries
EXAMPLE
Findthecitation:J.Wesley Neil,ChristineAdelsberger andSteveLochmann.
“AComparisonofLarvalFishSamplingMethodsforTropicalStreams.”
MarineandCoastalFisheries,
4(1)2012:23-29
Findingthearticle
Abstractappears.ClickonFullarticleorPDFtoreadthe
article
ArticleopensupinPDF.Yucansaveitorprintit.
Note:youmusthaveAcrobatAdobeReaderorotherPDF-readingsoftware
onyourmachine
TitlesbySubject
Listcontainsalljournalsrelatedtothefieldof
Fisheries/AquaticSciences
TitlesbyPublisher
Ifyouknowthepublisherofthejournalinacitationorifyouwanttoseewhatjournalsareavailablefromacertainpublisher,choosethePublishersoption.Veryusefulifyouhaveretrievedacitationbutarenotsurethatyouhaveaccesstothefull-textarticle.
Searchindatabases
Browsedatabaseslist,accessiblecontent
AccessSummonfromthe‘SearchinsideAGORAfull-textusing:’list
SearchingAGORAinSummon:doesnotindexalltheAGORAjournals,sootherusefularticlesmaybeavailablefromAGORAportal.YoucanalsosearchbeyondAGORA.
MoreresourcesbeingaddedtoR4L
Searchonsmartphones
2017:NewauthenticationsystemforResearch4Lifewillimproveuserexperience
Manychallenges.However….....
Registering
Registrationformonline:http://registration.research4life.org
Onlyoneregistrationisrequiredperinstitution
Aninstitutionmustregisterseparatelyforeachprogramme
YourinstitutioncanregisterformultipleR4Lprogrammes
Yourinstitutionmayalreadyberegistered,askyourlibrarianfirst.
Research4LifeTrainingPortalhttp://www.research4life.org/training
InthissectionyouwillfinddifferentResearch4Lifetrainingmaterialtodownloadforfree,informationaboutlocalworkshops andadvancedcourses forourfourprogrammesHINARI,AGORA,OAREandARDI. Thecontentof thisportalisaimedatlibrarians,informationspecialists,scientists,researchersandstudents.
Improvefoodsecuritybyincreasingthequalityandeffectivenessofagriculturalresearch,educationandtraininginlow-
incomecountries
Goal
Research4LifeismakingadifferenceResearchinhealth,agricultureandtheenvironmentisbetterinformedwhenitisbasedonthemostrecent,highqualityandrelevantscientificknowledge.Research4Lifeappliesthis,deliveringknowledgetotheworld’spoorestcountries.
Research4Lifeisempoweringuniversities,colleges,researchinstitutesandgovernmentministriesaswellasnon-governmentalagenciesandhospitals,withaccesstoscientificknowledge.
Notjustaboutaccess,butimprovedresearchtoo
