http://www.fao.org/agora
This module is part of the AGORA Basic Course. The AGORA Basic Course highlights the baseline skills necessary to use the AGORA program effectively and efficiently. The AGORA programme (Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture), set up by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) together with major publishers, enables developing countries to gain access to an outstanding digital library collection in the fields of food, agriculture, environmental science and related social sciences. Module 4 covers CAB Abstracts
2. How to Use CAB Abstracts
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
3. 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 50% of journals in AGORA
• You must log in to AGORA and then open
CAB Abstracts (bottom of Content page)
Note: AGORA covers many general topics such as management, economics, research, law, population,
statistics, etc. not covered by CAB. With the implementation of Summon, you will be able to search
probably 95% of what is in AGORA, if not more.
4. Type in user name and password exactly as provided by
your institution. Passwords are case-sensitive.
Click Sign In
Note: With the migration to a new authentication server (Jan
2014), we recommend use of Chrome or Mozilla. If you use
Internet Explorer, you will need to login twice.
5. If you are using Internet Explorer,
repeat the Login process on this 2nd
page and you will be redirected to
the AGORA Content page.
6. Using CAB Abstracts
After completing the Login,
the Journals page will display;
click on ‘Search inside AGORA
full-text using CAB Abstracts’
8. Displayed are the results from the
rice production AND pesticides
search – 820 citations
Click on Journal
home page – to
access the article
Note the complete
citation to the
journal article
9. Open v. 27 Special Issue
– to view the full text article
10. Highlighted is the link
to the full text article – from the
Planta Daninha vol 27 Special
Issue table of contents page
11. Click on full text
to access the
highlighted article
Note that most
articles have a
brief abstract
Note the complete
citation to the
journal article
12. CAB Abstracts has linked
to the Weed Science article
- available in full text (html)
or PDF versions
To email, export and
other personalised
actions. click here
Scroll down for the
full text and abstract
13. Now opened is the
downloadable PDF
version of this article
14. Click on Full text icon
to open ‘Cultivar and
insecticide…’ article
15. CAB Abstracts has not been able to
locate the article via the publisher’s
portal. Look for the article in AGORA.
Return to the CAB Abstracts search –
to get the citation to the article
16. Open AGORA’s Content page. In
the Journals collection A-Z list,
click on ‘E’ - to locate the
Environmental Ecology journal
17. Click on Environmental
Entomology - to access the
specific journal issue (vol 37 no. 1)
In other cases, the publisher’s
offer may not include access to
the requested journal and the !
icon would be displayed
instead of the green icon
21. Using the Search Wizard
Searches can be
completed/limited by
using the Search Wizard
Click on the
Search Wizard link
22. Now opened is the
Search wizard option
Use the first drop down
Menu - to refine your
search using these
various limits
23. Also refine your search by
using these Boolean operators –
‘Optional’ is OR, ‘Required’ is AND
and ‘Prohibited’ is NOT
Choosing ‘Required’ in this
case means the article name
ought to have beans in it.
24. Enter deforestation soil
erosion in the Search wizard
boxes with the ‘Any’ limit.
Click on Search
To use more fields to
Combine and further refine
your search, click on Any
25. Results of the search
are 74 articles
The search box contains
the combination
of the terms
26. Enter maize production in
the Search wizard boxes
with the ‘Descriptors’ limit.
Click on Search
32. CAB Abstracts
Exercises
This is the end of the AGORA Basic
Course Module 4. Please complete the
exercises for this module.
Then, please continue with AGORA Basic
Course Module 5: Summon Searching
Updated February 2015
Questions? Contact agora@fao.org
Editor's Notes
This module is part of the AGORA Basic Course.
The AGORA programme (Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture), set up by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) together with major publishers, enables developing countries to gain access to an outstanding digital library collection in the fields of food, agriculture, environmental science and related social sciences. AGORA provides a collection of more than 5700 key journals and 4100 books to 2800 institutions in more than 100 countries. AGORA is designed to enhance the scholarship of the many thousands of students, faculty and researchers in agriculture and life sciences in the developing world. AGORA is one of the four programmes that make up Research4Life: AGORA, HINARI, OARE and ARDI.
The AGORA Basic Course (2015) is based on the AGORA Short Course, a collaborative effort of ITOCA and the Librarians Without Borders®/Medical Library Association (USA) ‘E-library Training Initiative’ that was funded by the Elsevier Foundation.
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.
CAB generously provided a subset of the CAB Abstracts database designed specifically for use with AGORA. It covers about 50% of the journals found in AGORA, so you should be able to find most of the citations listed here in full-text. AGORA covers a lot of general topics such as management, economics, research, population, statistics, law, etc. that are not covered by CAB.
Passwords being case-sensitive means you will have to type them in upper or lower-case otherwise you will not be able to login.
Source: Research4Life user portal
Source: Research4Life user portal
Source: AGORA journal portal
Source: AGORA journal portal
Source: AGORA journal portal
Source: Planta Daninha, via AGORA journal portal
Source: Planta Daninha, via AGORA journal portal
Source: Planta Daninha, via AGORA journal portal
Source: Weed Science, via AGORA journal portal
Source: Weed Science, via AGORA journal portal
Source: Weed Science, via AGORA journal portal
Source: AGORA journal portal
Source: AGORA journal portal
Source: AGORA journal portal
Source: Environmental Ecology, via AGORA journal portal
Source: Environmental Ecology, via AGORA journal portal
Source: Environmental Ecology, via AGORA journal portal
The Search Wizard gives you advanced search options that you can use to combine different keywords. Boolean operators are used in this interface, however it is very simplified for ease of use.
Source: AGORA journal portal