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 6 covers Using Scopus to Search for Articles

1. Using Scopus to
Search for Articles

2. Table of Contents
• Background
• Access
• Search options
• Download and save citations
• Full-text access problem solving
• Using AGORA to search for articles

3. Background
Scopus is a search tool developed by Elsevier with
• a very large abstract and citation database of peer-
reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and
conference proceedings
• has over 3 million records with 22,000 book titles
and 5,000 publishers
• has been offered to a large majority of the R4L
eligible institutions
• a percentage of the citations are available in
AGORA; others (e.g. conference proceedings) are
available on the Internet

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. Access Scopus from the
‘Search inside AGORA full-
text through database and
article searching’ list
Scopus

7. Now displayed is the Browse
databases list with the link to
Scopus (Elsevier)

8. Search Options
Search options include Article Title,
Abstract, Keyword and more. Search can
be limited to Date Range, Document Type
and Subject Areas. Search for maize
production AND developing countries

9. The Document results total
is 323 including citations
for journal articles, books
and international meeting
Scopus has the options
to refine the search by
Year, Author Name,
Subject Area

10. Other options include
Document type, Source
Title or Type, Language,
Affiliation and Keyword

11. Note the Export and
Download options. Check
the box for the citations

12. Now displayed is the Export option
that allow you to download the
checked citations to reference
management software programs and
choose various information options

13. The Document Download
Manager is displayed. Note
the option to name the PDF

14. By checking the Subject Area(s) boxes,
this search will be limited to
‘Agricultural and Biological Sciences’
and ‘Environmental Science’

15. The document results
total is 214 citations.
Note the box that lists the
terms of the search

16. Added to this search are the
year limits for 2012, 2013
and 2014. The document
results total is 41 citations

17. The ‘Show abstract’ icon is
activated for one of the
citations. There also is a
‘View at publisher’ option
Now displayed is an
abstract for one of the
citations. Open the
View at Publisher option

18. In PLOS one, the Regime Shift in Fertilizer…’
article has been opened. Besides the HTML
version, the article can be printed or downloaded
as a PDF

19. This is the PDF
version of the article

20. The Search history is
displayed here – by clicking
on the Document search
button. Note the links to all the
previous searches and the
option to Combine queries

21. Via the link from Scopus,
users are not able to
access the full-text
version of this article
A second article has been
opened via the View at
Publisher option - from
Bentham Science with
Reprint and ePrint options

22. For this article, there is not free access
to the PDF version. Users are required
to order the article. This article may be
available directly from AGORA

23. Using the Scopus list of
citations, access the full-
text articles from the
‘Journals collections’ list

24. Displayed is the
Advanced Search box

25. Scopus and Summon
When logged in to AGORA: Search
inside AGORA full-text through database
and article searching:
- Summon:
http://agoralogin.research4life.org/uniquesigagora.summon.serialssolutions.com/uniquesig0/
- Scopus: https://auth.elsevier.com/ShibAuth/deliverInstCredentials
If not logged in to AGORA:
- Summon pilot http://agora.summon.serialssolutions.com/

26. Exercises
This is the end of the AGORA Basic
Course Module 6. Please complete the
exercises for Module 6.
Then, please continue with AGORA Basic
Course Module 7.1: E-journal, E-books
and Internet Resources
Updated February 2015
Questions? Contact agora@fao.org