AGORA is a program run by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization that provides institutions in developing countries with free access to journals and books related to agriculture and life sciences. Bangladeshi institutions are eligible for access after registering. To access AGORA, users enter their institutional username and password provided by their librarian at the AGORA website. This will direct them to the collection where they can browse and download eligible journal articles and book chapters.

1. AGORA
Dr. Md. Anwarul Islam
Librarian
Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University
Dhaka, Bangladesh
anwarpulak@gmail.com
HOW TO ACCESS
e-Resources Access Tutorial Series of SAU Library
http://www.saulibrary.edu.bd

2. About AGORA
• AGORA stands for –
Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture.
• AGORA programme, set up by the Food and Agriculture
Organization of the UN (FAO).
• AGORA provides a collection of up to 6,100 key journals and
5,800 books to 2,900 institutions in more than 100 countries.
• AGORA is designed to agriculture and life sciences in the
developing world.
• AGORA is one of the four programmes of Research4Life:
HINARI, AGORA, OARE and ARDI .

3. Eligibility to access
• AGORA Core Offer includes two groups of
countries, areas, or territories.
• Local, not-for-profit institutions in two groups of
countries, areas, or territories may register for
access to the publications through the Core Offer
of AGORA.
• Bangladeshi institutes have free access after
registration.

4. Institutions registered with AGORA
Bangladesh has free access

5. • Research4Life is the collective name for the
four programmes –
HINARI, AGORA, OARE and ARDI – that
provides developing countries with free or low
cost access to academic and professional
peer-reviewed content online.
Site URL http://www.research4life.org/

6. Access to AGORA - 1
• AGORA provides username and password based
access.
• May collect your institutional username and
password from Librarian.
• Should not share the username and password.
• Should not access to AGORA by your institutional
username and password from abroad.

7. Access to AGORA - 2
• Open your browser, any one -
• Type URL
http://www.fao.org/agora/en/

8. Access to AGORA - 3
Login AGORA with Institutional user & pw

9. Access to AGORA - 4
Username
Password
Click

10. Access to AGORA - 5

11. Access to AGORA - 6
Select journal by click
Alphabetically selection

12. Access to AGORA - 7
After clicking on journal redirected to publisher’s site
Select year v & i
Somelinkmaynotredirectyou,thenclickon
thebuttonofdialogueboxasyouneed.

13. Access to AGORA - 8
Eligible for downloading

14. Access to AGORA - 9
Downloaded pdf

15. The End
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