TEEAL provides access to over 550,000 agricultural and related science articles from 450+ journals. It offers a searchable offline digital library installed at eligible institutions for a modest fee, giving users instant access without an internet connection. The document outlines how to search, browse, and save articles from TEEAL's extensive collection covering topics from agricultural engineering to zoology.

1. TEEALInformation about using TEEAL
to instantly access thousands
of articles from over 450
journals in agricultural and
related sciences.
The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library (TEEAL)
Contact us at:
Email: teeal@cornell.edu
Website: http://teeal.org

2. Welcome to TEEAL, where the world’s
published knowledge is at your
fingertips
• Over 550,000 full-text articles in PDF – and always growing!
• 450+ journals
• 90+ publishers
• Agriculture and many other related sciences
• Updated every year
• Articles or abstracts in French and Spanish
• Excellent offline option in eligible countries
Above counts are as of April 2015

3. TEEAL Eligibility and Criteria
• Recently, we’ve
updated our
eligibility criteria
• While we’re
updating details on
our website, we
refer to the
Research4Life list:
http://www.fao.org/ag
ora/eligibility/en/
(portion of list on left)

4. • CABI
• CSIRO
• Elsevier
• FAO
• NRC Canada
• Oxford Press
• Taylor and Francis
• and many more
Over 90 publishers donate their
journals to TEEAL. Institutions
subscribing to TEEAL own a
collection valued at over $1 million
USD – for a modest fee.

5. With coverage of so many subject
areas, you have a wealth of articles
to fit your research needs
Agricultural engineering
Agriculture
Animal sciences
Biology and genetics
Biotechnology and applied
microbiology
Chemistry, biochemistry and
biophysics
Economics and development
Entomology and pest control
Environment and ecology
Fisheries
Food and nutrition
Forestry
Human medicine
Plant and soil science

6. The evolution of TEEAL
ß When TEEAL began, all journal
material was on CDs. You’d have to
go to the #’d CD of your desired PDF
TEEAL then switched to an external
hard drive for use in the LAN
environment, making all PDFs
accessible on a single piece of à
hardware

7. ß This is TEEAL.
A redesign of the
collection was
released to
subscribers on a
“mini computer”
The evolution of TEEAL

8. Get started now discovering and
instantly accessing articles in the
TEEAL collection installed at your
institution.

9. Get started using the Search box
Type your search terms in the Search box on the home page to
instantly generate a list of article citations
TIP: Try to avoid a very general search, such as farms, which will generate too many results.
Use Boolean operators for more than two terms.

10. Use search tools and the new facet
feature to dig deeper and focus your
search to find more relevant articles

11. Choose your articles from a list of
search results
Your results are displayed in a list of citations. Each citation gives
you key information, such as article title, author, journal, and a
snippet of the abstract. You can open the full citation for more
details or go straight to the article.

12. What’s in a citation?
The full citation gives you a
more in-depth description
about your article. You can
open your article from here,
too.

13. Are full articles provided by TEEAL?
Every citation links to its article. Articles open instantly
because they are stored locally on TEEAL hardware at
your institution. (No internet used.)
TIP: If you have troubling accessing TEEAL please consult your IT department for assistance.

14. Narrow your search
Too many results? Results not relevant enough? Use
search tools such as searchable fields (title, author,
subject) and the new facet feature.
TIP: Search an author by typing the last name in the box and selecting Author as the field.
You can add the initial of the first name (i.e., search for Frank Smith: Smith AND f).

15. Also locate your articles by browsing
the collection by journal title or
subject area

16. Want to browse TEEAL’s collection?
If you already have an article in mind, or wish to browse a
journal, go to the Academic Journals option in the Browse menu.
Expand the contents to see a journal’s years, volumes and
articles.

17. Save or print citations and articles
Need to save it to print later? Select citations in your search
results, then in the Bookmarks page format them for
printing.
TIP: You can select, or bookmark, multiple citations in your Search Results.

18. What have you already searched?
Click on the History link at the top of the window to view
your previous searches. You’ll see the number of results per
search. You can re-initiate a past search.

19. Tips on searching
Take a few minutes to review these helpful tips. Your search
results will improve and you’ll save time!

20. Need more help?
Answers to most of your questions can be found in the
Help page, along with best-practices for getting the
best search results.

21. An offline library the institutions owns
All you need is a PC or laptop. All of the more than 550,000
articles available are on the TEEAL hardware. You own the
whole library when you have TEEAL – accessible at your
fingertips.

22. TEEAL users in more than 600 institutions in
over 85 eligible countries have instant access
to the world’s latest published scientific
information – and we’re always reaching out
and expanding to new institutions

23. The TEEAL project greatly
appreciates past and ongoing
support of global and regional
organizations that help raise
awareness of TEEAL and, in some
cases, assist institutions that wish to
acquire it.

24. TEEAL’s Goal: access to the scientific
literature ultimately will lead to:
• Increased quality of research
• Improved training for new scientists
• Improved graduate and undergraduate
education
• Better extension programs
• Long-term improvement in food security for
food-deficit countries

25. We hope you are ready to start
using TEEAL!
The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library (TEEAL)
Cornell University, Albert R. Mann Library
237 Mann Drive, Room B75
Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA
telephone: 1+ (607) 255-8939
e-mail: teeal@cornell.edu
website: www.teeal.org
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