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 7.2 covers E-journal, E-books and Internet Resources (Free E-book Access)

1. E-journal, E-books and
Internet Resources: Free
E-book Access
AGORA Basic Course: Module 7-2

2. Contents Module 7: E-journal, E-
books and Internet Resources
Module 7.1: Background; Free E-journals
Access
Module 7.2: Free E-book Access
Module 7.3: Agriculture Gateways/Portals
Module 7.4 Other Useful Resources

3. Section C: Free E-book Access
• Google Books
• Booksee.org
• National Academy Press

4. In the Google books search box,
enter coffee cultivation and click on
Search Books. The material comes
from the Google Library Project and
Partner Programs

5. For this search, academic,
cultural and general coffee
cultivation books are listed. Note
the links to Google’s adds – as
this is a commercial search tool.
If the book is ‘Public
Domain’, you can
download it.
Otherwise, there is
online access.

6. Displayed is one of the coffee
cultivation books that have
been scanned into the
Google Books database.
Click on Add to my library

7. If you have a Google account,
you can store the link to the
book in your account

8. Using the Search tools options, the
Any books drop down menu has
been opened. Search for bean
cultivation developing countries and
Free Google eBooks

9. Now displayed are the results for
the bean cultivation developing
countries search with the Free
Google eBooks limit. Note the
Sorted by drop down menu

10. Booksee.org is a huge list of
downloadable books that can be
searched by ‘subject’ such as
agriculture production

11. Results for the agriculture
production are listed. Note the
option to download the PDFs
Downloading these files can be
a slow process

12. A 7.5 MB pdf has been
downloaded. This took
approximately 6 minutes

13. The per search limit is 100
titles. The Exact matches box
limits this search to 63 titles.

14. We have opened the Health and
Medicine topics page.. Note also
the keyword search box.
The National Academies Press
e-books are downloadable for
free and can be BROWSE(D) BY
TOPIC

15. Now opened is the
BROWSE BY TOPIC listing
that includes Agriculture

16. Completed is a keyword
search for nutrients that
results in 123 e-books

17. Each title can be downloaded
as a pdf but (free) registration
is required – see next slide

18. Click on I don’t have an
account – to register

19. Exercises
This is the end of the AGORA Basic
Course Module 7-2. Exercises for this
module are available after Module 7.4.
Please continue with Module 7-3: E-
journal, E-books and Internet
Resources: Agriculture Gateways/ Portals.
Updated February 2015
Questions? Contact agora@fao.org