agora basic course: module 7.2: e-journal, e-books and internet resources
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E-journal, E-books and Internet Resources: Free E-book Access
AGORA Basic Course: Module 7-2
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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
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Section C: Free E-book Access
• Google Books• Booksee.org• National Academy Press
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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
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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.
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Displayed is one of the coffee cultivation books that have been scanned into the Google Books database. Click on Add to my library
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If you have a Google account, you can store the link to the book in your account
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Using the Search tools options, the Any books drop down menu has been opened. Search for bean cultivation developing countries and Free Google eBooks
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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
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Booksee.org is a huge list of downloadable books that can be searched by ‘subject’ such as agriculture production
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Results for the agriculture production are listed. Note the option to download the PDFsDownloading these files can be a slow process
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A 7.5 MB pdf has been downloaded. This took approximately 6 minutes
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The per search limit is 100 titles. The Exact matches box limits this search to 63 titles.
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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
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Now opened is the BROWSE BY TOPIC listing that includes Agriculture
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Completed is a keyword search for nutrients that results in 123 e-books
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Each title can be downloaded as a pdf but (free) registration is required – see next slide
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Click on I don’t have an account – to register
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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 [email protected]