Table of Contents • Background
• Access
• Search options
• Download and save citations
• Full-text access problem solving
• Using AGORA to search for articles
BackgroundScopus 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
Type in user name and password exactly as provided by your institution. Passwords are case-sensitive.
Click Sign In
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Internet Explorer, you will need to login twice.
If you are using Internet Explorer, repeat the Login process on this 2nd page and you will be redirected to
the AGORA Content page.
Access Scopus from the ‘Search inside AGORA full-text through database and
article searching’ list
Scopus
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
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
Now displayed is the Export option that allow you to download the checked citations to reference
management software programs and choose various information options
By checking the Subject Area(s) boxes, this search will be limited to
‘Agricultural and Biological Sciences’ and ‘Environmental Science’
Added to this search are the year limits for 2012, 2013 and 2014. The document
results total is 41 citations
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
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
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
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
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
Using the Scopus list of citations, access the full-
text articles from the ‘Journals collections’ list
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/
ExercisesThis 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
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