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