Public Domain Literature and Data Sources

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Medha DevareMedha Devare

Knowledge Management SpecialistKnowledge Management SpecialistCIMMYT South Asia Regional OfficeCIMMYT South Asia Regional Office

Kathmandu, NepalKathmandu, Nepal

m.devare@cgiar.orgm.devare@cgiar.org

Literature sources

AGORA: Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture

TEEAL: The Essential Electronic Agriculture Library

Google Scholar

… Also check out the United States Department of Agriculture’s National Agriculture Library (USDA NAL)

Literature sources – AGORA (FAO)http://www.aginternetwork.org

Literature sources – AGORA

Created and maintained by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the UN

Free access upon registration for Band I countries (GDP < $1250)

Registration is NOT by individual; by INSTITUTION$1000 per year for Band II countries ($1250 < GDP >

$3500)To see which institutions in your country are registered:

Help (in left navigation)>> FAQs >> Registering

AGORA without login

Click on “journals”

Click on subject category = “agriculture”

Click on journal = “Agricultural Systems”

Search for: (conservation agriculture) AND residue AND Africa

AGORA with login: Access to full-text (“pdf”)e.g. search ALL journals via advanced search

Click for full-text

Literature sources - AGORANOTE!!!!!

Few publishers provide full-text access unless logged inE.g., Elsevier provides only abstract; Springer provides full-text

Changes to the website may occurTechnical difficulties occasionally ariseIf your password doesn’t work the first time, don’t

attempt to log in more than 3 times in a rowAny ongoing trouble with AGORA, e-mail agora@fao.org

(describe problem and include print screen)

http://www.aginternetwork.org/en/training/presentations.jsp

Literature sources - TEEALhttp://www.teeal.org

TEEAL is excellent for Band 1 or 2 poor-bandwidth areas in countries

TEEAL demo

wheat AND conservation agriculture

Literature sources – Google scholarhttp://scholar.google.com

16,900 hits, BUT most not relevant, and few available

Using “AND” between terms

drops hits to 657

Data sources

FAOstat: Production, trade, price data for agriculture, forestry, fishery etc. products

NOAA climate services: US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

IWMI World Water and Climate Atlas IRRI-CIMMYT Cereal Knowledge Bank (CKB)Country agricultural statistics web sites

Data sources – FAOstathttp://faostat.fao.org

View commodities by country or countries by commodity

Select country, year, sort by value or quantity

e.g., the top 20 agricultural commodities for India in 2008

Click on “Production”, then “Crops” for crop production info

Select country, year, item, and element

Click “show data”

Scroll to bottom of page for information

Choose multiple items by depressing ctrl key

Download data to desired format (e.g. Excel sheet) by choosing format

and clicking “download”

Click on “Trade” for top imports, exports by country or countries by commodity

“Trade” >> “TradeSTAT” >> “Detailed Trade Flows” to see trade flows of a commodity to or from a country

Choose country, commodity, element, and year to see trade flows

Try Food Security, Prices, Resources, Fisheries…!

http://faostat.fao.org

Data sources – NOAA climate servicesFrom http://www.noaa.gov OR http://www.climate.gov

At www.climate.gov, click on “Data and Services” >> “Past and Present Climate”

Click on “Global” >> “Climate Phenomena” >> “Monsoons” >> “Climate Prediction Center Global Monsoons”

Click on “Asian-Australian Monsoons”

Click on “Asian-Australian Monsoons” >> “Precipitation”

Compare with “African Monsoons” >> “Precipitation”

Data sources – IWMI World Water and Climate Atlashttp://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/WAtlas

Click to access online climate service model

One-time free registration required for access

Add site name (Embu) and lat-long info; choose climate variables desired; click submit

Data = monthly averages for period 1961 - 1990

Data sources – Cereal Knowledge Bank (CKB)http://www.knowledgebank.irri.org

Click on “Wheat” to browse wheat section of CKB

Click on flag to see content for any country

Explore wheat content (left) or

click on WheatDoctor

for pest/disease info

Click on “List” for pest/disease info sheets or “Identification key” to identify pest or disease

WheatDoctor >> “Pests & diseases”

Take a look at links under “Extension”

Country agricultural statistics – Nepalhttp://www.cbs.gov.np

Country agricultural statistics – Bangladesh

http://www.moa.gov.bd/statistics/statistics.htm

Country agricultural statistics – Indiahttp://www.cbs.gov.np

http://agricoop.nic.in/Agristatistics.htm

Country agricultural statistics – Pakistanhttp://www.cbs.gov.np

http://www.statpak.gov.pk/depts/fbs/statistics/agriculture_statistics/agriculture_statistics.html

Crediting sources, citation, OR… how not to plagiarize!

What is plagiarism??- Stealing someone else’s work and not citing (intentional or not)- An act of fraud

Plagiarism involves:- turning in someone else’s work as your own- copying words or ideas from someone else without giving credit- failing to put a quotation in quotation marks- giving incorrect information about the source of a quotation- changing words but copying the sentence structure of a source

without giving credit- copying so many words or ideas from a source that it forms the

majority of your work, whether you give credit or not

http://www.cbs.gov.np

Material from Turnitin.com and Research Resources; modified by M. Devare

Crediting sources, citation, plagiarism…

Changing the words of an original source is not sufficient to prevent plagiarism!!

If you retain the essential idea of an original source, and have not cited it, then no matter how drastically you may have altered its context or presentation, you have still plagiarized

Forms of plagiarism: Sources not cited“The Ghost Writer”: Use of another’s work, word-for-word, as your own“The Photocopy”: Copying significant portions of text straight from a single

source, without alteration“The Potluck Paper”: Copying from several sources, tweaking sentences to fit

them together but retaining most of the original phrasing “The Poor Disguise”: Retaining the essential content of the source, but altering

paper slightly by changing key words/phrases “The Labor of Laziness”: Paraphrasing from other sources and making it fit

together, instead of spending effort on original work“The Self-Stealer”: “Borrowing” generously from your previous work, violating

the expectation of originality by most academic institutions

Forms of plagiarism: Sources cited“The Forgotten Footnote”: Mentioning an author’s name, but neglecting to

include specific information on the location of the material referenced

“The Misinformer”: Providing inaccurate information regarding sources, making them impossible to find

“The Too-Perfect Paraphrase”: Properly citing a source, but neglecting to put in quotation marks text that has been copied word-for-word, or close to it

“The Resourceful Citer”: Properly citing all sources, paraphrasing and using quotations appropriately, but including almost no original work

“The Perfect Crime”: Properly quoting and citing sources in some places, but paraphrasing other arguments from those sources without citation

Citation

What is a citation?

A citation is the way you tell your readers that certain material in your work came from another source

It also gives readers the information necessary to find that source again, including:information about the authorthe title of the workthe name and location of the company that published your copy of the

sourcethe date your copy was published the page numbers of the material you are borrowing

Thank you!

m.devare@cgiar.org

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