Medha DevareMedha Devare
Knowledge Management SpecialistKnowledge Management SpecialistCIMMYT South Asia Regional OfficeCIMMYT South Asia Regional Office
Kathmandu, NepalKathmandu, Nepal
[email protected]@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 [email protected]
(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
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Crediting sources, citation, plagiarism…
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
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Material from Turnitin.com and Research Resources; modified by M. Devare
Crediting sources, citation, plagiarism…
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
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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
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