The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library (TEEAL)

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Email: teeal@cornell.edu
Website: http://teeal.org

TEEAL

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TEEAL to instantly access
thousands of articles from
over 325 journals in
agricultural and related
sciences. Well show you
how!

Objectives
Understand need for and creation of
TEEAL
Review content and capabilities
Discuss eligibility, distribution and
technological requirements for TEEAL
Understand how to install and use
TEEAL
Review pricing

Agricultural Research in
Africa
Research investment of millions of
dollars in the past 3 decades
Continued limited access to the
worlds published knowledge
resulting in:
Duplication of efforts
Limits in innovation
Diminished return on investment

Institution Libraries
Journals have become expensive and
inaccessible to the scientist
Subscriptions increase at an annual
rate of
11 -16%, which is
beyond the reach of many
institutions in Africa
Most institutions have small, older
and incomplete collections

What is Needed
Scientists must have access to the
worlds most important scholarly
science journals
The most up-to-date knowledge is
found in scholarly journals
Institutions must have a critical mass
of journals
The journals MUST be affordable
Offline access to literature is still
necessary for some institutions

Why TEEAL
Publishers available on the Internet for free
could charge in future; if institutions cannot
pay, access to all issues, past and future,
ceases
TEEAL ownership guarantees access to past
issues even if future updates cannot be
purchased
TEEAL is an asset that can be kept whilst one
can access the Internet they do not own it
Faster to access than a document on Internet
With Internet, sometimes unreliable data
communication links
TEEAL is not prone to bandwidth problems

Subject Areas
Crops: crop production, sustainable systems,
plant diseases, tropical plants
Animals: dairy and livestock farming, animal
nutrition
Human Nutrition: human diet, nutrition and
health
Environment: natural resources, forestry
and the environment
Economics: rural demographics and
agricultural economics

Welcome to TEEAL, where the

worlds published knowledge
is at your fingertips

350,000+ full-text articles in

PDF
325+ journals
80+ publishers
Agriculture and over 10 related
sciences
Updated every year
Articles or abstracts in French
and Spanish
Excellent offline option in
eligible countries
*Above counts are as of January 2014

Over 80 publishers donate

their journals to TEEAL

Annual Reviews
CABI
CSIRO
Elsevier
FAO
NRC Canada

Oxford Press
Taylor and Francis
and many more

With coverage of so many

subject areas, you have a
wealth of articles to fit your
research
needs
Agricultural engineering Economics and
Agriculture
Animal sciences
Biology and genetics
Biotechnology and
applied microbiology
Chemistry, biochemistry
and biophysics

development
Entomology and pest
control
Environment and ecology
Fisheries
Food and nutrition
Forestry
Human medicine
Plant and soil science

Get started now discovering

and instantly accessing articles
in the TEEAL collection
installed at your institution.

Get started using the Quick

Type Search
your searchbox
terms in the Search box on the
home page to instantly generate a list of article
citations

TIP: Try to avoid a very general search, such as farms, because that will
slow down your search and your results may not be very useful.

Choose your articles from a list

of search results
Your results are displayed in a list of citations. Each
citation gives you key information, such as article
title, author, journal, and a snippet of the abstract.
You can open the full citation for more details or go
straight to the article.

Whats in a citation?
The full citation
gives you a
more in-depth
description
about your
article. You can
open your
article from
here, too.

Are full articles provided by

YES!
Every citation links to its article. Articles
TEEAL?
open instantly because they are stored on a
new class of small processing units. (TEEAL
doesnt use the internet.)

TIP: If you have trouble opening an article, please consult your IT

department and someone can help you check your TEEAL set up.

Narrow your search

Too many results? Results not relevant
enough? Narrow your search results using
the facet menu under Limit your search. :
author, year, journal title and more.

Want to browse TEEALs

collection?
If you
already have an article in mind, or wish to

browse a journal, go to the Journals A-Z or Subjects

A-Z tab. Expand the list of journals to see the years,
volumes and article titles of a journal.

Bookmark
Need to citations
bookmark print it for later? Click on the
Bookmark link

TIP: You can select multiple citations in your Search Results to print or
save.

What have you already

searched?
Click
on the Search History link at the top of the
Results page to view your previous searches.
Youll see the amount of results per search. You
can re-initiate a past search.

Tips on searching
Take a few minutes to review these helpful tips.
Your search results will improve and youll save
time!

Hands-on Browse for

article
Try browsing for an article.
Heres an article:
In Livestock Science
2006, Volume 102, Issue 1-2
Locate in the Table of Contents this
article: Effect of feeding Yucca
schidigera extract on performance of
lactating dairy cows and ruminal
fermentation parameters in steers

Need more help?

Answers to most of your questions can be
found in the Help tab, along with bestpractices for getting the best search results.

TEEAL is produced by Cornell

Universitys Albert R. Mann
Library. Were proud to have
the support of many global
and regional organizations.

We hope you are ready to

start using TEEAL!
Please contact us for additional support. We invite
you to also visit our informational website.
TEEAL Project
Albert R. Mann Library
Cornell University
Ithaca, New York 14853 USA
telephone: 1+ (607) 255-8939
e-mail: teeal@cornell.edu
website: www.teeal.org
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version February 2013