agriculture journals online

**Margaret Lauterbach m*@earthlink.net**

  I.  IPM NEWS
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           * Initiative Opens Access to Literature *
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    A decades-long struggle by thousands of researchers, academics, and
students in many developing countries to gain access to the world's
current scientific literature has significantly lessened with creation
of a recently announced new multi-partner international initiative.

    The Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture (AGORA) in-
itiative was established to provide free or low-cost access to over
400 key journals in agriculture, food, nutrition, and related biolog-
ical, environmental, and social sciences to researchers and students
in qualifying not-for-profit institutions in eligible developing
nations.

    Information at the easily navigated and attractive AGORA website
http://www.aginternetwork.org/en/ (available in Arabic, English, French,
and Spanish) directs users to policy details for eligibility, regis-
tration, and privacy, as well as a listing of participating publishers
and partnering agencies. Clicking on "journals" leads to an extensive
list of journals that can be browsed.

    While AGORA--a global partnership recently announced by the Food
and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations--is clearly a huge
step forward, it is limited to those journals (and their issues) that
are online, and obviously it requires that users have access to both
a computer and the worldwide web.


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