Cera ( consortium of e resources in agriculture )

CeRA ( Consortium of e-Resources in Agriculture )Indian Agricultural Statistics Research

Institute

Santosh Kumar Kori (Senior Research Fellow)

Introduction CeRA is Consortium of e-journals being subscribed by NAIP, ICAR and provided access to 123 libraries of Agriculture ( NARS).

IASRI is also one of the Libraries among 123. Through this service the user can access the following three major on-line Portals and  Bouquet of Journals from Publishers with  full text of an articles.

Home Page of CeRa

Quick Search : It Is Used to search articles or journals against the search term entered in all fields.

Advance Search: It gives more searching option like Title/Keywords/Abstract, Author, JournalName and also use Boolean Operators AND, OR it specially designed to guide you in creating useful search.

Choose Subject Category

Choose No. of Reference to display

Browse Journals: By Title, By Subject, By Publisher, Latest Updates

Browsing Journals Via Title give the list of all the title in alphabetical order, which on further click gives the Journals under the Title. the access type is also directed where.

Full text

Available in your Library

Request the Article

Form containing page for Requesting the Article

All Mandatory field fill like email id, Name… than click send button

Visit your Library for Full Text

Articles which are available in your Library

Directly mailing the author of article

User can directly mail the author of article

My Journals: Already registered user can log-in and new user can create account and can carry out search according to the requirement.

To Register click save create Profile

Fill all fields ate mandatory and get your personal user Id and Password

User can give the profile name and can add journals to the profile by “ By Title or By Subject”

My Journal- Home Page

Add Journals: By Title and By Subject

Adding Journals (i) By Title (ii) By Subject

Click the check boxes of various journals to be added in My Journals

Selection of Journals to be added in My Journal Profile

Save the select Journals

Saving the select Journals in User’s Profile

View of Profile created

User can view, edit, delete My Journal Profile

News: News Provide the latest updates of the CeRA

Usage Stats: Usage Stats gives the value of the number of times publications, journals have been accessed during a particular time period

Usage Stats

FAQ : Gives the frequently asked question

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

FAQ Section

Tutorial: Is an online guide for accessing CeRA

Tutorial

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Delhi

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