Using CGSpace

AReS is a visualizing and reporting tool

AReS (the Agricultural Research e-Seeker) is a tool to discover, explore, and retrieve content from selected information and data repositories linked to CGIAR and its partners. It is designed to help make CGIAR knowledge findable, accessible, inter-operable and re-usable.

AReS runs on the ‘open repositories explorer and visualizer’ tool (OpenRXV) developed by the Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Team at the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) and the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) with software development by CodeObia. Funding from the CGIAR Research Program on Livestock, the CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Cereals and the CGIAR Big Data in Agriculture platform is acknowledged. The project developers and partners thank all donors and organizations that globally support this work through their contributions to the CGIAR Trust Fund.

To use the AReS tool, you select the parameters using the filters on the left side, then either view the metrics online or use one of the many report formats to download them. Typical uses of the tool are to search for an author, for a project, for a CGIAR initiative and then to visualize or export the results.

• Select the repository you want to search. The default is 'ALL' and that may include more than you want. 
• You can limit searches to a community or a collection
• Using the operators AND and OR may limit or expand your results considerably. Using AND mean both conditions must be true, while using OR means either condition can be true

Keep scrolling and use the dropdown menus to select from any of the filters available

Once you have selected all the parameters, either view the results by scrolling through the page, or using one of the many report formats available at the bottom of the page.