Educational Materials

This section will let you upload educational documents for your project.  You can upload materials in reports as they are completed or in your final report.

To upload material, select Add new item.  This will open a detail box that will let you enter information for each individual material developed or used in your project.

For each educational material, enter the:

• Title

• Author(s)

• Publisher

• Publication Date

• Abstract – Write a brief abstract describing the educational material.  This abstract will be used to describe the material in the Farm Answers Library, so it should not exceed two to five sentences.  The abstract will be used to describe your document publicly in the Library, so write it appropriately to describe your documents to the public.

If you have an electronic copy of the material, select “File Upload” in response to the “Document Format” question.  Click the “Browse” button to find and select the file that you want to upload.  After you have selected the file, click “Save.”

Some materials may not be available to upload.  In this case, select “Website” or “CD/ROM/DVD” in response to the “Document Format” question.   If the material is available on a website, you will then be asked to provide a web link to the document, which means that you should enter the URL which will allow viewing of the material.  If it is a “CD/ROM/DVD”, describe how it will be made available.