The role of the Knowledge Center in IITA R4D

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The role of the Knowledge Center in IITA R4D

By Elsie O. Ezomo

Presentation to the CRIN, Ibadan team on

Thur. 2nd April, 2015.


International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) is the lead research partner facilitating agricultural solutions to overcome hunger, malnutrition and poverty in the tropics.

IITA Knowledge Center exists to support IITA’s mission and vision. It is client driven and user-friendly. It - Ensures that IITA scientists and other clients have

access to the information they need to facilitate research at the time needed and in the right format regardless of location.- Manages and updates IITA knowledge resources.- Provides knowledge sharing services. Disseminates IITA research output worldwide for uptake and impact.

Background


There is a deliberate shift to electronic resources from the traditional print resources.

We explore cost effective alternatives so that our scientists can have the best available information resources for research for development so as to achieve the mission of IITA. The information resources are as listed below.

We collaborate with other libraries both within and beyond the country to access information resources and we are involved in interlibrary loan.

Information resources


Click “Knowledge”From the drop down Click

“Knowledge Center e-resources”

The list of online resources to which we are subscribed would be displayed.

For most of them access is via IP authentication otherwise access is by password.

Feel free to contact the Knowledge Center if there is any access problem.

Online Resources access. IITA Website


SCOPUSwww.scopus.com

Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed research literature with more than 21,900 titles from more than 5,000 international publishers.

• 20,000 peer-reviewed journals (including 2,600 Open Access journals)

• 390 trade publications• 370 book series• 5.5m Conference papers• “Articles-in-Press” from over 3,850 journals

http://www.scopus.com/


SCIENCEDIRECTwww.sciencedirect.com

• To get access to the full text of the Elsevier journals• Go to www.sciencedirect.com. IITA locations are logged in via IP. • (password access is also possible for scientists with dynamic IPs)• Click on “Agricultural and Biological Sciences” under “Life Sciences”.• Select the full text option. We can access the full text of over 200 journals.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/

http://www.sciencedirect.com/


Springerwww.link.springer.com

• In conjunction with other CG Centers we can access the full text of over 50 journals published by Springer.

• IITA locations are logged in via IP.

http://www.link.springer.com/


CABDIRECTwww.cabdirect.org

CAB Direct is a thorough and extensive source of reference in the applied life sciences, incorporating the leading bibliographic databases CAB Abstracts (1973-current) and Global Health. CAB Direct provides a convenient, single point of access to all CABI database subscriptions. You can search over 10 million bibliographic records, over 200,000 full text articles and reports.

http://www.cabdirect.org/


OPAChttp://iita.catalog.cgiar.org/IITA_CATALOG_SEARCH.HTM

You can find the library’s collection of books and journals in the Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC). It is the index of all materials available at the IITA Library. It has over 115,800 records. It has various publication types that include articles, analyticals, journals, books and pamphlets.

http://iita.catalog.cgiar.org/IITA_CATALOG_SEARCH.HTM

http://iita.catalog.cgiar.org/IITA_CATALOG_SEARCH.HTM


IITA bibliographyhttp://biblio.iita.org/index.php?page=pubyear&kind=year&type=iita

The IITA bibliography is a database that aims to capture the publications of IITA scientists since inception. Some of the records have PDFs of their full text attached. It has over 8,500 entries. It increases worldwide visibility of IITA research output and promotes their usage and impact.

http://biblio.iita.org/index.php?page=pubyear&kind=year&type=iita

http://biblio.iita.org/index.php?page=pubyear&kind=year&type=iita


IITA photos on Flickrhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/iita-media-library/

IITA photos are currently being made more widely visible and accessible on the Flickr platform. The project is on going and there are over 10,400 entries.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/iita-media-library/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/iita-media-library/


Google books http://books.google.com/books?q=iita

We have signed a partnership agreement with Google books to add publications for which we have copyright for increased visibility worldwide thereby promoting their usage and impact.

http://books.google.com/books?q=iita


TEEAL http://localhost:49000/home.aspx

The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library (TEEAL) is a full-text digital library of 325 agricultural journals made available at low cost to universities, agricultural research organizations and government ministries in eligible low-income countries. Journal coverage starts in the 1990s and is updated annually. (1993-2012). TEEAL has a searchable database of citations and it is an offline tool – no Internet or phone line required. It is delivered on a mini-computer that can be run on one computer or hosted on a server to share among multiple computers on a Local Area Network (LAN). It is a collaboration between Albert R. Mann Library of Cornell University and scientific publishers, with the support of the Rockefeller Foundation and other donors.


JSTORhttp://www.jstor.org/?cookieSet=1

JSTOR is a not–for–profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive of over 1,500 academic journals and other scholarly content.

http://www.jstor.org/?cookieSet=1


DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals)http://www.doaj.org/

This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals to increase their visibility and ease of use. They also aim to cover all subjects and languages. There are over 10,400 journals in the directory. Currently 6,227 journals are searchable at article level. Over 1,869,062 articles are included in the DOAJ service.

http://www.doaj.org/


AJOL http://ajol.info/

African Journals OnLine (AJOL) is the world's largest and pre-eminent collection of peer-reviewed, African-published scholarly journals. AJOL is a non-profit organization based in South Africa. It aims to promote access to African research. It has 495 journals made up of over 9,178 issues. It has over 104,859 abstracts and 99,696 full text articles including 49,341 open access.

http://ajol.info/


PROTABASE PROTABASE, an online database maintained by the international-not-for-profit foundation, Plant Resources of Tropical Africa (PROTA), contains information about useful plants of tropical Africa.


Google – Google search is the most-used search engine on the World Wide Web.

Wikipedia – the free encyclopedia. Largest and most popular general reference work on the internet.

Google Scholar – uses the Google search engine, but searches only scholarly resources.

Other resources


ServicesWe provide user focused services. More importance is attached to locating and obtaining information rather than to where the information is housed.

We develop and deliver all our services as efficiently and cost-effectively as possible.

Opening hours: The virtual Library is accessible 24/7.

The physical Library is opened to IITA staff from 7.30am to 4.30pm on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays but it extends to 5.30pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays. It is opened to external users from 7.30am to 4.30pm Mondays to Fridays.


Reference services:- online request from the IITA website- email requests- requests by phone- request at the desk in the Library- electronic document delivery.

Circulation services:- provision of carrels for private study- internet access- loans- interlibrary loans- social space.


Technical services:- use of credit card to facilitate acquisition- photocopying, printing and scanning (must be carried out under copyright terms).

Others:- Library instruction/Library tour/orientation/Library visits – graduate students/training.


Conclusion

The task ahead is to move the IITA Knowledge Center out more conspicuously as we embark on new initiatives, collaboration and programs of great potential value to the researchers to find solutions to the problems of hunger and poverty. We encourage feedback from our clients. The strategic plan sets forth goals targeted to reach our vision of leading IITA in ensuring access to knowledge and information and in promoting the development and creative use of our institutional repository.

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