The role of the Knowledge Center in IITA R4D

www.iita.orgA member of the CGIAR Consortium
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

SCOPUS
www.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

SCIENCEDIRECT
www.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.

Springer
www.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.

CABDIRECT
www.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.

OPAC
http://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.

IITA bibliography
http://biblio.iita.org/index.php?page=pubye
ar&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.

IITA photos on Flickr
http://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.

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.

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.

JSTOR
http://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.

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.

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.

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

Services
We 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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