CGIAR Virtual Library: A vital tool to enhance access to agricultural research

A recent, closed access, article in the Journal of Agricultural & Food Information "provides an analysis of the content of the CGVLibrary, of the various information avenues it opens for improving access to agricultural research, and of how the tool is being improved and marketed to promote awareness and worldwide use."

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El proyecto de Biblioteca Virtual del CGIAR

Carlos Saa, Coordinador de Sistemas de Información en la Biblioteca del CIAT, presenta el proyecto de Biblioteca Virtual del CGIAR (CGVLibrary) y porqué es importante para el CIAT.

La CGVLibrary - http://vlibrary.cgiar.org/

La biblioteca CIAT - www.ciat.cgiar.org/biblioteca/biblioteca_es/

CGIAR libraries collaborate to share resources

The CGIAR is spread across 15 centers, each with its own information management services.

We asked Nihad Maliha, Manager of Library and Information Services at ICARDA, to elaborate on ways that the Centers work together:

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ILRI InfoCentre, delivering livestock information worldwide

We recently caught up with agricultural information specialists at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) in Addis Ababa and Ethiopia.

Richard Fulss, ILRI's Information Manager reflects on the activities of the Infocentre. He cites the main opportunity/challenge as being to ensure that ILRI’s information and knowledge travel as much as they could while also linking up with other global knowledge bases on livestock science.

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Grace Kamau of the ILRI Infocentre in Nairobi explains some of the changes in her role in recent years. She emphasizes the ‘one ILRI InfoCentre’ approach from two locations – in Nairobi and Addis Ababa as well as enhanced cooperation among CGIAR libraries across the world. She sees the main challenge of the future as being the demands on different CGIAR libraries to ‘operate as one.’

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ICRISAT e-library services for agriculture in semi-arid tropics

The ICRISAT Library has developed a web-enabled e-library that hosts and links to the digital library resources on agriculture in the semi-arid tropics (SAT). Scientists inside ICRISAT use their desktops to visit this 'SAT e-library', navigating to reach the right information and download the selected items for their use.

These e-library resources are now open to partners and others through the website http://elibrary.icrisat.org.

The SAT elibrary offers access to resources developed by ICRISAT Library, but also to those relevant resources available on the internet, including:

1. SATSource Online bibliographical databases: The in-house bibliographical database holds 71,000 records on ICRISAT's crops especially information on disciplines, techniques, and methodologies useful to Global Themes (a) Biotechnology, (b) Crop improvement, (c) Agroecosystems, (d) markets, policy and impacts;

2. Serials Database - Union Catalog of serials in 15 CGIAR centers;

3. CGVLibrary - The CGIAR Virtual Library provides access to more than 160 quality resources on agricultural research, including electronic journals, databases on the Internet, in addition to the on-line libraries of the CGIAR.

4. SAT Electronic Library News - A monthly electronic Newsletter brought out by the Library to communicate research and research related information to the agricultural research community. Besides a section of current research literature on different crops, it also includes New Accessions in the ICRISAT Library, Forthcoming Conferences, Open Access articles, etc.

5. Google Search Tips - Online tutorial that helps users conduct effective searches in Google

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CGVlibrary - gateway to global agricultural knowledge

Get instant access to research on agriculture, hunger, poverty, and the environment using a valuable new resource — the CGIAR Virtual Library.

From just one search engine, tap into leading agricultural information databases, including the online libraries of all the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) centers. Use the CGVlibrary to discover resources, go directly to the full text of thousands of publications, and stay current on CGIAR research. Customselect databases you want to search or use the topic-based QuickSets preselected by CGIAR information specialists.

Get more information from: CGVlibrary@cgiar.org

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Keeping up with ICTs and KM in the CGIAR

The March 2006 issue of ICT-KM News from the CGIAR has updates on, among other items, the recently launched virtual library (CGVlibrary) as well as the CGIAR's decision to take out a system-wide institutional membership of IAALD.

The CGIAR's ICT-KM Program supports the use of information and communications technology (ICT) and knowledge management (KM) to improve the effectiveness of the CGIAR system as a whole.

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