Discovering and sharing information on the use of e-resources to enhance the use of scientific literature: case study of the Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute Library, Kenya
Isedorious Agolla · Open Access Server of the Woods Hole Scientific Community (Woods Hole Scientific Community) · 2012
The Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute (KMFRI) Library is guided by our vision “to be a one stop provider of user focused quality library services and develop collections in support of aquatic research and promotion of sustainable utilization of Marine and Freshwater resources.” The provision of documents, bibliographic searches and compilation provided by the current awareness product KMFRI CURRENT remains one of the core services we offer to researchers/scientists and relevant institutions. We have moved from the era when documents came courtesy of former RECOSCIX-WIO and later ODINAFRICA, most of which were hard copies and difficult to store. The library is now able to service 70% of the requests through its collection, in the building of which both RECOSCIX-WIO and ODINAFRICA played parts. Besides filling requests from within, we have also been able to service requests from outside, mostly for published papers by local scientists. The library has its own internal databases such as ASFA, KENYAN WATERS and SAMAKI, and also maintains the directories KENDIR, AFRIDIR and GLODIR. Collaboration with IAMSLIC, AFRIAMSLIC and ODINAFRICA has made it much easier to access documents that are not locally available. Online access to AGORA, HINARI, OARE, INASP and DOAJ has also enabled the library to meet some of its requests.