International visibility and accessibility of articles in the Proceedings of Fisheries Society of Nigeria through the Aquatic Commons repository
The major problem of published information in the developing countries particularly in Africa is lack of international visibility and accessibility to world community of scientists. This has implications on both the articles and their authors. It means they are read by their immediate community. However, despite the advantages of the information technology, the problem is still very much with us today. It has been observed that publications from the developing countries are not captured by international alerting services like the ASFA, CAB, AGRIS however, it must be acknowledged that ASFA has intensified efforts at covering grey literature from developing countries. Efforts of information scientists today is focused on the creation of open archives to beef up the process of information availability and accessibility to all. This paper therefore highlighted the steps taken by NIFFR, FISON, IAMSLIC and FAO Fisheries Branch Library to popularize articles in the proceedings of the Fisheries Society of Nigeria. The paper explained the concept of Aquatic Commons Repository as an open archive repository drawing out its inherent advantages. The steps taken to involve the participation of Nigerian Institutions have been highlighted. The outcome of the participation showed improved visibility and accessibility of articles in FISON proceedings which have been uploaded in the Aquatic commons Repository. The ten most downloaded papers from FISON 18th proceedings were downloaded 4,210 times of which Enzenwa and Anyanwu’s paper were downloaded 1210 times from over twelve countries. Out of the 1210 downloads, 500 downloads were from Nigeria country of origin of the publication. This showed that more people became aware and have access to FISON publication through the Aquatic Commons repository.
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| Format: | conference_item biblioteca |
| Language: | English |
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Fisheries Society of Nigeria
2010
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| Subjects: | Information Management, Nigeria, Aquatic Commons, freshwater environment, Information services, Information centres, |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1834/38249 |
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