Knowledge Resource Corner

 Welcome to ACBF’s Knowledge Resource Corner (KRC), our virtual library on capacity development. Launched in November 2011, the Knowledge Resource Corner is a one stop shop digital library that offers fast, well-structured and unified interface to access full-text copies on capacity development published by ACBF, its networks and partners. KRC’s collections comprise books, occasional papers, working papers, reports, development memoirs, lesson notes, conference papers etc. Other online reference sources accessible via the Knowledge Resource Corner include several databases, gateways, portals, e-journals, e-books and e-news.
The KRC contains only the final, peer-reviewed versions of publications. It was designed to meet the needs of ACBF’s research community based in Africa and beyond. Its value lies in the quality and convenience of its publications database. Each article, book, paper or report is enriched with semantic and bibliographic metadata, including topics, abstracts and keywords using a controlled vocabulary.Users save time with use of the search facility that narrow searches across and within  publications and return highly relevant results across all content types. In addition, the KRC offers a number of other useful research tools and features including browse by subject, title author, resource type, publisher and other online resources.
  The KRC is unique and offers several advantages:

  • It is not limited by physical boundaries
  • It is accessible around the clock (searchable locally and globally)
  • It provides multiple accesses
  • Information is retrieved instantly
  • It preserves and conserve institutional knowledge
  • No challenges of physical space
  • The publications cannot be easily destroyed
  • The publications are downloadable and printable
  • Potential increased  impact of the author’s research work.
  • Research made freely available can be disseminated more widely and have greater impact.

Comments are welcome!

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For further information or any enquiry about the Knowledge Resource Corner, please contact:

  • Mr. Alfred Gumbwa

Librarian, ACBF Knowledge & Learning Department

a.gumbwa@acbf-pact.org

 

 

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