Impact and Cost Effectiveness of Fisheries Journals

There is an article in the December 2009 issue of “Fisheries” put out by the American Fisheries Society titled “Maintaining the Competitiveness of the American Fisheries Society Journals: An Assessment Based on Influence and Cost-Effectiveness” that might be of interest to IAMSLIC members.  It has some nice figures with tabular data comparing fisheries journals identifying which provide the greatest value and whether they are published by non-profit or for-profit groups.

Joe Wible

Hopkins Marine Station

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January 5, 2010 · Filed under Announcements

Periodical Title/Abbreviation Source

CASSI, the CAS Source Index is now freely available on the web and it contains more than just chemistry titles, so if you need a source for titles/abbreviations you might want to take a look:

http://cassi.cas.org/search.jsp

Barb Butler

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December 29, 2009 · Filed under Uncategorized

Journal of Marine Biology – a new open access publication

It does not have many papers yet, but it looks like Journal of Marine Biology may be set to take off.  I just saw a call for papers for a special issue titled “Toward Ecosystem Mangement of Pacific Islands” that is being put together by University of Hawaii scientists Rob Toonen, Judy Lemus, and Kim Selkoe.  The fourth guest editor is Ben Halpern from the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis.  They plan to publish the special issue in a year (December 2010).

The journal can be found at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jmb/contents.html

Joe Wible

Hopkins Marine Station

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December 17, 2009 · Filed under Announcements

Job Posting – Knowledge Manager, Marine Protected Areas Monitoring Enterprise

The Marine Protected Areas Monitoring Enterprise is seeking a Knowledge Manager to lead the design, development, and implementation of an online information management system including online products and tools that will serve diverse user needs and interests. The ideal candidate will combine a solid and broad understanding of information technologies with the capacities to think big, innovate, and work collaboratively. The Knowledge Manager will play a critical role in the MPA Monitoring Enterprise’s work to develop innovative, effective, and sustainable approaches to monitoring and evaluating California’s statewide network of marine protected areas, currently being implemented under the Marine Life Protection Act. This unique position will be based in Oakland, California, in the offices of the California Ocean Science Trust. Starting date is as soon as possible, preferably by March 1, 2010. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. Review of applications will begin January 4, 2010. Salary will be commensurate with experience and is expected to be in the range of $75,000 – $95,000. Generous benefits (including medical, dental, vision, and retirement) are included in the full compensation package.

Joe Wible

Hopkins Marine Station

http://www.calost.org/Knowlege_Manger.pdf

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December 6, 2009 · Filed under Announcements

Traité général des pesches available online

The University of British Columbia Archives has digitized the two complete volumes of Traité général des pesches written in 1769-1782 by Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau and Jean-Louis De La Marre. The work contains beautiful plates of fresh and salt water fishes, fishing boats, fishing equipment and fishers.

The plates have been entered into ContentDM and are available on the UBC Library web site at:
http://digitalcollections.library.ubc.ca/cdm4/index_tgdp.php?CISOROOT=/tgdp

The complete two volumes are available in the Internet Archive and Aquatic Commons.

Special thanks to Rob Stibravy at UBC Library who managed the project, Tony Pitcher who lent us the two volumes for digitization, and to University Archives and Cyamus for funding.

Sally Taylor, UBC

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November 27, 2009 · Filed under Aquatic Commons, Interesting sites

12 New Members and Special Thanks to ASFA

IAMSLIC welcomes 12 new members (below) and would like to give a special thanks to ASFA/FAO and Mr. Richard Pepe for their generous continued support of 31 IAMSLIC members.  For more information on ASFA: http://www.fao.org/fishery/asfa/2/en

  

Feruggia, Celeste

Facultad Regional Chubut UTN (Universidad Tecnologica Nacional Biblioteca

Address: Roberts 61

City: Puerto Madryn

State/Prov: Chubut

Postal Code: 9120

Country: Argentina

Email: cele_f78@hotmail.com

 

Franklin, Kay

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Gulf Ecology Division

Address: 1 Sabine Island Drive

City: Gulf Breeze

State/Prov: Florida

Postal Code: 32561

Country: United States

Telephone: 850-934-9218

Email: Franklin.Kay@epa.gov

 

 

Giovannini, Floriane

CEMAGREF IST

Address: Parc de Tourvoie, BP 44

City: Antony Cedex

Postal Code: 92163

Country: France

Telephone: 33-140966287

Email: floriane.giovannini@cemagref.fr

 

Jamili, Shahla

Iranian Fisheries Research Organization (IFRO)

Address: No. 297, W. Fatemi Avenue ; PO Box 1415506116

City: Tehran

Country: Iran

Telephone:  21 6919133, 6946878

Email: shahlajamili45@yahoo.com

 

 

Jannes-Ober, Emmanuelle

CEMAGREF IST

Address: Parc de Tourvoie, BP 44

City: Antony Cedex

Postal Code: 92163

Country: France

Telephone: 33-140966096

Email: emmanuelle.jannes-ober@cemagref.fr

 

 

Lapchenko, Valentyna

Karadag Nature Reserve, Library

Address: 24, Nauki Street

City: Kurortnoe, Feodosia

State/Prov: Crimea

Postal Code: 98188

Country: Ukraine

Telephone: (380-6562) 26-289

Email: karadag_libr@pochta.ru

 

 

Mamer, Liz

Idaho Department of Fish and Game

Address: PO Box 25, 600 South Walnut

City: Boise

State/Prov: ID

Postal Code: 83707

Country: United States

Telephone: 208-465-8404 x270

Email: liz.mamer@idfg.idaho.gov

 

Mychalechko, Olena

Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas, Odessa Branch

Address: 37, Pushkinskaya Street

City: Odessa

Postal Code: 65125

Country: Ukraine

Telephone: 048-725-09-18

Email: mey@mail.ru

 

Ortiz, Silverio

Instituto de Biologia Marina y Pesquera

Address: San Martin 247

City: San Antonio Oeste

State/Prov: Rio Negro

Postal Code: 224

Country: Argentina

Telephone: (02934) 42 2752

Email: bibliotecaibmp@ibmpas.org

 

Panagiotoglou, Popi

Hellenic Center for Marine Research- Documentation and Information Center

Address: P.O. Box 712, 46.7 km Athens-Sounion Avenue

City: Anavyssos

State/Prov: Attiki

Postal Code: 19013

Country: Greece

Telephone: ï­½22910-76319

Email: Popipan@ath.hcmr.gr

 

Roering, Anke

GKSS-Forschungszentrum 

Address: Max-Planck-Str

City: Geesthacht

Postal Code: 21502

Country: Germany

Telephone: 0049-4152-87-1692

Email: anke.roering@gkss.de

 

 

Steimle, Claire L.

U.S. NOAA, National Marine Fisheries Service

Address: 74 Magruder Rd.

City: Highlands

State/Prov: NJ

Postal Code: 07732

Country: United States

Telephone: 732-872-3035

Email: Claire.Steimle@noaa.gov

 

 

Kristen L. Metzger, Membership Chair (outgoing)

 

 

 

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November 20, 2009 · Filed under Committee news

Access to Journal of Phycology

With the merger of Blackwell with Wiley, Journal of Phycology is now published by Wiley.  I thought we used to have acces to volume 1 with Blackwell’s premium subscription package.  Now, we have to 1997 only.  Has anyone else had a change in access from the change in publishers?

Thanks.

Janet Webster

Oregon State University

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October 30, 2009 · Filed under Reference Questions

Stanford dissertations no longer going into Dissertation Abstracts

Stanford is finally going to move to digital submission of dissertations and theses.  I know most of your institutions made the switch a long time ago.  We were waiting for our registrar to retire to get this moving.

What is probably different for Stanford Univeristy is we are not planning to submit them to ProQuest for deposit.  We are going handle their distribution ourselves.  On the one hand I think this is great.  It probably means you won’t have to pay to have access to Stanford dissertations and theses.  My main concern is that it appears that the citations and abstracts will not be in Dissertation Abstracts unless the student is willing to pay to have this done.  In the past I believe University Microfilms added this information for free, and only charged to make the microfilm copy for distribution.  Back when I got my degree, University of Southern California (along with Harvard) did not deposit their dissertations with University Microfilms.  I could have had mine added, but I would have had to pay as USC was not paying for this.  I declined, but it is now in the Aquatic Commons along with several other USC dissertations we have scanned.  I checked Dissertation Abstracts and it appears Harvard and USC are now both depositing their dissertations with ProQuest.

I have always used dissertation abstract to confirm if/when someone got their Ph.D., but if Stanford (and others?) are not even submitting the citation and abstract for its graduates, this means you can no longer rely on Dissertation Abstracts for this purpose.  Maybe our ProQuest colleagues (Craig & Vicki) can verify whether or not ProQuest charges even to submit just a citation and abstract.

If you want to read about how Stanford plans to handle dissertations, there is a URL to the news story below.  You will find embedded links to download the PowerPoint slides used by the University Librarian when he presented this plan to the Faculty Senate.  You can also download the full Faculty Senate minutes with all the details including the faculty questions and discussion that followed the presentation.

Joe Wible
Hopkins Marine Station

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2009/october26/electronic-dissertation-pilot-102909.html

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October 29, 2009 · Filed under Announcements

Draft guidelines for making information accessible

The CIARD (Coherence in Information for Agricultural Research for Development) is a consortium of organizations invloved in agricultural development.  It just produced draft guidelines for best practices for making information accessible. To From the CIARD website:” To ensure that public domain research outputs – in the form of information, data and knowledge – form part of a global ‘knowledge commons’ for agriculture, these outputs should be created, assembled, handled and disseminated in ways that ensure that they will be as Available, Accessible and Applicable as possible.”

The checklist could also apply to those of us involved in fisheries, aquaculture and oterh natural resource information.

http://www.ciard.net/index.php?id=604

Janet Webster

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October 28, 2009 · Filed under Interesting sites

Waypoint Newsletter

The latest edition of “Waypoint”, the Australian Institute of Marine Science’s quarterly online newsletter, is ready for navigation.

To go direct to the newsletter, please follow this link: http://www3.aims.gov.au/docs/publications/waypoint/014/index.html

Key coordinates to visit include:

New WA Marine Bioresources Library to aid medical research

A huge step forward in understanding the nature of Western Australian marine biodiversity and facilitating sustainable use of it was marked in March 2009 with the opening of the state’s first Marine Bioresources Library, known as WAMBL. For more details, please go to: http://www3.aims.gov.au/docs/publications/waypoint/014/headlines-01.html

Research reveals cyclone’s ravages on the Reef

The Great Barrier Reef was severely buffeted by Severe Tropical Cyclone Hamish, which roared down a substantial part of the reef system, causing widespread though variable damage and in some places reducing coral cover from 70 per cent to 10 per cent. For more details, please go to: http://www3.aims.gov.au/docs/publications/waypoint/014/headlines-02.html

Sponge farming takes off at Masig Island

The establishment of Australia’s first sponge farm at Masig Island in Torres Strait highlights the impact and uptake of AIMS’ sponge farming research. For more details, please go to: http://www3.aims.gov.au/docs/publications/waypoint/014/headlines-03.html

Environment Minister announces multimillion dollar boost to CReefs

An influx of resources worth a total of $2.7 million to support the CReefs project that is systematically surveying life on Australian reefs has been announced by the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts the Hon Peter Garrett MP. For more details, please go to: http://www3.aims.gov.au/docs/publications/waypoint/014/headlines-04.html

In brief

AIMS has welcomed the announcement in July that the Great Barrier Reef is among the finalists for the title of “New 7 Wonders of Nature”.  AIMS Western Australia staff have moved into the new temporary headquarters of the University of Western Australia’s Oceans Institute.  AIMS has taken out a prestigious national award for its occupational health and safety regime associated with the Scott Reef Research Project off the Western Australian coast. For more details, please go to: http://www3.aims.gov.au/docs/publications/waypoint/014/in-brief.html

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October 25, 2009 · Filed under Interesting sites, President's updates

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