Aquatic Commons downloads reach 44,000

Since the launch of the Aquatic Commons repository in July of 2007 both the deposits and downloads have increased steadily.  From 27 documents, the repository has grown to 2,160 items in April 2009.  In April, there were 6,096 downloads.  Of the top 35 downloads,  26, or 75%, were classed as Aquaculture or Fisheries.   These 26 items accounted for 1,320 downloads.  Aquaculture Asia issues were heavily used.  Browsing by Issuing Agency now indicates that we have publications from 44 organizations.  Metadata is harvested by Avano, Google, Google Scholar, BASE, and OAIster.

Join us in sharing information about the aquatic environment.

  • Use Aquatic Commons to help promote and preserve your research
  • Partner with other researchers and organizations to allow them to share research
  • Use Avano to access more than 179,000 full text documents from repositories world-wide

Submitted by Stephanie Haas on behalf of the AC Board and the AC Working Groups

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May 7, 2009 · Filed under Aquatic Commons

The First Meeting of the Mediterranean Marine and Aquatic Science Libraries and Information Centres Network a success in Cadiz, Spain.

The First Meeting of the Network was held under the auspices of the European Association of Aquatic Sciences Libraries and Information Centres (EURASLIC) and was hosted and supported by the Marine Science Institute of Andalusia (CSIC) in Cadiz, Spain from 17 to 18 November 2008. Rich and informative presentations from Libraries in Croatia, France, Greece, Italy, Lebanon, Spain and Tunisia were given, as well as special presentations on the work of MED POL, IAMSLIC, EURASLIC, Aquatic Commons and open access sources in the marine sciences that are applicable to the region. There was a lot of enthusiasm to develop the Network as a tool for exchanging information on new projects, training and technology in the region. Much of this will be achieved through an online Portal that is currently being developed in English, French, Spanish and Arabic, and to work together with the European and International Associations of Marine Science Libraries. For further information don’t hesitate to contact Ms Margaret Watts at: mwatts@unepmap.gr or library@unepmap.gr

A copy of the Report of the Meeting, including an executive summaries and summaries of presentations, in english, french and spanish can be downloaded from http://195.97.36.231/dbases/MedLibs/Final_Report_Cadiz.pdf

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April 7, 2009 · Filed under Regional group activities

Future of Libraries: Comic to enjoy

formerly the New York Public Library

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April 1, 2009 · Filed under Uncategorized

Springer up for sale?

Is Springer being put up for sale? Candover and Cinven, the private
equity companies that own Springer, are believed to have
appointed UBS and Goldman Sachs to sound out potential bidders

http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2009/03/springer-on-block.html

and

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/mar/26/publisher-springer-put-up-for-sale

Joe Wible
Hopkins Marine Station

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March 27, 2009 · Filed under Announcements

Open Access at Oregon State University

The OUS Libraries Faculty adopted an open access mandate for our work earlier this month.  Here’s the wording of the policy as well as some comments.

-Janet Webster

The policy and guidelines are now posted to ScholarsArchive –
http://hdl.handle.net/1957/10850

Peter Suber and Steven Harnad have reported about it on their respective
blogs:

Peter Suber (Open Access News) –
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2009/03/oa-mandate-for-library-facult
y-of-osu.html

Steven Harnad (Open Access Archivangelism) –
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/548-Planets-1st-Librar
y-Faculty-Green-OA-Mandate-7th-US-Mandate,-68th-Worldwide.html

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March 16, 2009 · Filed under Announcements

Citing works in Aquatic Commons

Steven Harnad has offered the following advice for correctly citing OA versions:

(1) Always cite the published version if the cited work is indeed published. (The published version is the archival work; the OA version is merely a means of access to a supplementary version of it. It is not the published work.)

(2) Always give the URL or DOI of the OA version for access purposes, along with the citation to the published version.

(3) In citing (in the text) the location for quoted excerpts, use the published version’s page-span if you know them; otherwise use section-heading plus paragraph number. (Indeed, it is good to add section-heading plus paragraph-number in any case.)


What follows is the pertinent extract from the APA Style Manual:

-To cite a specific part of a source, indicate the page, chapter, figure, table or equation at the appropriate point in text. Always give page numbers for quotations. Abbreviate the words page and chapter in such text citations:
 (Cheek & Buss, 1981, p.332)
       (Shimamura, 1989, chap. 3)

For electronic sources that do not provide page numbers, use the paragraph number, if available, preceded by the ¶ symbol or the abbreviation para. If neither paragraph nor page numbers are visible, cite the heading and the number of paragraph following it to direct reader to the location of the material.
 (Myers, 2000, ¶ 5)       (Beutler, 2000, Conclusion section, para.1)

[Excerpted from the JISC Repositories listserv, March 5, 2009]

Thought this would be helpful to all, Stephanie

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March 5, 2009 · Filed under Aquatic Commons

Changes at NRC and CISTI

I thought this news would be of interest to IAMSLIC.

Joe Wible, Hopkins Marine Station of Stanford University

____________________________________

From: Canadian Medical Libraries List [mailto:CANMEDLIB@CLIFFY.UCS.MUN.CA] On Behalf Of Dianne Kharouba
Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2009 10:04 AM
To: CANMEDLIB@CLIFFY.UCS.MUN.CA
Subject: [CANMEDLIB] NRC cuts include CISTI

As part of a federal government program review, serious cuts are being planned for NRC.

The Ottawa Citizen is reporting that “the National Research Council is conducting a major review that will eliminate three research groups, downsize another, and cost up to 300 jobs.”

“The Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (CISTI), the country’s national science library and leading publisher of scientific information would be streamlined into a smaller unit. The Research Press, the publishing arm of CISTI could be turned into a private company.”

Dianne

Dianne Kharouba
CHLA/ABSC President,

c/o
Bibliothèque des Sciences de la santé | Health Sciences Library
kharouba@uottawa.ca
Tél. | Tel.: 613 562-5418 Téléc | Fax: 613 562-5401
Room 1020, 451 Smyth Road
Ottawa ON Canada K1H 8M5

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February 23, 2009 · Filed under Announcements

Aquatic Commons Statistics Online

FCLA has finished implementing the statistics module for the Eprints software.  Access to statistics are now available at the Usage Statistics (http://irstats.aquacomm.fcla.edu/irstats-aquacomm) link on the Aquatic Commons homepage.  You can view stats for the whole repository, or if interested, for individual items by entering their repository IDs.    For the first two months of 2009, the most downloaded file was
“Microbiological indicators of water quality in submerged karst caves of Wakulla Springs, Florida.”  (ID 760)
Issues of Aquaculture Asia have shown to be of continuing high interest.

Please try the functionalities of this page and let us know what you think.

Thanks to all contributors for your ongoing efforts.

From Stephanie Haas on behalf of the Board and all of the Working Groups

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February 14, 2009 · Filed under Aquatic Commons

IAMSLIC welcomes new members from around the world

DeKock, Alisun
Shedd Aquarium Library
Address: 1200 S. Lake Shore Drive
City: Chicago
State/Prov: IL
Postal Code: 60605
Country: United States
Telephone: (312) 692-3280
Email: adekock@sheddaquarium.org

Patu, Lusila
Library of American Samoa Environmental Resource, Dept. of Marine & Wildlife Resources
Address: PO Box 3730
City: Pago Pago
State/Prov: American Samoa
Postal Code: 96799
Country: United States
Telephone: 684-633-4456 ext. 41
Email: mariavaofanua@hotmail.com

Vallejo Sanchez, Maria Magdalena
Centro de Investigacion en Alimentacion y Desarrollo, A. C.
Address: Carr. a la Victoria Km. 06
City: Hermosillo
State/Prov: Sonora
Postal Code: 83000
Country: Mexico
Telephone: 52 (662)289-24-00 ext. 245 y 2
Email: mvallejo@cascabel.ciad.mx

Raikaon, Tumoa
Fisheries Division, Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources Development
Address: PO Box 276
City: Bikenibeu
State/Prov: Tarawa
Country: Republic of Kiribati
Email: raikaont@fisheries.gov.ki

Ta’amu, Va’asa
Library of American Samoa Environmental Resource, Dept. of Marine & Wildlife Resources
Address: PO Box 3730
City: Pago Pago
State/Prov: American Samoa
Postal Code: 97699
Country: United States
Telephone: 684-633-4456 ext. 42
Email: simanualii_2go@yahoo.com

Kamar, Nerisa
J.D. Rockefeller Research Library (TEEAL), Egerton University
Address: Box 536
City: Egerton
Country: Kenya
Telephone: 051-2217855
Email: nerisa@egerton.ac.ke

Kemp, Peter
Mycologia Pty. Ltd.
Address: 1/454 Scarborough Beach Road
City: Osborne Park
State/Prov: WA
Postal Code: 6017
Country: Australia
Telephone: +61894435755
Email: pckemp@mould.com.au

Osta, Viviane
Marine Research Center – CNRSL – National Centre for Marine Sciences – National Council for Scientific Research
Address: San Stefano Street
City: Batroun
Postal Code: 534
Country: Lebanon
Telephone: +9616741582/3
Email: viviane.osta@cnrs.edu.lb

Culp, Kristin
Thomson Reuters
Address: 3501 Market Street
City: Philadelphia
State/Prov: PA
Postal Code: 19104
Country: United States
Telephone: 800-336-4474 x3912
Email: kristin.culp@thomsonreuters.com

Collins, Lori
Bedford Institute of Oceanography Library
Address: 1 Challenger Drive
City: Dartmouth
State/Prov: Nova Scotia
Postal Code: B2Y 4A2
Country: Canada
Telephone: 902-496-1544
Email: Lori.Collins@dro-mpo.gc.ca

Kone, Tehena
Universite de Cocody Library
Address: rue de l’universite
City: Abidjan, Cocody
Postal Code: 225
Country: Cote d’Ivoire
Telephone: 00 (225) 08251761
Email: Ktehena@yahoo.fr

Kristen L. Metzger, Membership Database & Committee Chair

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February 11, 2009 · Filed under Committee news

Ocean in Google Earth

The National Science Foundation Contributes to Newest Version of “Google Earth”

Photo of Ross Ice Shelf at Cape Crozier.

Google today released the newest version of “Google Earth,” which contains a feature called “Ocean in Google Earth” that enables users to dive beneath the surface of the sea and explore the world’s oceans.

“Ocean in Google Earth” includes videos, photos, diagrams and texts that vividly illustrate glacial, geological and ocean processes influencing the behavior of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet in Antarctica.

The material, which was provided by …

More at http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=114084&govDel=USNSF_51


Explore the ocean

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February 4, 2009 · Filed under Announcements, Interesting sites

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