Elsevier looking to buy Mendeley
Check out the following story reporting the estimated $100 million Elsevier has tendered to buy Mendeley.
http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/17/elsevier-mendeley-education/
Joe Wible
Hopkins Marine Station
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Skidaway Institute
Many of you know about this, but Skidaway will be moving under the University of Georgia, effective this summer.
http://www.usg.edu/news/release/regents_align_skidaway_institute_of_oceanography_with_uga
Janet Webster
Oregon State University
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Elsevier acquires Knovel
Here is a FAQ with information about the purchase of Knovel by Elsevier.
Joe Wible
Hopkins Marine Station
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Happy Holiday
Dear colleagues,
As we enter the festive season, I would like to take this opportunity to thank you all for your hard work, enthusiasm, commitment and support. The year 2012 was a productive year for IAMSLIC and I hope the next year will also be a successful and positive one.
I would like to extend my very best wishes for a wonderful Holiday Season and a great New Year!
Maria Kalentsits
IAMSLIC President 2012-2013
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Results of votes – Proposal for the establishment of a joint IAMSLIC-IODE Group of Experts on Marine Information Management
Dear colleagues,
 I am pleased to inform you that following a vote, the proposal for establishment of a joint IAMSLIC-IODE Group of Experts on Marine Information Management has been approved by IAMSLIC membership.
 Here are the results of voting:
Yes – 65
No – 7
Abstentions – 5
 I do hope that the joint IAMSLIC-IODE GEMIM will contribute to strengthening cooperation between IAMSLIC and IODE  for the benefit of all stakeholders involved in marine information management.
 Best regards,
Maria Kalentsits
IAMSLIC President 2012-2013
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Stanford Prize for Innovation in Research Libraries (SPIRL)
Dear Colleagues and Friends,
Today Stanford University Libraries announces the Stanford Prize for Innovation in Research Libraries – SPIRL, an award that is intended to recognize and celebrate individual research libraries for sustained and significant innovation in any operational area.  Nominations with documentation may be made by institutions or individuals and are due by 5:00pm Pacific Standard Time on Tuesday 15 January 2013.  A full explanation of the intent and process for SPIRL may be found at http://library.stanford.edu/prizes/spirl .  It is expected that the first prize(s) will be announced in mid- to late-February 2013.
Please re-distribute this announcement widely. Â Thanks very much.
Cheers,
M A K
Michael A. Keller
University Librarian
Founder/Publisher HighWire Press
Publisher Stanford University Press
Stanford University
101 Green Library
Stanford, CA 94305-6004
U.S.A.
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submitted by Joe Wible, Hopkins Marine Station
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Update on Fisheries-Oceans Canada library mergers
A recent article in the Halifax Herald News titled “Fisheries library merger draws fire in Quebec” talks about some of the opposition to the merger of the libraries of Fisheries and Oceans Canada into two regional physical collections. This merger is having major impacts on a number of our IAMSLIC colleagues from Canada who are facing uncertainty about the future of their jobs and their libraries.
–Steve Watkins
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Guide to Marine Organisms of Texas
… and areas of the Gulf of Mexico. TAMUG faculty have put together a photo ID guide at: http://txmarspecies.tamug.edu/
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The Executive Board has approved Draft Recommendations prepared by the Task Force on the IODE proposal for establishing of a joint IAMSLIC-IODE GEMIM
Dear colleagues,
 I am pleased to inform you that the Executive Board has approved Draft Recommendations prepared by the Task Force on the IODE proposal for establishing of a joint IAMSLIC-IODE GEMIM.
Recognizing the benefits of this initiative for both Parties and along with the recommendation to proceed with establishing of the joint GEMIM, the Task Force has brought up a number of concerns to be addressed prior to drafting of the Terms of Reference for this group. The document containing recommendations is available on the IAMSLIC website http://www.iamslic.org/people/committees-taskforces/iamslic-iou-mou . Your comments and considerations are welcome and important to the Board.
 The IAMSLIC Executive Board and IODE have already started working on the issues of concern. We hope to be able to complement the recommendations with an Annex addressing some of our concerns shortly. All the IAMSLIC members will be invited to vote on the Recommendations around 20th of November.
Thank you and best regards,
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Maria Kalentsits
IAMSLIC President 2012-2013
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New source of underwater images at no cost for non-commercial use
I received the following email and thought others might find this of interest.
Joe Wible, Hopkins Marine Station
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Dear kelp forest enthusiasts,
If your photographic talents are as woeful as mine and you are constantly searching for high quality images for your lectures, presentations and publications, then you will be pleased to learn that there is now a collection of professional quality underwater images available for non-commercial use at no cost. Many of you know Ron McPeak, an accomplished natural historian, kelp biologist and underwater photographer. Ron’s photographs of the underwater biota of giant kelp forests have received numerous awards and have been displayed in many highly acclaimed publications and museums/aquariums. Ron is now retired and recently he generously made his collection of underwater photographs freely available to us for our research and teaching needs. Ron’s collection contains over two thousand 35 mm color slides of the underwater biota of giant kelp forests in California and Baja Mexico from 1965 to 1999. There also are images of kelp harvesting in California, salmon spawning in Alaskan streams, and aerial and landscape views of coastal California and its offshore islands. The entire collection of 35 mm color slides was scanned at approximately 3,300 pixels in long dimension (courtesy of the NSF funded Santa Barbara Coastal Long Term Ecological Research project) and images can be downloaded in jpg format from UCSB library’s Digital Collections web site http://digital.library.ucsb.edu/collections/show/23 (higher resolution images can be obtained by contacting the library’s Department of Special Collections). All images are well documented with captions, date and location, and subject matter, making them useful for historical purposes as well. The browse features on the library’s website are a bit clumsy, but images of a particular subject matter or species can be located rather easily by using the search commands at the top of the web page. UCSB owns the copyright to all images and photo credits should be given to Ron McPeak.
Please notify your students and colleagues of this valuable resource and join me in thanking Ron for his generosity in making it available to us.
Regards, Dan
— Dan Reed
Marine Science Institute
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-6150
(805) 893-8363 office phone
(805) 893-8062 FAX
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