AC quickstart guide 2011 final
Creating Aquatic Commons Records on a Flash Drive 2011
for other Aquatic Commons publications see: http://www.iamslic.org/publications/aquatic-commons
Marcia Croy-Vanwely
IAMSLIC President
This board will be responsible for reviewing the deposits that come into the Aquatic Commons. It will comprise of 4 members: Jean Collins, Stephanie Haas, Lisa Raymond and Pauline Simpson.
Marcia Croy-Vanwely, IAMSLIC President
My sincere appreciation on behalf of the IAMSLIC members goes to the retiring Aquatic Commons Board members who have contributed their time and expertise over the last 4 years: Stephanie Haas, Jean Collins, Pauline Simpson, Frederic Merceur, Lisa Raymond, Helen Wibley, Linda Pikula and Peter Pissierssens.
The 2011-2013 Aquatic Commons Board members:
Chair – Joan Parker
IAMSLIC Junior vice-president: Maria Kalenchits
IAMSLIC Member at large: Andrea Cristiani
IAMSLIC Technical representative: Hardy Schwamm
IAMSLIC Regional representative: Sally Taylor
ASFA/FAO Liaison – Armand Gribling
IODE representative: Linda Pikula
IAMSLIC President (ex-officio): Marcia Croy-Vanwely
For more information: http://www.iamslic.org/people/committees-taskforces/aquatic-commons-board
Marcia
IAMSLIC President
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
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.
Submitted by Stephanie Haas on behalf of the AC Board and the AC Working Groups
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.)
-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
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
The Aquatic Commons repository is now browsable by Issuing Agency. This recent enhancement was the direct result of contributors asking for the ability to pull up all of their contributions. Browse by Issuing Agency is on the top menu bar of the Aquatic Commons pages.
In the Advanced Search, you can copy and paste the name of the agency into the Issuing Agency Field and then search by topics or other access points. This provides full text searching to the entire document set from that agency. Very helpful to your own agency researchers!
A note to contributors: please send the correct form of the agency name to Stephanie Haas [ schaas@gmail.com] for inclusion in the Authority List for Issuing Agencies. This field is sensitive to spacing and punctuation, and monitoring is ongoing.
Comments are most welcome!
The Florida Center for Library Automation is working on implementing a statistics module for the Aquatic Commons Repository. Until that is functional, I would like to share statistics on usage under Statistics links located on the Aquatic Commons page under the IAMSLIC homepage. The first listing is for the top 50 titles accessed between July and September 2008. As you will note, Aquaculture Asia is receiving a tremendous number of uses.
I will be adding statistics supplied from FCLA and other sources as they are discovered. A Google Scholar update is on the way.
My sabbatical project at FAO in Rome ends this week. Part of this project was to identify content for the Aquatic Commons. We contacted all regional fishery management organizations and several regional fishery bodies with information about the Commons and a letter from FAO advocating wider dissemination and preservation of fisheries and aquaculture grey literature via the Aquatic Commons. I’m happy to report that several regional organizations have already responded positively.
The Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission has decided to partner with IAMSLIC to include their publications. Several Cyamus members have agreed to collaborate on this project and Debra Losey is coordinating with IATTC. Another important component of this project is as a test case for regional group sponsorship of an agency wishing to deposit into the Aquatic Commons.
A development project hosted at the Network for Aquaculture Centres in Asia-Pacific, the Support to Regional Aquatic Resources Management (STREAM) Initiative, has also agreed. As this project is no longer active, the rescue of STREAM publications documenting their work with aquaculture and poverty in Asia is especially satisfying.
There are a couple of other agencies engaged in preliminary discussions with Jean. She’ll keep you posted on future developments. We would also like to remind members that the Aquatic Commons Content Development Working Group is in need of additional members especially from Regional Groups outside North America.
Regards,
Joan Parker
