• The Aquatic Commons is a thematic digital repository covering the natural marine, estuarine /brackish and fresh water environments. It includes all aspects of the science, technology, management and conservation of these environments, their organisms and resources, and the economic, sociological and legal aspects.
  
  
• The repository contains a growing collection of published and unpublished research, organizational publications, and other scholarly materials contributed by researchers, librarians, and their institutions.
  
  
• It is directed by the International Association of Aquatic and Marine Science Libraries and Information Centers to provide visibility, usage and impact through global access to digital publications from worldwide marine and freshwater organizations that do not have access to an institutional repository of their own.
  
  
• The Aquatic Commons is one of a number of thematic digital marine and aquatic repositories. It is complementary to OceanDocs, which is supported by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) specifically to collect, preserve and facilitate access to all research output from members of their Ocean Data and Information Networks (ODINS). The records of both repositories are harvested by Avano which aggregates records from marine and aquatic repositories around the World.

See Aquatic Commons Policies and Procedures for further information

The Aquatic Commons repository is now accepting submissions from IAMSLIC members and their partners. The official URL is http://aquacomm.fcla.edu. The repository is OAI compliant and records are being harvested by Avano, the official harvester of IAMSLIC.

Please join us in building this open access resource. Early Contributors include:

• Digital Library Center, University of Florida Libraries Stephanie Haas, Assistant Director
• Fish and Wildlife Research Institute (Florida) Jan Boyett, Librarian
• Florida Sea Grant College Program
• ICSF International Collective in Support of Fishworkers
• National Sea Grant Library Cynthia Murray, Coordinator
• Moss Landing Marine Laboratory Joan Parker, Librarian
• Network of Aquaculture Centres in Asia-Pacific Simon Wilkinson
• St. John's River Water Management District Susie Hallowell, Librarian

Statistics on Aquatic Commons site

Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR) data on Aquatic Commons growth.

Citing of Aquatic Commons publications in Google Scholar

Aquatic Commons Board, Working Groups, and Background Documents

Publications and Presentations

Garnica, Jose. (2008) Aquatic Commons. Presented at the First Meeting of the Mediterranean Marine and Aquatic Libraries and Information Centres Network, 17-18 November, 2008, Cadiz, Spain.

Haas, Stephanie C. and Raymond, Lisa Marie and Heckman, Jan. (2008) Creating the flow: expanding the role of the Aquatic Commons. In: SAIL 2008: Connecting the Oceans , April 14-16, 2008 , Panama City, Panama.

Collins, Jean (2007) Information Sharing Via Aquatic Commons FAN: FAO Aquaculture Newsletter, no. 37

________. Sharing Knowledge in the Aquatic Commons. The Lubin Files, August 27, 2007. Available at http://lubinlib.typepad.com/index/2007/08/sharing-knowled.html

________ and Reynolds, Eric. (2007) FAO FishCode Aquatic Commons: improving information for responsible fisheries and aquaculture. Food and Agricultural Organization(FAO) , Rome, Italy.