Great news. The journal “Nature” is making it possible to share articles with non-subscribers by providing a link that allows anyone to view the article online.  It will require a subscriber or member of the media to create the link, and it will not allow downloading or printing.
Joe Wible
Hopkins Marine Station
http://www.nature.com/news/nature-makes-all-articles-free-to-view-1.16460
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During the last ASFA Board Meeting, five members of AFRIAMSLIC – IAMSLIC Regional Group as well as Ms Guillermina Cosulich, IAMSLIC Chair attended the mini meeting called by the chair of the group, Ms Arame Ndiaye Keita-Senegal.
Participants were Mr James Macharia-Kenya, Ms Saida Messaouidi- Tunisia, Ms Ana Maria Alfredo- Mozambique and Ms Alice Endra- Uganda.
The meeting was short but productive with Ms Endra as rapporteur: Main issues discussed were about: AFRIAMSLIC Membership, -AFRIAMSLIC Communication ( Website and Facebook) and- HOSTING the 2018 Conference in the Region.
Please read the Minutes posted in IAMSLIC website. Some information are available on AFRIAMSLIC- IAMSLIC Regional Group facebook page.
Posted By Ms Arame Ndiaye Keita, AFRIAMSLIC Representative
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The INIDEP librarians are very pleased to announce that the first presentation of the institutional Repository “Mar Abierto†(OpenSea) was made to all the scientific staff and a few invited librarian friends, last October 23rd, celebrating also the Open Access International Week and the INIDEP Anniversary.
Gabriela Silvoni is the Technical Responsible and it was developed in Dspace by Leticia Lizondo and with the Informatic support of Edwin Abot, within the frame of the Ministry of Science and Technology initiatives, as part of the National Digital Repository Systems. Important is to mention here that we also participate in the Board of the National Marine Data System and Leticia is the only librarian included.
The Repository content includes now 300 documents, all the scientific production published at INIDEP, including historical publications from the former Marine Biology Institute (Mar del Plata 1960-1977). Lots of documents were migrated from Aquatic Commons and OceanDocs and in the near future articles published in international Journals will be uploaded.
The presentation of “Mar Abierto†within a National System reinforces what we have walked in this direction until now, and our commitment trying always to make available all the national scientific production in marine, aquatic and fisheries sciences, since the year 2013 protected by the National Law Nº 26899.
We hope to have it available and accessible for everybody at the beginning of 2015.
More information in the INIDEP website http://info.inidep.edu.ar/2014/10/24/acceso-a-la-informacion-cientifica-presentacion-del-repositorio-mar-abierto/
Guillermina Cosulich/ Gabriela Silvoni/ Leticia Lizondo / Quimey Navas/
The INIDEP librarians, Mar del Plata, Argentina
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The 43rd Annual ASFA Advisory Board Meeting was held in Beijing, China from 13 to 17 October, 2014.
The meeting was hosted by the National Marine Data and Information Service, the Chinese National ASFA Partner and co-organized with the FAO ASFA Secretariat.
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Survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/8PP8NVJ
Your opinion is very important to the Future of IODE. Some of you may have only a brief acquaintance with IODE. Others have known of IODE for many years. Please take the time to take this survey .
The probably most import topic of discussion at the 23rd Session of the IODE Committee in March 2015 will be the future of IODE. While IODE’s model of a global network of oceanographic data (and information) centres has worked well for 50 years we must now appreciate that other parallel networks are existing or developing. Many of these are better funded so we cannot (and maybe should not) compete with these. On the other hand as these networks are often region based there may still be a need for a “global umbrella†like IODE. We therefore need to think about what are the areas where IODE can or should play a role in the future and how IODE should interact with the many other networks.
In order to obtain YOUR opinion on this matter we have now prepared a survey of 32 questions (most of them require only ticking a box). The outcome of the survey will be used by a small working group that will prepare a discussion paper proposing possible directions for the IODE of the future. This document will be circulated by the end of January/half February so you can carefully study it and formulate your opinion during the Session (or before, by email, if you prefer or in case you cannot participate in person).
So please take 15-20 minutes to answer the questions so IODE can remain, or become again, your leading data/information management community organisation.
The survey will remain open for 1 month UNTIL 7 NOVEMBER 2014.
The URL is https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/8PP8NVJ
Linda Pikula
Chair, Joint IODE-IAMSLIC GEMIM
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Thanks to Louise Archabald at the DFO Library in Sidney B.C. for the tip on finding the many DFO series.
What you need is this new link:
http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/libraries-bibliotheques/reports-recent-rapports-eng.htm for the page entitled: “Finding Recent Reports in the DFO Scientific Report Seriesâ€.
Here is Louise’s contact i you want more information.
Louise Archibald (DFO Library, Institute of Oceans Sciences, Sidney, BC)
Library Technician, Information Management Branch
Fisheries and Oceans Canada / Government of Canada
Louise.Archibald@dfo-mpo.gc.ca /Tel: 250-363-8197
Bibliotechnicienne, Direction du gestion de l’information
Pêches et Océans Canada / Gouvernement du Canada
Louise.Archibald@dfo-mpo.gc.ca /Tél: 250-363-8197
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Greetings,
To mark the 50th anniversary in 2012 of the opening of the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (BIO), Canada’s major multidisciplinary oceanographic research facility, the BIO-Oceans Association has published a major treatise reviewing the Institute’s history and marine research accomplishments. Voyage of Discovery: Fifty Years of Marine Research at Canada’s Bedford Institute of Oceanography (VOD) summarizes BIO research results on the oceanography of, primarily, Arctic and Eastern Canada. In a series of 48 papers by past and present research staff from all oceanographic disciplines at BIO, the history of Canadian oceanography before BIO and a broad cross section of the Institute’s work spanning five decades are featured with particular emphasis on contributions to Canadian and global understanding/management of the marine environment.
The book’s well-written text and illustrations (mostly in colour) will appeal to a broad readership from professional marine scientists, environmental/resource managers and decision-makers, to marine science students and lay persons interested in the history of marine sciences. A must-have book for marine science libraries. Attached is an order form which provides more information about the book, and a copy of the table of contents (see links below).
Voyage of Discovery is now available at $35.00 per copy plus shipping charges (Atlantic Canada = $13; Quebec & Ontario = $15; Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia = $17, northern Territories = $24; USA = $26; Europe = $34; elsewhere = $39). For prepaid mail-orders (by cheque, money order, credit card made out to ‘BIO-Oceans Association’), please send payment and completed order form to: BIO-Oceans Association (VOD), c/o Bedford Institute of Oceanography, P.O. Box 1006, Dartmouth, NS, Canada B2Y 4A2. Otherwise, please forward your library’s regular book order form to the same address or e-mail your order to the following address: accounts@bio-oa.ca
If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to get in touch with me.
Many thanks.
Betty Sutherland
Associate University Librarian, Health Sciences (retired), Dalhousie University
and formerly Head, Library Services, Bedford Institute of Oceanography
and former long-time member of IAMSLIC
E-mail: jesuther@dal.ca
for the VOD Editors and Publisher
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Hello,
I’m trying to sort out what is happening with the Canadian technical report of fisheries and aquatic sciences and the Canadian manuscript report of fisheries and aquatic sciences. The link we have in our catalog goes to the archive sites –
http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/libraries-bibliotheques/reports-rapports-eng.htm
This only goes through 2012. I am then referred to WAVES. I was hoping to find a list of the reports so I have an idea of what has been recently published. Am I missing something? I cannot find anything beside doing a series search in WAVES.
Given the closure of so many DFO libraries, it appears that it is going to be more difficult to locate Canadian fisheries and aquatic science reports. Surprise, surprise. Any clues would be helpful.
Thanks.
-Janet Webster
Oregon State University
Newport, OR USA
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SmartNews Keeping you current
500 Years’ Worth of Book Illustrations Have Just Been Liberated From Print
The internet’s about to get a wealth of illustrations from more than two million books
By Rachel Nuwer
smithsonian.com
September 5, 2014
The knowledge trapped in dusty print books isn’t just contained in their words—book illustrations, too, contain insights into past culture and psyche. But as the Washington Post points out, digitization efforts to date have focused mainly on printed text, rather than the illustrations that go with them. Now, a joint project between Georgetown University, Flickr and the Internet Archive aims to change that.
The researchers behind the effort plan to digitize images from some two million printed books, published over the past 500 years. So far, they have already added more than 2.5 million photos to the project’s Flickr page, all of which, the Washington Post adds, are licensed within the public domain.
As an added bonus, the illustrations—unlike many digitized text scans contained in PDF files—will soon be fully searchable. Kalev Leetaru, the Georgetown researcher behind the project, told the Washington Post that he will be releasing an app sometime in the next few weeks that will allow people to use keywords to search through what will eventually be around 10 million images. As Leetaru said, he hopes to create “a single massive gallery of our history” where “all of the world’s out-of-copyright book images” can reside.
Posted by
Michael J. Gomez
Alfred Wegener Institut für Polar- und Meeresforschung
Bremerhaven, Germany
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I have been blogging about both my pre-conference vacation in New Zealand and the IAMSLIC conference in New Caledonia. I still have several more blogs to post for New Caledonia, but if you want to see more pictures from the conference, check it out at:
http://nznclibrarian.blogspot.co.nz
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Joe Wible
Hopkins Marine Station
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