The Aquatic Commons repository: an international collaboration
Stephanie Ronan
Lamarie, 2008, Bubblefish, Flickr
Sole Traderor
Limited Company?
The International Association of Aquatic and Marine Science Libraries and Information Centres - http://www.iamslic.org/
Sole Traderor
Limited Company?
The Aquatic Commons is a thematic digital repository covering the natural marine, estuarine /brackish and fresh water environments.
A q u a t i c C o m m o n s A i m s
Facilitate sharing of information and knowledge on the science and management of aquatic environments
Enable the use and validation of research results
Empower managers and resource users to publish their findings
Provide free and Open Access to information
Ensure equal participation and coverage of the literature from developing and developed countries
Avoid costly and wasteful duplication
of effort
Ensure the preservation of information and its
availability for future generations
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2005- Aquatic Commons Initiative was introduced to the ASFA Board and IAMSLIC
2006- Aquatic Commons Implementation Task Force – initial report & passed on Iamslic members vote
3 2006- IAMSLIC signed the contract for the development of an Eprints based repository with the Florida Center for Library Automation
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2007- Aquatic Commons repository is built on version 3 of EPrints. live in August & deposits begin in September
AVANO out of IFREMER is designated as the official harvester for AQ. Google and OAIster also harvest records & it is registered with ROAR and OpenDOAR
6 ASFA Board allocates $28,000 dollars to help build digital collections.
2 0 0 8 - Recruitment begins & content comes pouring in
Bart, 2008, Pour some sugar on me, Flickr
1,766,179 downloads to date
USA & China Top countries downloading
4,000Full text downloads on average per day in September 2015
200-300 items deposited each year
Thank you!
Questions?