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?