The new joint open access repository  AquaDocs is launched.

AquaDocs is an open access repository covering the natural marine, estuarine /brackish and freshwater 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.

AquaDocs was developed in 2021 by merging content from two former repositories, OceanDocs and Aquatic Commons, and is used by researchers, students, information and data managers, government officials and policy-makers.

AquaDocs offers the following benefits:

• To make aquatic and marine science information FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) for all. 
• To offer a repository platform to those organizations and individuals without the infrastructure to support their own.
• To provide a capacity development opportunity for the IODE and IAMSLIC Communities

The hosted Open Repository software, used by AquaDocs, offers several new features, including a multilingual interface, user export of metadata, sharing of items through social media, usage statistics and Altmetrics, author profile pages, batch uploading of metadata with PDFs, and a metadata quality module.

AquaDocs is funded and managed by the UNESCO/IOC InternationaI Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE) and the International Marine and Aquatic Sciences Libraries and Information Centers (IAMSLIC) with support from the FAO Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts. It is hosted by Atmire using the Open Repository software.

IAMSLIC/EURASLIC 2021 Conference - Call for Proposals is announced!

Conference theme is:Libraries Supporting Our Ocean: Sustaining and preserving our shared ocean for our shared future.

Conference topics:

• How Libraries can support in providing a framework for international coordination and partnership to reinforce research capacities in marine science and in the transfer of technology
• Actions in support of the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development GOALS (SDG) specifically, on how to conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas, and marine resources (SDG 14 - Life below water).
• Supporting scientists in collecting and analyzing data, either in laboratories or in marine environments 
• Opening access to science
• Teaching and promoting water literacy
• Communicating science and sustainability messages
• Enabling knowledge sharing and collaboration
• Identifying library opportunities and address the barriers faced in supporting this goal
• Capacity building opportunities at your institution
• Resource management - people, data, tools, technologies
• Endeavors, insights, or ideas on the societal, environmental, and economic sustainability of our ocean and how the library can help

Deadline for submissions is Monday, September 6, 2021.

More at Conference Web Page

The 2021 IAMSLIC/EURASLIC conference theme is:

Libraries Supporting Our Ocean: Sustaining and preserving our shared ocean for our shared future.

2021 marks the start of the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development. Together we can share our library knowledge, our institutional missions, and our sustainability messages to further our personal understanding.

"International Ocean Data Conference 2022 - The Data We Need for the Ocean We Want" in Sopot, Poland, will be held between 14-16 February 2022.

The Conference will be held as a hybrid event with a number of participants on-site while others will participate through video conference.