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Smart Fishing:Impact of open access on African fisheries informationJean Collins (retired) & Janet Webster (Oregon State University)2011 IAMSLIC, Zanzibar, Tanzania
Code of Conduct
Voluntary policy framework adopted in 1995
Promote sustainable and responsible fisheries & aquaculture worldwide
Constraints to implementationLevel of scientific research
Amount of information
Institutional capacity
Access to information
Information for the Code2005 FAO Fisheries Technical Circular 1006
Fisheries Information in Developing Countries
2009 Technical Guideline 12Information and Knowledge Sharing
Constraints
• Lack of awareness of & access to global information resources
• Poor opportunities to publish & disseminate research results
• Inadequate ICT infrastructure & information skills
• Lack of access to & preservation of local information
CraftyGoat'
Constraint 1:Lack of awareness of & access to global information resources
Research4Life.org
Impact of Expanded Access?
Afriamslic survey
9 replies out of 32: Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Tanzania, UgandaEnthusiastic users of AGORA!
IAMSLIC Distributed Library
Borrowing Libraries Lending Libraries
Botswana 7
Kenya 160 Kenya 9
Namibia 5
Nigeria 6
South Africa 12 South Africa 32
Tanzania 7
Tunisia 13
AFRIAMSLIC activity is increasing, but there’s room for much more growth.
Constraint 2:Poor opportunities to publish & disseminate the results of research
What is open access?• Digital• Online• Free of charge• Free of most copyright & licensing
restrictions.
Searching for African research
Wide variety of journals
Few fisheries specific journals
Over 40 different OA journals
Time lag in African fisheries journals
Journals aggregatorsAfrican Journals OnlineDirectory of Open Access JournalsBioOne
DOAJ Search and Results(TI=fish OR TI=fisheries) and PY=2010 and SU=Africa = 33
AJOL Search: (TI=fish or fisheries) and PY=2010 = 48
More good tools
GoogleScholar as a search engine
OA repositories as ‘homes’ for publications
Aquatic Commons
OceanDocs
RePEc (Research Papers in Economics)
PubMed Central
Avano as an OA harvester
Google Scholar Search and Results:((fish OR fisheries) AND (uganda OR tanzania OR kenya OR nigeria OR botswana OR senegal)) and PY=2010 = 13,000 (sampled 130)
African Fisheries Journals
What now?• Should AGORA include African fisheries journals?
• African Journal of Aquatic Sciences• African Journal of Marine Sciences
• Should DOAJ include African OA journals?• Why are African fisheries researchers publishing in non
fisheries journals?• Is an OA African fisheries journal feasible and would it
be a solution?• Can librarians help researchers select the best place to
publish?
