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Theses submitted for obtaining academic degrees are important sources of primary research information but are not usually published and frequently difficult to find. The INIDEP (National Institute of Fisheries Research and Development) Library, has always had within its mission, the collection, preservation and access of the National Marine Scientific Literature, including the Argentine Marine Thesis, even though it is not a university-academic type institution, but a government research one. There are no other institutions in the country registering within web databases or repositories, their marine and aquatic thesis archives. The INIDEP Library has an important Marine Thesis Archive available for the world scientific community through referential Databases SIDALC-IICA, and also included in ASFA-Proquest. It became involved from the beginning with OceanDoc-IOC Repository since 2005 and created a Marine Thesis Collection- Tesis en Ciencias Marinas- within the Argentine Community, at the moment 60 records (http://iodeweb1.vliz.be/odin/handle/1834/1339). The impact within the young Argentine scientific community of web alert notices on this matter was high, many new Phd’s requested the INIDEP Library to have their new born-digital thesis to be incoporated to the repository. The visibility is shown with usage statistics from different countries and a subject analysis is also included. The systems interoperability allow many access points, -the Referential Databases such as ASFA-Proquest and SIDALC are linked to Oceandocs fulltext records, and –the scientists can include the link to bibliographies and academic CV’s. At the national level, the INIDEP Library is leading the initiative inviting and contacting to train other universities, and research institutions in order to start uploading their thesis archives in the Collection. |
