Open Access Institutional Repository launched

The Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, in i t s journey towards establishing an Open access Institutional Digital Repository in the library, has uploaded about 7,000 scientific papers of their staff members published since 1953, which was launched as eprints@cmfri on 26 November 2010 by the Secretary, DARE and Director General, ICAR, Dr S. Ayyappan

CMFRI launches Open Access Institutional Repository

'E-prints@CMFRI'feature the facility of searching the articles by year, author, subject, document type or division. Interested users can freely download full-text as most of the documents are directly accessible. 'Request Copy' forms can be used for documents to which direct full-text download is restricted due to publishers' embargoes

Director General, ICAR Launches Open Access Online Indian Journal of Fisheries

Secretary (DARE) and Director General, ICAR Dr S Ayyappan launched the open access online Indian Journal of Fisheries in the ICAR website at a function held at Visakhapatnam RC of CMFRI. He was inaugurating the newly extended wing of the Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute-Central Institute of Fisheries Technology lab-cumoffice comple

J.V.H. Dixitulu National Award for Outstanding work

The Association of Aquaculturists (based in Central Institute of Freshwater Aquaculture, Bhubaneswar), Marine Biological Association of India (MBAI - based in Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Kochi) and the Inland Fisheries Society of India (IFSI - based in Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute, Barrackpore), have instituted in 2010, Mr. J.V.H. Dixitulu National Award to recognise outstanding contributions in the field of fisheries extension/ communication in India. This was presented to Mr. V. Edwin Joseph, Officer-in- Charge, Library and Documentation and the Librarian of CMFRI by Mr. J. V. H. Dixitulu during the 9th Indian Fisheries Forum at Chennai. The award carried a memento, citation and cash award of Rs.15,000/-

Course manual: National training on cage culture of seabass, 14 - 23 December 2009

Aquaculture aims at producing aquatic organisms of nutritional, ornamental, therapeutic and industrial value. Cage culture is one avenue where immense scope is there for all these. Cage culture is impressive to adopt in the fact that it provides ownership in public water with less cost of construction and reduced capital investment, safety from predators and competitors and ultimately high yield of fish with good economic returns

Evolution of Institutional Repository at CMFRI

The paper traces the evolution of IR at CMFRI which is an initiative to implement IR at other ICAR Institutes. Discusses the lessons learned and best practices for implementing IRs and will pave way for other ICAR Institutions and State Agricultural Universities in India the examine the feasibility of IRs in the Indian context. CMFRI first introduced the Green Stone Digital Library (GSDL) software for uploading the scanned scientific papers and experienced some Hurdles. Realizing the difficulty in this software, selected Eprints software Version 3.1.3 which is freely available at developed by University of Southampton, UK. The Eprints software produces the necessary Dublin Core metadata for harvesting by service providers. The repository configures a new archive with a set of metadata fields aims at an archive of research papers. The CMFRI institutional repository is titled as Eprints@CMFRI. The steps in implementing the IR are summarized and lessons articulated

Transforming traditional libraries into Digital Libraries

Information Technology (IT) developments have changed the ICAR, ICMR and CSIR Institutes' libraries over the last few decades and speculates about further changes to come. The study discussed a 3 phase procession of the effects of IT on organization: modernization, innovation and transformation. The first stage of the study is to dominate by the theme of computerization of library applied a growing range of IT in the management of collection of primarily print on agriculture, industry and medical science information. The second stage is the rise of public access through LAN and WAN shared information it's resulted that Public Access Cataloguing (PAC), abstracting and indexing databases (CDRom database) had become quite large as a result of respective conversion programs for older books and some years of use in cataloguing new acquisitions. The development of automation age, print content goes electronic, online catalogue through widely popular rapidly created demand for actual content in digital form. The third stage is the innovation and transformation of information the institutions characterized by an enormous, exhilarating flowering of innovation, creativity and experimentation. The libraries must turn their attention to defining their mission and activities in relationship to their transforming information. Numerous troubles some issues had already encountered. High cost, pricing, licesing copy right, uninterrupted online access, perpetual access to back issues etc. will be much harder and more challenging issues

Bibliography of the Gulf of Mannar

The Gulf of Mannar has a chain of 21 islands (area of each island : 0.95 to 130 ha) along the 140 km stretch between Tuticorin and Rameswaram (Lat 8°55'-9°15'N and Long 78°0'-79°16'E) (Figs.l&2). They have fringing coral reefs and patch reefs rising from shallower areas of sea-shore. Fringing reefs are located n^ostly at a distance of 50-100 m from the islands and are narrow. Patch reefs arise from depti/is of 3 to 5 fathoms and are 1-2 km in length with widths of as much as 50 meters. These coral reefs have a rich variety of food fishes and ornamental fishes of various dimensions, colours and designs. The Gulf of Mannar Marine Biosphere Reserve (GOMMBR) is the India's firstj Maiiline National Park. The Biosphere includes the microecosystems of coral reefs, rocks, seaweeds, seagrasses, each supporting its own characteristic commvmity structures and zonations. The Gulf of Mannar Biosphere Reserve, is the last preserve of the dugong, the most endangered mammal on earth. The area of the Gulf of Mannar under the Indian EEZ is about 15,000 sq. km-, where commercial fishing takesplace in about 5500 sq.km (upto 50 m depth). The deptli of the Gulf of Mannar beyond the island chain ranged from 3.5 to 15 m with a preciptous fall giving oceanic condition to the coastal areas. This ecosystem supports a wide spectra of flora and fauna of taxonomic and economic importance. They comprise of 128 species of corals, 641 species of crustaceans, 731 species of moUuscs, 441 species of finfishes, 147 species seaweeds and 52 species of seagrasses besides seasonally migratory marine mammals like whales, dolphines, porpoises, cirrious dugongs and aU the species of turtles. This habitat holds vast patches of mangroves belonging to 9 species of vegetation along witli flie supporting faima

E-prints@CMFRI: Open Access Institutional Repository of Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute

The Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI), is a pioneering Institute in the field of marine fisheries conducts multi disciplinary researches on marine capture and culture fisheries. The Institute was established in 1947 by the Government of India under Ministry of Agriculture with headquarters at Madras. It shifted to Mandapam Camp, Tamil Nadu in 1949. In 1967, the Institute was placed under the administrative control of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, in the Department of Agricultural Research and Education, New Delhi and, in 1971, shifted to Kochi, Kerala. The significance of Eprints@CMFRI to the Institute is that it acts as a showcase for Institute research and enhances the professional visibility of the scientists of the Institute. It demonstrates the breath and depth of research output of CMFRI. Now the scientific output of the Institute is reaching global audiences

Bibliography (Part - 4) The publications by the staff of Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute 1996-2006 (A Diamond Jubilee Publication)

Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI) has been documenting bibliographies on various topics. The Institute has published over a dozen such bibliographies on various finfishes and shellfishes. Three bibliographies were published during 1986, 1992, 1998 listing the publications of the staff of CMFRI from 1948 to 1995. Since then, tremendous data was generated from both inhouse and sponsored projects, leading to a good number of research publications in national and international journals. A sincere effort has been made in the present endeavour incorporating all the publications of the staff from 1996-2006. A total of 2039 titles have been listed in the Bibliography Part IV including 25 titles pertaining to period prior to 1995 which could not find a place in the earlier bibliography