Info Management

ODINAFRICA Marine Information Centre in Mauritius

The Albion Fisheries Research Centre (Ministry of Fisheries) represents the Marine Information Centre in Mauritius in association with the ODINAFRICA Project.

The primary function of a Marine Information Centre is to provide a bibliographical search and delivery service for marine information to users in the marine field. The Centre will work in collaboration with the coastal African states participating in the information network set up under the ODINAFRICA Project.

The main objectives of the Centre are to

• provide marine scientists in the region with the necessary scientific information;

•enhance the use of indigenous scientific information in the region;

•promote and facilitate communication between the scientists, both intra- and inter-regionally;

• disseminate information on marine scientific research activities in the region.

To achieve these goals the project set out to develop a number of services and products such as:

1. Provision of bibliographic search and document delivery services;
2. Provision of equipment and software to marine science libraries in WIO region;
3. Development of the regional directory of marine scientists (WIODIR);
4. Development of a regional library holdings database (WIOLIB);
5. Publication the regional newsletter WINDOW (Western Indian Ocean Waters);
6. Development of MASDEA (marine species database);
7. Co-operation in ASFA as regional input centre;
8. Publication of WIOBASE (integrated data and information sources CD-ROM      product).

For more information, look at:

Ministry of Fisheries to http://fisheries.gov.mu
New Technology for Information Managers to http://ioc.unesco.org/odinafrica/
OCEANTEACHER to http://www.oceanteacher.org/

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