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| | Support Unit Technical Consultation on the Application of Article 9 of the CCRF in the Mediterranean.Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA)Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA)is an abstracting and indexing service covering the world's literature on the science, technology, management and conservation of marine, brackish water, and freshwater resources and environments, including socio-economic and legal aspects. | | | | The ASFA bibliographic database contains over 740 000 references, with coverage since 1971 (some 650 000 are computer searchable from 1978 onwards). About 3500 new bibliographic references are added each month to the database. Each bibliographic reference contains the title of the document in its original language (all non-English titles are also translated into English), an English language and/or non-English language abstract and subject, taxonomic and geographic index entries as relevant. | | | | ASFA is produced through the co-operative efforts of the following ASFA Partners: | | | | United Nations Co-sponsoring ASFA Partners (FAO, IOC, UNDOALOS and UNEP, which is in the processes of renewing its sponsorship of ASFA). Besides input preparation, these partners also take responsibility for assisting developing countries to participate in the ASFA Partnership. | | | | International ASFA Partners (ADRIAMED, ICCAT, ICES, ICLARM, IUCN, PIMRIS). These partners contribute to ASFA by producing bibliographic references to the literature published within their geographic or subject area, including their own publications. | | | | National ASFA Partners (Argentina, Australia, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Côte d'Ivoire, Cuba, Estonia, France, Greece, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Korea, Lithuania, Mexico, Morocco, Norway, People's Republic of China, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Tunisia, Ukraine, United Kingdom and United States). These parnters contribute to ASFA by producing bibliographic references to the literature published within their own countries. | | | | The Publishing ASFA Partner (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, CSA). The ASFA Partners submit their ASFA input (in computer readable format) to Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, located in the USA (CSA, itself, also prepares a large portion of the ASFA input). CSA processes the input received from the ASFA Partners and merges it to create the ASFA database from which CSA generates ASFA information products and services. These are then distributed to the ASFA Partners for use in their respective information systems. CSA also makes the ASFA products available commercially to the public. | | | | The overall objective of the ASFA Partnership is to disseminate information on aquatic sciences and fisheries to the world community, bearing in mind the special interests of developing countries in this field. | | | | The ASFA "Partnership Agreement" explains the rights and responsibilities of the ASFA Partners (the rights, or entitlements, of ASFA Partners are only referred to in the ASFA Partnership Agreement. The actual list of entitlements is contained in Article 5 of the Publishing Agreement Between FAO and CSA). To become a member of the ASFA Partnership, organizations must agree (through signature) to the conditions contained in the ASFA Partnership Agreement. The Partnership Agreement also lists the functions of the ASFA Advisory Board and the ASFA Secretariat. All ASFA Partners are represented on the ASFA Advisory Board, which meets once a year and produces annual ASFA Advisory Board Meeting Reports. FAO provides the ASFA Secretariat. | | | | |
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