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ASFA Magazine, Issue #2 – May 2019

Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts Magazine

Year of publication 2019

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 14

Author FAO

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Journal, magazine, bulletin

Synopsis (short abstract) This issue of the ASFA Newsletter focuses on Grey Literature. Grey literature is often defined as materials such as project reports, conference proceedings or training materials produced outside of commercial publishing. ASFA has historically been known to cover aquatic, fisheries and aquaculture grey literature, but with evolving technologies and Open Access and Open Science movements, is this still the case today? This issue examines ASFA’s history of covering grey literature and also ways ASFA will improve coverage. A use case demonstrates how ASFA is used for an in-depth literature review (page 2), and ASFA Partner Veronica Sado explains the importance of Grey Literature to her institution, NIFFR, Nigeria (page 5-6). If Grey Literature is not exciting enough, ASFA Partner Daryl L. Superio has written an article describing how ASFA has benefited his personal career development (pages 7-8). This article is a perfect demonstration of ASFA’s value not only as a trusted database, but as a Partnership that delivers training, knowledge and skills to individuals and institutions around the world.

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