TUNISIA

National Institute of Marine Sciences & Technology Tunisian Information Centre

IC Catalogue : The INSTM library became an IC of

NODC-Tunisia in 2001. Its catalogue contains: 6705

Monographs, 1207 Journal titles, 220 journal articles

and 221 audiovisuals documents.

The database was created with Inmagic software and

will be converted to ABCD, the free software

developed by VLIR (Belgium) using the OAI protocol

(Open Archives Initiative).

OceanDocs : www.oceandocs.org

The IC uses this platform to create an e-version of

“INSTM Bulletin”. It submits 85 records and about 20

articles are in a progressive stage. This e-repository

is based on DSpace to offer Open Access to the

literature.

Institut National des Sciences et Technologies de la Mer(INSTM ) 28, Rue du 2 Mars 1934, 2025 Salammbo, Tunisie

ASFA: www.csa.com

The IC became an ASFA input centre since 2002, it

submitted 463 records with full text links to

OceanDocs e-repository.

AFRILIB: http://193.191.134.12/afrilib

All the records of the Tunisian IC were merged

into AfriLib, the collective catalogue of

documents held by the ODINAFRICA

Information Centres.

BIRSA: www.birsa.agrinet.tn

The IC catalogue is also available in BIRSA, the

Tunisian portal and in its collective catalogue of

agriculture sciences which also provides full text of

grey literature.

TuniPer: www.cnudst.rnrt.tn

TuniPer is the national catalogue of serials which is

used to localize journal titles and avoid duplicated

acquisitions and also to centralize national electronic

subscriptions.

IAMSLIC: www.iamslic.org

The IC is a member in the International Association of

Aquatic and Marine Science Libraries and Information

Centers (IAMSLIC). Its Distributed Library project is

designed to share resources among aquatic science

libraries (73 libraries in 23 countries). The IC uses

frequently the interlibrary loans to satisfy its users and to

make “INSTM Bulletin” available on the union list.

ASFA input since 2002