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Theses submitted for obtaining academic degrees are important sources of primary research information but are not usually published and frequently difficult to find. The INIDEP (National Institute of Fisheries Research and Development) Library, has always had within its mission, the collection, preservation and access of the National Marine Scientific Literature, including the Argentine Marine Thesis, even though it is not a university-academic type institution, but a government research one. There are no other institutions in the country registering within web databases or repositories, their marine and aquatic thesis archives. The INIDEP Library has an important Marine Thesis Archive available for the world scientific community through referential Databases SIDALC-IICA, and also included in ASFA-Proquest. It became involved from the beginning with OceanDoc-IOC Repository since 2005 and created a Marine Thesis Collection- Tesis en Ciencias Marinas- within the Argentine Community, at the moment 60 records (http://iodeweb1.vliz.be/odin/handle/1834/1339). The impact within the young Argentine scientific community of web alert notices on this matter was high, many new Phd’s requested the INIDEP Library to have their new born-digital thesis to be incoporated to the repository. The visibility is shown with usage statistics from different countries and a subject analysis is also included. The systems interoperability allow many access points, -the Referential Databases such as ASFA-Proquest and SIDALC are linked to Oceandocs fulltext records, and –the scientists can include the link to bibliographies and academic CV’s. At the national level, the INIDEP Library is leading the initiative inviting and contacting to train other universities, and research institutions in order to start uploading their thesis archives in the Collection.

The INIDEP Library (National Institute for Fisheries Research and Development, Argentina), has worked for already two decades with ISIS software, and now since the ISIS3 – 3rd ISIS World Congress last September 2008 held in Río de Janeiro, Brasil, with the launching of ISIS-Network Based Plataform (NBP), it is confronting the challenge to migrate to the new ABCD System. The ABCD, until June 2009 in Beta version, is an integrated library management software comprising the basic library functions. It is “Free and Open Source Software” (FOSS), freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve; FOSS nowadays is becoming a serious option that all libraries must consider as part of any software procurement process. The INIDEP Computing Center and The Library faced the need to solve the metadata retrieval and digital storage of 9 types of Internal Technical Reports, produced by INIDEP scientists, core institutional grey literature, most of them assessment reports for the Fisheries Authority, with a great variety of circulation level restrictions. With this purpose, a Referential Database with ABCD was recommended and developed. The final product highly satisfied the demand of the INIDEP Scientific Administrators because the local web-interphase is easy to handle by inputters; the possibility of data output in Excel format of great value for scientific evaluation purposes, and many other interesting features.

The INIDEP Library (National Institute for Fisheries Research and Development, Argentina), has worked for already two decades with ISIS software, and now since the ISIS3 – 3rd ISIS World Congress last September 2008 held in Río de Janeiro, Brasil, with the launching of ISIS-Network Based Plataform (NBP), it is confronting the challenge to migrate to the new Automation of Libraries and Documentation Centers (ABCD) System. The ABCD, until June 2009 in Beta version, is an integrated library management software comprising the basic library functions. It is “Free and Open Source Software” (FOSS), freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve; FOSS nowadays is becoming a serious option that all libraries must consider as part of any software procurement process. The INIDEP Computing Center and The Library faced the need to solve the metadata retrieval and digital storage of 9 types of Internal Technical Reports, produced by INIDEP scientists, core institutional grey literature, most of them assessment reports for the Fisheries Authority, with a great variety of circulation level restrictions. With this purpose, a Referential Database with ABCD was recommended and developed. The final product highly satisfied the demand of the INIDEP Scientific Administrators because the local web-interphase is easy to handle by inputters; the possibility of data output in Excel format of great value for scientific evaluation purposes, and many other interesting features