Reduced version of the Report of the ASFA Advisory Board Meeting. FAO, Rome, Italy, 4-8 October 2005
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The Meeting was attended by 40 participants from the: 24 National ASFA Partners, 4 International ASFA Partner, 2 UN ASFA Co-sponsoring Partners, the ASFA Publishing Partner and 2 Observers. The Meeting celebrated the appearance on the ASFA Database of the 1 millionth ASFA record. Four new ASFA Partners were welcomed into the ASFA network: 1)Islamic Republic of Iran - The Iranian Fisheries Research Organization (IFRO), 2) Sénégal - Direction des pêches maritimes (DPM), 3) United Republic of Tanza nia - Institute of Marine Sciences (IMS), and 4) Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) - The Secretariat of the Pacific Community Library. Some of the more important decisions taken by the Board were: to proceed with the simplification of the ASFA inputting procedures, to extend the provision of additional entitlements to the ASFA information products to the ASFA Collaborating centres, and to approve 5 ASFA Trust Fund proposals for a total of US$116 970.00 (CSA deposited US$212 998.00 in ro yalties for 2004). Extended to include a 5th day, the Meeting listened to speakers (some invited from IAMSLIC) who spoke about: 1)the benefits of IAMSLIC membership, the use of and participation in the Z 39:50 Distributed Library and Union List of Serials, 2) the Open access movement and repositories, 3)the Partners most frequent inputting errors, 4) the enlarged