Using the Digital Library

This digital library is powered by Apache Lucene which provides the possibility to do advanced queries as well as simple ones. 

In the following we just give a few examples of the numerous possibilities supported by the search engine and detailed in Lucene documentation.

Search examples

Searching documents containing the term trochus, the phrase "French Polynesia" and not the term Vanuatu :

• Enter  +trochus +"French Polynesia" -Vanuatu in search text box.

Searching documents containing either "deep water" or "deep bottom" in the title

• Enter "deep water" "deep bottom" in Title field
• Or enter title:"deep water" OR title:"deep bottom" in search text box

Searching bulletins in French from 1992 to 2000

• Select Information Bulletins in collections, tick French language and enter [1992 TO 2000] in Year field

Interoperability

The digital library is compliant with OAI-PMH 2.0 and can be harvested from https://www.spc.int/DigitalLibrary/OAI More info...

Re-use policy

Metadata from the SPC Coastal and Oceanic Fisheries Programmes Digital Library are freely available for re-use providing

• (1) the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) is acknowledged as the source, and
• (2) a link is inserted to the website ‒ http //www.spc.int/fame/en/fame-digital-library

Contact

If you have remarks or suggestions to improve the digital library, please contact the webmaster