WHOI Data Library to House and Preserve Ocean Ecosystem Archives

"Alexander Graham Bell once said that when one door closes another one opens, and the open doors of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) Data Library and Archives are making it possible to help preserve the voluminous archives of GLOBEC, a study of Global Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics, which closed at the end of 2009. The WHOI Data Library and Archives (DLA) is one of three international libraries chosen to house the material; the others are in the UK and South Africa....[According to Library Director Cathy Norton,] “These global reports will be freely available through our digital data portal to anyone around the world....With this open-access environment there had been a complete and welcomed paradigm shift.” ..."