Electronic Resources

National Sea Grant Library

The National Sea Grant Library, NSGL, (formerly known as the National Sea Grant Depository) was established in 1970 as an archive and lending library for Sea Grant funded documents. These documents cover a wide variety of subjects, including oceanography, marine education, aquaculture, fisheries, limnology, coastal zone management, marine recreation and law.

Today, NSGL staff lends documents all over the world to aid scientists, teachers, students, fishermen and many other individuals in their research and studies. The NSGL is unique in that it houses the only complete collection (including 30,000 titles and a total of 90,000 documents) of Sea Grant funded work.

The NSGL also maintains a 36,000 record bibliographic database that is searchable from this website. Here you may obtain citations and abstracts of Sea Grant publications and in many cases you may access a full text copy of the document online.