Subject Resources: Marine Sciences
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| ArticleFirst
Table of contents pages for more than 13,000 journals | |||
| 1990 to the present |  | |||
| ASFA: Aquatic Sciences & Fisheries Abstracts
Literature dealing with marine, freshwater and brackish water environments and organisms | |||
| Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA) | 1978 to the present | | ||
| BasicBIOSIS
Articles from major life sciences, biological and biomedical journals | |||
| 1994 to the present | | |||
| Biology Digest
materials in the life sciences geared toward undergraduate students | |||
| First Search (OCLC) | 1989 to the present | | ||
| BioOne
Online aggregation of over 80 high-impact, peer-reviewed bioscience research journals | |||
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| Current Contents Connect
Up-to-date coverage of research-level journals in all fields. | |||
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| Essential Science Indicators (ESI) (Web of Knowledge)
Citation analysis tools, especially via institutions and departments. | |||
| Present and back ten (10) years | | |||
| Expanded Academic ASAP
Articles from more than 1,500 scholarly, trade and general-interest publications, many in full-text. | |||
| 1980 -- present | | |||
| GEOBASE
Records covering the worldwide literature on geology, geography, and ecology. | |||
| First Search (OCLC) | 1980 - | | ||
| HOMER
Catalog of the Information Services Division's library materials (all libraries except Health Sciences Libraries and Law Library catalogs) | ||||
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| LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe
Full text business, financial, legal, medical, biographical, government and domestic and international newspaper resources. | |||
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| NetLibrary
Collection of full-text electronic books. | |||
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| Oceanic Abstracts
Index to technical literature pertaining to the marine environment. | |||
| Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA) | 1981- | | ||
| PapersFirst Database
Published information received by The British Library Document Supply Center. | |||
| 1993- | | |||
| ProceedingsFirst Database
Citations of every congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received at The British Library | |||
| 1993 to the present | | |||
| ProQuest
Access databases of resources for arts, business, humanities, social sciences, science and newspaper resources. | |||
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| Science Citation Index Expanded
Citation database for the sciences | |||
| 1900 to present | | |||
| Scirus (Elsevier)
Scirus is Elsevier's science and engineering-focused free web search engine. | ||||
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| Scitation
Scitation vends e-journals in physics and engineering | |||
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| SPIN/GENIUS
Database of research & funding opportunities | |||
| current | | |||
| Web of Knowledge (Web of Science)
Web of Science is part of ISI's Web of Knowledge which also includes Arts & Humanties and Social Sciences citation databases. | |||
| 1900-present | | |||
| Wilson Biological & Agricultural Index Plus
literature of the entire range of sciences related to biology and agriculture | |||
| H.W. Wilson | 1982 to the present | | ||
eJournals | ||||
| Annual Review of Biochemistry
Comprehensive reviews of topics in biochemistry | |||
| Annual Reviews | Vol. 1 (July 1932)-present | | ||
| Aquaculture
Devoted to research in aquatic food resources related to human consumption | |||
| ScienceDirect | v. 129, no. 1 (1995) -- present | | ||
| Aquatic Botany
Research on plants in Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems | |||
| ScienceDirect | v. 49, no. 4 (1995) -- present | | ||
| Biotropica
Research on the ecology and management of all tropical ecosystems and organisms | |||
| BioOne | v. 32 - 36 (2000 - 2004) | | |
| JSTOR | v. 1 - 31 (1969 - 1999) | | |
| Blackwell-Synergy | 2005 -- Present | | |
| Botanica Marina
Covers the entire field of marine botany | |||
| Walter de Gruyter | v. 42, no. 1 (1999)--present | | ||
| Contemporary Herpetology
Disseminates scientific information on amphibians, turtles, crocodilians, and reptiles | ||||
| 1998--present | | |||
| Continental Shelf Research
Research in physical oceanography, chemistry, ecology, sedimentology and related fields | |||
| ScienceDirect | Vol. 15, no. 1 (1995)--present | | ||
| Coral Reefs
Focal point for the field of reef studies | |||
| MetaPress (Springer) | Vol. 14, no. 2 (1995)--present | | ||
| Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers
Covering a wide variety of subjects related to oceanography | |||
| ScienceDirect | v. 42, no. 1 (1995) -- present | | ||
| Desalination | |||
| v. 1 ( 1966) -- present | | |||
| Ecological Applications
Papers that integrate ecological science and concepts with their application and implications | |||
| JSTOR | v. 1 - 10 (1991 - 2000) | | ||
| Ecological Monographs
Papers that develop new concepts in ecology or test ecological theory | |||
| JSTOR | v. 1 - 70 (1931 - 2000) | | ||
| Ecology
Reports of ecological research | |||
| JSTOR | v. 1 - 81 (1920 - 2000) | | ||
| Environmental Science & Technology
Concerning all aspects of environmental science, technology, and policy analysis | |||
| ACS | 1967--present | | ||
| Estuarine,Coastal and Shelf Science
An international multidisciplinary journal devoted to the analysis of saline water phenomena | |||
| ScienceDirect | Vol. 40, no. 4 (1995)--present | | ||
| European Journal of Phycology
Covers all aspects of algae | |||
| MetaPress | v. 32, no.1 (1997) -- present | | ||
| Fish & Shellfish Immunology
Devoted to the study of all aspects of immunity of fish and shellfish | |||
| ScienceDirect | Vol. 3, no. 1 (Jan. 1993)-v. 4, no. 7 (Nov. 1994) | | ||
| Fluid Dynamics Research
Aims to publish research in all areas of fluid dynamics | |||
| ScienceDirect | Vol. 1, no. 1 (1986)--present | | ||
| Geo-Marine Letters
An international journal dealing with all marine geological aspects | |||
| MetaPress (Springer) | Vol. 17, no. 1 (1997)--present | | ||
| Global and Planetary Change
Multidisciplinary view of the causes, processes and limits of variability in planetary change | |||
| ScienceDirect | Vol. 10, no. 1-4 (1995)--present | | ||
| Journal of Ecology
Research papers on all aspects of ecology of plants in both aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems | |||
| JSTOR | v. 1 - 89 (1913 - 2001) | | ||
| Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology
Journal on marine plants and animals in relation to their ecology | |||
| ScienceDirect | v. 185, no. 1 (1995) -- present | | ||
| Journal of Fluid Mechanics
Covers theoretical, computational and experimental investigations of all aspects of the mechanics of fluids | |||
| Cambridge University Press | v. 330 (1997) -- present | | ||
| Journal of Ichthyology (Voprosy Ikhtiologii)
Covers fish ecology, morphology, genetics, physiology, embryology, systematics, and fisheries biology | ||||
| Vol. 36, no. 2 (1996)--present | | |||
| Journal of Marine Systems
Contributions on all aspects of marine sciences | |||
| ScienceDirect | v. 6, no.1 (1995) -- present | | ||
| Journal of Phycology
Forum for phycological research | |||
| Blackwell-Synergy | v.40 No.1, 2004 to present | | ||
| Journal of Plankton Research
Papers dealing with both zoo and phytoplankton, in marine, freshwater and brackish environments | |||
| Oxford University Press | Vol. 18, no. 1 (1996)--present Full-text period covered: Vol. 20, no. 11 (1998)--present | | ||
| Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal, and Ocean Engineering
development and operation of ports, harbors, and offshore facilities, as well as deep ocean engineering | |||
| American Society of Civil Engineers-ASCE | Vol. 125, no. 1 (1999)--present | | ||
| Journal of Zoology
Aims to publish original papers in zoology | |||
| Cambridge University Press | v. 244, no. 1 (1998) -- present | | ||
| Marine and Petroleum Geology
Concerned with marine and petroleum geology in industry, government and academia | |||
| ScienceDirect | v. 1, no. 1 (1984) -- 2003 | | ||
| Marine Biology
Forum for current research and discoveries in marine biology | |||
| MetaPress (Springer) | Vol. 127, no. 3 (1997)--present | | ||
| Marine Chemistry
Publications in the field of chemistry in the marine environment. | |||
| ScienceDirect | v. 48, no. 2 (1995) -- present | | ||
| Marine Ecology Progress Series
Worldwide forum for all aspects of marine ecology | |||
| 1979 -- present | | |||
| Marine Geology
Developments in the fields of marine geology, geochemistry and geophysics | |||
| ScienceDirect | v. 122, no. 3 (1995) -- present | | ||
| Marine Geophysical Researches | |||
| MetaPress (Springer) | v. 19, no. 1 (1997) -- present | | ||
| Marine Micropaleontology
Research in all fields of marine micropaleontology of the ocean basins and continents | |||
| ScienceDirect | v. 25, no. 1 (1995) -- present | | ||
| Molecular Marine Biology and Biotechnology
Addressed important topics in marine biology at the molecular level | |||
| MetaPress (Springer) | Volume 7, no. 1 (1998) only | | ||
| Nature
Access Temporarily Unavailable to all "Nature Journals Online" titles 09/30/08 | |||
| Nature Journals Online | Vol. 1, no. 1 (Nov. 4, 1869)-present | | ||
| Naval Research Logistics
Peer-reviewed journal in operations research, applied statistics, and general quantitative modeling | |||
| Wiley Interscience | Vol. 43, no. 1 (1996)--2005 | | ||
| Oecologia
Publishes ecological research of international interest | |||
| MetaPress (Springer) | Vol. 109, no. 1 (1997)--present | | ||
| Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
Topics in the field of palaeo-environmental geology | |||
| ScienceDirect | v. 113, no. 1 (1995) -- present | | ||
| Physics of Fluids
Publications contributing to the dynamics of gases, liquids, and complex or multiphase fluids | |||
| American Institute of Physics | Vol. 9, no.1 (1997)--present | | ||
| Polar Biology
Presents results of all kinds of studies in biology of arctic and antarctic regions | |||
| MetaPress (Springer) | Vol. 16, no. 2 (1996)--present | | ||
| Progress in Oceanography
Articles cover the entire spectrum of disciplines within the science of oceanography | |||
| ScienceDirect | v. 35, no. 1 (1995) -- present | | ||
| Pure and Applied Geophysics (PAGEOPH)
Publishes contributions in the fields of solid earth, atmospheric and oceanic sciences | |||
| MetaPress (Springer) | Vol. 149, no. 2 (1997)--present | | ||
| Science (Washington, D.C.)
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| JSTOR | Vol. 1 (1883)-v. 23 (1894); New Series: Vol. 1 no. 1 (Jan. 4, 1895)-v.286, no. 5449 (Dec. 1999) | | |
| Journals@Ovid Ovid Full Text | Vol. 259, no 5091 (Jan. 1, 1993)-v. 306, no. 5698 (Nov. 5, 2004) | | |
| Highwire Press | Vol. 274, no. 5285 (Oct. 11, 1996)-present | | |
| Storm Data
Info on extreme weather such as floods, hurricanes & tornadoes | ||||
| varies (1993--present) | | |||
| Zoomorphology
Papers on morphological investigation of invertebrates and vertebrates at the macroscopic and microscopic level | |||
| MetaPress (Springer) | Vol. 116, no. 1 (1996)--present | | ||
eBooks | ||||
| NetLibrary Collection
Collection of full-text electronic books. | |||
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| Reef Restoration: Concepts & Guidelines | ||||
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Web Sites | ||||
| 50 Years of Ocean Discovery: National Science Foundation 1950-2000
Full text essays on the development of ocean sciences at the National Science Foundation | ||||
| published in 2000 | | |||
| ARCTIC Science Journeys: 1999 Radio Scripts
Several dozen radio scripts from the Arctic Science Journeys | ||||
| 1996-present | | |||
| Bibliography: Climate Change and Impact on US Water Resources
Comprehensive bibliography of the peer-reviewed literature dealing with climate change and its effects on water resources | ||||
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| Coral Reef
Provides access to a variety of materials pertaining to coral reefs | ||||
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| Echinoids
A site containing information about sea urchins | ||||
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| Encyclopedia of the Sanctuary: National Marine Sanctuaries | ||||
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| Essential Science Indicators (ESI) (Web of Knowledge)
Citation analysis tools, especially via institutions and departments. | |||
| Present and back ten (10) years | | |||
| Marine Photobank Photo Center | ||||
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| National Oceanographic Data Center
US repository and distribution facility for globa ocean data. | ||||
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| National Sea Grant Library
Archive and lending library for Sea Grant funded documents. | ||||
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| NOAA CSCOR/COP
Newsletter addressing critical issues in the nation's coastal environments. | ||||
| 1997 to present | | |||
| NSSN National Resource for Global Standards | ||||
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| Ocean Surface Winds
Current wind maps, wind speeds, and other data for locations around the world. | ||||
| varies over the previous few days | | |||
| Ocean World
Information about many aspects of oceanography. | ||||
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| Oceanography Hotlists | ||||
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| Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
Investigations in oceanography and atmospheric science. | ||||
| 1998-present | | |||
| Regulatory Fish Encyclopedia (RFE)
Assists with the accurate identification of fish species | ||||
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| Scirus (Elsevier)
Scirus is Elsevier's science and engineering-focused free web search engine. | ||||
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| Sea Grant Nonindigineous Species Site
Comprehensive collection of research publications and education materials produced by Sea Grant programs and other research institutions | ||||
| multiple years | | |||
| Sea Slug Forum
An excellent resource for information on nudibranchs and related sea slugs | ||||
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| Toxic Chemicals in Coastal Environments
Information for anyone interested in assessing potential threats and protecting coastal areas against toxic pollutants | ||||
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| Where to Find Material Safety Data Sheets on the Internet
Information and access to Material Safety Data Sheets on the Internet | ||||
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| Scirus (Elsevier)
Scirus is Elsevier's science and engineering-focused free web search engine. | ||||
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