eResources by Subject: Marine Sciences

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• Web of Science

  The Web of Science database provides seamless access to current and retrospective multidisciplinary information from approximately 8,700 of the most prestigious, high impact research journals in the world.

  Free Resource [Details] Coverage Dates: 1945 - present
• Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts - (ASFA)

  Premier database for literature on the science, technology & management of marine, freshwater, & brackish water environments & organisms.

  [Details] Coverage Dates: 1971 - present; updated monthly
• GeoRef

  GeoRef indexes journal articles, books, maps, conference papers reports, and theses covering subjects such as mineralogy and crystallography, general mineralogy, mineralogy of silicates, and mineralogy of non-silicates.

  [Details] Coverage Dates: Geology of North America: 1785 - present; Geology of the world: 1933 - present
• Oceanic Abstracts

  Focuses exclusively on worldwide technical literature pertaining to the marine and brackish-water environment, and has long been recognized as a leading source of information on topics relating to oceans.

  [Details] Coverage Dates: 1981 - present
• SciFinder

  Premiere bibliographic and reference research tool for research in chemistry. SciFinder can be searched by research topic, substance identifier, chemical structure, chemical reaction, and/or author's name.

  [Details] Coverage Dates: coverage varies

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• Agricola

  Citations to articles in the major agricultural journals worldwide.

  Free Resource [Details] Coverage Dates: 1970 - present
• BIOSIS Previews

  BIOSIS Previews is the world's most comprehensive reference database for life science research. It covers original research reports and reviews in traditional biological and biomedical areas. It also covers references to primary journal literature on vital biological research, medical research findings, and discoveries of new organisms.

  [Details] Coverage Dates: 1926 - present
• Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management

  This multidisciplinary database, provides unparalleled and comprehensive coverage of the environmental sciences. Abstracts and citations are drawn from over 6000 serials including scientific journals, conference proceedings, reports, monographs, books and government publications.

  [Details] Coverage Dates: 1967 - present; updated monthly
• PubMED

  Developed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM), PubMed is the most comprehensive biomedical research database, and a key resource used by scientists. Please see the PubMed Overview Sheet.

  Free Resource [Details] Coverage Dates: 1966 - present with some older content; New citations are usually added to PubMed Tuesday through Saturday.
• SciELO (Scientific Electronic Library Online)

  SciELO is a multinational effort to provide open access to scientific research journals produced in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Spain.

  Free Resource [Details] Coverage Dates: 1990's - present
• SpringerLink

  SpringerLink offers online access to several fully peer reviewed journals in biomedicine, life science, clinical medicine, physics, engineering, mathematics, computer science, humanities, and economics.

  [Details] Coverage Dates: n/a
• Wiley Online Library

  This database covers academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, psychology, law and criminology, life sciences, and business.

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• WorldCat

  Books and other materials in libraries worldwide.

  [Details] Coverage Dates: 1200 - present; Updated daily
• WorldCat Dissertations and Theses

  This database contains records for over 5 million items cataloged as dissertations, theses, or published materials based on theses or dissertations, in WorldCat, including titles provided by NetLibrary. The database allows users to quickly and efficiently retrieve records for theses and dissertations.

  [Details] Coverage Dates: varies by publication
• Zoological Record

  Premier resource comprehensively indexing literature in zoology including biochemistry, behavior, ecology, evolution, genetics, etc.

  Free Resource [Details] Coverage Dates: 1978 - present; Updated weekly; print and microform indexes available: 1864-1994

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• Cambridge Journals Online

  Cambridge Journals Online is the online Cambridge University Press’s collection of several journals across the sciences, social sciences and humanities. 

  [Details] Coverage Dates: varies by publication
• Conference Papers Index

  Citations to papers and poster sessions at major scientific meetings.

  [Details] Coverage Dates: 1982 - present; updated bi-monthly
• Directory of Open Access journals - (DOAJ)

  This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. We aim to cover all subjects and languages. There are now 5496 journals in the directory. Currently 2315 journals are searchable at article level. As of today 453442 articles are included in the DOAJ service.

  Free Resource [Details] Coverage Dates: n/a
• Electronic Journal Service (EJS)

  Search through EBSCO's database of scholarly e-journals.

  [Details] Coverage Dates: varies by publication
• Historical Statistics of the United States

  This five-volume reference work reflects thirty years of new data and scholarship. Topics ranging from migration and health to crime and the Confederate States of America are each placed in historical context by a recognized expert in the field.

  [Details] Coverage Dates: Pre-Colonial America - present
• Journal Citation Reports

  Journal Citation Reports (JCR) is a comprehensive and unique resource that allows you to evaluate and compare journals using citation data drawn from scholarly and technical journals from more than 3,300 publishers in over 60 countries.

  [Details] Coverage Dates: n/a
• JSTOR

  Archive of selected scholarly journals in ecology, economics, history, mathematics, music, political science, statistics, and other humanities and social sciences.

  [Details] Coverage Dates: varies by publication
• PBS Video Collection

  You can now view nearly 250 quality PBS programs covering a wide variety of topics. These videos are viewable from any computer running Flash Player version 9 or higher with a relatively good Internet connection (at least 175 Kbps). Unfortunately, it will not be possible to view the videos over a dial-up Internet line.

  [Details] Coverage Dates: n/a
• PLoS

  Public Library of Science (PLoS) is a nonprofit publisher that publishes the following titles: PLoS Biology, PLoS Medicine, PLoS Computational Biology, PLoS Genetics, PLoS Pathogens, and PLoS Clinical Trials. PLoS uses an Open Access model to publish, meaning that all journal issues are available free of charge online from the moment of publication. PLoS Biology has an Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) impact factor of 14.7.

  Free Resource [Details] Coverage Dates: 2003 - present
• ReefBase

  The world's premier online information system on coral reefs, and provides information services to coral reef professionals involved in management, research, monitoring, conservation and education. Also included is full-text to first through the tenth International Coral Reef Symposium (ICRS) Proceedings.

  Free Resource [Details] Coverage Dates: n/a
• Tide Predictions

  Online tide schedules.

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• Tides

  North Carolina through Florida Keys Online tide schedules

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• World Development Indicators Online

  World Development Indicators Online, published by the World Bank, is a comprehensive database of development information covering more than 575 indicators, 225 countries, and 18 regional and income groups. The extensive collection includes data on population, income, social, economic, financial, natural resources and environmental indicators from 1960 onwards.

  Free Resource [Details] Coverage Dates: n/a