Marine Science

Key databases
Worth a look
Reference
High impact journals
Web sites and Internet resources
Podcasts
Related guides

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Note: Students at the National Marine Science Centre can make use of the services available to External Students.

Key Databases

ProQuest Full Text
ProQuest has 8,000 magazines and newspapers, 30,000 theses and 4,500 market reports in full text. Other content includes Hoover’s Company Records and 25,000 working papers from the Social Science Research Network (SSRN).

Easy to use interface with many full text journal articles on topics ranging from aquaculture to whaling.

JSTOR Full Text
JSTOR contains the full-text of hundreds of journals across the disciplines from archaeology to zoology. Many journal backsets begin in the nineteenth or early twentieth century, however most publishers included in JSTOR have negotiated 3-5 year embargoes, so the latest issues are not included.

Included are 8 aquatic journals including Journal of Coastal Research and Limnology and Oceanography.

ScienceDirect Full Text
Access 227 Elsevier journals through the ScienceDirect platform.
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SpringerLink Full Text
Peer-reviewed journals in astronomy, chemistry, computer science, economics, engineering, environmental sciences, geosciences, life sciences, mathematics, medicine and physics.

BIOSCIENCEnetBASE Full Text
BIOSCIENCEnetBASE contains the full text of books on topics such as bioengineering, genomics, tissue engineering, biofuels, nanotechnology, drug delivery, and immunology.

Wiley InterScience Full Text
Search current journals in a wide range of disciplines.
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Web of Knowledge
Search Web of Science, Current Contents Connect, CAB Abstracts and Journal Citation Reports.

REEF: Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Province Database
Contains published and unpublished material dating back to the 19th century.

Gale Databases Full Text
These cover the arts and humanities, social sciences, science and technology. Includes peer-reviewed articles, ebooks and online encyclopedias.

Worth a look

Biological Abstracts
Research literature in a broad array of subjects related to biology and the life sciences. Please note that our subscription covers 1998 to 2001 only.

Biological Sciences Selected Full Text
This database covers research in biomedicine, biotechnology, zoology,ecology, and specific aspects of agriculture and veterinary science.

CSA (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts)
Platform used to search Biological Sciences Collection, EconLit, ERIC, PsycARTICLES, PsycINFO, Sociological Abstracts and Social Services Abstracts.
CSA Help

Click on 'Specific Databases' next to 'Select' and tick the boxes next to Biological Sciences, Biology Digest, BioOne, Conference Papers Index, Plant Science, and Toxline. Click 'Continue to Search' to search across all 6 databases. Limited full text.

Engineering Village Selected Full-Text
Search GeoBase and GeoRef on a single platform. Subjects covered include geology, human and physical geography, environmental sciences, oceanography and geomechanics.

Informit Indexes
ANR-I, ANR-I Archive, ANR-Research and ANR-Research Archive. These cover research in agriculture and natural resource management in Australia.

Select other Informit Indexes - AHB (Australian Heritage Bibliography), EDGE, ENDANGER, EVA, MEDGE, REEF, Streamline, VPI&E. Note these are bibliographic databases with limited full text.

TVNews Australian television news, current affairs and selected documentaries from the free-to-air networks.

Watch programmes such as Catalyst and Landline.

Reference

Encyclopedia of Aquaculture
Encyclopedia of Marine Sciences Call No R551.46/E56
Encyclopedia of Water Science Call No R627.03/E563/2003
Fishes of the World Call No 597/N427f/2006
Oxford Reference Online
Search Oxford dictionaries and encyclopedias listed by subject. Includes the Encyclopedia of Underwater Life and the Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea.

Practical Handbook of Marine Science Call No 551.46/P895/2001
UXL Encyclopedia of Water Science
The Water Encyclopedia

Recommended journals

Aquatic Botany
Aquatic Conservation
Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
Freshwater Biology
Limnology and Oceonology - Vol. 1 (1956) - v. 49 (2004)
Marine & Freshwater Research

Web sites & Internet resources

General Sites

Australian Coastal Atlas — a network of Australian Government information nodes about the Australian coastal environment.
AuthorMapper - searches journals and maps the location of authors.
Census of Marine Life — a global network of researchers in more than 80 nations engaged in a 10-year scientific initiative to assess and explain the diversity, distribution, and abundance of life in the oceans. The world's first comprehensive Census of Marine Life - past, present, and future - will be released in 2010.
Coasts and Oceans — Australian Government - Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts.
CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research — information sheets and articles about CSIRO marine research.
El Nino Theme pages — information related to El Nino
MareNet — worldwide Network of Marine Research Institutions and Documents.
National Marine Mammal Laboratory (US)
NOOA National Marine Sanctuaries (US)
NOOA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (US)
Oceania Project — information about whales and dolphins
OceanPortal — a high level directory of ocean data and information
Oceans Eleven (PDF) — The implementation of Australia’s Oceans Policy and ecosystem-based regional marine planning March 2003
Ozcoasts — provides comprehensive information about Australia’s coast, including its estuaries and coastal waterways.
Waterwatch Australia Publications — a national community water quality monitoring network that encourages all Australians to become active in the protection of their waterways.
Wolfram Alpha - a new kind of knowledge-based computing. Enter your question and WA computes the answer.

Aquaculture

AquaNIC — Aquaculture Network Information Center providing a gateway to the world’s electronic resources for aquaculture information.
Australian Aquaculture Portal — centralising the growing body of information, research and business opportunities in the Australian aquaculture industry
CEFAS — Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Sciences based in the UK

Field Guides

Aquatic Invertebrates Illustrated Field Guide — search by class, feeding group or habit
Field Guide to Freshwater Invertebrates
Field Guide to the Mangroves of Queensland
Freshwater and Marine Image Bank
Reef Snapshots — Great Barrier Reef image gallery
Underwater Field Guide to Ross Island and McMurdo Sound — includes marine species found in Antarctica

Fish

Fishes -Australian Museum — includes fish movies and identification
FishBase — A Global Information System on Fishes
Native Fish Australia
The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture (1995- ) — FAO reports
TrawlBase — a system for organizing, storing, retrieving and exchanging a huge amount of data from past trawls in the seas of Asia.
World Fish Center

Reefs

CoRIS — NOAA's coral reef information
Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority — gateway for information about the Great Barrier Reef and World Heritage Area
International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI) — US-based
ReefBase — a global information system for coral reefs

Podcasts

Cephaolopodcast — featuring science education and information about the oceans.
National Marine Sanctuaries Media Library
The Science Show — choose from subjects such as Fish, Marine Biology, Oceans and Reefs. Australian content.