Ocean Sciences Subject Guide

Top Article Databases

  • Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA)
    Covers aquatic science, aquatic organisms, fisheries, oceanography, ocean technology policy and non-living resources, and aquatic pollution and environmental quality. Includes citations and abstracts.
    Covers: 1971 - present
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  • GeoRef
    Describes materials in geology and geophysics, in particular: energy sources, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, groundwater pollution, erosion, nuclear reactor sites, the structure of the earth, and geostatistics. Includes abstracts.
    Covers: 1785 - present
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  • Google Scholar
    Large multidisciplinary search engine with results ranking and previews. Google Scholar indexes scholarly literature including journal articles.
    Google Scholar
  • Oceanic Abstracts
    Citations and abstracts of technical literature pertaining to the marine and brackish water environment.
    Covers: 1981 - present
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  • Web of Science / Web of Knowledge
    Multidisciplinary index to scholarly and authoritative articles. Provides access to all three parts of the Citation Index: Arts and Humanities, Social Science and Science. Search by subject, author, journal title. Cited Reference Search finds articles that cite an author or article that you specify.
    Covers: 1900 - present.
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Other Article Databases

  • Academic Search Complete from EBSCO
    Database of articles in peer-reviewed journals, magazines, and news sources with full text journal coverage for nearly all academic areas of study.
    Coverage: 1990 - current
    Ebsco
    Academic Search Complete
  • Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
    This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.
  • Scopus
    Large article database covering scientific, technical, medical and social sciences literature.
  • Zoological Record
    Best place to start for articles in field zoology or animal taxonomy. About half the articles in this database are not in BIOSIS.  Subjects covered include evolution, animal genetics, marine biology, taxonomy, and veterinary studies. You can search Zoological Record, BIOSIS and Web of Science at the same time. Choose the All Databases tab.
    Covers: 1864 - current.
    ISI