Subject Guides: Darling Marine Center Information Resources: Recommended Databases

Recommended Databases

Agricultural & Environmental Science Collection
This database includes the renowned AGRICOLA, ESPM, and EIS databases and provides full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications, and more. For those researchers who need to conduct comprehensive literature reviews, this database includes specialized, editorial-controlled A&I resources for discovery of relevant scholarly research and technical literature critical to the discipline.

AlgaeBase
AlgaeBase, developed and maintained by M.D. Guiry and G.M. Guiry, National University of Ireland. Searching is by genus or species name.
Animal Welfare Act History Digital Collection
U.S Department of Agriculture. The AWAHDC covers the history and use of the Animal Welfare Act (AWA) including information on animal care and use topics, including the AWA and its regulations. The AWA covers animals bred for commercial sale, used in research, transported commercially, or exhibited to the public.

Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts
Index to journal articles, conference papers, books, monographs, theses, technical reports, and non-conventional literature covering all aspects of marine, brackish, and freshwater environments. International in scope. Updated quarterly.
BioOne
BioOne is a searchable full-text database of more than 150 journals covering a broad range of the biological sciences focusing on biology, botany, entomology, and zoology. Most of the journals are published by member societies of the American Institute of Biological Sciences. Coverage is from 2000 to present.
BIOSIS Previews
Worldwide in scope, BIOSIS Previews, indexes the literature of the biological and biomedical sciences. Approximately 5,500 serial publications as well as books, proceedings and meeting abstracts, technical reports, review papers, and patents are indexed. Updated weekly

Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission
As an official publication of the U.S. Government since 1881, the Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission is one of the oldest fisheries journals in the world. It publishes original research or interpretative articles in various scientific fields that concern marine fisheries and marine mammal science.
Database on Introductions of Aquatic Species
An FAO database of approximately 5,500 records. Includes records on mollusks and crustaceans. This database has a very sophisticated search query form.
National Sea Grant Depository Database
Contains over 52,000 searchable records of Sea Grant funded research. Updated monthly.

Springer Nature Experiments
Springer Nature Experiments is a collection of protocols and methods for life sciences research. It comprises Protocols Exchange (an open access repository); and subscription titles Nature Methods; Nature Protocols; and Springer Protocols, including Methods in Molecular Biology.
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Covers current and retrospective multidisciplinary information from approximately 8,500 of the most prestigious, high impact research journals in the world. Provides cited reference searching, with which users can navigate forward, backward, and through the literature, searching all disciplines to uncover information relevant to their research.

Publication lists

How to access articles

There are times when accessing an article isn't working out. When you hit a paywall or an error message, try these things:

Clear your browser's cache. This trick works so well to clear up small technical issues. Find out more information about cached data here.
Article Linker is a tool that can help you find an article you've discovered in Google Scholar or Web of Science. See a tutorial for Article Linker here: Article Linker Tutorial.
If the Article Linker is showing up, but the page itself is coming up blank, you can access the journal directly by searching for the journal title in the URSUS Catalog. Open the catalog in a new window, then cut and paste the journal title in the search bar. Follow the links until you find the journal, and then search for the article title within the journal to access the article.
The URSUS Proxy Bookmarklet can help you gain access to journals and databases when you aren't on campus or logged into the UMaine system. You can find more information here: URSUS Proxy Bookmarklet
If you still have problems accessing the material you want, Ask-a-Librarian! We can help you figure out the next step.

Data Resources

American Lobster Settlement Index
Annual monitoring program that quantifies the pulse of newly settled lobsters that repopulate rocky coastal nursery grounds in New England and Atlantic Canada.
Darling Marine Center (DMC) Data Sets
Online access to data sets and reports from the DMC.
Data Citation Index
Provides access to selected national and international data repositories.
The Gulf of Maine Mapping Initiative (GOMMI)
GOMMI is a U.S.-Canadian partnership of government and nongovernment organizations to conduct comprehensive seafloor imaging, mapping, and biological and geological surveys.
Gulf of Maine Region Nutrient and Hydrographic Database
This database is an archive of nutrient and hydrographic data collected in the greater Gulf of Maine region.
Maine Coastal Program's Mapping Initiative
This State of Maine Department of Marine Resources page provides information about Maine Coastal Program’s Mapping Initiative (MCMI) including marine sediment mapping, species and habitats, publications and reports.
Maine Department of Marine Resources (DMR)
Landings data, harvest data, and many other data sets pertaining to commercial fishing and aquaculture in the State of Maine.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Data Portal
A variety of data, including commercial fisheries, recreational fisheries, and species data.
The Northeastern Regional Association of Coastal Ocean Observing Systems (NERACOOS)
Real time ocean and weather data spanning the coastal waters from the Canadian Maritime Provinces to the New York Bight.
Phytoplankton Concentration in the Damariscotta River: Perry Phytoplankton & Optics Lab
The dock sampling was started in 2002, in an effort to monitor daily changes in phytoplankton concentration in the Damariscotta River.
U.S. Geological Survey Coastal and Marine Geoscience Data System (CMGDS)
This web site provides data services for the published data of the The U.S. Geological Survey, Coastal and Marine Geology Program (CMGP).
Water Resources of the United States
Downloadable spatial data files for exploration and analysis. Subjects covered: Surface Water, Ground Water, Water Quality, Water Use