Subject Guides: Marine Sciences: Recommended Databases

Indexes and 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.
Allen Coral Atlas
A suite that includes global habitat maps, a bleaching monitoring system, turbidity detection, and data features created to support reef management
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.
Sea Grant Collection
Contains over 54,000 searchable print records of Sea Grant funded research, and 26,000 digitized full-text documents.

ScienceDirect
ScienceDirect is a full-text collection of journals on science, technology, and medicine published by Elsevier. The University of Maine System Libraries have access to Complete and the Freedom Collection, which together comprise more than 1,800 journals, most with backfiles from 1995 to present.
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.
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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.