Research Guides: VIMS Summer Workshops: Marine Science and Oceanography Resources: Articles

Databases

VIMS databases
Listing of databases often applicable to VIMS research

Scopus This link opens in a new window
Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. Delivering a comprehensive overview of the world's research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities, Scopus features smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines.
ProQuest Earth, Atmospheric & Aquatic Science Collection This link opens in a new window
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Includes the renowned Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA), Oceanic Abstracts, and Meteorological & Geoastrophysical Abstracts (MGA). It provides full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, and government publications. The database includes specialized, editorially-curated A&I resources studying the critical issues affecting Earths air, land, and water environments. Coverage: 1950 - current
SciTech Premium Collection This link opens in a new window
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This database is the ultimate science and technology research solution, combining full text journals with detailed indexing of global literature on natural sciences, engineering and technology. Areas covered include materials science, aerospace engineering, civil engineering, biology, aquatic sciences, environmental science, computer science and earth sciences in addition to many more.
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
Multidisciplinary sciences, with some humanities and social sciences. Journal articles. Coverage: 1995-present.
Oceanic Abstracts This link opens in a new window
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Biological oceanography, ecology, physical & chemical oceanography, marine geology, geophysics, geochemistry, marine pollution, nonliving marine resources, navigation & communications, maritime law, desalination, ships & shipping, and marine biology. Citations to worldwide technical literature. Coverage: 1981-present.
GeoRef This link opens in a new window
Geology and geosciences of North America and the world. Citations to journal articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports, dissertations, and theses. Includes references to all publications of the US Geological Survey. Coverage: 1669-present for North America, 1933-present for the rest of the world.
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You must register to use this database. Click on this link to register: https://go.openathens.net/redirector/wm.edu?url=https://scifinder.cas.org/registration/index.html?corpKey=D17C528C-86F3-50AB-43D1-1F11B2DB553B. Chemical and related scientific literature, including chemical structure, substance data, reaction information, and commercial sources. Citations, with some links to full text, to journal articles and patent literature, from the databases produced by the Chemical Abstracts Service.
PubMed This link opens in a new window
Medical topics relating to research, clinical practice, administration, policy issues, dentistry, nursing, and health care. Free database from the National Institutes of Health. Citations to biomedical literature from the MEDLINE database, journal articles, and online books. See also Medline. Coverage: 1951-present.
Scite This link opens in a new window
Scite is an award-winning platform for discovering and evaluating scientific articles via Smart Citations. Smart Citations allow users to see how a publication has been cited by providing the context of the citation and a classification describing whether it provides supporting or contrasting evidence for the cited claim.

Open Repositories

VIMS Reports
Guide to VIMS research reports and longterm studies
VIMS collection in Scholarworks
Inventory of Marine and Aquatic Repositories (IMAR)
Listing of open respoitories of marine data
NOAA Institutional Repository
"The NOAA Repository is a digital library of scientific literature and research produced by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. . . publications. . .from 1970 to present and NOAA-authored and -funded journal articles from 2015 forward. Digitized publications from NOAA’s predecessor agencies including the U.S. Weather Bureau and the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey are available via the NOAA Central Library Catalog, and the NCL website. Additionally, this repository does not contain data; NOAA data can be found via the NOAA Data Discovery Portal."
Sea Grant Publications
"The Sea Grant Collection consists of research funded by the NOAA National Sea Grant College Program. The emphasis of these documents is on the responsible environmental stewardship and management of the United States' coastal, marine, and Great Lakes resources. This collection includes a range of annual and technical reports, educational/instructional materials, and journal publications. For a complete collection of Sea Grant publications (including print versions of publications), researchers should refer to the NOAA Libraries Catalog."
AquaDocs
"AquaDocs is the joint open access repository of the UNESCO/IOC InternationaI Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE) and the International Association of Aquatic and Marine Science Libraries and Information Centers (IAMSLIC) with support from the FAO Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts. It is a thematic repository covering the natural marine, coastal, estuarine /brackish and fresh water environments and includes all aspects of the science, technology, management and conservation of these environments, their organisms and resources, and the economic, sociological and legal aspects."