Databases for Literature Searching
- Library Catalog (NOAALINC) NOAALINC is the official library catalog for 27 NOAA libraries, including the holdings of the PIFSC Library.
- Aquatic Sciences & Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA) (1978-Current) ASFA is a comprehensive database on the science, technology, and management of marine, brackishwater, and freshwater environments and resources. ASFA's international editorial staff monitors over 5,000 primary journals and a wide variety of other source documents including books, monographic series, conference proceedings, and technical research reports.
- Catalog of Fishes Contains over 10,300 genera and subgenera and approximately 53,500 records for species and subspecies. About 50,000 names are available for use at the species/subspecies level.
- Conference Papers Index (1982-Current) CPI provides access to records of the more than 100,000 scientific and technical papers presented at over 1,000 major regional, national, and international meetings each year. Conference Papers Index provides a centralized source of information on reports of current research and development from papers presented at conferences and meetings; it provides titles of the papers as well as the names and addresses (when available) of the authors of these papers. Also included in this database are announcements of any publications issued from the meetings, in addition to available preprints, reprints, abstract booklets, and proceedings volumes, including dates of availability, costs and ordering information.
- EconLit EconLit focuses on economics and related information and provides full-text access to many of the publications indexed.
- FishBase
- Google Scholar Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.
- Hawaii Newspaper Index
- LarvalBase
- Oceanic Abstracts (1981-Current) Oceanic Abstracts organizes and indexes technical literature published worldwide on marine-related subjects. Over 9,000 citations from approximately 2,000 worldwide sources are added to the database each year. Records cite journals, books, technical reports, conference proceedings, government and trade publications. Major subject areas covered by Oceanic Abstracts are oceanography, marine biology, marine pollution, ships and shipping, geology and geophysics, meteorology, governmental and legal aspects of marine resources.
- Scirus Scirus is the most comprehensive science-specific search engine on the Internet. Driven by the latest search engine technology, Scirus searches over 200 million science-specific Web pages and database aggregators.
- Web of Science (1970-Current) Science Citation Index Expanded is a cited reference search database that provides access to current and retrospective bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references found in approximately 6,083 of the world's leading scholarly science and technical journals covering more than 150 disciplines with 19,200 new records added each week.
Last updated June 20 2008