Bibliographic databases and subject resources
Welcome to the National Oceanographic Library's ocean and earth sciences subject resources. Please email nol@noc.soton.ac.uk with any suggestions for additions to these subject resources.
Advice and information for improving your searches for information and guidance on using many of the resources below can be arranged with library staff, additionally online tutorials are also available. Please see the NOL webpage for further information on training offered.
Popular services: Web of Knowledge for references to multidisiplinary scientific literature and TDNet for access to the full text of journal articles.
Jump to resources for finding: books, chart and maps, citation reports, conference papers, databases, datasets, journal articles, journal contents lists, patents, reports, standards, subject relevant webpages, theses.
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| Books (also reports, conference proceedings and more). | WebCat - The University Library's catalogue [WebCat tutorial]. Ebooks - Collections of electronic books including specific titles for ocean and earth sciences. Copac - Catalogue covering the holdings of many major UK universities as well as the British Library. Other library catalogues for ocean and earth sciences. |
| Charts and maps. | Digimap is the e-resource for Ordnance Survey Data online maps and mapping data of Great Britain. Other online map resources can be found on our charts and maps webpage Printed charts and maps are held in the library. To check what we hold use WebCat, additonal references to items added to the collection before 1985 can be found in the chart card catalogue on level 2 of the library. |
| Data sources and datasets. | Various collections of data exist which may be useful for research. Library staff have collected a list of ocean and earch science data sources additionally some datasets are available on CD-ROM and can be found using WebCat. |
Use these subject specific bibliographic/journal databases to find journal articles, conference papers and other literature on your topic.Using the institutional login to access library resourcesAccessing library resources from homeSearching databases: Hints and Tips. |
Key databases for oceanography and earth sciences...ASFA : ASFA on campus no password required / off campus use institutional login GeoBase : GeoBase on campus no password required on campus. GeoBase off campus use your institutional login. For earth sciences, ecology, geology, geomechanics, human geography, and oceanography, coverage 1973 - present. [further details] [GeoBase quick guide] [tutorials] GeoRef : GeoRef on campus no password required / off campus use institutional login For geology and geophysics. North American coverage 1693 - present, Worldwide coverge 1933 - present. Multidisiplinary databases for science...ScienceDirect : ScienceDirect on campus / ScienceDirect off campus [use you institutional login] - A searchable electronic collection of science, technology and medicine full text and bibliographic information. ScienceDirect offers a rich journal collection of over 2,000 titles, coverage dates vary. [tutorials] Web of Knowledge : Web of Knowledge on campus / WOK off campus [use your institutional login]- A collection of databases for science including Biosis Previews; INSPEC; ISI Proceedings; Journal citation Reports (JCR); Medline; Web of Science contains Science Citation Index which indexes journals in all disciplines of science, coverage 1970 - present. [further details] [tutorials] Also useful for ocean and earth science...BIOSIS Previews: BIOSIS on campus / BIOSIS off campus [use institutional login]- Previews for biology. Coverage 1990 - present. [further details] [tutorials] INSPEC : INSPEC on campus / INSPEC off campus [use institutional login]- Useful for instrumentation, acoustics, geophysics and physical oceanography, coverage 1969 - present. [further details][tutorials] More databases : Subject focused list of databases for Ocean and Earth sciences - Additional subject relevent databases selected from the full eresource list of the University Library. |
| Journal citation reports. | Journal Citation Reports (via ISI Web of Knowledge) is published annually in two editions. Only the editions and years that the University Library subscribes to appear on the home page. JCR allows you to evaluate and compare journals using citation data and indicates the most frequently cited journals in a field, the highest impact journals in a field. Citation and article counts are important indicators of how frequently current researchers are using individual journals. Connect to the ISI Web of Knowledge Service, and select JCR from the 'Select a Database' page. |
| Journal table of contents lists. | Zetoc is produced by the British Library and indexes 20,000 journal table of contents and 16,000 conference proceedings. Coverage is from 1993 - present. [further details] [userguide/tutorial] Zetoc search - Use Zetoc to search journal contents lists for articles. Zetoc alerts - Use Zetoc to set up alerts to be notified of the contents of new issues of journals you scan regularly. |
| Patents and Standards resources. | Patents and standards are an important and often unique source of useful information. Many are available on the web. |
| Reports (technical, scientific, cruise etc.). | Search WebCat to see what is held by the library. If you have problems locating a report try searching by the name of the organisation responsible. NOC, SOC and some IOS/IOSDL reports are available on ePrints Soton An inventory of UK research cruise reports is maintained by BODC and it contains links to an online full text version of the report where it is available. Many are reports are now freely available on the Internet try the websites of other research organisations in oceanography and earth science to see what is available. |
| Theses | Use WebCat to search for the theses and dissertations held in the library. Electronic copies of SOES PhD theses have been added to ePrints Soton from 2004 with a 3 year embargo before the full text is made available. Use the Index to Theses (campus use only) to discover other theses accepted for higher degrees by universities in Great Britain. Coverage from 1716 - present. |
| Webpages and resources. | Library staff have gathered a collection of many useful links to ocean and earth science subject relevent webpages and online resources. A subject specific search engine for science information is Scirus and it focuses only on Web pages containing scientific content. |
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