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Databases & indexes

	Aquaculture Compendium An encyclopedic, mixed media resource covering all aspects of aquaculture. It addresses issues of aquatic animal and plant production, natural resources and environment, biodiversity, trade, food security and safety, poverty alleviation, livelihoods and much more.
	ASFA: Aquatic Sciences & Fisheries Abstracts (ProQuest) Provides extensive coverage of basic and applied research on aquatic organisms. All aspects of marine, freshwater and brackish water organisms and environments are examined, including information on biology and ecology of aquatic organisms, exploitation of living resources and related legal, policy and socioeconomic issues.
	Biological Sciences (ProQuest) This interdisciplinary database provides access to research in biomedicine, biotechnology, zoology and ecology, and some aspects of agriculture and veterinary science. Publications include serials, as well as conference proceedings, technical reports, monographs and selected books and patents.
	GeoScienceWorld A comprehensive Internet resource for research and communications in the geosciences, built on a core database aggregation of peer-reviewed journals indexed, linked, and inter-operable with GeoRef.
	ProQuest Illustrata: Natural Sciences This database includes natural science content from searchable tables, figures, graphs, charts and other illustrations from the scholarly research and technical literature by employing “deep indexing”.
	ScienceDirect Full-text, peer reviewed journals, books, and reference works. Covers a broad range of subjects in the Social Sciences and Humanities, Health Sciences, Life Sciences, and, Physical Sciences and Engineering.
	Scopus A multidisciplinary abstract and citation database of research literature and web sources. Over 16,500 peer-reviewed titles from more than 4,000 publishers. Includes some full text links. Access Scopus Tutorials online.
	Web of Science (Web of Knowledge) Citation databases with over 10,000 high-impact journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities, as well as international proceedings coverage for over 120,000 conferences.
	Zoological Record (Web of Knowledge) Provides comprehensive coverage of zoological literature from 6,500+ international journals, review annuals, monographs, meeting proceedings, books, and reports.

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Reference

• Dictionaries
• Encyclopedias
• Handbooks & manuals

Dictionaries

• Dictionary of aquaculture - Sci:Ref SH/20.3/OU8/1996
• Facts on file dictionary of marine science - Sci:Ref GC/9/F361/2001

Encyclopedias

• Encyclopedia of aquaculture - Sci:Ref SH/20.3/EJ7
• Encyclopedia of global environmental change - Sci:Ref GE/149/EJ8
• Encyclopedia of marine mammals - Sci:Ref QL/701.2/EJ75
• Encyclopedia of ocean sciences - Sci:Ref GC/9/EJ69
• Encyclopedia of the sea - Sci:Ref GC/9/EF6/2000
• Grzimek's Animal life encyclopedia - Sci:Q Ref QL/3/GW36

Handbooks & manuals

• Atlas of the oceans: wind & wave climate - Sci:Atlas +/G2801/C8/Y8/1996
• Fram atlas of the Southern Ocean - Sci: Atlas ++/G/3101/C7/F7
• New Zealand nautical almanac - Sci:Q Ref QB//8/N5/NH32
• New Zealand fish: a complete guide - Sci: Ref QL/636.2/NH33
• Seabirds: an identification guide - Sci: Ref QL/673/H978
• World atlas of the oceans - Sci: Atlas +G/2800/WX24
• The World wildlife fund guide to extinct species of modern times- Sci:Q Ref QH/75/WX24v.1

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Web sites

• AquaNIC: Aquaculture Network Information Center - A gateway to the world’s electronic information for aquaculture
• The Aquatic Network - Living resources and technology relating to marine and fresh-water environments.
• Census of Marine Life - A project by a global network of researchers, supported by a range of international organizations.
• The Cold Regions Bibligraphy
• EurekAlert Marine Science Portal - Part of an online global news service from the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
• FAO David Lubin Memorial Library
• FishBase - Useful for identifying and describing fish species
• Leibniz Institute of marine Sciences at Kiel University
• MarLIN Marine Life Information Network for Britain and Ireland
• NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service Scientific Publications Office- Complete text of recent issues of the Fishery bulletin, and some NOAA Technical report NMFS (TR) series
• OceanPortal - This directory of ocean data resources is sponsored by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO.
• Sea Slug Forum Australian Museum Online - From the Australian Museum (maintained by Dr. Bill Rudman), this is an excellent resource for information on nudibranchs and related sea slugs.
• UN Atlas of the Oceans
• Scripps Institution of Oceanography
• Te Puna Web Directory - Science & Technology
• University of Hawaii - SOEST (School of Ocean & Earth Science & Technology)
• University of Otago Marine Science Department 
• WhaleNet - Interactive site dedicated to whale and marine research.
• Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Last revised: 21 January, 2008