Marine Sciences
From Subject Guides
Selected Resources for: Marine Sciences (Display only the highlighted/core resources).
Subject Description: The scientific study of organisms found in the ocean including physical, chemical and biological interactions. 6/2007/PD.
Revised DL (05-28-2009)
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Abstracts and Indexes
Academic or Scholarly Articles Subject Indexes
Applied Science and Technology Full Text
- "Turn here for fast, convenient access to the most important sources in applied science and technology-much of it from peer-reviewed journals. This database features full text, graphs, charts, diagrams, photos, and illustrations that convey an abundance of data in scientific and technical articles."
Biological and Agricultural Index Plus
- "Biological & Agricultural Index Plus offers researchers convenient online access to the core literature of biology and agriculture-much of it from peer-reviewed journals-plus full text. Full text citations also link to PDF page images, featuring graphs, charts, diagrams, photos, and illustrations indispensable to science research."
- "Abstracts of dissertations and theses from institutions in the North America and Europe."
General Science FullText Authentication Required
- "General Science Full Text is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles of at least one column in length from English-language periodicals published in the United States and Great Britain plus the full text of selected periodicals. Periodical coverage includes popular science magazines as well as professional journals. General Science Full Text also covers The New York Times Science Section (published weekly on Tuesday). Abstracting coverage begins with periodicals published in March 1993. Abstracts range from 50 to 300 words and describe the content and scope of the source articles. Full text coverage begins in January 1995."
- The National Library of Medicine "provides a wide variety of resources related to the biomedical and health sciences, both past and present. The format of these resources varies: searchable databases & databanks, bibliographic citations, full text (when available), archival collections and images." Medline is a part of this collection and is an index with abstracts of articles from hundreds of medical journals.
- Nature is a weekly international journal publishing the finest peer-reviewed research in all fields of science and technology on the basis of its originality, importance, interdisciplinary interest, timeliness, accessibility, elegance and surprising conclusions. Nature also provides rapid, authoritative, insightful and arresting news and interpretation of topical and coming trends affecting science, scientists and the wider public.
- "ScienceDirect is the world's largest electronic collection of science, technology and medicine full text and bibliographic information."
General Indexes to Magazine, Journal & Newspaper Articles
- ABI/INFORM Global: "Most scholarly and comprehensive way to explore and understand business research topics. Search nearly 1800 worldwide business periodicals for in-depth coverage of business and economic conditions, management techniques, theory, and practice of business, advertising, marketing, economics, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, and more. Expanded international coverage. Fast access to information on 60,000 + companies with business and executive profiles. Now includes The Wall Street Journal." A list of the subjects used in the database is available at the reference desk in Moore Library. Click ==> Sample search terms
- "Academic Search Premier provides full text from nearly 3,180 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies."
- Factiva contains the full text of all Dow Jones publications and 8,000 other publications, 20,000 company reports, and selected business web sites. In addition it contains the full text of Reuters Business Briefings which include global business news as well as foreign language publications. Works best with Internet Explorer 5.01 and newer.
JSTOR: The Scholarly Journal Archive Available in Full Text Authentication Required
- JSTOR is a collection of journals from the the fields of arts, sciences, business, education, and social sciences. The archive begins with the first issue of most of these journals and continues to within the past three to five years.
- “Provides full-text access to a wide range of news, business, legal, medical, and reference information.”
- National Newspaper Index indexes articles from America's top five newspapers: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post. Coverage is from 1977 to the present. All five newspapers are available in Moore Library.
Audio/Visual Resources
DVD Collection
Planet earth : the complete series
- V. 1 The Living machine; the Blue Planet.
- V. 2 The Climate Puzzle; Tales from other Worlds.
- V. 3 The Solar Sea; Gifts from the Earth; Fate of the Earth.
- Call Number: QE631.2 .P52 2004
- Shelving Location: Circulation Desk
- Number of Items: 3
Catalogs and Bibliographies
Catalogs
- Find any or all journals available to the Rider Community.
MATILDA, the Rider University ONLINE CATALOG
- Search MATILDA for books, journals, government documents, videos, selected internet resources available to Rider University students at Moore Library on the Lawrenceville Campus and at Talbott Library on the Princeton campus.
General Book Collection
America's wetland : Louisiana's vanishing coast
- Call Number: GB459.4 .K53 2005
Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change
- Call Number: QC981.8.C5 A96 2006
Biological Oceanography
- Call Number: QH541.5.S3 M55 2004
Creatures of the deep : in search of the sea’s
- Call Number: QL122 .H68 2001
Devil’s teeth : a true story of obsession and survival among America’s great white sharks
- Call Number: QL638.95.L3 C37 2005
Eternal darkness : a personal history of deep-sea exploration
- Call Number: GC65 .B275 2000
Identifying Marine Phytoplankton
- Call Number: QK934 .I44 1997
Living with the Changing California Coast
- Call Number: TC224.C2 G75 2005
Monitoring rocky shores
- Call Number: QH541.5.S35 M87 2006
Norwegian Sea ecosystem
- Call Number: QH77.N8 N67 2004
Zooplankton of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts : a guide to their identification and ecology
- Call Number: QL123 .J649 2005
General Reference Sources
Atlases & Maps
Rand McNally Atlas of the Oceans
- Call Number: Ref G2800 .R3 1977
Times atlas and encyclopaedia of the sea
- Call Number: Ref G2800 .T5 1989
- Shelving Location: Ready Reference
Dictionaries
Facts on File dictionary of marine science
- Call Number: Ref GC9 .F28 1988
Glossary of Oceanographic Terms
- Call Number: Ref GC9 .U5 1966
New York Times Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Environment
- Call Number: Ref TD173 .S27 1971
Directories
Rivers of the World: a Social, Geographical, and Environmental Sourcebook
- Call Number: Ref GB1201.4 .P46 2001
Encyclopedias
Encyclopedia of Beaches and Coastal Environments
- Call Number: Ref GB450.4 E53 1982
Encyclopedia of Marine Sciences
- Call Number: Ref GC9 .E56 1992
Encyclopedia of Ocean Sciences
- Call Number: Ref GC9 .E57 2001
Encyclopedia of the Sea
- Call Number: Ref GC9 .E38 2000
Interdisciplinary Encyclopedia of Marine Sciences
- Call Number: Ref GC9 .I58 2002
Oceans and Islands
- Call Number: Ref GB471 .O22 1991
Water Encyclopedia
- Call Number: Ref TD351 .V36 1990
General Reference Works
Miracle planet
- Call Number: Ref QE501 .B818 1990
Oceanography, an Introduction to the Planet Oceanus
- Call Number: Ref GC11.2 .P56 1992
Oceanography: an Invitation to Marine Science
- Call Number: Ref GC11.2 .G37 1995
Smithsonian Earth
- Call Number: Ref QE501 .E27 2005
Handbooks and Manuals
Ocean Basins: Their Structure and Evolution
- Call Number: Ref GC11.2 .O23 v.6
Practical Handbook of Marine Science
- Call Number: Ref GC11.2 .K46 1989
Internet Resources
Full Text Journal Collections
Directory of Open Access Journals: Earth and Environmental Sciences
- This directory includes 27 journals on Earth Sciences, Geology, and Environmental Sciences. Oceanography includes 8 journals,etc. Geophysics includes 4 journals, etc.
- “Spanning the entire spectrum of life sciences, the Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (ELS) features more than 3,900 specially commissioned and peer-reviewed articles, making it an essential read for life scientists and a valuable resource for teaching…Coverage includes: Biochemistry, cell biology, developmental biology, ecology, evolution and diversity of life, functional and comparative morphology, genetics and disease, genetics and molecular biology, immunology, microbiology, neuroscience, plant science, science and society, structural biology, and virology."
Gateways & Megasites
EarthGuide: a part of the Geosciences Research Division at Scripps Institute of Oceanography
- “An interactive and easy-to-use educational resource about Earth, oceans, and the environment.”
Infomine: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections
- “Contains useful Internet resources such as databases, electronic journals, electronic books, bulletin boards, mailing lists, online library card catalogs, articles, directories of researchers, and many other types of information.”
- “a free online service providing you with access to the very best Web resources for education and research. The service is created by a network of UK universities and partners. Subject specialists select and evaluate the websites in our database and write high quality descriptions of the resources.”
- “Science Accelerator…via resources made available by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), U.S. Department of Energy. Science Accelerator was developed and is made available by OSTI as a free public service.” This tool searches across collections including the Information Bridge, Energy Citations Database, Science Conference Proceedings, DOEpatents, E-Print Network, Energy files, DOE R&D Project Summaries, and DOE R&D Accomplishments.
- “Gateway for US Government science and technology information organized by subject.”
ScienceResearch.com: your one-stop source for scientific research
- “Deep Web Technologies is proud to present ScienceResearch.com-a free, publicly available web portal allowing access to numerous scientific journals, public science databases & pertinent science information quickly and easily.
WorldWideScience.org: the global science gateway
- "...connect[s] you to national and international scientific databases and portals. WorldWideScience.org accelerates scientific discovery and progress by providing one-stop searching of global science sources. The WorldWideScience Alliance, a multilateral partnership, consists of participating member countries and provides the governance structure for WorldWideScience.org." This site is created and maintained by the "Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), an element of the Office of Science within the U.S. Department of Energy."
Internet Directory
Global Change Master Directory List of Earth Science Acronyms, Glossaries and Gazetteers
National Geophysical Data Center (NOAA Satellite and Information Service)
Official Agency and Organization Web Sites
Center for Coastal and Watershed Studies (USGS)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
United States Geological Survey (USGS)
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Online Encyclopedias
- "The Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) is an ambitious project to organize and make available via the Internet virtually all information about life present on Earth. At its heart lies a series of Web sites—one for each of the approximately 1.8 million known species. Each site is constantly evolving and features dynamically synthesized content ranging from historical literature and biological descriptions to stunning images, videos and distribution maps."
Online Text
- This newsletter is produced by the New Jersey Water Resources Research Institute. "The New Jersey Water Resources Research Institute is a federally funded program of research, training and information transfer concerning all aspects of fresh and estuarine water in the state.
- Use this site to learn about: water research in New Jersey; watershed and water monitoring initiatives; newsletters, books and articles about water; water events and conferences; links to water organizations, real-time data, and government agencies; and information about water courses at Rutgers University."
Teaching Resources
Welcome to Virtual Worlds Almanac
- "This is a project to create a free, complete, up-to-date, and reliable guide to virtual worlds. So far we have 156 entries on virtual worlds written and edited by people from around the globe. Check out the Help page to see how you can edit any page right now or the Projectsemantic-enabled and uses various properties and templates that make editing easy and uniform. Please see our Introduction to learn how this wiki is different than most." This wiki is produced by the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) and covers a number of disciplines at various grade levels, including undergraduate and graduate levels. page for more information about us and getting involved.
Websites
American Fisheries Society (AFS)
GEMS Environmental Science Links
- Local, state, and national organizations listed, plus job and career links
- Articles with an unlocked icon are free to non-subscribers and may be downloaded and printed out.
Scientific Commons: a Community for Scientific Information
- "The major aim of the project is to develop the world’s largest communication medium for scientific knowledge products which is freely accessible to the public. A key challenge of the project is to support the rapidly growing number of movements and archives who admit the free distribution and access to scientific knowledge....Currently ScientificCommons.org has indexed about 13 million scientific publications and successfully extracted 6 million authors' names out of this data (January 2007)...ScientificCommons.org is a project of the University of St.Gallen (Switzerland) and hosted and developed at the Institute for Media and Communications Management."
Science Daily.com (Earth Sciences)
- “Your source for latest research news”
- The Atlas is an information system designed for use by policy makers who need to become familiar with ocean issues and by scientists, students and resource managers who need access to underlying data bases and approaches to sustainability.
- Can only access what geoscientists do (study rocks, water, air, space and life).
Career Information Resources
Online Translation Tools
Rider Faculty Publications
Geological, Environmental & Marine Sciences Department
- The Rider University Faculty Publications Database is a bibliography and archive of works by Rider University faculty from 1956 to the present. It contains not only citations to published works, but also links to the text or media presentation when permissible. If you have any questions about the database.
NIH Public Access Policy for submission of journal articles in PubMedCentral
- "The Office of Extramural Research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently made several updates to the NIH Public Access web page to clarify the submission process. The site explains four methods to ensure that a manuscript is submitted to PubMed Central in compliance with the NIH public access policy. These methods vary based on the version of the paper submitted and the actions undertaken by the author and publisher."
Statistics and Data
Statistical Resources
Statistical Record of the Environment
- Call Number: TD180 .D37 1995
Style Manuals and Writing Guides
Bibliography Software
- NoodleBib 6 Generate, edit, and publish an MLA Works Cited list or APA References list that complies with the rules of the current MLA Handbook and APA Publication Manual. Starter and Advanced versions.The user's guide is also available for download. © Copyright 1999-2006 NoodleTools, Inc.
Style Manuals
ACS Style Guide: A Manual for Authors and Editors
- Call Number: QD8.5 .A25 2006
Scientific Style and Format: The CBE Manual for Authors, Editor, and Publishers
- Call Number: T11 .S386 1994
The Council of Biology Editors (CBE) Style of Documentation in Science and Mathematics
Writing Guides
Beginner’s guide to scientific method
- Call Number: Q175 .C27 1994
Doing science : design, analysis, and communication of scientific research
- Call Number: Q180.A1 V35 2001
How to Write and Publish a Scientific Paper
- Call Number: T11 .D33 1988
Scientific papers and presentations
- Call Number: Q175 .C27 1994
Library Information
Moore Library
- Moore Library is a comprehensive general library with heavy emphasis on business, education, language and literature, communication and science. A collection of video and DVD formats and the Riderana/University Archives provide special support. Located on Rider's Lawrenceville campus, the building is named for Franklin F. Moore.
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Telephone: 609-896-5115
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