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Use COAST, the CSULB Library Catalog, to find books, government documents, media, journal titles and more on ocean studies, marine research, marine biology, oceanography, and more.
Call Numbers and Locations| Call Number | Topic Area | Book Location | Journal Location |
| GC1-1481 | Oceanography | 2nd Floor | 2nd Floor Rm 205 |
| GC63 | Oceanographic expeditions | 2nd Floor | 2nd Floor Rm 205 |
| GC65-78 | Underwater exploration | 2nd Floor | 2nd Floor Rm 205 |
| GC83-87.6 | Submarine topography | 2nd Floor | 2nd Floor Rm 205 |
| GC96-97.8 | Estuarine oceanography | 2nd Floor | 2nd Floor Rm 205 |
| GC100-103 | Seawater | 2nd Floor | 2nd Floor Rm 205 |
| GC109-149 | Chemical oceanography | 2nd Floor | 2nd Floor Rm 205 |
| GC150-182 | Physical oceanography | 2nd Floor | 2nd Floor Rm 205 |
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GC190-190.5 |
Ocean-atmosphere interaction | 2nd Floor | 2nd Floor Rm 205 |
| GC200-376 | Dynamics of the ocean | 2nd Floor | 2nd Floor Rm 205 |
| GC377-399 | Marine sediments | 2nd Floor | 2nd Floor Rm 205 |
| GC401-881 | Oceanography by region | 2nd Floor | 2nd Floor Rm 205 |
| GC1000-1023 | Marine resources. Applied oceanography | 2nd Floor | 2nd Floor Rm 205 |
| GC1080-1581 |
Marine Pollution. Sea water pollution |
2nd Floor | 2nd Floor Rm 205 |
Encyclopedia of Antarctica and the southern oceans. REF G855.E53 2002
Encyclopedia of ocean sciences. 6 volumes. REF GC6.E56 2000
The Facts on File dictionary of marine science. REF GC9 F28 2001
Sea Grant Abstracts REF GC58 S43 1986-
The Times atlas of the oceans. REF Oversized G2800.T5 1983
Finding Articles
Step One
The first step in finding scholarly/ peer reviewed articles for research is to use a database or index to find citations (including titles) of articles that are on your topic. Online databases are listings of articles published in a particular set of journals. Paper indexes also list articles by subject and title and are updated with new printings periodically.
Keep in mind that for academic research you want to stick with scholarly articles published in journals like Advances in Nursing Science as opposed to news type articles in magazines like Newsweek. Some databases will even allow you to limit your search to scholarly articles, also called peer-reviewed, juried, or refereed articles, by checking a box.
Visit the Finding Articles by Topic Biology/Zoology webpage for quick access to the following databases as well as others useful for biology research.
Online databases
Step Two
After you have found citations for articles that seem relevant to your topic,you need to access the articles themselves. You can decide if they are relevant (articles you want) by looking at titles and abstracts (short summaries of the articles) in the database.
Getting the article (Follow these steps until you have the article in hand):
To get the article electronically:
Some articles will be available in full-text or PDF format by simply clicking a link right in the database.
If there is no direct link,look for an
link which searches for the article in any database subscribed to by CSULB and theCOAST library catalog as well to let you know if CSULB has access to the article anywhere.
If SFX doesn't find the article, you should still try to find the journal in COASTon your own. Search using the Journal Title, not the article title. Make sure you know which year, volume, and number journal you need.
If it is available electronically online, you should be able to click a link and then either print the article or e-mail it to yourself.
If the journal is not available electronically, get the article in paper:
Try a COAST Title of journal, magazine, newspaper search using the journal title, not the article title, to see if CSULB has the journal in paper copy.
If it is available in paper form at CSULB you will have to come to the library to photocopy it. Make sure you write down the ENTIRE citation (author, title, journal title, volume, number, year, pages) from the database and the call number from COAST.
If it is not available electronically or at CSULB you can still request the article through Interlibrary Loan. This gets the article from another library either in paper or electronically and usually takes 7-10 days. So be sure to start your research early! If you are in a hurry, you can check other library's catalogs and possibly go to that library to get the article.
Need help deciphering journal title abbreviations?
Two good places to look for websites on a specific topic that have been reviewed are:
Librarian's Index to the Internet
or look at the suggestions below.
You can also use a search engine like Google.
Just be aware of what information you are getting!!!!!!!!!
Ask yourself:
Who put this information here? (Might they be biased?)
What expertise do they have about this topic? (Are they a PhD at a university or Joe-Bob in his basement?)
Why did they put it here? (Are they trying to sell something or convince me of a particular point of view?)
When did they put it here?
Looking for good websites? Try those listed below!
ALGAE
AlgaeBase
http://www.algaebase.org/
Introduction to the Green Algae
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/greenalgae/greenalgae.html
AquaNIC Aquaculture Network Information Center
http://www.aquanic.org
AquaNIC houses or provides links to thousands of state, national, and international aquaculture publications, newsletters, visual media, calendars, job services, directories and specialty sections for species and production systems.
AQUARIUMS / MUSEUMS
Aquariums
http://www.museumspot.com/categories/aquariums.htm
BIOGRAPHY
Ocean Expert: The Global Directory of Marine and Freshwater Professionals
http://oceanexpert.org/
CAREERS /JOBS
Careers in Oceanography, Marine Science & Marine Biology
http://scilib.ucsd.edu/sio/guide/career.html
IOC Activities Dealing with Available Jobs
http://ioc.unesco.org/iocweb/jobs.php
National Association of Marine Laboratories (NAML) Career Opportunities
http://hermes.mbl.edu/naml/members/index.php?func=more&sort=aml
Marine Realms Information Bank
http://mrib.usgs.gov/
Ocean Biogeographic Information System
http://www.iobis.org/
NTIS
http://www.ntis.gov/search/index.aspx
Search Technical Reports Collection from 1990 to the Present.
Science.gov
http://science.gov/
Web portal - gateway - to vast stores of reliable federal science and technology information. Access by subject 30 databases from 12 major science agencies.
Scirus: For Scientific Information Only
http://www.scirus.com/srsapp/advanced/index.jsp
Free search engine for science, from ScienceDriect. Searches Medline, ScienceDirect, USPTO, ArXiv.org, Biomed Central full-text articles, NASA technical reports, and the full text articles from Project Euclid.
Scout Report for Science & Engineering
http://www.scout.cs.wisc.edu/
ICHTHYOLOGY
California Academy of Sciences - Ichthyology: Annotated Checklists of Fishes
http://research.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/annotated/index.html
Digital Fish Library
http://www.digitalfishlibrary.org
Field Guide to Anemone Fishes and their Host Sea Anemones
http://www.nhm.ku.edu/inverts/ebooks/intro.html
FishBase
http://www.fishbase.org/search.php
Guide to California Beach Fishing
http://www.dfg.ca.gov/marine/beachfishing.asp
Ichthyology Web Resources
http://www2.biology.ualberta.ca/jackson.hp/IWR/index.php
Monkfish Research Survey
http://www.nefsc.noaa.gov/read/popdy/monkfish/
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (LACM) Fish Collection
http://www.nhm.org/research/fishes/
Natural History Museum's Fish Specimen Collection
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/projects/fish/index.html
SIFAR - oneFish Community Directory
http://www.sifar.org/onefish.htm
University of British Columbia: Fish On Line:
http://www.fishbase.org/Fish_On_Line.htm
"A draft guide to learning and teaching ichthyology using the FishBase Information System"
IMAGES
Freshwater and Marine Image Bank
http://content.lib.washington.edu/fishweb/index.html
US Fish & Wildlife Service Pictures/Graphics
http://images.fws.gov/
LABORATORIES
National Association of Marine Laboratories
http://hermes.mbl.edu/naml/
MARINE BIOLOGY
Ant'Phipoda: the Biodiversity Reference Centre for Antarctic Amphipod Crustaceans (Royal Belgian Inst. Nat. Sci. - Dept. of Invertebrates)
http://www.sciencesnaturelles.be/general/sections/amphi/
Census of Marine Life
http://www.coml.org/coml.htm
The Census of Marine Life is a growing global network of researchers in more than 70 nations engaged in a ten-year initiative to assess and explain the diversity, distribution, and abundance of marine life in the oceans -- past, present, and future.
Ciliate Resource Archive
http://www.uoguelph.ca/%7Eciliates/
Cnidaria Home Page
http://www.ucihs.uci.edu/biochem/steele/default.html
Crayfish Homepage
http://crayfish.byu.edu/index.htm
Crittercam
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/crittercam/video_previews.html
European Register of Marine Species
http://www.marbef.org/data/erms.php
Field Guide to Anemone Fishes and their Host Sea Anemones
http://www.nhm.ku.edu/inverts/ebooks/intro.html
Ghent University: Marine Biology Section
http://www.marinebiology.ugent.be/
Hexacorallians of the World: Sea Anemones, Corals, and their allies
http://hercules.kgs.ku.edu/hexacoral/anemone2/index.cfm
Incredible Glowing Algae
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Study/glowingalgae/
MarineBio
http://www.marinebio.com/
Marine Flatworms of the World
http://www.rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de/~bu6/index.html
Mollusk Bibliography Database
http://ellipse.inhs.uiuc.edu:591/mollusk/biblio.html
Monkfish Research Survey
http://www.nefsc.noaa.gov/read/popdy/monkfish/
Oxford University Museum of Natural History: Charles Darwin's Crustacea
http://www.oum.ox.ac.uk/database/zoology/darwin.htm
SeaSlug.com
http://www.seaslug.com/
Sea Slugs of the Pacific Coast of Costa Rica
http://www.inbio.ac.cr/papers/babosasmarinas/ingles/index.html
Southern California Swell Model
http://cdip.ucsd.edu/?nav=recent&sub=nowcast
UCSD-Scripps Institution of OceanographyLibrary: Diving Under Antarctic Ice
http://scilib.ucsd.edu/sio/nsf/
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
http://www.fws.gov/
MARINE EDUCATION
College Programs in Marine Biology
http://life.bio.sunysb.edu/marinebio/mbcolleges.html
IAPSO: Universities, Oceanographic Institutes, and Laboratories
http://www.olympus.net/IAPSO/instit.html
Marine Careers.net: Colleges, Universities, and Other Degree-Granting Institutions with Marine Science or Related Programs
http://www.whoi.edu/science/marinecareers/index.php
Ocean Studies Institute, College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, California State University, Long Beach
/divisions/aa/curriculum_handbook/catalog/03-04/documents/ocean.pdf
Yahoo Search Directory
http://dir.yahoo.com/Science/Earth_Sciences/Oceanography/Education/College_and_University_Departments_and_Programs/
MARINE MAMMALS
Crittercam
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/crittercam/video_previews.html
International Whaling Commission
http://www.iwcoffice.org/
U.S. Navy Marine Mammal Program
http://www.spawar.navy.mil/sandiego/technology/mammals/
NEWS
ScienceDaily
http://www.sciencedaily.com
OCEANOGRAPHY
Coastal Ocean Institute
http://www.whoi.edu/institutes/coi/topicIndex.do?o=read&id=2
IOC: Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission
http://ioc.unesco.org/iocweb/index.php
Marine Realms Information Bank
http://mrib.usgs.gov/
Marine Realms Information Bank, prepared by the USGS Coastal and Marine Geology Program at the Woods Hole Field Center and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, is intended to organize and provide access to documents and resources relating to the marine and coastal environment.
NOAA's National Ocean Service
http://oceanservice.noaa.gov
Ocean Atlas of Hawaii
http://radlab.soest.hawaii.edu/atlas/
Ocean Portal
http://www.iode.org/oceanportal/
Office of Naval Research Science & Technology Focus: Oceanography
http://www.onr.navy.mil/focus/ocean/
Oxford University Museum of Natural History: Charles Darwin's Crustacea
http://www.oum.ox.ac.uk/database/zoology/darwin.htm
Preliminary Report of the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy: Governors' Draft (4/2004)
http://oceancommission.gov/documents/prelimreport/
Southern California Swell Model
United Nations Atlas of the Oceans
http://www.oceansatlas.com/index.jsp
UCSD-Scripps Institution of OceanographyLibrary: Diving Under Antarctic Ice
http://scilib.ucsd.edu/sio/nsf/
Vents Program
http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/vents/
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
International Association for the Physical Sciences of the Ocean (IAPSO)
http://www.olympus.net/IAPSO/index.htm
National Biological Information Infrastructure: Organizations and Associations
http://www.nbii.gov/portal/server.pt
TIDES
NOAA Tides Online
http://tidesonline.nos.noaa.gov/
Tides and Tide Prediction
http://scilib.ucsd.edu/sio/tide/
WWW Tide and Current Predictor
http://tbone.biol.sc.edu/tide/index.html
VESSELS
Oceanographic Research Vessels
http://courses.washington.edu/ocn101/Dunlap/Dunlap.html
Descriptions and facts about various research vessels.
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
http://www.whoi.edu/marops/research_vessels/index.html
Information about the ships in the Woods Hole fleet.
WEATHER
Oceanweather: Current Marine Data
http://www.oceanweather.com/data/
"These pages show current marine data from our own models and observational data worldwide. This service is provided for the enjoyment of the marine/meteorological community and is not intended for commercial purposes."
WebDirectory: Weather
http://www.webdirectory.com/Science/Atmospheric_Science/Weather/
Links to many weather resources.
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