 DATABASES AND INDEXES
-- Frequently Used Databases in Oceanography and Meteorology --
AMS (American Meteorological Society) Journals Search -- This database enables searching across the journals of the AMS. Access to the full-text of some, but not all, articles is available from this database. If not, check the Nimitz Library Catalog and the Electronic Journals page for additional access.
ASFA (Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts) -- Provides access to literature in the science and technology of marine, freshwater, and brackish-water environments from 1978 to the present. (Should the above link not work for any reason try the mirror server.)
Applied Science and Technology Full Text -- Provides access to almost 500 trade and industrial publications, journals issued by professional and technical societies, and specialized subject periodicals, as well as special issues such as buyers' guides, directories, and conference proceedings. Indexing begins in 1983, abstracting in 1993, and full text for selected titles in 1997.
General Science Full Text -- Provides access to almost 200 popular science magazines, professional journals, and The New York Times Science Section. Indexing begins in 1984, abstracting in March 1993, and full text for selected titles in 1995.
GeoRef -- Produced by the American Geological Institute, this geoscience database contains over 1.9 million records of North America since 1785, and other areas of the world since 1933. (Should the above link not work for any reason try the mirror server.)
Meteorological and Geoastrophysical Abstracts -- Provides access to literature on meteorology, climatology, atmospheric chemistry and physics, physical oceanography, hydrology, glaciology, and related environmental sciences. (Should the above link not work for any reason try the mirror server.)
Oceanic Abstracts -- Provides access to technical literature on marine-related topics. (Should the above link not work for any reason try the mirror server.)
Web of Science -- Provides access to Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index. These databases offer access to articles' cited references, including articles, government reports, and patents. coverage from 1985 to present.
-- Additional Databases in Related Fields --
Academic Search Premier -- Designed for academic institutions, this database provides access to popular magazines and scholarly journals in a variety of subject areas. It contains full text for more than 4,600 publications, including over 3,500 peer-reviewed publications.
Aerospace & High Technology Database -- Provides references to basic and applied research in aeronautics, astronautics and space sciences. The database was created by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and includes references to journal articles, conference papers and government reports (mostly NASA materials).
Engineering Village 2 (EV2) -- Online index to the engineering literature, including journals, technical reports, and conferences.
FirstSearch -- Provides access to 13 databases in a variety of subject areas. Patrons wanting to use WorldCat Online click here.
Government Documents Index (MarciveWeb DOCS) -- Catalog of U. S. Government Publications July 1976-Present.
IEEE Xplore -- This is an online database to all Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers Society published information since 1999 and can be viewed as a subset of INSPEC. ATTENTION: USNA does not subscribe to all of the materials listed in the system.
INSPEC -- Created by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), Inspec provides access to the world's scientific and technical literature in the areas of physics, electrical engineering, electronics, computing, control engineering, and more.
JSTOR -- Full-text archive of scholarly journals including a general science collection. Select More Information for tips in using JSTOR.
SciFinder Scholar-Web access (Works best with IE 7 and Firefox browsers) -- An electronic version of Chemical Abstracts (1907 to present), SciFinder Scholar provides access to the CAS databases containing literature from many scientific disciplines including chemistry, biomedical sciences, engineering, materials science, agriculture, and more. USNA has access for two simultaneous users only. Use of this product is limited to Midshipmen, faculty and staff engaged in teaching and learning activities.
Scitopia -- A free search portal to the digital libraries of leading science and technology societies. Search over 3 million documents, plus patents and government data from fifteen societies spanning 150 years of sci-tech scholarship
Torpedo -- This link is to an information resource at the Naval Research Lab (NRL). Torpedo is a source for full-text access to journal articles published by Elsevier (almost 800 journals are covered) as well as full-text access to more than 1 million technical reports published by NRL. Torpedo includes a search engine to search topics in the articles and reports that are part of this system [Search Help].
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