About Oceanic Abstracts

Subject
Oceanic Abstracts is focused exclusively on worldwide technical literature pertaining to the marine and brackish-water environment. The database has long been recognized as a leading source of information on topics relating to oceans. The database focuses on marine biology and physical oceanography, fisheries, aquaculture, non-living resources, meteorology and geology, plus environmental, technological, and legislative topics. This database is totally comprehensive in its coverage of living and non-living resources, meteorology and geology, plus environmental, technological, and legislative topics. More information.

Over 353,580 records as of January 2008.
Major areas of coverage include: --Biological Oceanography-- Ecology-- Physical and chemical oceanography-- Marine geology-- Geophysics-- Geochemistry-- Marine pollution-- Nonliving marine resources-- Navigation and communications-- Maritime law-- Desalination-- Ships-- Shipping-- Marine biology--

Sources
Serials list.

Coverage
1981 to present. Updated: monthly, with approximately 1,209 new records added.

Provider
Cambridge Scientific Abstracts

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NSU faculty, students and staff:  On campus and remote access.
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Revised: 07/16/2009