Digital Libraries & Collections
These digital libraries and collections are marine-science related collections of full text publications, images, and more.
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Archival
Biodiversity literature from the 15th to the 21st centuries. A great place to search for early marine biology expeditions or first descriptions of species. [open access]
Institutional
Theses and more from CSU campuses. Note: some campuses have their own repositories. See the links by campus at the bottom of the CSU ScholarWorks homepage. [open access]
Thematic
Covers the natural marine, coastal, estuarine /brackish and fresh water environments and includes all aspects of the science, technology, management and conservation of these environments, their organisms and resources, and the economic, sociological and legal aspects.
Joint open access marine and freshwater repository [open access]
Electrical, electronic and computer engineering information in IEEE and IEE journals, magazines & conference proceedings.
Agency
California Fish & Wildlife Document Library
An online repository of thousands of documents produced by the CDFW [open access]
Historical and current CalCOFI (California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations) publications. [open access]
Digital library of scientific literature and research produced by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The repository contains NOAA publications, as defined in the NOAA Publications Policy, dating from NOAA’s formation in 1970 to present and NOAA-authored and -funded journal articles from 2015 forward. Digitized publications from NOAA’s predecessor agencies including the U.S. Weather Bureau and the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey are available via the NOAA Central Library Catalog, and the NCL website. [open access]
The Pubs Warehouse provides access to over 170,000 publications written by USGS scientists over the century-plus history of the bureau. [open access]
Ebooks
An ebook platform offering ebook subscription packages and ebooks ordered directly by the MLML/MBARI Research Library. [subscription]
O'Reilly Online Learning (formerly Safari Books Online)
Use SJSU or MBARI email and sign in. Computer science, coding, ArcGIS, stats books, coding, machine learning and AI, managerial/business texts, and more. [subscription]
Springer's ebook Science Collection, which has a lot of marine science books, and other collections. [subscription]
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Open access marine science repositories
List of marine science repositories (scroll for other disciplines). [open access]