Science

Citation Help                            Databases current

Free on the web:

• https://doaj.org/ DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.  No login required, advanced search option.

• http://www.sciencedirect.com/ Search for peer-reviewed journals, articles, book chapters and open access content from Elsevier..  Create a free account to use the “open access” filter. Advanced search tutorial 

• https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/  PubMed Central® (PMC) is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM).  Can limit 1, 5, 10 yrs, and by funding source. 

• https://www.biomedcentral.com/ BMC publishes its own open access journals.

• https://www.plos.org/ PLOS publishes its own journals.  No advanced search option. These are searchable through DOAJ, PMC or PLOS.

• https://scholar.google.com/ Try this, too! 

• https://academic.microsoft.com/ free online articles

• https://www.hindawi.com/journals/ open access 

• https://www.mdpi.com/about/journals  open access

• https://www.frontiersin.org/about/about-frontiers  open access

Limited access:

• Scientific American 

• Science 

• Nature 

• https://www.aps.org but starting in 2018 high-energy physics articles in three APS journals (Physical Review Letters, Physical Review D, and Physical Review C) will be published open access. 

Nonprofit organizations

• http://worldwidescience.org General science information of all types

• NWF National Wildlife Federation is America's largest conservation organization with habitat and species information.

• Ocean Conservancy , Ocean Outreach , The Safina Center (Formerly Blue Ocean Institute) Earth911 Conservation-minded information. Look at Blue Ocean for information on sustainable seafood, Earth911 for information on recycling.

• Environmental Defense Fund Partnering with many different groups to find environmental solutions that work

• Acoustic Ecology Acoustics and science

• IUCN Red List IUCN Redlist of endangered species

• http://www.arkive.org/ Endangered species with google earth tie-in.

Colleges and Universities

• Woods Hole Oceanic Institute Oceanus Scientific articles about the marine topics

• New Hampshire Extension Center , 

State government

• SC DNR Everything the state of South Carolina wants you to know about our natural resources. Find links to Marine Resources Division, saltwater fishing, the Ace Basin, and other state conservation issues. Search for Species Gallery in the top search bar to find information on Birds, Reptiles, Plants, Mammals, Fish, and Invertebrates.

• California Coastal Commission Debris

Federal Government

• NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Everything the government wants you to know about the oceans. Search for Marine Fisheriesfor the exact page for your species project.

  • Marine Life @ NOAA Wildlife at national marine sanctuaries

  • NMFS Regulations from the National Marine Fisheries Service

• EPA:  Environmental education (EE) is a multi-disciplinary approach to learning about environmental issues that enhances knowledge, builds critical thinking skills and helps students make informed and responsible decisions.  

• NASA https://www.nasa.gov/ 

Government data archives of public climate data

• https://envirodatagov.org/ - EDGI is building online tools, events, and research networks to proactively archive public environmental data and ensure its continued public availability.

• http://climatemirror.org/ an open project to mirror public climate change databases