Betty Petersen Memorial Library

Databases & Electronic Resources

• American Meteorological Society (AMS) Journals Available to Camp Springs and Silver Spring NOAA staff and separately licensed to other parts of NOAA nationwide.
  Note: This link takes you to a nonfederal website.
• American Geophysical Union (AGU) Digital Library Access to eleven AGU Journals online from 1896 to 2002, including JGR: Oceans, JGR:Atmosphere, Geophysical Research Letters.
  Note: This link takes you to a nonfederal website.
• Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA) and related databases are available NOAA-wide.
• BioOne Available NOAA-wide. BioOne brings to the Web an aggregation of the full-texts of high-impact bioscience research journals previously only available in print. The database currently contains 79 peer-reviewed journals and bulletins published by small societies and non-commercial publishers. Search all the journals together or individual journals.
  Note: This link takes you to a nonfederal website.
• CiteSeer.IST, Scientific Literature Digital Library Available to all. CiteSeer is a digital library and search engine focused primarily on literature on computer and information science. Provides automated citation indexing and citation linking.
  Note: This link takes you to a nonfederal website.
• First Search Databases Available to Camp Springs and Silver Spring NOAA staff. Over 70 online, subject-specific databases. A username/password is required to access this database. Ask the Librarian at (301) 763-8266.
  Note: This link takes you to a nonfederal website.
• Historical U.S. Daily Weather Maps
• Journal Citation Reports
  Guide for usage
  Available NOAA-wide. Journal Citation Reports is a comprehensive and unique resource that allows you to evaluate and compare journals using citation data drawn from over 7,500 scholarly and technical journals from more than 3,300 publishers in over 60 countries.
  Note: This link takes you to a nonfederal website.
• JSTOR: the Scholarly Journal Archive (Available NOAA-wide) Complete full-text archives of core scholarly journals, some dating from the 1800s. Search by topic, keywords, titles, authors and dates. The biological collection has been loaded. Note: The Library does have a subscription to the full-text.
  Note: This link takes you to a nonfederal website.
• Meteorological and Geoastrophysical Abstracts (MGA)
  Guide for usage
  Available to Camp Springs and Silver Spring NOAA staff. Index of the world's literature on meteorology, climatology, and hydrology from 1974 to present. Also separately licensed to other parts of NOAA nationwide.
  Note: This link takes you to a nonfederal website.
• Open Science Directory Open Science Directory contains collections of Open Access Journals (e.g. Directory of Open Access Journals) and journals in the special programs (Hinari, Agora, OARE). Other programs will be added in the near future: INASP-PERI, eJDS. About 13000 scientific journals are now available in the 'Open Science Directory'. When all the special program journals will be included, the Open Science Directory will contain more than 20000 titles.
  Note: This link takes you to a nonfederal website.
• SCI Journal & Country Rank The SCImago Journal & Country Rank is an open-access portal that includes the journals and country scientific indicators developed from the information contained in the Scopus® database. This platform takes its name from the SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) indicator, developed by SCImago from the widely known algorithm Google PageRank™. This indicator shows the visibility of the journals contained in the Scopus® database from 1996.
  Note: This link takes you to a nonfederal website.
• Web of Science Available to NOAA Staff in the Washington, DC Metro Area and also separately licensed to other parts of NOAA nationwide. Indexes over 5,900 leading international scientific journals, provides author, cited reference and keyword searching, and provides links to the original full-text if the library has a subscription. Current subscription covers the years 1984-present.
  Note: This link takes you to a nonfederal website.