Betty Petersen Memorial Library

Databases & Electronic Resources

See a complete list of NOAA-Wide and Open Access Databases on the NOAA Central Library website.

• 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 the complete AGU online journal collection from 1896 to the present, including JGR: Oceans, JGR:Atmosphere, Eos, 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.
  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.
• NOAA eBook Collection Available NOAA-wide. Features more than 300 online book titles, including 200 Information Technology (IT) books on subjects including HTML, XHTML, XML, Visual Basic.Net, CGI, Dreamweaver, PHP, Apache, MySQL Web Development, and more.
  Note: This link takes you to a nonfederal website.
• Endnote / EndNote Web Available to NOAA staff. EndNote is a reference manager software program that allows users to collect and share citations, store references and PDFs, and create bibliographies in most any bibliographic citation style. EndNote Web requires the user to create an account, but allows for increased collaboration through the sharing of citation libraries.
  • General Endnote Web help*
  • Endnote Web tutorials*
  Note: This link takes you to a nonfederal website.
• Google Scholar Available to all. Google's academic article search engine. Google scholar also allows for the creation of a profile to track personal citations, set up alerts and access to journal metrics. In addition, PDFs of articles may be available when performing a Google Scholar search rather than a regular Google search.
  Note: This link takes you to a nonfederal website.
• Historical U.S. Daily Weather Maps
• Journal Citation Reports
  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.
  
  • Table of Contents for JCR help*
  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.
• ResearcherID ResearcherID increases researchers' visibility and makes their work more accessible. A unique ID number associates each researcher with his published work, and lets others easily find full publication lists and avoid the problem of author misidentification. Users can search the Researcher ID registry to find citations, collaborators, speakers, editors, and reviewers.
  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.
• SPIE Digital Library This collection included 10 different journals published by SPIE as well as a collection of ebooks and conference proceedings dating back as far as 1962.
  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.
  • Web of Knowledge training page*
  Note: This link takes you to a nonfederal website.