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  • Cape Lookout LighthouseSPOTLIGHT: New - Inter-Research Science Center - Open Access Initiative. In response to the drive for freedom of access to the results of scientific research, authors of manuscripts accepted for publication in Inter-Research (IR) journals, will be offered the option of having their work published as Open Access (OA) papers.  In addition, Inter-Research is providing Open Access to all journal content four (4) years after the original publication date for the following journal titles:
  • Aquatic Microbial Ecology,
  • Climate Research,
  • Diseases of Aquatic Organisms, and 
  • Marine Ecology Progress Series.

Additional Online Journals Available through JSTOR.  The Biological Sciences Collection has been obtained to compliment the existing Ecology & Botany Collection in JSTOR.  The Biological Sciences Collection will include at least one hundred titles when it is completed in 2007. Coverage in this collection offers greater depth in fields such as biodiversity, conservation, paleontology, and plant science, in addition to introducing new areas such as cell biology and zoology.  Titles include:  Bioscience, Invertebrate Biology, Journal of Herpetology, Journal of Mammalogy, and Taxon. 

Additional Back Files Purchased for ISI Web of Science.   Seven additional years of ISI Web of Science back file information has been purchased by the NOAA Library Network.  Literature searching is now available from 1984 to present.  Access to the Web of Science database is available through the Rice Library's Online Databases web page.

Search the Rice Library Online Catalog This Catalog may be searched using author's name, title, subject, series, or periodical title. Your initial search will search only the NOS Rice Library collection. If you want to search all library holdings in all NOAA Libraries, you will need to select "ALL" from the dropdown menu. A tutorial for the NOAA catalog has been added to this site to assist you in your searching.

Rice Library Serial Holdings This provides an alphabetical listing of all periodical titles that are held in the Rice Library collection. In addition, the beginning and ending volume numbers and corresponding years are listed; with the Library of Congress call number for locating the title on the shelf. A tutorial for the Rice Library Serial Holdings list has been added to this site to assist you in your searching.

Online Databases provides access to the following electronic bibliographic literature searching databases, such as, CSA Illumina (ASFA, Conference Papers Index, Human Population and Natural Resource Management, Oceanic Abstracts, Sustainability Science Index, Toxline, and Water Research), Elsevier's Science Direct, IngentaConnect, and ISI Web of Science, BIOSIS Previews, Current Contents, Journal Citation Reports and Scopus. A tutorial for searching and saving records from the databases had been added to this site to assist you.

Online Journals such as, American Fisheries Society, Blackwell Synergy, EBSCOhost Electronic Journal Service, Elsevier's Science Direct, and JSTOR: The Scholarly Journal Archive (Botany, Ecology and General Science journals available full text).

Rice Library Digital Collections

Electronically Published Books

Virtual Libraries and Informational Portals