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MSC 310 Living Resources of the Ocean

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Selected Databases

  • CINAHL Plus
    Primary index to the international literature of nursing and health.
  • Humanities Index (BHI)
    An international abstracting and indexing tool for research in the humanities. BHI indexes over 320 internationally respected humanities journals and weekly magazines published in the UK and other English speaking countries, as well as quality newspapers published in the UK.
  • CQ Weekly
    The CQ Weekly reports on the world's most powerful legislative body completely and accurately every week. Covers virtually every act of Congress, delivering nonpartisan news and analysis unavailable anywhere else. The magazine includes an archive dating back to 1983. Search by topic, page number, committee, "exact phrases or words," bill number, byline or reporter and by Boolean full-text and date searches. Detailed floor votes dating back to August 1983 are easily retrieved.
  • Momentum Press Digital Libary
    Momentum Press offers the Professional Reference Collection (books for researchers and practitioners) and Digital Libraries, collections of curriculum-oriented learning resources built for use in the classroom as an alternative to expensive textbooks.
  • Cuba On-Line
    Cuba On-Line is a full-text, searchable database that contains current economic, demographic, political, historical and business information on Cuba.
  • Florida Supreme Court and Court of Appeals Cases and Resources
  • SimplyAnalytics
    SimplyAnalytics is an Internet-based mapping application that enables users to develop interactive thematic maps and reports using thousands of demographic, business, and marketing data variables.
  • Ambrose Video
    Ambrose Video provides streaming educational content in a variety of disciplines. The University of Miami currently has access to over 30 videos in the BBC Shakespeare Play collection and the entire Long Search series, a discussion of the basic beliefs of the world's major religions.
  • British Library Newspapers 1732 -1950
    Consists of two major collections from the British Library which span three hundred years of newspaper publishing in the U.K. 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers and 19th Century Newspapers.
  • Sibley Music Library Music Scores
    The digitized collection of music scores from Eastman School of Music's Sibley Music Library includes over 14,000 digitized manuscripts and scores in the public domain, many of which are unique to Sibley's collection.
For more related resources visit the University of Miami Libraries Database Lists.

Selected Journals

Find additional journals in the UM Libraries uSearch Catalog.

Find items in the uSearch Catalog

Theses and Dissertations

Encyclopedias

Selected eBooks

Evolutionary ecology of marine invertebrate larvae
Carrier, T. J. et al
Economic Management of Marine Living Resources: a practical solution
Whitmarsh, David
Who rules the waves? Piracy, overfishing and mining the oceans
Russell, Denise
Ecosystem approaches to fisheries: a global perspective
Christensen, Villy
Habitats and Biota of the Gulf of Mexico: Before the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
Ward, C. Herb
Vulnerability of coastal ecosystems and adaptation
Monaco, André, editor
The curious life of krill: a conservation story from the bottom of the world
Nicol, Stephen

Evaluating Sources by Western University Libraries

McMaster Libraries YouTube video:  How to Evaluate Resources (the CRAAP Test)

For more information and background on The CRAAP test for evaluating resource, visit CRAAP test - Wikipedia.
Librarians recommend that students use library resources, databases, and ejournals when searching for information.  However, many student will use Google to search for information on their topics.  While some of the resources found through a Google search may be credible and peer reviewed, some information can less so, out of date, and inaccurate.  When evaulating the information you find online use the "CRAAP" test!

Currency
Relevance
Authority
Accuracy
Purpose

 

Subject Specialist

  • Angela Clark-Hughes

    Director, Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science Library

    aclark@earth.miami.edu

    305-421-4021

Marine & Atmospheric Science Guides

 

Getting Stated with Managing your Citations

There are many citation mangement programs available (also known as reference managers or bibliographic management tools) providing useful features that can help you with storing and organzing your citations, as well as creating a bibliography in whatever style you prefer.

It is important to choose the one that suits your needs.  University of Miami Libraries has licensed access to: Mendeley, RefWorks and EndNote.

Resource Guides

Mendeley

Additional video tutorial at: https://www.mendeley.com/guides/videos

RefWorks

EndNote X9