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Find out about hours, services, collections, policies, workshops and more at: Introduction to the Library
Interested in attending or advertising local science seminars? See the Seattle Science Seminars page.
Download materials from our user education workshops and find other library training resources at: User Education

 
Are you getting everything you can from your library? Librarians are available M-F 8am - 4pm for one-on-one consultations regarding library and information services. Local Seattle NOAA employees may request office visits. Arrangements will be made for remote NOAA employees regarding the most effective meeting place. Contact seattle.library@noaa.gov or 206.526.6241 to make an appointment.

If you have any of these items marked Missing from the Seattle Regional Library, please let us know. We'll be glad to have them back or check them out to you if they are still in use.
August, 2005
News page moves to new format
Library News is now in a blog format with an available RSS feed. The blog page is at http://www.wrclib.noaa.gov/lib/weblog/libnews_weblog.php and the url to add the RSS feed to your reader is http://www.wrclib.noaa.gov/lib/weblog/wrclibnnewsrss.xml . More about blogs. More about RSS feeds.
July, 2005
Upcoming EndNote Training via WebEx:
EndNote Filters and Connection Files: July 28, 2005 at 10:00 a.m. Pacific time (runs for approximately 2 hours)
EndNote Styles and Journals Term List: August 24, 2005 at 10:00 a.m. Pacific time (runs for approximately 2 hours)
--Please note that you will need to have a solid basic introduction to EndNote to benefit fully from these seminars. If you have little or no previous experience with EndNote, we suggest you enroll in one of our introductory EndNote classes. These web-based classes are also available free of charge.
-- In the meantime, do not hesitate to take advantage of our Technical Support department. We are available Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Pacific Time. If a technician is not immediately available, we will take your name and number and call you back at our expense. You can also reach Technical Support by email at: http://www.endnote.com/support/entechform.asp
June, 2005
Add WorldCat searching to the Search Bar of your Firefox browser. http://www.oclc.org/worldcat/open/searchtools/default.htm
Hundreds of other search bar extensions for Firefox are available at: http://mycroft.mozdev.org/download.html
June, 2005

New Open Access journal: "Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy"
Available at: http://ejournal.nbii.org/
Additional software available on trial basis from Thomson ResearchSoft:
The providers of the bibliographic management tools licensed to NOAA also have these packages available on a trial basis.
RefViz - "Data visualization and analysis software from the makers of EndNote, ProCite, and Reference Manager"
Onfolio - ..."simplify RSS news feeds and organize web content for publishing to email, weblogs and the Web."
June, 2005
Trial access to new journal "Environmental Chemistry"- NOAA West users may access full-text of the journal for one year. Please respond if you find this to be a valuable addition to the library's subscriptions. http://www.publish.csiro.au/nid/188.htm
Knovel Essential ebook collection- 11 titles in Chemistry & Chemical Engineering Reference are available at: http://www.knovel.com/knovel2/library/Show_Books.jsp?SubjectAreaID=-6&SortBy=1
These titles will also appear in library catalog search results.
April/May 2005
Two Library User Workshops:
Date/Time: Tuesday, April 26th, 11am. PMEL Oceanographer Room. (Bldg.3) AND Thursday, May 5th, 2pm. NMML Conference Room. (#2039 - Bldg.4)
Presenter(s): Brian Voss, Sonja Kromann
Title: Library Services Update
Abstract: Topics to be covered: New features in CSA Illumina, Web of Knowledge, IngentaConnect; New and existing current awareness options; Upcoming developments at the NOAA Libraries.
March, 2005

More Journal News: Journal of Coastal Research is now available in full-text online beginning with vol.21 (2005) -. Atmosphere Ocean is available in full-text online. Weather is now available in full-text online beginning with vol.60 (2005). Human and Ecological Risk Assessment is now available in full-text online beginning with vol.8 no.4 (2002).

New IT titles in NetLibrary electronic books collection : 200 books have been added to collection of electronic books available to all NOAA employees. The titles cover a range of IT and computing topics. The addition of these titles brings the total number of electronic books available from NetLibrary up to 304. To view a list of all titles go to: http://www.netlibrary.com/ (from your NOAA computer) and click 'List All resources'.
February, 2005

Recent Changes in Journals:

  • New subscriptions starting in 2005: Human and Ecological Risk Assessment, GPS World, PC World (in place of PC Magazine), MacWorld.
  • 72 journals published by scientific societies are now available NOAA-wide through the BioOne platform. The accessible volumes differ by title, but generally begin in 2000 and do not precede 1998. Some of these journals have previously been available to NOAA West in print or online from NOAA libraries, however many are newly available to the NOAA community. A list of the titles is at BioOne.
  • We have had to cancel print subscriptions to thirteen journals with a fisheries emphasis, however online access continues and print remains active at one of the other NOAA libraries in Seattle.
  • These changes have been updated in the NOAA Seattle Journals database as well as the library catalogs.
January, 2005

Unsure if you can post electronic copies of your published articles on a personal or institutional site? SHERPA provides an excellent resource for determining the online archive policies of many scientific publishers at: http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php

January, 2005

New Oceanography Forum: Oceanographers Net is an online portal for the Oceanographic community and for anyone interested in the Oceans. The site includes discussion forums, research opportunities, lectures, workshops, studies, news and more.

December, 2004

NOAA Employees who are also UW affiliates: Off-campus access to UW electronic resources is moving from the proxy server to the UWNet ID. No browser configurations are required under this new method however you will need to establish a UWNetID if you have not already.

October, 2004

Access to JSTOR General Science, Ecology, Botany, Mathematics and Statistics journal collections is now NOAA-wide. To view a list of titles and see what volumes are accessible for each title, type 'JSTOR' in the search box of the NOAA Seattle Journals database.

October, 2004

Access to American Fisheries Society journals (Fisheries, Journal of Aquatic Animal Health, North American Journal of Aquaculture, North American Journal of Fisheries Management, Progressive Fish Culturist, Transactions of the American Fisheries Society) now extends back to volume 1 of each title for offices within the NOAA West Network.

October, 2004

The NOAA Seattle Libraries have arranged for a training session covering the bibliographic management tools: EndNote, ProCite, and Reference Manager. The interactive online session will cover all three products and will be provided via remote Thomson ResearchSoft instructor. The session is available at the following time and locations with no limit on attendance:

Wednesday, October 13, 2004: (2 concurrent sessions): Bldg. 3 - Oceanographer Room, 1:30 - 4:30 / Bldg. 4 - Traynor Conference Room, 1:30 - 4:30

More information on the products
September, 2004
 Trial access to CSA's Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management database is available September 7 - October 7. 'This multidisciplinary database, provides unparalleled and comprehensive coverage of the environmental sciences. Topics include air quality, ecology, ecotourism, energy resources, human population dynamics, pollution, risk assessment, and water resources. Abstracts and citations are drawn from over 6000 serials from 1967-Current, including scientific journals, conference proceedings, reports, monographs, books and government publications.'
August, 2004
 Updates on search services and bibliographic management tools:
  • Thomson's Web of Knowledge and its component databases have been upgraded with new features. View details here. Also, enroll for free online training on our licensed products here.
  • Endnote v.8 and Reference Manager v.11 have been released. The new version of Endnote adds Unicode support for any language, expanded database capabilities, new reference types and fields, and increased support for electronic sources and handheld computing devices. Users can now search, import, organize, and cite references in a wide variety of languages, thus opening the product to a worldwide audience. More information.
January, 2004
 NOAA West currently has 30 day free trial access to the "The World's Coast: Online" via Kluwer Reference Works. "This work is based on an encyclopedia, The World's Coastline, edited by Eric C. F. Bird and Maurice L. Schwartz and published by Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, in 1985." To access the introduction go to: http://reference.kluweronline.com/?xmlid=2222222222. (Trial period has expired.)
October, 2003
 Natural Hazards Review is now available in print starting with vol.4 (2003). Also, the Public Library of Science has published the first issue of their first journal; Biology. The PLoS is a new source for free, online, peer review scientific literature. Read more about their goals.
October, 2003
 Fulltext access to all Kluwer journals (listed below) now extend back to 1997. Access to both Kluwer and ScienceDirect journals has also been expanded to include all remote NOAA offices in AK, WA, OR, and ID as well as regional offices in CA.
Kluwer Online back files through 1997 -> Aquaculture International, Aquatic Ecology, Aquatic Geochemistry, Biodiversity and Conservation, Biogeochemistry, Biological Invasions, Boundary Layer Meteorology, Climatic Change, Environmental and Ecological Statistics, Environmental Biology of Fishes, Fish Physiology and Biochemistry, Hydrobiologia (available in Jan. 2004), Journal of Aquatic Ecosystem Stress and Recovery, Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry, Journal of Oceanography, Marine Geophysical Researches, Natural Hazards, Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries, Russian Journal of Marine Biology (Biologiia Morya)
For more details, see the NOAA Seattle Journals database.
August, 2003
 The Seattle Regional and NMML Libraries hosted workshops on Web of Science and Current Contents presented by our ISI representative. If you were unable to attend either of the sessions, online training resources are available at your convenience as described below...
Online training classes - Please visit http://scientific.thomson.com/support/training/webtraining/ for the schedule of classes. There is no fee to attend, but registration is required and space is limited.
New training materials - Web of Science 6.1 and Current Contents Connect 2.0 seminar guides are available for download at: http://thomsonscientific.com/support/products/
August, 2003
 Web of Science is now searchable back to 1980. Also, the Web of Knowledge gateway that hosts both Web of Science and Current Contents has been upgraded with new features.
April, 2003
 More than 1400 electronic books are now available at your desktop courtesy of the NOAA Central Library. SafariBooks.com provides over 1,300 electronic books in the IT field, while NetLibrary provides over 100 electronic books in the areas of management, meteorology, climatology, oceanography, and fisheries. For instructions on how access these books, see the Central Library e-books page. NetLibrary books are currently searchable and browsable from the NOAA Seattle Library catalog, as previously announced. The Safari titles will be added in the future. Both sites offer independent search capabilities as well.
April, 2003
 Climate Research is now available in print at the NOAA Seattle Library beginning with vol.23 no.1 (2003). Online access is forthcoming. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems (G3) is an online-only publication now available to all NOAA West users. Full-text access includes Dec.1999 to the present.
March, 2003
 The Seattle Regional Library will be understaffed for much of the month of March. Please contact the library by phone or in person for requests that need immediate attention.
February, 2003
 Journal of Marine Research is now available to NOAA West Network employees in fulltext from vol.59 (2001) to the present. Browse a list of online journal content at the NOAA Seattle Journals database.
February, 2003
 Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry is now available to NOAA West Network employees in fulltext from vol.15 (1996) to the present. Several other titles have been added recently as well. Browse a list of online journal content at the NOAA Seattle Journals database.
February, 2003
 There will be two Library User Workshops held by the Seattle WRC Librarians. The first will be held on Feb. 20th at 10am in the Bldg.3 Oceanographer Room. The second will be on Feb. 26th at 10am in the Bldg.4 Traynor Conference Room. Both workshops will generally review the literature research process highlighting new tools and services available to most efficiently and thoroughly conduct your research.
January, 2003
 A collection of 92 ebook titles have been added to the NOAA Seattle Libraries catalog at: http://www.wrclib.noaa.gov/uhtbin/webcat.

To browse a list of these titles:
1. Select "Electronic book" from the "type:" field list on the Power
Search screen (Power Search is the default search).
2. Click "Search" button.

To access the books [You must be coming from a NOAA computer]:
1. Click "URL" in the blue field to the left of the title.
If you click "Full Details" in the blue field to the left of the title
1. Click "An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information" in the Electronic access" field.

At the netLibrary site, the heading in the red field should read "NOAA Central Library eBook Collection". You will need to create an account with netLibrary (free) the first time you use the resource, and log in with your new username and password whenever you return to check out a book. The loan period is 24 hours.

The 92 ebooks are also included in the NOAA wide catalog (NOAALINC) at: http://www.lib.noaa.gov/uhtbin/webcat

Other publicly accessible eBooks are also accessible via netLibrary.
January, 2003
 The journal Limnology and Oceanography is now available to NOAA West Network employees in fulltext from vol.44 (1999) to the present. Browse a list of other online journal content at the NOAA Seattle Journals database.
December, 2002
We are currently assessing the use and usefulness of current awareness services like Ingenta and Current Contents in an effort to keep our users most efficiently notified of new publications. Please contact us with any feedback regarding your use/non-use of these services or if you would like to learn more about them.
December, 2002
59 Elsevier and Academic Press journals are now available to NOAA West Network employees in fulltext from 1998 to the present via ScienceDirect. View the list of journals.
September, 2002
All AMS journals subscribed to by the library are now linked to directly from MGA article records.
September, 2002
Web of Science (Science Citation Index 1991 -) is now available to all NOAA West users. The Science Citation Index Expanded is a multidisciplinary index, with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of the sciences. It indexes more than 5,700 major journals across 164 scientific disciplines, covering approximately 2,100 more journals than its SCI print and CD-ROM counterparts, with all cited references captured.
July, 2002
View/download the full-text of 39 Elsevier/ScienceDirect journal articles for a trial period ending July 25.
June, 2002
Estuaries, the bimonthly journal of the Estuarine Research Federation, is now available online in full-text to NOAA West Networks users at http://estuaries.olemiss.edu/institutional/.
May, 2002
ISI's Web of Science, their web-interface to the Science Citation Index, is accessible on a trial basis in support of a proposal to license the service to NOAA West researchers. Many thanks to everyone who has provided support and input for our efforts to bring this service to our researchers' desktops. Check back here in the upcoming months for an announcement of the date for the service to be licensed and accessible on a permanent basis.
May, 2002
Collection of USGS / DMA / BLM Charts expanded. We've taken on the collection of charts formerly housed by the Pacific Hydrographic Branch, bringing our collection of topographic charts for AK,CA,HI,ID,MT,OR,WA and US island territories to near completion.
May, 2002
OR&R has donated a light table to the library. We now have two light tables for people to use anytime during library hours.
April, 2002
NOAA Seattle Libraries' Journals/Serials Database has new features. Now it's possible to browse titles with online content as well as the usual search for holdings.
March, 2002
 The library has worked with Ingenta and CSA to provide links from the citation indexes to full-text articles in journals that the library currently subscribes to online. This brings the number of linked journals to 40 in CSA and 21 in Ingenta. As the index vendors continue to work with journal publishers to forge agreements, the library will continue to provide more links.
March 6, 2002
NOAA Seattle Libraries holds User Education Workshop covering effective searching strategies, current awareness tools, and new services at the libraries. See handout (pdf - requires Acrobat reader).
January, 2002
 JSTOR Journal Archive now available to NOAA West Network users: Researchers are allowed full-text access to the 60 journals in the General Science and Ecology & Botany blocks of JSTOR journal archives. JSTOR electronically archives topical selections of journals in full-text from the initial issue through 2 to 5 years from the current year.
January, 2002
Seven AGU Journals are now online and accessible to NOAA West Users. Visit http://161.55.144.17/search.htm to view details on holdings and link to the journals.
January, 2002
CSA to produce Meteorological and Geoastrophysical Abstracts: The Web version of Meteorological and Geoastrophysical Abstracts will be distributed through CSA's Internet Database Service (IDS), and CSA will also take over production and distribution of the MGA print journal and CD-ROM database. The date of change over is unannounced as of now. CSA also produces ASFA.
December, 2001
Library's integrated library system gets an upgrade. This upgrade includes a new interface for the online catalog that includes a new book list. Patrons are also able to login to their accounts to check item status, renew books and make requests.
September, 2001
Unlimited site license to WorldCat established: The Seattle Regional library secured a site license for OCLC's WorldCat for unlimited searching in September. The online library catalog includes 43 million records representing the holdings of libraries all over North America. Prepaid 'per search' databases are also available via the OCLC FirstSearch interface.
August, 2001
 JSTOR Journal Archive coming in January. The library will soon purchase access to the General Science and Ecology & Botany blocks of JSTOR journal archives. JSTOR electronically archives topical selections of journals in full-text from the initial issue through 2 - 5 years from the current year.
August, 2001
 Journal Citation Reports available: The top 40 journals from the results of the 1997 - 2000 yearly Journal Citation Reports rankings in the categories of Geosciences, Marine and Freshwater Biology, Fisheries, and Oceanography are now available in the journal reading area of the library. The results from our own journals survey are available as well.
August, 2001
 NOAA Libraries purchase NOAA-wide site license for Aquatic Science and Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA). As of August, Aquatic Science and Fisheries Abstracts will be available to all NOAA employees from their offices via the nearest library's website. Please, spread the word to those out in the field to contact the library to get access.
August, 2001
 More new journals online everyday!! See if your favorite titles are available online via the Periodicals database at: http://161.55.144.17/search.htm
August, 2001
 2 new public access computers No more waiting for the gerbil wheel! These guys are state of the art (for this month), they're fast and they're ready to go.
August, 2001
 Seattle Regional Library Journals Survey: Thank you all for your excellent response so far. We are still accepting completed surveys and would appreciate getting as close to 100% response as possible. The information really helps us improve our services. Let us know if you need another blank survey.
August, 2001
 Library Seminar in August: The Seattle Regional and NMML Libraries will co-host a seminar covering the services available to all NOAA employees through the three area libraries. The seminar will be held on August 22 at 10am in the Oceanographer Room in Bldg.3.
July, 2001
 WorldCat coming soon: The Seattle Regional library is currently working on getting a site license for OCLC's WorldCat. The online library catalog includes 43 million records representing the holdings of libraries all over North America.


Last Update: October 27, 2005