Library Guides @ VIU: Fisheries & Aquaculture: Articles & Databases

Online Manual

Hatchery Culture of Bivalves: a Practical Manual - (FAO FISHERIES TECHNICAL PAPER 471)
- a valuable resource for culturing bivalves (free full text)
- scroll down the page to the Table of Contents

ISI Journal Title Abbreviations
Journal Abbreviations - (UBC)
CASSI: Cas Source Index Search Tool
- use this tool to "identify or confirm journal titles and abbreviations for publications indexed by CAS since 1907, including serial and non-serial scientific and technical publications"

These databases are listed alphabetically :

American Fisheries Society (AFS) Journals

American Fisheries Society (AFS) publishes journals for aquatic resource professionals.
BioOne

Full text journals in the life sciences.
Cambridge Core

Cambridge University Press collection of peer-reviewed journals across the sciences, social sciences and humanities.
CBCA Complete
- provides Canadian information e.g. issues concerning Salmon farming

Canadian periodicals from 1982 to date, including some full text.
NRC Research Press Journals
- contains Canadian journal publications e.g. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, Canadian Journal of Forest Research, Canadian Journal of Zoology, etc.
Oxford Journals Online

Oxford University Press’s full collection of academic and research journals covering a broad range of subject areas, Date of coverage for most journals is 1996 forward.
SAGE Premier

Full text content from SAGE journals, 1999-present.
ScienceDirect

Peer-reviewed journals in many disciplines with international coverage in full text.
SpringerLINK

STM journals, book series, books, reference works and the Online Archives Collection.
Taylor & Francis Online

Full text journals published by Taylor & Francis, representing Science & Technology, Social Sciences and Humanities disciplines. Coverage from 1997 to the present.

Waves - (Fisheres and Oceans Canada)
- search WAVES database for books, reports, government documents, theses, conference proceedings and journal titles

Web of Science

Indexing, cited reference searching, and full text linking for journal articles in Arts & Humanities, Sciences, and Social Sciences.
Wiley Online Library
- search the complete database or browse the specific section on: Aquaculture, Fisheres, & Fish Science

International resource for scientific, technical, medical and scholarly journals, books, and reference works.

These databases are listed alphabetically :

Academic Search Premier
- a multidisciplinary database that provides articles in the areas of fisheries & aquaculture

Multi-disciplinary database with full text journal articles, including peer-reviewed titles.
Canadian Newsstream (formerly Canadian Newsstand)
- provides full text newspaper articles e.g. salmon farming in British Columbia

Full text of Canadian newspapers, including Pacific, Black Press, and regional and national major dailies.

Google Scholar (VIU access)
- the IP attached to this link enables VIU user searches to be linked to VIU Library Collection holdings

Searches link to VIU resources where applicable. Search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.
GreenFILE

GreenFILE offers information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts together with links to Open Access full text.
JSTOR
- an archival, interdisciplinary database going back to the 1600s
- search a term, for example 'sturgeon' to view the historic coverage

Multidisciplinary, full text, scholarly journal archive with strong retrospective coverage.

Theses Canada Portal
- find the citations to Canadian Masters theses and PhD dissertations (from Library and Archives Canada)
- some current years are available in full text electronically