Web information

If you are looking for specific marine information on the internet, there are a number of good porals and search engines you can use.

• Wind and Sea: a huge list of oceanic and atmospheric sites, photo and video directories, managed by NOAA.
• The most important gateways for open-access scientific information are:
• DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals
• OpenDOAR Directory of Open Access Repositories
• SPARC Directory of Open Access Digital Resources
• Google Scholar: this engine searches all scientific sources (such as scientific publishers, university sites and scientific institutes) in depth and furthermore makes use of citation linking. Try it yourself and enter the terms ‘north sea Belgium’ to experience the power of this search engine!
• Scientific Search Engines gives an overview of specialised search engines and link pages on scientific information.
• Scirus, the search engine of Elsevier Scientific Publishing.
• The service of Ingenta offers search access to all major peer-reviewed journals.