Inventory of Marine and Aquatic Repositories (IMAR)

Subject List of Repositories | Alphabetical List of Repositories | Country Listing of Repositories

Repositories with Environment/Pollution content:
AquaDocs
Description: AquaDocs is the joint open access repository of the UNESCO/IOC InternationaI Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE) and the International Association of Aquatic and Marine Science Libraries and Information Centers (IAMSLIC) with support from the FAO Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts. It is a thematic repository covering the natural marine, coastal, estuarine /brackish and fresh water environments and includes all aspects of the science, technology, management and conservation of these environments, their organisms and resources, and the economic, sociological and legal aspects. It is a merger of Aquatic Commons and OceanDocs Repositories
Affiliation: IODE, IAMSLIC, ASFA
Country: International

Aquatic Commons (now merged with OceanDocs as AquaDocs)
Description: A thematic digital repository covering the natural marine, estuarine /brackish and fresh water environments . It includes all aspects of the science, technology, management and conservation of these environments, their organisms and resources, and the economic, sociological and legal aspects
Affiliation: IAMSLIC Aquatic Commons
Country: International

ArchiMer - Institutional Archive of Ifremer
Description: Archimer offers access to thousands of documents in all areas related to the study of the seas and oceans (fisheries, aquaculture, marine ecology, oceanography, marine geology, marine biology ...). This achievement is part of the international Open Access movement that seeks to make accessible to the greatest number, the scientific literature by streaming for free on the Web.
Affiliation: Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER),
Country: France

Australian Institute of Marine Science Publication Repository
Description: DSpace is a digital service that collects, preserves, and distributes digital material. Repositories are important tools for preserving an organization's legacy; they facilitate digital preservation and scholarly communication.
Affiliation: Australian Institute of Marine Science
Country: Australia

Biblioteca Digital da Universidade Estadual de Maringá
Description: Disseminate and consolidate the scientific production of the State University of Maringá (UEM).▪ To democratize access to the intellectual production of the academic / scientific community of the State University of Maringá (UEM).▪ Assist in decision making and production of S & T indicators.▪ Allow effective and efficient interaction between the different societies that benefit from the contents and services of the Digital Library.▪ Ensure the integrity of the information, necessary for the digital preservation of collections and documents.▪ Contribute to increase the impact of scientific research and its visibility developed at the State University of Maringá (UEM) in the national and international academic context.▪ Disseminate and increase the visibility of the scientific potential stored in the Digital Library repository.▪ Preserve the intellectual memory of the State University of Maringá (UEM).
Affiliation: Biblioteca Setorial do Nupelia, Brazil
Country: Brazil

CemOA
Description: The Irstea database and repository provide the scientific and technical publications written by scientists from Irstea (peer-reviewed articles, reports, PhD thesis, proceedings of congresses and symposiums, books and book chapters). The icon OA indicates the open access publications.
Affiliation: IRSTEA
Country: France

cIRcle
Description: cIRcle is an open access digital repository for published and unpublished material created by the University of British Columbia (Canada) community and its partners.
Affiliation: University of British Columbia, Woodward Library
Country: Canada

CSIRO Data Access Portal
Description: The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) is Australia's national science agency and one of the largest and most diverse research agencies in the world. The CSIRO Data Access Portal provides access to research data, software and other digital assets published by CSIRO across a range of disciplines. The portal is maintained by CSIRO Information Management & Technology to facilitate sharing and reuse.
Affiliation: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Australia
Country: Australia

Digital Commons @ CSUMB
Description: Masters theses and undergraduate capstone projects on marine science, watersheds and environmental science
Affiliation: California State University, Monterey Bay, Library
Country: United States

Digital Commons of Moss Landing Marine Laboratories
Description: This repository contains MLML's Masters Theses, publications, images and institutional archives. New content is added weekly from past theses to newly published journal articles.
Affiliation: MLML/MBARI Research Library, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories
Country: United States

DiVA: Digital Scientific Archive of SMHI
Description: SMHI will collect all its scientific publications in the Digital Scientific Archive Diva.
Affiliation: Swedish Meteorology and Hydrology Institute
Country: Sweden

DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals
Description: DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals. DOAJ is independent.
Affiliation: All funding is via donations, 50% of which comes from sponsors and 50% from members and publisher members.
Country: United Kingdom

e-IEO : Repositorio Institucional Digital del IEO
Description: This site provides access to the research output of the institution. Users may set up RSS feeds to be alerted to new content. The interface is available in Spanish.This repository covers Oceanography and related subjects.
Affiliation: Instituto Español de Oceanografía
Country: Spain

Earth-Prints
Description: Earth-Prints is an open archive created and maintained by Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia. This digital collection allows users to browse, search and access manuscripts, journal articles, theses, conference materials, books, book-chapters, web products. The goal of our repository is to collect, capture, disseminate and preserve the results of research in the fields of Atmosphere, Cryosphere, Hydrosphere and Solid Earth. Earth-prints is young and growing rapidly. Check back often.
Affiliation: Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia
Country: Italy

eBangor
Description: eBangor is a repository of Bangor University’s digital outputs. The publication period currently covered is from 2010 onwards and includes the College of Natural Sciences and School of Ocean Sciences. It lists published items such as journal articles, conference proceedings, books and book sections, etc. For many items links to the publisher’s website are also provided.
Affiliation: Bangor University, College of Natural Sciences, School of Ocean Sciences
Country: United Kingdom

ePic
Description: ePIC (electronic Publication Information Center) is the official repository for publications and presentations of Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), a non-profit federally funded research center of Helmholtz Association in Germany. ePIC offers metadata information to every item, and, when available, related documents/archives and supplementary information (links to data archived in PANGAEA and associated research platform and campaign information. In the context of the Open Archives Inititative , the repository ePIC is an OAI-PMH compliant data provider which uses EPRINTS as software framework. The OAI Base URL for ePIC is: http://epic.awi.de/cgi/oai2 Detailed information on ePIC policies can be found at http://epic.awi.de/policies.html
Affiliation: Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bibliothek
Country: Germany

ePrints@CMFRI: open access institutional repository
Description: This site provides users with access to the research output of the institution. Users may set up RSS and Atom feeds to be alerted to new content. Some items are not available as full text, however the 'Request Copy' forms can be used for documents to which direct full-text download is restricted due to publisher embargo.
Affiliation: Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute
Country: India

eScholarship - University of California Repository
Description: This section of the UC eScholarship repository contains publications by researchers, students, and groups at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Affiliation: UC San Diego Library
Country: United States

FULIR
Description: FULIR (Full-text Institutional Repository of the Ruđer Bošković Insitute) is institutional repository of the Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia which strives to collect the whole scientific output of the Institute (articles in journals, conference proceedings, books, chapter in books, doctoral thesis, reports and audio and video materials). FULIR covers all areas of science, including marine science and oceanography. Among various open source solutions EPrints software was chosen as the most suitable to RBI's needs. FULIR is fully compatible with OpenAIRE infrastructure.
Affiliation: Rudjer Boskovic Institute, CSI
Country: Croatia

GBRMPA eLibrary
Description: GBRMPA publications repository is a growing collection of reports, multimedia, posters and other publications from the 1970s onward. Exploring these resources is a great way to find out more about the Great Barrier Reef and how people care for it.
Affiliation: Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority
Country: Australia

Institutional Repository of South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, CAS (scsio-IR)
Description: This site provides access to the output of the institution. The interface is available in Chinese. Some items are not available as full-text.
Affiliation: South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Science
Country: China

Les Documents Techniques sur l'Eau [Portal of Technical Documents on Water]
Description: Portail unique pour accéder aux ressources documentaires sur l’eau et les milieux aquatiques publiées en français : documents scientifiques, techniques et pédagogiques. [The french water national library portal provides online access to technical documents on water and aquatic environments. The documents collected are reports, studies, thesis, funded or carried out by the public sector. The portal also provides access to references of books and journal articles]
Affiliation: EauFrance
Country: France

Mar Abierto
Description: Institutional Repository of INIDEP (National Institute of Research and Fisheries Development, Mar del Plata - Argentina). Its objective is to gather, store, preserve, give access and visibility to the scientific production of researchers of the institution, the series published by INIDEP and other national and international publications.
Affiliation: INIDEP (National Institute of Research and Fisheries Development, Mar del Plata - Argentina)
Country: Argentina

Marine Institute Open Access Repository
Description: The Marine Institute Open Access Repository facilitates full text access to the publications of the Marine Institute in accordance with copyright permissions. The aim of the Repository is to collect, preserve and provide open access to the publications of the Marine Institute, including the research publications supported by National and European funded marine research programmes.
Affiliation: Marine Institute Library, Ireland
Country: Ireland

MarXiv
Description: Free research repository for the ocean-conservation and marine-climate sciences. Powered by OSF Preprints
Affiliation: Center for Open Science
Country: United States

Mote Marine Laboratory DSpace
Description: This site contains full-text technical reports produced by Mote staff and other Florida researchers, and various historical materials.
Affiliation: Arthur Vining Davis Library and Archives, Mote Marine Laboratory
Country: United States

NERC Open Research Archive
Description: This archive (NORA) is the Institutional Repository for research publications and research outcomes of NERC Research Staff in its four wholly owned Research Centres: British Antarctic Survey; British Geological Survey; Centre for Ecology & Hydrology; National Oceanography Centre.
Affiliation: Natural Environment Research Council
Country: United Kingdom

NOAA Institutional Repository
Description: Repository for all of NOAA's offices and programs fullfilling PARR (https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2013/02/22/expanding-public-access-results-federally-funded-research) requirements
Affiliation: U.S. NOAA Seattle Library
Country: United States

NSUWorks
Description: NSUWorks is a service of the Nova Southeastern University (NSU) Libraries. NSUWorks brings together all of the university’s research, scholarly and creative works in a centralized location with the aim of preserving and providing online open access to these works.
Affiliation: Nova Southeastern University, Oceanographic Campus Library
Country: United States

OACIS (Open Access Collection of International and Scholarly Papers)
Description: This site provides access to the research output of the institution. The interface is available in a mixture of Japanese and English.
Affiliation: Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology (TUMSAT)
Country: Japan

Ocean Best Practices System (OBPS)
Description: OceanBestPractices (OBP) is a secure, permanent document (and other objects) repository within the Ocean Best Practices System. It aims to provide a discovery point for research groups to search and find community accepted existing ocean best practices. This service also invites the ocean research, observation and data/information management communities to submit their own best practice documents to share globally with their colleagues. In this context, a best practice is defined as a method or technique that has consistently shown results superior to those achieved with other means and is considered and used as a benchmark by the community, while a standard is defined as being certified by a recognized authority and recommended as an exemplar for the measure of value or quality.
Affiliation: International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange of IOC and Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) of IOC
Country: International

OceanDocs (now merged with Aquatic Commons as AquaDocs)
Description: Publications in Marine Science in digital form, including preprints, published articles, technical reports, working papers and more.
Affiliation: International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange of IOC
Country: International

OceanRep
Description: OceanRep is an open access digital collection containing the research output of GEOMAR staff and students. Included are journal articles, conference papers, book chapters, theses and more, - with fulltext, if available. In addition you will find a collection of relevant articles which might not be open access. Within the year 2017 we will add a new database about cephalopoda with fulltext mostly open access.
Affiliation: GEOMAR Helmholtz-Zentrum fur Ozeanforschung Kiel
Country: Germany

Open Agrar
Description: Federal Research Institute and other federal agencies, as well as facilities of the Wissenschaftsgemeinschaft Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (WGL) belong to the resort area of the Ministry of food and Agriculture (BMEL). An institutional repository was built in a project for the publications of the institutions and their employees. The stored documents are each interested for the use. In the construction phase there will be references mostly, gradually supplemented with full text, images and other media in the aftermath. The repository can prove College writings, reports, Conference volumes, books and magazines, as well as AV media.
Affiliation: Thunen-Institute, Federal Research Institute for Rural Areas, Forestry and Fisheries, Scientific Information Centre, Library
Country: Germany

PIMRIS Regional Repository
Description: The regional e-repository of published and unpublished documents produced by marine and fisheries departments in the Pacific Island Countries. Available in digitized format are the annual reports, project reports, working papers and articles. The regional e-repository is a part of PIMRIS initiatives. It is developed in frameworks of the ODIN-PIMRIS pilot project supported by the IODE Programm of IOC/UNESCO.
Affiliation: University of the South Pacific, Pacific Islands Marine Resources Information System (PIMRIS)
Country: Fiji

Plymouth Marine Science Electronic Archive (PlyMSEA)
Description: A multi institutional repository of research output from the following three organisations based in Plymouth: The Marine Biological Association(MBA), Plymouth Marine Laboratory(PML), Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science(SAHFOS)
Affiliation: Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
Country: United Kingdom

PubMed Central
Description: PubMed Central® (PMC) is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM).
Affiliation: National Library of Medicine
Country: United States

Rhodes University Digital Commons: SAIAB/ JLB Smith Collection Repository
Description: The Department of Ichthyology at Rhodes University and the JLB Smith Institute preceded the South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB). This IR includes the publications of the department and institute: Ichthyological Bulletins, Occasional Papers, and miscellaneous works.
Affiliation: Rhodes University South African Institute of Aquatic Biodiversity
Country: South Africa

ScholarsArchive@OSU
Description: ScholarsArchive@OSU is Oregon State University’s digital repository for research, scholarship, and historical records. OSU Libraries is responsible for collecting, maintaining, preserving, and providing access to the items in ScholarsArchive@OSU.
Affiliation: Guin Library, Oregon State University, Hatfield Marine Science Center
Country: United States

ScholarWorks@UA
Description: ScholarWorks@UA is University of Alaska's institutional repository created to share research and works by UA faculty, students, and staff.
Affiliation: University Of Alaska Anchorage, Consortium Library
Country: United States

Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, Aquaculture Department Institutional Repository (SAIR)
Description: Preprints, full-texts or abstracts of journal articles, books and conference proceedings written by SEAFDEC/AQD scientists and researchers. It will also provide free access to all in-house publications of SEAFDEC/AQ. Full-text digitized copies of fishfarmer-friendly materials like books, handbooks, policy guidebooks, conference proceedings, extension manuals, institutional reports, annual reports (AQD Highlights), and newsletters (SEAFDEC Asian Aquaculture, Aqua Farm News, AquaDept News and AQD Matters) can be retrieved and downloaded.
Affiliation: SEAFDEC Aquaculture Department Library
Country: Philippines

SPREP Virtual Library
Description: The SPREP Library holds a specialised collection of monographs and series, reports, grey literature in fields of biological diversity, climate change, waste management, conservation, environmental sciences, environmental governance and monitoring, energy development etc.
Affiliation: SPREP (Secretariat for the Pacific Regional Environment Programme)
Country: Samoa

Texas ScholarWorks
Description: Texas ScholarWorks was established to provide open, online access to the products of the University's research and scholarship, to preserve these works for future generations, to promote new models of scholarly communication, and to help deepen community understanding of the value of higher education. The Marine Science Institute is a collection in the UT Communities.
Affiliation: The University of Texas at Austin, Marine Science Institute, Marine Science Library
Country: United States

The Natural History Museum Repository
Description: The Natural History Museum is an international leader in the study of the natural world. Our science describes the diversity of nature, promotes an understanding of its past, and supports the anticipation and management of the impact of human activity on the environment. The Museum's repository provides free access to publications produced by more than 300 scientists working here. Researchers at the Museum study a diverse range of issues, including threats to Earth's biodiversity, the maintenance of delicate ecosystems, environmental pollution and disease. The accessible repository showcases this broad research output.
Affiliation: Natural History Museum
Country: United Kingdom

University of East Anglia, School of Environmental Sciences
Description: UEA Digital Repository is an 'open access' repository of research publications and other research output containing the details of published research produced by University of East Anglia staff. Academic staff members add details of research output conducted during the course of their work at UEA. The repository also holds UEA's collection of e-theses.
Affiliation: University of East Anglia
Country: United Kingdom

University of Miami Scholarly Repository - Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science
Description: The Scholarly Repository features selected research and scholarly works prepared by faculty, students, and staff at the University of Miami. This archive is a digital initiative of the Otto G. Richter Library, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science Library, Louis Calder Memorial Library at the Miller School of Medicine, the Marta and Austin Weeks Music Library, the Paul Buisson Reference Library (Architecture), and the Judi Prokop Newman Information Resources Center (Business).
Affiliation: Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science Library, University of Miami
Country: United States

University of Miami Scholarly Repository
Description: The Scholarly Repository features selected research and scholarly works prepared by faculty, students, and staff at the University of Miami. This archive is a digital initiative of the Otto G. Richter Library, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science Library, Louis Calder Memorial Library at the Miller School of Medicine, the Marta and Austin Weeks Music Library, the Paul Buisson Reference Library (Architecture), and the Judi Prokop Newman Information Resources Center (Business).
Affiliation: University of Miami Libraries
Country: United States

USP Aquatic Repository
Description: Collection includes documents on marine and freshwater living and non-living resources produced by the the staff of the institutions affiliated with the University of the South Pacific. Collection provides freely available publications such as research and technical reports, thesis, preprints, published articles and more.
Affiliation: University of the South Pacific, Pacific Islands Marine Resources Information System (PIMRIS)
Country: Fiji

W&M ScholarWorks
Description: Virginia Institute of Marine Science theses and dissertations, reports, data and articles are available from the William & Mary repository at collection link: https://scholarworks.wm.edu/vims
Affiliation: Hargis Library, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, William & Mary
Country: United States

WHOAS, Woods Hole Open Access Server
Description: The mission of the Woods Hole Open Access Server, WHOAS is to capture, store, preserve, and redistribute the intellectual output of the Woods Hole scientific community in digital form. WHOAS, an institutional repository (IR), is managed by the MBLWHOI Library as a service to the Woods Hole scientific community.
Affiliation: MBLWHOI Library, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Country: United States