Research Guides: Oceanography Research Guide: Internet Resources

Evaluating Website Content

One of the biggest problems students have with using websites in their academic work is the accuracy of the content. Here are some basic ways to evaluate a website.

What does the domain name tell you?

Who wrote the page? Is there a page author listed? If there is no author, is there a company name? Is there contact information listed? If there is no one listed that takes responsibility for the page you should take that into consideration.

Here is a link to a reliable site that will help you with your evaluation:

UC Berkeley Web Evaluation Tips

Oceanography Subject Directories/Portals/Gateways - General

The following individuals, organizations, and universities maintain directories, portals, and gateways of interest to oceanographers:

Information on the Seven Seas: International Ocean Science Web Resources (Mattison) Part 1(Searcher July/August 2003) and Part 2 (Searcher November/December 2003) (HSU Users Only)(see links below)

Marine Realms Information Bank: Find Scientific Information about Ocean, Lake and Coastal Environments
(US Geological Survey and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) Search by broad category, geography or keyword.
Marine Science Portal
(American Association for the Advancement of Science)
WindandSea: The Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences Internet Locator
(National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) Contains over 1,000 links to oceanic and atmospheric internet resources organized by topic.

Oceanography Subject Directories/Portals/Gateways - Marine Biology

Marine Biology: Internet Subject Directories/Portals/Gateways

Oceanography Subject Directories/Portals/Gateways - Marine Geology and Geophysics

Marine Geology & Geophysics WWW Sites
(World Data Center for Marine Geology & Geophysics)

Other Library Catalogs

National Science Digital Library (NSDL)
The National Science Digital Library provides high quality online educational resources for teaching and learning, with current emphasis on the sciences, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines—both formal and informal, institutional and individual, in local, state, national, and international educational settings.
Most resources in the library adhere to principles of Open Educational Resource (OER) access.
The EUROPEAN LIBRARY
Designed to meet the needs of the research community worldwide, this online portal offers quick and easy access to the collections of the 48 National Libraries of Europe and leading European Research Libraries.
Users can cross-search and reuse over 28,627,026 digital items and 175,511,348 bibliographic records.
To facilitate further research, links are also provided to other websites in the Europeana group.
World Digital Library (WDL)
The World Digital Library (WDL) is a project of the U.S. Library of Congress, carried out with the support of the United Nations Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (UNESCO), and in cooperation with libraries, archives, museums, educational institutions, and international organizations from around the world.
Books, manuscripts, maps, and other primary materials on the site are not translated but presented in their original languages. More than 100 languages are represented on the WDL, including many lesser known and endangered languages.

WorldCat
Identify and locate resources in library collections worldwide. Connect to materials at Cal Poly Humboldt and other libraries from WorldCat records and article citations.