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Oceanic Abstracts is a CSA (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts) database indexing literature that relates to marine and brackish water environments from 1981 onwards. These abstracts concentrate on marine biology and physical oceanography, fisheries, aquaculture, meteorology, geology and non-living resources. Environmental, technological and legislative subjects are also covered.

More information about the database is available by clicking the blue i (information) button to the left of the Oceanic Abstracts  title when you open the database.

Access:
to Oceanic Abstracts is limited to current staff and students of the University of Tasmania and is controlled by IP address authentication. Off-campus access is also available.

Simultaneous users:
There is no limit to the number of simultaneous users.

Guides to oceanic resources:
Subject guides to Aquaculture,  Antarctic and Southern Ocean studies.

Terms and conditions of access:
The terms governing Oceanic Abstracts access include:

• Customer may use the Databases for search and retrieval purposes in the internal operation of its organization only or, if Customer is an individual, for his personal use only. Customer may also print and download selected records for research and scholarly purposes. ... If Customer is an academic institution, then this license extends to Customer's Authorized Users. Authorized Users are faculty, staff, students and walk in patrons of its libraries. 
  
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