Inventory of Marine and Aquatic Repositories (IMAR)

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

Repositories with Freshwater/Limnology content:
A. O. Kovalevsky Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas of RAS Open access repository
Description: IBSS open access repository is a digital service that collects, preserves, and freely distributes materials created within the Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas community. Repository contains documents, publications, theses, dissertations, maps, etc. authored or co-authored by IBSS researches, PhD students, and staff.
Affiliation: A. O. Kovalevsky Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas of RAS
Country: Russian Federation

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

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

Biodiversity Heritage Library OAI Repository
Description: The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is a consortium of 12 natural history and botanical libraries that cooperate to digitise and make accessible the legacy literature of biodiversity held in their collections.
Affiliation: Biodiversity Heritage Library
Country: United States

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 @ Michigan Tech
Description: Digital Commons @ Michigan Tech is a digital repository offering worldwide access to research, scholarship, campus publications and other creative works by members of the Michigan Tech community. This repository is a service of the Van Pelt and Opie Library.
Affiliation: Michigan Technological University, Van Pelt and Opie Library
Country: United States

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

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

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

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

National Research Foundation IR: South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity
Description: The South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB) was created in 2001 as a National Facility of the NRF. SAIAB was previously the JLB Smith Institute for Ichthyology. Included in the IR are publications from 2001: the Smithiana series, educational material, conference posters, OA articles and more.
Affiliation: NRF South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity
Country: South Africa

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

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

OpenDOAR: directory of open accesss repositories
Description: An authoritative directory of academic open access repositories. Each OpenDOAR repository has been visited by project staff to check the information that is recorded here. This in-depth approach does not rely on automated analysis and gives a quality-controlled list of repositories. Ability to search on repository subject coverage.
Affiliation: University of Nottingham, UK
Country: International

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

Stanford Digital Repository
Description: Stanford Digital Repository (SDR) is for the long term preservation of scholarly works at Stanford University. As of June 2024, there are over 900,000 items in SDR, including photographs, maps, books, journals, music recordings, datasets and more. SDR also includes digital copies of over 300 theses and dissertations and over 1,000 undergraduate student research papers from Hopkins Marine Station, along with digital collections from Edward Ricketts, the California Cooperative Oceanic and Fisheries Investigations (CalCOFI), and the Stanford Oceanographic Expeditions. Items in SDR are discoverable through the Stanford Libraries catalong, Search works, at https://searchworks.stanford.edu.
Affiliation: Hopkins Marine Station of Stanford University
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

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

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