Information and Data Resources

Find out about the library collections and freely available open access materials.

The library collection, which is comprehensive from the mid 19th century, includes books, reports, monographs, journals, conference proceedings, atlases and charts covering the subject areas of oceanography, deep-sea research and earth sciences including, geology and geophysics.

  • To check the collections at the National Oceanographic Library  please use WebCat

Freely available open access materials

The internet contains lots of useful scientific information some of which is freely available.

Directory of Open Access Journals – Covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.

Free web resources for oceanography

Repositories can be useful sources of scientific information including data. We have selected links to a number of repositories that may be of interest.



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Business

The outputs of scientific research generate new knowledge and information about the oceans and seas.  Transfering scientific knowledge to support business and industry is an important part of our remit at NOC.

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Researchers

Our research is intended to tackle the big environmental issues facing the world. Research priorities will include the oceans' role in climate change, sea level change and the future of the Arctic Ocean.

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Students

The University of Southampton and the University of Liverpool both offer a range of highly regarded undergraduate and post-graduate degrees in Ocean and Earth Science.

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Media

For any media or press enquiries to the National Oceanography Centre follow the more link below. Please note the centre's press office is staffed from 0830 to 1730, Monday to Friday.

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Staff

NOC Staff can access the Intranet and Webmail resources at the following URLS.

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Delivery Partners

Delivery Partners helping to provide marine science national capability.

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Marine Science Community

The creation of a wider association of Universities and research institutions to support wider engagement of the NOC with the marine science community is now underway.

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Library

The National Oceanographic Library is a national resource for the UK marine science community.

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