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Water Resources Worldwide now included in (WOW) - Available on EBSCOhost
Overview
Records: Over 870 000
Databases: 7
Period: 1970-current
Updates: Quarterly
Available format: EBSCOhost
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Water Resources Worldwide (WRW) is an electronic information resource which is an aggregation of 7 bibliographic databases from 5 continents. WRW offers comprehensive worldwide coverage of all water-related topics. Water Resources Worldwide offers excellent coverage from the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia, Southern Hemisphere and developing countries. Dating back to 1970, this database has over 870 000 records and offers coverage of all aspects of marine, fresh and brackish water research, including water quality and supply, sewage and water treatment, aquatic biology, ecology and environmental management as well as pollution, limnology, climatology, oceanography, arid regions, hydrology, groundwater, river research, aquaculture, microbiology, biotechnology and much more. In recent years coverage of the marine environment has been expanded.
The databases include WATERLIT from South Africa, AQUIRE (Aquatic Toxicity Information Retrieval, the database of the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) from Sri Lanka and the database from the Freshwater Biological Association in the UK.
The records and abstracts are derived from journal articles, research reports, conference proceedings, grey literature, books, monographs, theses and dissertations. WRW offers comprehensive coverage of the literature and topics and is viewed as an essential resource for those involved in water management and research.
Users of Water Resources Worldwide include universities, water research institutes, government departments, mining companies and water supply agencies throughout the world; and is an essential resource for those dealing with all aspects of water and water-related subjects.
This aquatic resource includes article abstracts and direct links to the full text, author contact information, links to publisher’s websites and information on holding libraries.
Databases on Water Resources Worldwide now included in (WOW) - Available on EBSCOhost include:
Composite records:
Duplication among files is resolved by special, software-created composite records that contain the information shared by two or more source records, plus any data that is unique to a record. These "super records" provide all the relevant information, but without the inconvenience of duplicate citations.
AQUAREFFrom the Inland Waters Directorate of Environment Canada, AQUAREF focuses on North American resources and related topics, spanning the period from 1970 to 1992. Altogether 85 600 records have been sourced from the publications of Environment Canada plus government agencies, universities and research bodies, conference proceedings and more than 200 journals.
DELFT HYDROThe Delft Hydraulics Laboratory of the Netherlands supplies international coverage of water and related scientific literature from 1977 to 1987. Here the emphasis is on engineering and related technological disciplines. The 64 500 references are taken from technical reports, books and theses, publications from appropriate institutions, conference proceedings and over 600 periodicals.
International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
IWMI's bibliographic database on integrated water resources management contains information from 1986 to date. The citations include published monographs, research reports, conference and workshop proceedings, grey literature and journal articles. Information can be retrieved by author, title, keywords, date, series, or geographical location. Full-text access to some sources is also available. The IMWI WATERDASE holds more than 35 000 records.
The International Water Management Institute is a non-profit scientific research organisation focusing on the sustainable use of water and land resources in agriculture and on the water needs of developing countries.
AQUIRE, produced by the US EPA (Environmental Protection Agency), contains information on acute, chronic, bioaccumulative, and sublethal effects data from tests performed on freshwater and saltwater organisms (bacteria, birds, and aquatic mammals are excluded). Data items include chemical substance information, study protocol, and test results. More than 17 754 records cover 7 200 chemicals and 4 100 species. Many records are linked to full texts or abstracts of cited articles, and further full-text linking is possible (depending on a given subscriber's access rights to electronic journals).
This database includes over 435 000 records covering a period from 1975 to current. It is essential for those dealing with industrial and environmental aspects of water, wastewater and sanitation. The coverage of Africa is excellent, as is the analysis of water in arid lands, engineering projects, water quality, water treatment and international water-related topics.
NISC SA has compiled, maintained and published WATERLIT since the 1st April 2003. This database was previously produced by the South African Water Research Commission.
The library of the Freshwater Biological Association houses one of the world's finest collections of information on freshwater science, built up over a period of more than 60 years. The stock consists of around 10,000 books, 2,300 journal series and approximately 100,000 reprints and reports. The collection covers all aspects of freshwater ecology, as well as pollution, algology, microbiology, invertebrate taxonomy and ecology, sediment and water chemistry, aquaculture and fisheries management and hydrology. The organisation has arrangements with over 500 organisations and individuals worldwide who also provide information (books, journals and reprints), contributing greatly to its international appeal.
The FBA’s bibliographic database contains 218,000 citations based on the above collection. The citations include monographs, research reports, conference proceedings, grey literature and journal articles. The majority of the records cover the period from 1940 to date, although some late 19th century and early 20th century records are included.
