Links  

The Links Section has been created in order to facilitate access to ORION online resources, which have been provided by the ORION Virtual Librarian.

These come under different categories, all of which provide useful information for marine environmental science users at different levels of knowledge and expertise.

Global Information System on Fishes(http://www.fishbase.org/home.htm)
Fishbase is a relational database with information on almost all fish species known to science-useful for every type of user.

Marine Biodiversity (http://www.coml.org/coml.htm)
The Census of Marine Life is a global network of more than 45 nations, engaged in assessing and explaining the diversity, distribution and abundance of marine life in the oceans.

MARINEBIO (http://www.marinebio.com) provides the marine biology research community with online resources, with an opportunity to get involved as some resources rely on user input, such as the site’s species inventory, which gives information on every marine plant and animal species online.

FAO Terminological database ( http://www.fao.org/faoterm.default.htm)

Scottish Environmental Protection Agency (http://www.sepa.org.uk)
SEPA's main aim is to provide an efficient and integrated environmental protection system for Scotland that will both improve the environment and contribute to the goal of sustainable development.

Marine Institute, Galway, Ireland provides a range of information on all aspects of marine science and research, with useful information on harmful algal blooms (http://www.marine.ie/online+services/index.htm)

The US Environmental Protection Agency has a special dictionary section (http://www.epa.gov/teachers/dictionaries.htm) which specializes in definitions of common environmental terms, abbreviations and acronyms in non-technical language.

FreeFullText.com (http://www.freefulltext.com/index.htm) provides direct links to over 7000 scholarly periodicals which allow some or all of their online content to be viewed by ANYONE with Internet access for free (though some may require free registration).

www.dialang.org
English
www.learnenglish.org.uk/
Greek
www.xanthi.ilsp.gr/filog/sitemap.htm
www.britishcouncil.org/greece/english/index.htm
Portuguese
www.pt.britishcouncil.org/english/index.htm
www.bigchalk.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/WOPortal.woa/wa/BCPageDA/sec~cab~22389~~
Swedish
www.hhs.se/isa/swedish/
stp.ling.uu.se/call/swedish/

Dictionaries

Greek
npserv1.phy.ucy.ac.cy/greek_dict.html
Portuguese
www.fishbase.org/search.html
www.freedict.com/onldict/por.html
Swedish
www.freedict.com/onldict/swe.html
Swedish/Greek
www.freedict.com/onldict/swe.html

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