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The Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) Federation is known for being innovative and tech-forward. This year, as the threat of Coronavirus loomed, the conference was converted to a fully virtual experience, which was attended by a record 500 attendees. The conference addressed many concerns in the field of in situ data volume, access, and quality,…

The service-oriented budget minded MBLWHOI Library is always trying to figure out ways to better serve our scientists. Our 27 year old Voyager library system has served us well. It was a truely cutting edge library search and organizational tool when we first implemented it in the mid-1990’s. The MBLWHOI Library was a development partner…

In the next few months the MBLWHOI Library will be implementing a more comprehensive searching system on our website mblwhoilibrary.org.   The central feature of the PRIMO system is a single main search box from which you will be able to search for anything: books, journals, article titles, author names, subjects, keywords and tags…the searching system…

Need Help? If you have any questions or difficulty accessing resources, please contact library@mbl.edu. Request Materials To request materials from other Libraries (including article PDFs), please use the resource request form here: http://ill.mblwhoilibrary.org/illiad/.  Please bear in mind that given the situation, we may not be able to obtain materials from other Libraries. Unfortunately due to the current situation,…

The Woods Hole Open Access Server (WHOAS) repository was granted CoreTrustSeal certification on August 28, 2019.  The WHOAS repository complies with the guidelines set by the CoreTrustSeal Board. We chose to go through this process to demonstrate our commitment to quality stewardship and to be a trusted option for our researchers facing funder and publisher…

  Data Librarian, Audrey Mickle, teaching a module on Data Management Planning at the WHOI Data Science Training Camp 2020. The main goals of the two day training camp are foundational best practices in data, software, and project management for scientific research; some more specific practices in the ocean sciences; and some resources available at…