• UC Berkeley & WRCA:
• OskiCat catalog: OskiCat is the official catalog of UC Berkeley. The user can limit a search to solely the holdings of WRCA if desired. Note that some UCB libraries are not included in OskiCat; see "What's Included" for more information.
• University of California:
• Melvyl : The Melvyl Catalog contains records of UC's (system wide) book holdings, serials (periodicals, newspapers, annuals, some monographic series, and other ongoing publications) owned by more than 550 California libraries, and records of other materials such as maps, videos, sound recordings, etc. Also see the Melvyl/OCLC Next-Gen Pilot, which may replace Melvyl in the future.
• eScholarship Repository -- See WRCA's repository of WRC Technical Completion Reports (TCRs) and graduate student papers.
• Online Archive of California (OAC) -- See WRCA's finding aids (aka, collection guides) to archival materials.


• UC Subscription Databases: NOTE - Access restricted to UC Berkeley IP addresses [proxy information]
  • See list of relevant article databases
  • Encylopedia of Water Science (Dekker)
  
  
• Digital Libraries
  • California Digital Library CDL provides a single point of access for digital collections produced or managed by the University of California.
  • Western Waters Digital Library The WWDL contains government reports, classic water literature, legal transcripts, water project records, personal papers, photographic collections, and video materials about the Columbia, Colorado, Platte, and Rio Grande river basins. WRCA is taking part in an NEH grant to digitize archival materials, to be added to OAC and WWDL in 2009.
  
  
• Government:
California

• On Tap is the CALFED water market information resource devloped by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, the Department of Water Resources, and the State Water Resources Control Board. The database contains historical water transaction information.
• Minerva - The catalog of the California State Archives

Federal

• Army Corps of Engineers Library Program
• EPA Online Library System - Environmental Protection Agency
• EPA National Water Quality Standards Database
• EPA STORET Database - Water quality data
• NOAA Central Library - National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration
• USGS Library - United States Geological Survey
• California Streamflow Data
• National Water Conditions - Published by the USGS, this site provides data and discussion of current water conditions in North America.
• NWIS-W Data Retrieval - USGS Streamflow data. Also see WRCA's Guide to finding streamflow data.
• Publications Warehouse
• Real-time Water Data
• Surface-Water Data for California
• Universities Council on Water Resources (UWOWR): USGS WRSIC Research Abstracts - This database is a collection of international water research compiled by the Water Resources Scientific Information Center (WRSIC) of the USGS. The research abstracted in this database contains over 265,000 abstracts and citations, covering a wide variety of topics.
• Water Resources of the United States
• Water-Resources Reports


• Engineering:
• ASCE Research Library - "The Research Library provides you with unprecedented access to more than 18,500 full-text papers from ASCE Journals and Proceedings published - that's over 175,000 pages! Approximately 4,000 new papers will be added each year." -- Nov. 8, 2005
• Water Library for the American Water Works Association (AWWA). Some full-text access is limited to subscribers.
• SciTechResources.gov - A catalog of government science and technology Web sites.
• Electronic Journals
• Electronic Reference Sources
• Article Indexes
• Technical Reports
• Scripps Institution of Oceanography Archives

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