Marine Mammal Bibliography | Frequently answered questions

Frequently answered questions

Why should I subscribe to the Marine Mammal Bibliography?
The Marine Mammal Bibliography offers exactly the bibliographic information of your field of work. As a scientist you can judge what your colleagues are publishing in your field of work. And you have an overview of journals where you could send your manuscripts to.
As a campaigner in an NGO you will have a current overview about what is published about Marine Mammals. So your are equipped with up to date information for your marine mammal campaigns.
Isn't the ASFA, BIOSIS, SCOPUS or VetCD database a better choice?
The databases ASFA, BIOSIS, SCOPUS or VetCD are covering a much broader fields of science and so they cost much more than the specialized Marine Mammal Bibliography. Those databases are still important for your scientific work, when you are looking for information in other fields of science or you are researching for a new manuscript. While those databases are usually updated on a monthly to quarterly schedule the Marine Mammal Bibliography will be sent to your email account weekly. And there's nothing to do for you to receive current updates about what's going on in Marine Mammal Science. You don't have to visit your library, monitor email-lists, or run database searches.
Can I put the database to my stationary computer and my laptop?
Of course you can. If you are running three or four computers you can place it on all machines. But we ask you that you are not making the database permanent available to other people or redistribute the database. The Marine Mammal Bibliography is calculated to be a reasonably priced service. This is only possible if a certain amount of customers are paying for this service. We think we have provided an attractive solution for people with low income, so there should be no need to access the Marine Mammal Bibliography by breaking copyright laws.
Do you deliver grey literature?
If there's a big enough interest to receive conference proceedings and other so called grey literature, we will include that in our work.
How do you work? Are you just selling stuff from other databases?
We are hunting for marine mammal references on the internet and in libraries; we ask you to contribute; we try to complete information about new references found in email-lists like MARMAM. But our most important source for finding and validating information are journal websites.
It is forbidden to re-distribute contents of databases like ASFA, BIOSIS, SCOPUS, Zoological Record etc.. They are copyright protected like the Marine Mammal Bibliography is too. Apart from that, we do believe that we are faster than them with our weekly updates.
Do you monitor only English publications?
We try to cover all publications which offer at least an english title. If there's sufficient demand for publications in other languages we'll maybe add them to the Bibliography.
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