Table 2. Databases searched 



Database 



AQUATIC SCIENCE ABSTRACTS 

 BIOSIS PREVIEWS 

 CA SEARCH 

 NTIS 



OCEANIC ABSTRACTS 



Time coverage 



1978-1991 

 1969-1991 

 1967-1991 

 1983-1991 



1964-1991 



Producer 



Cambridge Scientific Abstracts 



BIOSIS, Inc. 



American Chemical Society 



National Technical Information 



Services 



Cambridge Scientific Abstracts 



added to the database. Extensive use was made of the Mussel Watch studies literature 

 compilation of Kidder (1977). Future updates of the search will include non-English 

 citations and searches of other electronic databases. 



III. NOAA MUSSEL WATCH BIBUOGRAPHIC DATABASE 



The results of the electronic search were edited for relevancy to the Mussel Watch 

 concept and entered into the Apple Macintosh version of PRO-CITE^, a bibliographic 

 software system. The database resides at the NOAA National Ocean Service/Office of Ocean 

 Resources Conservation and Assessment/Coastal Monitoring and Bioeffects Assessment 

 Division (CMBAD), and will be updated on an ongoing basis. 



When available, scientific species name, geographical location of the study, and 

 chemicals have been added to the citation as index terms. In many instances, the bivalve 

 species is not available either in the abstract or the key words stored in the electronic 

 database. In such cases, only the generic terms "mussel" or "oyster" are found. The 

 citation information has been checked against a printed source whenever possible to 

 correct errors resulting from limitations of the electronic databases,^ and refine index 

 terms. Organometallic species are listed as families. All the tributyltin compounds, for 

 example, are indexed under organotins. If a paper covers a specific geographical area, 

 then the location name, state/province and country were used in the index. For example, 

 papers on Port Phillip Bay are indexed under the Bay name, Victoria and Australia. 

 Papers covering large geographical areas such as synthesis papers of French or U. S. 

 Mussel Watch Programs, are indexed using only the name of the country. 



This compilation contains more than 1200 citations. Printed copies of the citations in 

 the database are being collected at the Coastal Monitoring and Bioeffects Assessment 

 Division office in Rockville, MD. 



IV. RESULTS AND OBSERVATIONS 



2 PRO-CITE, Personal Bibliographic Software, Inc., PO Box 4250, Ann Arbor, Ml 

 48106. 



3 BIOSIS, one of the electronic databases covering the field of biology, lists some older 

 citations in capital letters, omitting the use of italics or underlining for species names, 

 and adding or omitting words in the titles. 



