Baltic Marine Environment Database

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Content:	Database contains references to research reports, journal articles and conference proceedings published in Baltic Sea states and elsewhere. The main stress is on the Baltic Sea protection litterature other subjects being ecology, ecotoxicology, aquatic sciences, fishing and marine community studies. The collecting of references is coordinated by Helsinki Commission. References are provided with keywords. Indexing is done with ASFA thesaurus (since 1986). Since 1990 most of the references include also abstract in English. Database contains currrently over 13 000 references.
Time span:	1970 to date.
Updating:	Periodically, as new data becomes available.

Description of fields (most important fields)

NB! It is possible to search contents of all fields in Free Search -field by using the syntax given in examples below.

Tag	Type	Content	Search example
TI	Text	Title and English translation	ti=pollution
AU	Phrase	Author(s)	au=westin
SP	Phrase	Source publication: magazine	sp=ambio
SM	Text	Source publication: monograph	sm=*
SO	Phrase	Serial title	so=*
CS	Phrase	Institution name	cs=helcom
PT	Phrase	Publishing place	pt=helsinki
PU	Phrase	Publisher	pu=academic
PY	Integer	Publishing year	py>=1990
CC	Phrase	ASFA-codes (subject headings)	cc=2445
CW	Phrase	ASFA keywords	cw=migrations
FT	Phrase	Free terms	ft=seals
LA	Phrase	Language code (ISO standard)	la=fin
LS	Phrase	Language of the abstract	ls=eng
SCY	Phrase	Sending country	scy=pl
AB	Text	Abstract	ab=*
ED	Date	Entry date	ed>1994-12

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