CSA International, Inc. has in-house, specialized library services provided by a full-time CSA Marine Information Specialist who has more than 30 years experience. This extensive in-house library capability contributes to the excellence of CSA’s comprehensive environmental and socioeconomic documents and plays an integral part in projects that require extensive, comprehensive literature searches and data synthesis. These projects, which have withstood scientific scrutiny and received regulatory agency approvals worldwide, include Environmental Impact Studies (EISs) and Environmental Assessments (EAs) under NEPA guidelines in the U.S. and Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs) under World Bank guidelines and regulatory requirements of other nations.
Library and Information Services resources include searches of the Dialog® databank that provides 1.4 billion unique records of key information in more than 900 databases, including Aquatic Sciences & Fisheries Abstracts, Biosis Previews, Chemical Abstracts Search, Dissertation Abstracts, Geoarchive, Georef, Meteorological & Geoastrophysical Abstracts, Oceanic Abstracts, Scisearch, and Zoological Record. The CSA library houses more than 60,000 books, technical reports, and reprints in addition to an extensive collection of gray literature, governmental publications, and electronic resources. Materials not available in the CSA library are easily secured through the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) interlibrary loan system, of which CSA is one of 57,000 member libraries. The OCLC Worldcat database, a compilation of the holdings of the member libraries, is the most comprehensive bibliographic resource in the world.
