OCEAN is an open corrosion expertise access inforrmation network which has the objective to connect together all European researches, materials producers and materials end-users under a unique information center and, using the Internet as information carrier, to provide them useful information necessary to achieve : corrosion technology transfer corrosion ressources directories (industies, research centers, universities, laboratories, publications, etc..) corrosion science online tools (databases, mathematical models, corrosion tests management, etc..) corrosion education and training