Research: Science

Reference  |   Magazines and newspapers  |  Web sites


Reference (print)


The Astronomical Almanac for the Year... – R 528 A859
     (2007 and 2008 are in reference, earlier years are in the circulating collection)
Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia – 17 vols. – R 590.3 G8958 g, 2003
Macmillan Encyclopedia of Chemistry – 4 vols. – R 540.3 M1674
Macmillan Encyclopedia of Physics – 4 vols. – R 530.03 M1674
McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology – 20 vols. – R 503 M147

Reference (online)


Access Science – Over 8,500 online articles from the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, 10th edition.
Oxford Reference Online – Includes more than 30 online science titles.
Birds of North America - The Birds of North America is a comprehensive scientific reference covering the 716 species of North American birds (18 volumes, 18,000 pages in total).

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Magazines and Newspapers


Academic Search Premier – More than 4500 full-text magazines and scholarly journals.
Health Source – 80 full-text magazines on many health topics.
JSTOR – Includes full-text scholarly science journals.
ProQuest Platinum – 2000 periodicals, including many full-text science-related titles.
Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific journal – Full text astronomy journal, 1998 on.
Science Online - Science magazine, 1880 on.
Scientific American Archive Online – Scientific American magazine, 1993 on.

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Web Sites


Fundamental Physical Constants – The values of the fundamental physical constants provided at this site are recommended for international use by the Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA) and are the latest available.
NIST Chemistry WebBook – Database of organic chemistry compounds, organized by species. Contains chemical and physical property data on more than 30,000 compounds.
NLM Gateway – Search across a number of biological- and health sciences-related sources.  Provided by the National Library of Medicine.

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