Research: Science

Reference  |  Books  |  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
Today's Science on File – R 505 T633

Reference (online)

Access Science – Online version of McGraw-Hill's Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, a 20-volume set.
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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Books


The following non-reference sources deal with some popular science topics.

Cambridge Illustrated History of Medicine – floor 3M – 610.9 C1783
Chemistry Connections: the Chemical Basis of Everyday Phenomena – floor 3M – 540 K186 c, 2003
Collected Papers of Einstein – 6 vols. – floor 3M – 530 E35 c
The Crustacea – floor 3M – 595.3 C967
The Essential Turing : Seminal Writings in Computing... – floor 3M – 510 T9385 e
Evolutionary Biology – 33 vols. (with a new volume released every year) – floor 3M – 575 E93
Hunt for the Dawn Monkey – floor 3M – 569.8 B3683 h
The Illustrated A Brief History of Time – floor 3M – 523.1 H3924 b, 1996
Modern Physics – floor 3M – 530 T5955 m
Nanotechnology: Basic Science and Emerging Technologies – floor 3M – 620.5 N1863
A Naturalist's Guide to Field Plants: ...Eastern North America – floor 3M – 581.7 C8773 n
Organic Chemistry – floor 3M – 547 J783 o
A People's History of Science : Miners, Midwives, and "Low Mechanicks" – floor 3M – 509 C7525 p
The Two-Mile Time Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future – 
     floor 3M – 551.6 A435 t


To find other relevant books, do a subject search using specific SUBJECT headings such as:

Biology
Genetics
Physics
Physics – History
Chemistry
Chemistry, Organic
Astronomy


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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 magazines, 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 – Full text of this popular science magazine from 1993 to the present.


To see if the library has a specific magazine, journal, or newspaper, enter the title in the search box below:


 


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Web Sites


These web sites are reliable, relevant sources for researching Science subjects:


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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