eBooks
- SpringerLink This link opens in a new windowSpringerLink provides access to journals, e-books, and reference works.
- NASA ebooksVariety of titles; read their guide to ebook formats.
Biographies and more!
- Biography in Context This link opens in a new windowThis database contains biographies from reference sources as well as full-text articles from periodicals, allowing you to search for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death year, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender.
- Who's Who in the WorldProvides access to over 60,000 personal profiles of individuals from around the world and across disciplines and fields of endeavor.
- Columbia Gazetteer of the WorldProvides access to authoritative information on more than 170,000 places and areas around the world. Entries cover: demography, physical geography and political boundaries; industry, trade, and agriculture; cultural, historical, and archaeological points of interest; transportation lines, longitude, latitude, and elevations; official government place-names and changed or variant names and spellings.
Selected Astronomy Websites
- Astronomy Image ExplorerProvides free access to hundreds of thousands of images, illustrations, graphs, charts, and videos that have been published in peer-reviewed journals.
- Eric Weisstein's World of AstronomyOnline encyclopedia covering topics in chemistry, physics, mathematics, scientific biography, and astronomy.
- SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data SystemA digital portal provided by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.
- Planetary Science Research Discoveries (Univ. of Hawaii)An educational site sharing the latest research by NASA-sponsored scientists on meteorites, asteroids, planets, moons, and other materials in our Solar System.
- Herschel Space ObservatoryThe Herschel Space Observatory is a space-based telescope that will study the Universe by the light of the far-infrared and submillimeter portions of the spectrum. It is expected to reveal new information about the earliest, most distant stars and galaxies, as well as those closer to home in space and time.
- Sky at a GlanceThe night sky description from Sky & Telescope magazine
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