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Finding Information for Astronomy 100
Finding your way
Library, Information and Technology Services (LITS) provides library and technology support to the campus. Use our document Getting Around in LITS to tell you where to find people and places in our buildings. Many of the materials you may want to use for your classes are available online, but you will also need printed resources to do your best work. You may also want to Ask a Librarian for assistance. The science librarian is Sarah Oelker, and her office is next to the Reference Room on Level 4 of Williston Library.
Some other spots in the library you may need:
- Science books are on Level 6 of the Miles-Smith wing, call numbers Q-TP
- Science journals are on Levels 2 & 3 of Miles-Smith, shelved alphabetically by journal title:
- A... - Journal of Differential Equations -- Level 3
- Journal of Ecology to Z...-- Level 2
- Photocopiers -- Level 2, Miles-Smith, and Level 2 1/2, Williston
- Photocopiers -- Level 2, Miles-Smith, and Level 2 1/2, Williston
Background Information
You can find the print books on this list in the Reference Room, on Level 4 of Williston Library:
| Q121 .M3 2002 MH Main Ref |
McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology |
| QD65 .H3 MH Main Ref |
CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics |
| QE 5 B38 1997 MH Main Ref |
Glossary of Geology |
| QE 5 M366 1991 MH Main Ref |
Earth Sciences Reference |
| QE 5 O94 2000 MH Main Ref |
Oxford Companion to the Earth |
| QE 5 P55 1975 MH Main Ref |
The Planet We Live On |
| QE 26.2 C35 1981 MH Main Ref |
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences |
Books
To find books on a particular topic, or by title or author, search the Library catalog.
You can also browse the stacks for books on chemistry. Here are some locations to try:
- Q (general science, history of science)
- QD (chemistry)
- QE (geology)
- QH (natural history, general biology, ecology)
Finding Articles
Finding Popular Science Articles
Academic Search Premier has a good mixture of general and specialized articles on all sorts of topics.
Expanded Academic ASAP is a set of databases from many sources, some of them popular, some of them scholarly.
Finding Scholarly Science Articles
GEOBASE covers literature in geography, geology, ecology and related disciplines.
Web of Science covers 5000 journals and will tell you who else has cited an article.
JSTOR has science articles from 1881 to the present.
ScienceDirect is a very large collection of science articles from science publisher Reed Elsevier, covering 1995 to the present day.
Choosing Scholarly and Popular Sources
Here are some websites with charts of the features of scholarly press and popular press articles:
Still not sure whether you've got a scholarly source or a popular one? You can always Ask a Librarian, and you can check Ulrichsweb to see if the title has a little referee's jersey icon by it (meaning it is "refereed," or peer reviewed, and therefore scholarly.) You can also ask your professor.
Need more help?
Contact Sarah Oelker, Science Librarian, or try Ask a Librarian. You can find additional resources on the library's Biology Research Guide.
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