Astronomy
Library Subscription Services
The following sources may be accessed through computers on campus or by current PVCC faculty, staff and students from off campus.
Journal Articles and Books
Academic Search Complete provides citations and abstracts or the full text of articles from a wide range of journals.
MasterFILE Premier has many full-text general interest reference books, as well as a large image collection.
Nature links to a weekly science journal.
Science links to a weekly journal of scientific research.
First Search has databases that can be searched for citations to journals and books.
CSA Illumina Cambridge Scientific Abstracts provides access to 35 scientific databases.
High Wire Press has 11 scientific journals with full text available online. In addition, High Wire Press has free links to many other full-text journals. Search by category.
Access Science has more than 7,000 articles covering a wide range of science topics, as well as a science dictionary and biographies of scientists. Search by keyword or topic.
Today's Science draws on major scientific journals, magazines and newspapers in the United States and abroad to present the latest scientific discoveries and the fundamental concepts that underlie them.
Annual Reviews provides systematic, periodic examinations of scholarly advances in science and social science through critical authoritative reviews. Search by broad subjects (called "suites") or by more narrow series, including microbiology, public health, psychology and sociology.
Reference Works
A Dictionary of Astronomy
Internet Resources
Sun-Earth Viewer
We Choose the Moon is an interactive Web site that recreates Apollo 11's mission to the moon.
