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Library Resources on Popular Topics


Browsing by Dewey class:
500s - general science
510s - mathematics
520s - astronomy
530s - physics
540s - chemistry
550s - earth sciences
560s - paleontology
570s - life sciences
580s - plants
590s - animals

Algebra

Amateur astronomy manuals

Astronomy

Big Bang Theory

Black Holes

Botany

Calculus

Chaos Theory

Chemistry (general)

Earth Sciences (general)

Ecology

Evolution

Genetics

Geology

Geometry

Large Hadron Collider (CERN)

Meteorology

Oceanography

Paleontology

Physics (General)

Relativity

String theory

Trigonometry

Zoology


Gale Science in Context | Database -- GRPL card required for remote access.





Magazines and Journals at the Library

  • The library owns literally thousands of magazines and newspapers in print, microfiche, microfilm, and electronic formats. These magazines are located in the Reading Room, our Youth Services Department, the Grand Rapids History and Special Collections Department, and our Retrieval Desk at the Main library, as well as at each of our branches.
  • Search our catalog for specific titles or browse a more comprehensive A to Z list. Our catalog will tell you the dates we own, the most recent issues we've received, and which locations hold these magazines and newspapers.
  • Search our databases for full-text articles and citations from thousands more magazines and newspapers. Check MeL (the Michigan eLibrary) to find out if a magazine's full-text articles are included in a database. For a list of all magazines included in our databases, either as full-text or as a brief citation, search here.


Useful Websites

Science.gov -- Gateway to over 50 million pages of authoritative information provided by U.S. government agencies.

HowStuffWorks' Science Channel

World Wide Science A global science gateway

PBS Science

ScienceFriday -- The NPR show's website.

The Science Channel -- The website of the cable channel.

Star gazing guide from Weather Underground -- just enter your zip code

Grand Rapids Amateur Astrological Association

NASA's homepage

Wolframalpha.com -- Computational Knowledge - Ask it anything!

Encyclopedia of Life -- Imagine an electronic page for each species on Earth

Cell Image Library -- Very cool images, videos, and animations of cells from a variety of organisms

Fishbase -- An encyclopedia of 32,000 fishes of the world

Botany.com -- An encyclopedia of plants and flowers

Michigan Wildflowers -- Identify wildflowers by common or Latin name

Tree of Life -- Animal and plant classification on 10,000 web pages; phylogeny and evolutionary history

PBS Evolution -- A site for teachers and learners

WebElements.com -- An interactive periodical table

Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory

NOAA's National Weather Service

Earth at-a-glance from Ecology.com

WebGraphing.com -- online graphing calculators

Practical Physics -- Several experiments and subjects explained in everyday language.


Databases

Gale Science in Context

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