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The Research Guides have been developed by librarians to serve as starting points in helping students select appropriate resources for research projects.

Evaluating Sources

How to Evaluate Information Sources

Citing Sources

General Citation Guides
APA Style
ASA Style
MLA Style
Chicago Manual of Style
Turabian
Turabian Citation Guide
Provided by Ohio State University Libraries


CSE Style
American Anthropological Association Style
Citing Specific Databases

Tutorials
Google Guide
"An online interactive tutorial and reference for experienced users, novices, and everyone in between."


Reading Scientific Papers, Flash Tutorial
Provided by Purdue University


Study Skills - How to Study
A free study skills resource site provided by Mangrum-Strichart Learning Resources


Library Research Tools
Databases A - Z
Online Databases available to Albion College faculty, students and staff. To access databases from off-campus, see Access to Electronic Resources from Off-Campus


EndNote FAQ
Addresses common questions regarding the use of EndNote


Find books, videos, and other materials


Find Journal Articles


Find Newspapers


Google Scholar
"Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research."


Recent Acquisitions of the Albion College Library
Recent acquisitions listed by subject. Users can subscribe to RSS feeds to stay updated.


Library Services
Archives Reference Request


Checking Out Library Materials and More FAQ
Circulation Services encompasses the circulation of library materials, wireless laptops, stack management, course reserves, audio-visual services, student employment, and classroom reservation


Government Documents Information


Information for Faculty


Interlibrary Loan Information


Need Research Help?


Software Installation CDs
List of available software includes Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Access, FrontPage and Publisher), GroupWise and Microsoft XP (for faculty/staff checkout only)


Special Collections (Rare Books and Archives) Information


Astronomy Research Guide

For research assistance, contact

Mike VanHouten
or John Kondelik
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Find Books & Videos
Albion College Library Online Catalog
The Albion College Library Online Catalog - your one-stop spot to search for books, periodicals, government documents, videos, electronic materials and more!
MeLCat Online Catalog
MeLCat will help you find books owned by dozens of libraries in Michigan (including Albion College, Michigan State University, Central Michigan University, and many others). Books may be borrowed by using the online request form.
WorldCat
Records of books and any other types of material cataloged by thousands of libraries worldwide. Includes manuscripts written as early as the 12th century.
Find Journal Articles & More
Academic OneFile
For all subjects. Includes full text from many peer-reviewed journals from a wide variety of disciplines.
Albion College Library - Electronic Journals Home Page
Provides links to more than 2,000 electronic journals available through the Albion College Library.
Article1st (FirstSearch)
Article1st indexes approximately 12,500 journals and magazines, across all subject areas. This database indicates which journal and magazine articles are available in the Albion College Library.
Electronic Collections Online
Electronic Collections Online provides indexing and full-text from academic journals in many disciplines. Articles can be viewed online or printed.
Expanded Academic ASAP
Balanced coverage is available through 3,000 indexed and 1,900 full-text titles in a wide variety of disciplines including: social science journals, humanities journals, science and technology journals, national news periodicals, etc.
Full Text Finder
Many journals, magazines, and newspapers are available in full text through online databases. To search for availability of full text articles from a particular source, look for the title of the journal, magazine, or newspaper by following the appropriate links.
General Science Abstracts
Journals and magazines from the U.S. and Great Britain, covering such subjects as anthropology, astronomy, biology, computers, earth sciences, medicine and health, and much more.
JSTOR
Provides indexing and full-text from scholarly journals in many disciplines. Unique, in that coverage for each journal begins with the first volume.
LexisNexis Academic Universe
"Provides customers access to 5 billion searchable documents from more than 32,000 legal, news and business sources."
NASA Astrophysics Data System
"A NASA-funded project which maintains three bibliographic databases containing more than 5.9 million records: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Physics, and arXiv e-prints."
Online Databases - Complete List
A comprehensive list of all online databases.
Science Citation Index & Social Sciences Citation Index (Web of Science)
Web of Science provides keyword and citation searching of scholarly journals in the sciences & social sciences from 1986 to present.
WilsonSelectPlus (FirstSearch)
WilsonSelectPlus Full Text contains indexed and abstracted articles from over 1300 periodicals, all with ASCII full text online.
Online Journals
Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Online full text articles from 1996 to present.
Online Resources
Academic Info: Astronomy
American Institute of Physics Style Manual
AstronomyLinks
BUBL LINK
Catalogue of Internet Resources using the Dewey Decimal System as the primary organisation structure.. Selected internet resources covering all academic subject areas.
Google Web Directory: Astronomy
LiveSky - The Ultimate Astronomy Search Engine
Nine Planets: A Multimedia Tour of the Solar System
A Multimedia Tour of the Solar System: one star, eight planets, and more
Parallax Project
Digital version of Publications of the Allegheny Observatory of the University of Pittsburgh.
Physical Reference Data
Planetary Data System
"An archive of data products from NASA planetary missions, which is sponsored by the NASA Office of Space Science. We actively manage the archive to maximize its usefulness, and it has become a basic resource for scientists around the world. All PDS-produced products are peer-reviewed, well-documented, and easily accessible via a system of online catalogs that are organized by planetary disciplines."
Scirus
"Scirus is the most comprehensive science-specific search engine on the Internet. ...Scirus searches over 167 million science-specific Web pages"
Sky and Telescope Astronomy Portal
Space Telescope Science Institute
YAHOO - Astronomy
Reference Sources
Atlas of the Universe
Stockwell 308 Oversize - QB 44 .M5425
Cambridge Astronomy Dictionary
REFERENCE COLLECTION - QB 14 .C34 1996
Cambridge Star Atlas
REFERENCE COLLECTION - QB 65 .T56 1996
Dictionary of Astronomy and Astronautics
REFERENCE COLLECTION - QB 14 .S73
Encyclopedia of Time
REFERENCE COLLECTION - QB 209 .E52 1994
Facts on File Dictionary of Astronomy
REFERENCE COLLECTION - QB 14 .I42
Macmillan Encyclopedia of Physics
REFERENCE COLLECTION - QC 5 .M15 1996
Space Almanac
REFERENCE COLLECTION - QB 500 .C87 1990

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