Articles include items published in journals, magazines, and newspapers, plus conference papers, preprints, and unpublished articles. The NASA Headquarters Library periodicals collection specializes in space science, government, and business & management. We subscribe to many print journals and online journals. These are listed on our Journals and Newspapers pages. Journals with full-text articles in Torpedo are also on our Journals page. The Library's online and CD-ROM databases index hundreds of thousands of articles, many of which are in full-text. Free databases and indexes of free online journals are also listed in our selection of databases. Registered Library patrons can get articles through submitting a research request or an interlibrary loan request. To get updates of new articles on specific topics, library patrons are encouraged to subscribe to our Alert Services.

Databases

ABYZ News Links - Catalog of links to newspapers, news media, and news sources arranged by country.

AIAA Conference Papers - Brief records for American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics conference papers, 1999 to present.

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Publications - Includes books, meeting papers, journal papers, and standards. Many can be puchased online.

ArXiv - A repository of electronic preprints in the hard sciences.

Astrophysics Data System - Includes four sets of abstracts: 1) astronomy and astrophysics/planetary sciences/solar physics, containing 674,411 abstracts; 2) instrumentation, containing 605,446 abstracts; 3) physics and geophysics, containing 1,073,145 abstracts; and 4) Los Alamos preprint server, containing 3,902 abstracts. Also includes links to the full text of articles appearing in most of the major astronomical journals.

Air University Index to Military Periodicals (AULIMP) - Indexes significant articles from military and aeronautical periodicals from 1988 to present. No full-text, but includes links to some journal's websites.

Computational Sciences Division Papers and Publications Archive - searchable list of mostly full-text papers from Ames Research Center's Computational Sciences Division, 1998-present.

Dialog - Offers more than 450 databases on ALL subjects. Covers magazines, newspapers, newsletters, Dun & Bradstreet reports, organization information, statistics, scientific journals, biographies, patents, directories, international publications, and market research. Request a search Limited to NASA HQ employees.

DoD Scientific and Technical Information Network - The public version of the Defense Technical Information Center's STINET database. NASA HQ employees may request searches in the limited database or request documents be purchased by contacting the Library.

EBSCOhost - A journal database indexing 1,400,000 articles. A few journals are available in full-text online. Articles from most other journals can be ordered through the database or requested from the Library. Limited to NASA HQ employees.

Electronic Preprints - Catalog of web sites offering electronic preprints of journal articles. Compiled by Goddard Space Flight Center Library.

Factiva - Indexes full-text current newspapers, newswires, television transcripts, trade journals, and magazines. Also offers a variety of business reports. Request a search Limited to NASA HQ employees.

FindArticles.com - "...a vast archive of published articles that you can search for free. Constantly updated, it contains articles dating back to 1998 from more than 300 magazines and journals."

FirstSearch - Encompasses 38 databases on a wide variety of topics from education and life sciences to public affairs and technology. Includes Wordcat, a combined book catalog of other 30,000 libraries. The article databases often have full-text. To see which database indexes a journal, look up the journal title. Limited to NASA HQ employees.

Google Scholar - Specialized search engine that searches for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web. Google Scholar also automatically analyzes and extracts citations and presents them as separate results, even if the documents they refer to are not online. An Advanced Search option is also available.

GrayLit Network - A science portal of technical reports. Search multiple databases at once, a product of the Department of Energy (DOE).

HighWire Press - 317,940 free full-text articles as of 9/17/01. HighWire Press at Stanford University develops and maintains the Web versions of important journals in biomedicine and other disciplines.

IEEE Xplore - Browse tables of contents and access Abstract records of IEEE transactions, journals, magazines, conference proceedings and standards. NASA HQ employees can request interlibrary of articles and conference papers by contacting the Library an interlibrary loan request. Limited to NASA HQ employees.

Ingenta - Free searching of 20,000 journals from 1988.

ISI (Web of Knowledge and Web of Science) - "An index to the published literature of the most significant conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions in" science and technology, 1990 to present. Limited to NASA GSFC/HQ employees.Access courtesy of the Goddard Library.

Kidon Media-Link - Links to Major Media around the globe.

Lexis-Nexis - A full-text database with articles from major newspapers, trade journals, and newswires. Also an excellent source for legal and legislative information. Request a search Limited to NASA HQ employees.

Medline/PubMed - A service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to over 11 million citations from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. To search only space life sciences click on Limits and under Subsets select Space Life Sciences.

NASA Aeronautics and Space Database - There are two versions of NASA ASD: one is open to everyone on a nasa.gov computer. The other includes limited documents and requries a password. Both databases include documents from NASA and related agencies, meeting papers, journal articles, and videos. NASA Headquarters employees can contact the Library or CASI for help in using this database.

NASA Tech Briefs - Index of NASA Tech Briefs articles from 1998-present and technical support packages (TSPs) from 2000 to present.

NASA Technical Report Server - The NTRS is a publicly accessible subset of the NASA Aeronautics and Space Database. Members of the public should use it to identify NASA reports and books. Some materials are available in full-text. To be complete you should also search the Glenn Technical Report Server and the Dryden Technical Report Server.

Online Journal Publishing Service - List of online journals hosted by the American Institute of Physics.

Science Research Portal - A free, publically available web portal which searches thousands of high quality science journals and databases at one time. Still in Beta version, by the end of 2005 scienceresearch.com hopes to offer advanced features like subject alerts and personal libraries for a nominal fee.

Space Future Papers & Publications - collection of conference papers and published articles on every aspect of space exploration. Many are available in full-text.

Space News - CD-ROM database of articles from Space News, 1994-1996. This database is accessible on the Jupiter workstation in the Library.

Virtual Technical Reports Center - lists institutions that offer full-text technical reports or searchable abstracts on the web (University of Maryland Libraries).