The NASA Headquarters Library book collection specializes in space policy, NASA history, and business & management. To find books in our library or in many of the other NASA center libraries, use our online catalog NASA GALAXIE. You must be on a NASA computer or dialing in with a NASA account to search the catalog. See our Get Books, Etc. page for how to borrow or purchase books. NASA Headquarters employees can find books at other libraries using WorldCat in the FirstSearch suite of databases. To borrow books at other libraries, registered library patrons can submit an interlibrary loan request. They can also subscribe to our New Books list to get updates on additions to the library collection.

If you're a member of the public your options are to visit our library, request a search, or browse our bibliographies. NASA produced books can be found in the NASA Aeronautics and Space Database, the NASA Technical Report Server and on the History Office and NASA Headquarters Information Center websites.

Databases & Catalogs

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

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.

NASA GALAXIE - NASA GALAXIE is our library catalog. It includes the collections of most NASA Center libraries. The catalog indexes books, journals, atlases, conferences, books-on-tape, video recordings, software, images, and print and electronic documents. It can only be accessed from a NASA computer. Limited to NASA employees.

NASA History Books - Full-text NASA Special Publications, Historical Reports, Monographs in Aerospace History, and other space history documents posted by the NASA Headquarters History Office.

NASA Online Documents - A collection of NASA documents on the web.

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.

National Academy Press - full-text books from the Academies and the National Research Council. For print copies of NASA-related texts, check the library catalog.

National Research Council Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board Reports - full-text of the Board's reports, 1997 to present.

National Research Council Board on Physics and Astronomy - full-text of the board's reports from 1998 to present.

National Research Council Space Studies Board - full-text of many of the board's reports, 1980s to the present.

National Science Foundation - full-text documents from 1996 to present. Includes statistical reports on science and engineering research, funding, and education.

Online Reference Books

Acronym Central - Search either by acronyms or their meanings.

Aerospace Science & Technology Dictionary - This online dictionary includes definitions from the NASA Thesaurus and numerous NASA, NOAA and DOE dictionaries. It can only be accessed at NASA Headquarters.

Census Bureau

CIA World Fact Book - An annually updated gazetteer of all the nations.

Dictionary of Technical Terms for Aerospace Use -Web version of the original 1965 publication, NASA SP-7.

Encyclopedia Astronautica - A resource for information about rockets, spacecraft, launch vehicles, astronauts, cosmonauts, spaceflight, engines, space history, and exploration.

Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia - English language mirror site of developed and maintained by CNRS - Paris Observatory.

Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature - USGS/IAU/NASA site providing technical information and names of geologic features in the solar system.

GPO Style Manual

Periodic Table of the Elements - Includes brief description, history, common compounds, technical information, and folklore for each element.

Software documentation - From NASA Headquarters office of Information Technology and Communication

Symbols Encyclopedia - Covers more than 2,500 symbols and sign markings. Most include histories, uses, and meanings.

Thomas Register of American Manufacturers - Comprehensive online resource for finding companies and products manufactured in North America.

Libraries

Air University Library

DC Area Libraries

Department of Defense Libraries

Library of Congress

lib-web-cats - a directory of libraries worldwide with links to their online catalogs.

Lunar & Planetary Institute Library

NASA Ames Research Center - NASA Ames Technical Library

NASA Center for Aerospace Information - NASA Scientific and Technical Information Program

NASA Dryden Flight Research Center - NASA Dryden Research Library

NASA Glenn Research Center - Glenn Technical Library

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center - Homer E. Newell Memorial Library Library

NASA Headquarters Library

NASA Independent Verification & Validation Facility - WVU / NASA IV&V Technical Library

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory - Beacon: Library, Archives & Records Section

NASA Johnson Space Center - Alfred R. Neumann Library at UHCL

NASA Johnson Space Center - Scientific and Technical Information Center

NASA Kennedy Space Center - KSC Library, only accessible from KSC

NASA Langley Research Center - Floyd L. Thompson Technical Library - Public access version

NASA Marshall Space Flight Center - Redstone Scientific Information Center

NASA Stennis Space Center - Maury Oceanographic Library

NASA Wallops Flight Facility - Wallops Flight Facility Library

NASA White Sands Test Facility - White Sands Test Facility Technical Library

National Institute of Standards and Technology Virtual Library

National Transportation Library

Space Telescope Science Institute Library

University System of Maryland Libraries

Washington Research Library Consortium

Websites

Boggs Space Books - This commercial site offers helpful lists of titles in the NASA SP, NASA EP, Monographs in Aerospace History, and Johns Hopkins University Press series. All titles are available to NASA civil servants through the NASA HQ Library.

NASA Headquarters Information Center - Directory assistance for NASA Headquarters and a selection of NASA publications for sale.

NASA History Office, Headquarters - Histories of everything from the Apollo program to NACA to the X-33. Includes many electronic books.

NASA Scientific and Technical Information (STI) Program - Search for and purchase NASA books, technical reports, and video tapes.