- Environment Complete: Full-text content on physical sciences, including geology and meteorology.
- Films on Demand:
- Earth Science includes geology, oceanography, weather, & climate.
- Physical Science, includes:
- Science and Technology Collection: Articles from over 800 scientific and technical journals, and more.
RPCC Library Online Resources
Astronomy
- Astronomy from Astronomy Magazine offers news and more; site does have ads and some content may not be available without a subscription.
- Khan Academy: Cosmology and Astronomy; includes a unit on geology.
- NASA offers extensive collections of information, images, and other resources, including:
- Space.com includes news on space exploration, the univers, and more; site does have ads and some content may not be available without a subscription.
- Stellarium, an online planetarium; also offers a mobile app for Apple and Android.
Earth Sciences
Geology
- Geology.com: "Geology and Earth Science News and Information," including articles, maps, images, and more.
- Geology: National Park Service: "explore the world's most magnificent rock collection—your National Parks."
- USGS Science Explorer: Geology offers multiple resources including multimedia content.
Meteorology
- National Hurricane Center, from NOAA and the National Weather Service.
- National Weather Service, part of NOAA.
- ScienceDaily: Earth & Climate News
Oceanography
- NOAA: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- Oceanography, the official magazine of the Oceanography Society, publishes open-access articles.
- ScienceDaily: Oceanography News
Physics
- Acoustics and Vibration Animation, created by Dan Russell, Ph. D., Prof. of Acoustics at Penn State. This site includes detailed explanations & formulae in addition to the animations.
- Eric Weisstein's World of Physics, online physics encyclopedia.
- Khan Academy: Physics Library includes lessons and multimedia content.
- NIST: Physics from the National Institute of Standards and Technology
- Quanta Magazine includes articles on physics (and other sciences) along with multimedia and interactive content.
General Science Resources
- Eric Weisstein’s World of Science,, an encyclopedia of astronomy, scientific biography, chemistry, mathematics, and physics.
- Phys.org: Science News offers information in multiple fields, including physics, earth, astronomy, and more.
- PhET Interactive Simulations provides fun, free, interactive, research-based science and mathematics simulations
- Science.gov “searches over 60 databases and over 2200 selected websites from 15 federal agencies, offering 200 million pages of authoritative U.S. government science information including research and development results.” Includes topics in physics, chemistry, astronomy, and more.
- USGS: U. S. Geological Survey offers information in mulitple fields of science, not just geology!