Aviation

NASA-funded database. Offers preprints and full text of articles from many scientific journals and conference proceedings. Includes the sections for astronomy and astrophysics, instrumentation, physics and geophysics, and LANL preprints, including arXiv. 1973-present.

Open access data and peer reviewed research sources. NASA is using PMC to permanently preserve and provide easy public access to the peer-reviewed papers resulting from NASA-funded research. Beginning with research funded in 2016, all NASA-funded authors and co-authors (both civil servant and non-civil servant) will be required to deposit copies of their peer-reviewed scientific publications and associated data into NASA’s publication repository called NASA PubSpace. This EXCLUDES patents, publications that contain material governed by personal privacy, export control, proprietary restrictions, or national security law or regulations. NASA PubSpace is part of PubMed Central (PMC) which is managed by the NIH.

Unified interface to many different abstract and technical report servers maintained by various NASA centers and programs. NACA (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics), the predecessor of NASA, covers 1917-1958. NASA covers 1958-present.

American Institute of Physics resource. Physics & Astronomy topics. Any visitor to Scitation can freely browse the table of contents and abstracts (without reference links) of all journals. Full text available if the Library subscribes to journal. Most journals require a subscription to search within the journal. Search Scitation, SPIN and PUBMed from this site.

AMS Journals Online (dealing with weather surrounding space flights, etc.)