Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Large Hadron Collider - Basic Resources

Yesterday CERN's Large Hadron Collider began colliding subatomic particles. When the collider began operating, it was the culmination of about sixteen years of planning, construction, and great anticipation.

If you're wondering about the history of this collider project, the science behind it, or what physicists are trying to find out by using the collider, there are resources at the library to satisfy your curiosity.

A library catalog search for the keywords "large hadron collider" retrieves nine items specifically about the collider, ranging from print books to electronic books to government documents on microfiche. These items are a great place to start when researching the Large Hadron Collider project.

Asides from these specific nine, there are many, many more books, articles, and other resources in the library related to the Large Hedron Collider, particle accelerators, and particle physics. For more information on finding these resources, contact the Science Reference Department or me directly.


*** View my parallel blog at on the WMU Libraries site ***

Thursday, March 18, 2010

LexisNexis Environmental Now in Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management

Looking for the article database LexisNexis Environmental? It has been absorbed by ProQuest-CSA and is now part of the Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management database within ProQuest-CSA.

You can access this database from the Libraries' Environmental Studies Article Databases page -- just as you did Lexis Nexis Environmental. Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management is the first database in the list.


*** View my parallel blog on WMU Libraries' Web site ***