The Goddard Library Goes Back to the Future

“Back to the Future” event at the Library

The Goddard Library held a “Back to the Future” reception on October 20. This gathering was a chance for librarians and patrons alike to celebrate new online access to journal articles and conference proceedings from some of our most heavily used materials published by Elsevier, as well as four decades of publications from the the AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics) Library. Older journal and conference papers have been of particular importance recently as Goddard employees seek out Apollo-era information to work on projects related to the return to the Moon. A full list of the journals is available on the Library Web site.

Visitors to the Library enjoyed hot and cold apple cider and cookies while learning how to access 40+ years of backfiles from more than 100 journal titles. More than 75 personal demonstrations were given.

These new online archives include journal content back to the first volume. Key titles include Advances in Space Research, Icarus, and Remote Sensing of Environment. The purchase agreement with Elsevier has been negotiated for the Library to own, rather than lease, this journal content. Visit the Journals page on the Library website to link directly to these journals. Now, two choices are available for you to access this content online : Torpedo (a journal hosting site from the Naval Research Lab) and Science Direct (Elsevier’s journal website). And don’t forget, if you see the “Get it at Goddard” icon while searching online (such as on the Web of Science or Google Scholar), it will take you directly to the content of the journal articles to which we subscribe .

In addition, you can now enjoy desktop access to all of the meeting papers from the AIAA going back to 1963. Other AIAA material now available online through the AIAA Electronic Library includes AIAA Journal, Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer as well as IAC (International Astronautical Congresses) meeting papers.

If you didn’t get a chance to stop by the reception, you can still learn about these valuable new resources and get some goodies (while they last) by contacting the Goddard Library for a personal demonstration.

In person: Building 21 M-F 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
By phone: 301-286-7218~~~~~By email: library@listserv.gsfc.nasa.gov