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Science & Technology
Science & Technology Resources
Access Science
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Full access McGraw Hill’s Encyclopedia of Science, plus Schaum’s Outlines and research updates in all areas of science and technology.
American Physical Society
Use at Home? Yes
Description: The American Physical Society (APS) is the world’s second largest organization of physicists and publishes more than a dozen scientific journals, including the prestigious Physical Review and Physical Review
Learning Express – Computer Skills Center
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Learn computer and internet basics as well as more about many popular software programs from Microsoft and Adobe.
LinkedIn Learning
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Leading online learning platform that helps anyone learn business, software, technology and creative skills to achieve personal and professional goals.
Our library code is “scpld” (all lowercase).
National Geographic Kids
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Contains National Geographic Kids magazine 2009-present (3 month embargo), 200 National Geographic Kids books, and 500 kid-friendly and downloadable images.
National Geographic Virtual Library
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Contains National Geographic magazine 1888-Current, National Geographic Traveler magazine 2010-Current, as well as hundreds of videos, maps, atlases, and other downloadable images.
O’Reilly for Public Libraries
Use at Home? Yes
Description: On-demand access to a vast collection of titles (including O’Reilly books in early release), videos, case studies, learning paths, expert playlists, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 other computer science and technology publishers.
OAIster
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Millions of digital resources including books, audio files, images, movies and datasets and texts.
Science Reference Center
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Contains full text for hundreds of science magazines, journals, encyclopedias, reference books and a vast collection of images.
ScienceFlix
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Highly-engaging, interactive, curriculum-driven digital resource with reading levels for students in grades 4 through 9. Includes videos, experiments and information on careers in science.
Today’s Science
Use at Home? Yes
Description: Updated weekly and containing thousands of links to a 15-year back-file, Today’s Science bridges the gap between the science that students learn in the classroom and the discoveries pushing the boundaries of science today.
The Conversations With Scientists feature also includes great information on what working as a scientific researcher looks like, and what inspired them to enter their field, making it great inspiration for those considering working in a STEM field.
Our library’s subscription to this resource ends October 31, 2023.