As we continue to replace the print bound journal and index collections at Hagerty with available electronic journal coverage, we have purchased more electronic content and indexes available to the entire University community. We now own the electronic backfiles to 549 journals not previously accessible online to Drexel Libraries. These include several major acquisitions in physics: the AIP Digital Archive and the Springer Link Historical Archives: Physics and Astronomy.

The backfiles consist of full-text PDFs and usually go back to the journal’s first issue. All of these titles are now available via the catalog and electronic journals list. Please see the following pages for the individual journal titles included in each collection:

American Institute of Physics Digital Archive

Springer Link Historical Archives Chemistry and Materials Science

Springer Link Historical Archives Computer Sciences

Springer Link Historical Archives Earth and Environmental Sciences

Springer Link Historical Archives Engineering

Springer Link Historical Archives Mathematics

Springer Link Historical Archives Physics and Astronomy

Recently reported in the Chronicle by Josh Fischman
Earth: Portrait of a Planet a textbook by geologists Stephen Marshak and M. Scott Wilkerson uses Geotours, a CD that guides students on instant virtual field trips using Google Earth, the search company’s Web-based global mapping program. It’s a way to see geology in action.

Students can fly over the Grand Canyon, the Amazon, or the peaks of the Alps, among other places, and dive down to get up close. Google Earth has the ability to zoom in and out. So at Mount Vesuvius, Marshak says, students can see the ruins of Pompeii and a nearby volcanic peak, and then zoom up to an elevation 10 miles above the planet’s surface and realize that the peak is merely a tiny cone growing from the remnants of a much larger volcanic crater.