Library Guides: PHL 278: Origins of Life: Finding Books

Selected Reference Resources

Want quick, basic information? Background? Use Reference Books (print and online) to learn basic information, check facts, understand relationships and contexts, get ideas for further research, generate topics, etc. The online reference books can be used on or off-campus; the print reference books listed below are located in the Reference Section of the MSU Library.

ONLINE: Encyclopedia of Astrobiology
Call Number: Online

ISBN: 3642112749

Publication Date: 2011
PRINT: Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics by Murdin, Paul, Editor-in-Chief
Call Number: QB14.E534 2001 v.1-4 [3rd Floor]

ISBN: 0333750888

Publication Date: 2001
PRINT: Encyclopedia of Bioethics
Call Number: QH332.E52 2004 v1-5 [3rd Floor]

ISBN: 0028657748

Publication Date: 2004
ONLINE: Oxford Reference Online
Call Number: Online

Provides searchable full-text of Oxford University Press reference books across disciplines.
PRINT: Scientific Thought: In Context by Lerner, K. Lee and Brenda Wilmoth Lerner, Editors
Call Number: Reference [1st Floor] Q175.S4238 2009 v.1-3

ISBN: 9781414402987

Publication Date: 2009

Selected E-Books on Astrobiology, Exobiology, the Origins of Life, etc.

Here are some suggested online e-books held in the Renne Library collection. You will also find many print and additional online books on your topic by searching the MSU Library Catalog or CatSearch (see the Finding Books box above).