Curious about Volcanoes? GALILEO Can Help Satisfy Your Curiosity!

Volcanoes have been getting a lot of attention lately with the eruption of Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull. If you want to learn more about volcanoes, here are a few GALILEO resources that can help.

First, you can catch up on the latest news with Newspaper Source or ProQuest Newspapers if you need to know what’s happening.

The Encyclopaedia Britannica editors have already updated the Iceland article with information about the Eyjafjallajökull eruption. The volcano article also has information, images, and videos of volcanoes from around the world.

For those who have access, just search for volcanoes in SIRS Discoverer and SIRS Issues Researcher to find diagrams, images, editorially-selected websites, and magazine and newspaper articles for students.

MasterFILE Premier includes articles from popular magazines. Just search for volcanoes.

For those interested in recent scholarly research on volcanoes, check out Science and Technology Collection.

Image from Encyclopaedia Britannica