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    Astronomy Guide     

    Text in BROWN indicates that the item is located in Hoover Library.
    Dewey call numbers for books in Astronomy: 520-529.9

    Full-text Astronomy Articles

    • Academic Search Premier (Ebsco)Provided by the Maryland Digital Library.
      • Multidisciplinary database indexing over 3000 journals and magazines and full text for over 1,200 titles (i.e. only some articles are available full text).
      • 1990 to present, but dates vary widely with the journal.
    • Expanded Academic Index ASAP (InfoTrac)
      • Multidisciplinary database indexing about 2000 journals and magazines with about 1000 titles in full text (i.e. only some articles are available full text).
      • 1980 to present, but dates vary widely with the journal.
    • arXiv.org
      • Searchable archive and distribution server for research papers. Covers physics and related disciplines, mathematics, nonlinear sciences, computational linguistics, and neuroscience.
    • GrayLIT Network (U.S. Dept. of Energy's Office of Scientific & Technical Information (OSTI))
      • Portal for technical report information generated through federally funded research and development projects. Excellent site.
    • NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
      • Search for abstracts and full text of articles on astronomy and astrophysics, instrumentation, and physics and geophysics. Includes most of the major astronomical journals.
      • Provides access or pointers to astronomical data catalogs and data archives.
      • Also includes scanned astronomy books, including Martin Zombeck's Handbook of Space Astronomy and Astrophysics.
    • National Academy Press
      • Search or browse over 1,500 books online in science, engineering, health, and technology, including the physical sciences.
    • ScienceDirect
      • One of the world's largest providers of scientific, technical and medical (STM) literature.
    • Scientific American
      • Full-text articles from (v. 274 no. 4) April 1996 to present. Searchable. Can also search for citations from 1993 to present from the Scientific American Archives.
      • Hoover Library carries v. 188 (1953) to present.
    • HighWire Press (Stanford University)
      • Full-text science archive. Develops and maintains Web versions of journals in the life sciences, medicine, physical sciences, and social sciences.
    • Online Serials (Internet Public Library)
      Links to full-text astronomy journals, magazines, etc. Cannot search for articles.

    Astronomy Indexes with Citations

    • FirstSearch (OCLC) - includes the following databases:
      • ArticleFirst - index to items from table of contents of journals, 1990 to present;
      • ECO - index to scholarly journals, 1995 to present;
      • UnionList - list of periodicals held by OCLC member libraries;
      • WorldCat - catalog of all items cataloged by OCLC member libraries.
    • General Science Index (H.W. Wilson)
      • Indexes journals and magazines covering astronomy, atmospheric science, biology, botany, chemistry, conservation, earth science, environment, food, genetics, health, mathematics, medicine, microbiology, nutrition, oceanography, physics, physiology, and zoology.
      • 5/1984 to present.
      • Note: this database allows only 4 users at one time. You could get a message saying the database is busy. In that case, try again later.
      • Paper format: 6/1978 to 5/1991; (Call number: Index 500 G326).
    • E-print Network (U.S. Dept. of Energy's OSTI)
      • Search one or a collection of existing preprint servers that deal with physics, materials, and chemistry, as well as portions of biology, environmental sciences and nuclear medicine.
    • Wiley Interscience
      • Search all John Wiley & Sons' journals, 1996 to present.
      • Citations and abstracts only.
    • Science Online - Search Multiple Journals
      • Search a number of journals from 1965 to present in:
        biochemistry, cell and molecular biology; microbiology and virology; immunology; neurosciences and neurobiology; physiology; plant sciences; other life sciences; clinical medicine; medical research; cardiovascular medicine; psychiatry and psychology; physical sciences; and social sciences.
      • citations with some abstracts and full text.
    • ingenta
      • Search article summaries from over 20,000 publications.
      • Searching is free; viewing the article requires a fee.

    General Resources

    Glossary of Astronomical Terms

    History of Astronomy

    Astronomy Search Engines

    Solar System

    • Encyclopedia of the Solar System. Eds. Paul R. Weissman, et al. San Diego: Academic Press, 1999.
      (Call number: R 523.203 E56)

    Space Weather