Resources in Astronomy

Metasites, Directories (Pathfinders)

• Astronomical Resources on the Internet: article in Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, #34, Spring 2002, by Joe Kraus and Pete Banholzer.
• AstroWeb [at CDS] | AstroWeb [at NRAO]: A collection of pointers to astronomically relevant resources, maintained by the The AstroWeb Consortium
  
• EINET Astronomy
• EINET Astrophysics
• Google Directory: Astronomy
• Sky and Telescope's Astronomy Web sites
• Star*s Family: Directories of organizations, individuals' pages and abbreviations/acronyms
• Web Sources in Astronomy:  (maintained by the IfA Library)
• WebStars: Astrophysics in Cyberspace
• Yahoo Astronomy Page

Databases & Catalogs

• ADS (Astrophysics Data System)
  • Astronomy Query Form
• Astronomer's Bazaar CDS catalogues from A & A; includes Dictionary of Nomenclature of Celestial Objects
• Data and Software Archives and Catalogs (maintained by the IfA Library)
• DIRA2 Over 280 astronomical catalogues managed by Astronet Database Group - Italy
• HEASARC (High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center) primary archive for high-energy astronomy missions, in extreme ultraviolet, X-ray and gamma-ray wavelengths
• NED NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database
• NSSDC National Space Science Data Center
• PDS Planetary Data System
• SIMBAD Set of Identifications, Measurements and Bibliography for Astronomical Data
• WDB:  A Web of Database Interface for ESO and HST archives

Eprints, Abstracts, Publications

• HEP Preprint database
• ArXiv Preprint database
  • Los Alamos Mirror
  • SISSA - ISAS (Trieste) Preprint Mirror
• NRAO RAPsheet: Reprints received in the NRAO Charlottesville library from 1986 forward
• STScI STEPsheet
• ApJ/ApJL/ApJS Preprints

Astronomy/Astrophysics/Space Sciences

• A&A and A&AS Abstracts
• Abstracts, Journals, and Newsletters (maintained by the IfA Library)
• ADS (Astrophysics Data System)
• Abstracts
• Astronomy & Astrophysics Abstracts search template
• AAS WWW bibliographical/abstract services Indexes to ApJ, ApJS, AJ, and PASP, from 1988 to the present.
• Astronomical Newsletters
• The Astronomical Journal
• The Astrophysical Journal
• ApJ/ApJL/ApJS Preprints
• Papers Submitted to Selected Astronomical Publications: Formerly the Yellow Pages. Indexes papers submitted to: ApJ, ApJL, ApJS, AJ, Icarus, PASP, Revista Mexicana de Astronomia y Astrofizica, and Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada
• IAU:  Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams
• ICARUS
• Information Bulletin on Variable Stars
• Mercury
• Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Website and Table of contents
• NewAstronomy
• NOAO Newsletter
• NRAO Newsletter
• Obervatory Annual Reports
• PASP : Tables of contents and abstracts from past (since 1992) and upcoming issues; information on the conference series and electronic submissions. A searchable index is available from CDS.
• Sky and Telescope
  • Biographical Index to Sky and Telescope
• Union List of Astronomy Serials. (ULAS), 2nd edition, is composed of bibliographic information for (primarily) non-commercial publications of observatories and institutions concerned with research in astronomy

 

Other Periodicals

• American Scientist
• Chronicle of Higher Education
• Discover
• Nature
• NewScientist
• Science
• The Scientist

Books
• Astronomy Book and Software Reviews
• ADS Digital Library
  • Core List of Astronomy Books
    
  • Core List of Astronomy and Physics Journals

People, Institutions, Organizations

• Astronomy Librarians and Libraries Addresses (maintained by the ESO Library)
• Electronic mail addresses : Royal Greenwich Observatory electronic mail directory
• AAS Membership Directory
• IAU Membership Directory
• Libweb:  Library websites worldwide

Software

• Data and Software Archives and Catalogs (maintained by the IfA Library)

Reference and Miscellaneous Resources

• Astronomiae Historia / History of Astronomy
• Astronomical Almanac
• Astronomy Picture of the Day
• CEPS: Center for Earth and Planetary Studies - Smithsonian
• CFHT's Astronomy Images - archive (2002 - present) of monthly images from the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope
• Digitized Sky Survey (STScI) search template
• IAU Commission 5 -Task Group on Astronomical Designations
  • "How to refer to a source or designate a new one"
  • "IAU Recommendations for Nomenclature".
• International Astronomy Meetings
• IPAC Skyview: image display and analysis program for X Windows
• NASA: Office of Education
• NASA STI: Scientific and Technical Information
• The Nine Planets : NASA's Multimedia tour of the Solar System
• SkyView : The Internet's Virtual Telescope
• Space Calendar
• Star*s Family: Directories of organizations, individuals' pages and abbreviations/acronyms
• Your Sky: the interactive planetarium of the Web

Corrections, changes and suggestions to:

Kathleen Robertson
Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii, Manoa
library at ifa dot hawaii dot edu

Page last updated:
19 October 2007