Metasites, Directories (Pathfinders) | Databases & Catalogs | Eprints, Abstracts, Publications | People, Institutions, Organizations | Software | Reference and Miscellaneous Resources
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.
- EINET Astronomy & EINET Astrophysics
- 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)
- 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
Eprints
- HEP Preprint database
- arXiv Preprint database
- Los Alamos Mirror
- SISSA – ISAS (Trieste) Preprint Mirror (Note: currently not available)
- NRAO RAPsheet: Reprints received in the NRAO Charlottesville library from 1986 forward
- STScI STEPsheet
Article Abstracts and Journals
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
- Astronomical Newsletters
- The Astronomical Journal
- The Astrophysical Journal
- 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
- 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
Books
People, Institutions, Organizations
- Astronomy Librarians and Libraries Addresses (maintained by the ESO Library)
- AAS Membership Directory
- IAU Membership Directory
Software
- Data and Software Archives and Catalogs (maintained by the IfA Library)
Reference and Miscellaneous Resources
Astronomy/Astrophysics/Space Science
- 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
- 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
- US Virtual Astronomical Observatory
- Your Sky: the interactive planetarium of the Web
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Cornell University
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