Astronomical Bibliographical Services

A Peculiar Newsletter

Newsletter of the IAU Working Group on Ap and related Stars (IAU Commissions 25, 27, 29 and 45). Issued every 6 months.

An Astronomer's Guide to On-line Bibliographic Databases and Information Services

This is Starlink User Note 174.1 (29 November 1993).
See also " A Guide to Astronomical Catalogues, Databases and Archives available through Starlink" , Starlink User Note 162.1 (18. March 1993), also by A.C. Davenhall, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Univ. of Leicester.

Astrophysical Journal Letters Citation Analysis ( ApJ Lett. )

The electronic edition of The Astrophysical Journal Letters (ApJL) allows an easy statistical analysis of citations in the ApJL articles. This page (compiled by Dima Verner) provides citation statistics of the electronic ApJL starting from January 1996. The page is updated bimonthly.

Astrophysics Data System ASIAS Article Service ( ADS Article )

This service provides access to scanned images of journal articles since 1975. So far, we have created images of ApJ Letter journal articles and linked them into the Abstract Service. We will add ApJ articles next, followed by other journals for which we can obtain publisher permission.

Astrophysics Data System ( ADS )

The ADS is a free software aimed at the Astrophysics community. It is a distributed environment that provides access to a variety of astronomical data for the scientific user community. At present the main emphasis is on making data collected by NASA space missions available to astronomers. This is being expanded to include access to data from ground based observations. The ADS provides access to over 190 astronomical catalogs and approximately 125,000 astronomical abstracts. It also provides direct access to the HEASARC Browse tool, NSSDC's Online Data and Information Service (NODIS), the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED), and access to SIMBAD (Set of Identifications, Measurements, and Bibliography for Astronomical Data). The user is able to access all of this information via a simple-to-use Graphical User Interface (GUI). Simply " point and click" to retrieve the information you need for proposals, research projects, or classroom assignments.

CfA Index of ApJ Lett

If that node is busy then try the alternate entry points: here or here or here or here

CfA index of ApJ, AJ and PASP (from Jan. 1988) ( telnet )

CfA Index of ApJ, AJ, PASP

If that node is busy then try the alternate entry points: here or here or here or here

Dean's Homepage ( Personal, professional information about Dean C. Hines, Ph.D., Research Associate at Steward Observatory )

Interests include: Multiwavelength studies of Active Galactic Nuclei with an emphasis on unified Schemes; Radio Galaxies and quasars, QSOs; Binary Stars; Post-AGB stars and pre-planetray nebulae; circumstellar disks; pre-ZAMS systems. UV, Optical & Infrared imaging and spectropolarimetry, and spectroscopy; radio imaging; Space-based UV, Optical, near- and far-IR astronomy;

ESO Preprints Database ( Bibliographic catalogue )

The catalogue of preprints available from the ESO Library includes entries from institutes world-wide.

European Space Information System ( ESIS )

The ESIS project, located at ESRIN, Frascati, Italy in the Information Systems Division of the European Space Agency is a service to the Astronomical and Space Physics communities to provide access to data of all kinds, including images and spectra from a number of space missions and bibliographic references from all the major Astronomical and Space Physics journals.

HST literature

WAIS index to a bibliography of Hubble Space Telescope (HST) related literature. The underlying database is a copy of the list maintained by Sarah Stevens-Rayburn, STScI Librarian.

ISO dedicated A&A Letters ( ISOAandA )

All the papers which have been accepted for a forthcoming issue of Astronomy and Astrophysics Letters dedicated to ISO are listed below. Electronic pre-print versions of these papers are being made available. This page shall be dynamically updated, with the links activated, as the papers are ready to be placed on the server.

Joint Australian Centre for Astrophysical Research in Antarctica

This page is a resource for Antarctic astronomy, providing information of interest to anyone considering the Antarctic plateau as the site for a future major international observatory. It contains papers, images, details of meetings and lists of people involved with Antarctic astrononomy.

Journal of the British Astronomical Association ( Journal of the UK's premier amateur astronomy organisation )

Magellanic Clouds Newsletter ( MCnews )

An bi-monthly electronic publication on Magellanic Clouds related research. The online content of the www page includes downloadable recent and back issues, news, and hyperlinks to other Magellanic Clouds related sites.

The following resources are similar (same sort-key, different text):

Magellanic Clouds Newsletter ( Magellanic Clouds Newsletter )

The Magellanic Clouds Newsletter is an electronic publication for information exchange on Magellanic Clouds research. It is distributed bimonthly and provides abstracts of submitted papers on the Magellanic Clouds, dissertation abstracts, meeting information and job announcements.
The above URL is that of the European mirror site of the Magellanic Clouds Newsletter.

McMaster Cepheid Photometry and Radial Velocity Archive

This site contains ASCII data tables of photometry and radial velocities for Galactic and Extragalactic Cepheids (both Classical and Type II). Data is presented as published and full citations to the original work are given. Currently, data are sorted according to star name.

NASA SCAN

WAIS index to abstracts from NASA's Selected Current Space Aeronautics (SCAN) abstract service

Newsletter for Galactic Center Research ( GCNEWS )

GCNEWS is a bi-monthly Newsletter dedicated to research dealing with the center of the Galaxy. The Newsletter contains abstracts to recently submitted papers with links to electronic preprints, a short invited article, and misc. announcements/conferences/job offer etc. In addition to the Newsletter a weekly Newsflash service distributes recently submitted article by emails. The electronic version of GCNEWS (HTML/PS) is available online, as are the most recently submitted abstracts and papers. On the web-page you will find the Galactic Center White Pages- a listing of people working in this field.

Princeton University - Astrophysics Library

Selected astronomy book and software reviews

Set of Identifications, Measurements, and Bibliography for Astronomical Data ( SIMBAD at CDS )

The SIMBAD astronomical database, created and maintained by the CDS, Strasbourg, brings together basic data, cross-identifications, observational measurements, and bibliography, for celestial objects outside the solar system: stars, galaxies, and nonstellar objects within our galaxy, or in external galaxies. SIMBAD contains information for about 1.5 million objects, for which 4 million identifiers, 2 million observational measurements and 2 million bibliographical references are available. If you don't have a userid yet you first need to register. The following documents can be browsed or retrieved through the network: Hypertext version of the SIMBAD User's Guide and Reference Manual, Simbad News reprinted from Bull. Inform. CDS, Documentation of the SIMBAD astronomical database (ftp service).

SISSA preprint server

Space Telescope Science Institute Library Service

STEPsheet, IAU circulars

STScI 'STEP' Preprint Database

The information includes: Authors, Title, Journal. STScI-STEP is a bibliographic listing of astronomy and astrophysics preprints received at the Space Telescope Science Institute Library during the last two years, including all HST papers in the refereed literature. The preprints include papers submitted to scientific and technical journals and to appear in meeting proceedings; they cover observational, experimental, theoretical, review, instrumentation, image processing, and computing topics in a wide range of astronomical subdisciplines. Preprints include work by ST ScI authors as well as preprints received from authors and institutions world-wide. At any one time, there are approximately 5000 papers in the database, with some 2500 being added each year. Citations are added as papers are published. The database is updated weekly.

STScI Old Preprint Database

The information includes: Authors, Title, Journal. STScI-OLDSTEP is a bibliographic listing of astronomy and astrophysics preprints received at the Space Telescope Science Institute Library prior to the last two years (current papers are in STScI-STEP). OLDSTEP includes approximately 14,000 papers with citations, with some 2500 being added each year. The database is updated annually. The ST ScI Library will not provide copies of either preprints or reprints of papers listed in STScI-OLDSTEP. Contact the authors for copies, or see your librarian about obtaining copies of papers published in meetings or journals not available in your local library.

The European Pulsar Network Data Archive ( EPN data archive )

The European Pulsar Network is maintaining an archive of published data: the database consists largely of pulse profiles but may in the future contain pulse time-of-arrival measurements.

The Hot Star Newsletter

A monthly electronic publication on hot luminous stars (Wolf-Rayet stars, LBV, Of and O stars) and related phenomena in galaxies. On-line resources include abstracts with hyperlinks to full text of preprints, a Wolf-Rayet catalogue and a Wolf-Rayet bibliography.

The Lausanne General Catalogue of Photometric Data ( GCPD )

The General Catalogue of Photometric Data (GCPD) build at the Institute of Astronomy of the University of Lausanne contains photometric data for about 200000 stars from some 75 different systems, taken from about 3300 papers. The WWW server allows to query the database ad retrieve any data from any photometric system. Searching the references by authors' names and keywords from the titles offers a possibility to retrieve the data from each of the 3300 papers directly.

The NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database ( NED )

Research tool providing access to a broad range of published extragalactic data. NED is continuously being updated and augmented. It is the systematic merger of major catalogs of extragalactic objects covering all wavelengths, and of object lists appearing in the refereed literature.
NED contains about 800,000 objects, along with names, redshifts, positions, bibliographic references, photometric measurements, and notes. The Web interface of NED started recently serving images of objects at various wavelengths.

The Net Advance of Physics ( NetAdvPhys )

Online encyclopaedia of physics/astrophysics; includes most review papers in the Los Alamos preprint base catalogued by subject. Will someday hopefully be a complete subject-index to online physics and astrophysics literature.

TUNGUSKA at the University of Bologna (Italy) ( Bologna )

The University of Bologna's official Tunguska Home page. It contains a collection of abstracts presented at the International Workshop Tunguska96 (Bologna, July 15-17, 1996), information about the group of the University of Bologna, data on "Tunguska-related" asteroids, links to Tunguska home pages in the world and related links.

Union List of Astronomical Serials ( ULAS )

The Union List of Astronomical Serials, 2nd edition, is composed of bibliographic information for (primarily) non-commercial publications of observatories and institutions concerned with research in astronomy. To each of the approximately 2300 titles included are appended the holding records of 42 contributing libraries, representing the most comprehensive astronomical collections in North America, with selected holdings from China, Europe, India, and South America as well. ULAS is an on-going project of the Physics-Astronomy-Mathematics Division of the Special Libraries Association. Judy Bausch of the Yerkes Observatory is the coordinator/compiler. For additional information, contact Judy at jab@tycho.yerkes.uchicago.edu or Sarah Stevens-Rayburn at library@stsci.edu.

Universal Research Archive of Networked Information in Astronomy ( URANIA )

Named for the muse of astronomy, the Urania resource is composed of electronic astronomical scholarly journals, bibliographic information, electronic archives of original data, electronic copies of the historical scholarly literature for the last twenty years and a special reference system archive organized by object in the sky. The separate resources which make up Urania comprise a functioning distributed digital library of astronomical information which provides a power and utility heretofore unavailable to the researcher.

University of Melbourne - School of Physics: Astrophysics Group