Abstract Services and Databases
ARIBIB Database
Provides references from Astronomy & Astrophysics Abstracts (AAA)
from 1983 onwards.
Astronomical Data Analysis Centre, NAO Japan (NAOJ/ADAC)
Astronomical Software and
Documentation Service (ASDS)
Astronomical software and telescope manuals.
Astrophysics
Data System (ADS) Abstract service
Abstracts from all major and minor astronomy journals.
Astrophysics
Data Center
(ADC)
Online Access to 760 astronomical catalogues and 550 published
journal tables.
Astronomer's
Bazaar
CDS catalogues and tables from Astronomy and Astrophysics and other major
journals.
Canadian Astronomy Data Centre (CADC)
CDS
Service of Abstracts - A&A, A&A Suppl.
Access to abstracts of A & A (starting with Vol.284, April 1994) and
A & A Suppl. Ser (starting with Vol.103, Jan. 1994) approx. two weeks
before the publication of the printed version
Hipparcos & Tycho
Catalogues
(NED) NASA/IPAC Extragalactic
Database
Provides access to a broad range of published extragalactic data as
well as bibliographic references to published papers. NED also offers
access to Thesis Abstracts on recent doctoral dissertations on
extralactic topics.
NASA Scientific and Technical
Information Program
Provides access to over 3 million aerospace and related citation.
OCLC
NewfirstSearch:
ProceedingsFirst and PapersFirst
Indexes to the published conference and meeting literature held by The
British Library Document Supply Centre. ProceedingsFirst provides
bibliographic information on published proceedings including source, BLDSC
shelfmark and contents listing. PapersFirst enables the user to search
for individual papers from the proceedings held at the BLDSC. This service
requires a password. To register please contact the Librarian.
Planetary Data System
Active archive of usable planetary science data.
SIMBAD
Contains data for celestial objects, stars, galaxies and nonstellar
objects. Web access, no password required. For information about SIMBAD
click here.
SISSA-ISAS Preprint Database
Bulletin board for preprints in astronomy, astrophysics and
cosmology.
UnCover
Commercial document delivery facility. Useful resource for
obtaining bibliographic information about published articles.
IoA
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