Institute of Astronomy

Library News

New Year New Books 2019

Published on 14/01/2019 

These new books will be on display in the Hoyle Building Library Area for the month of January. There is a clipboard underneath the display where you can record your interest in any of the books. The book will then be loaned to you at the end of the month.

Magnetohydrodynamics in Binary Stars / C.G. Campbell. Second edition. Cham: Springer, 2018. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, 456. xvii, 474 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. ISBN:9783319976457 (118/CAM)

New books for November 2018

Published on 01/11/2018 

These new books will be on display in the Hoyle Building Library Area for the month of November. There is a clipboard underneath the display where you can record your interest in any of the books. The book will then be loaned to you at the end of the month.

Hawking Radiation : From Astrophysical Black Holes to Analogous Systems in Lab / Francesco D. Belgiorno, Sergio L. Cacciatori, Daniele Faccio. Singapore : World Scientific 2019. xv, 323 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. ISBN:9789814508537 (58/BEL)

New Books October 2018

Published on 03/10/2018 

These new books will be on display in the Hoyle Building Library Area for the month of October. There is a clipboard underneath the display where you can record your interest in any of the books. The book will then be loaned to you at the end of the month.

Libraries, books, and collectors of texts, 1600-1900 [Chapter 7 about John Couch Adams] / edited by Annika Bautz and James Gregory. Routledge, New York : 2018. xii, 253 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm. ISBN:9781138593190 (F.33.1)

New Books August 2018

Published on 08/08/2018 

These new books will be on display in the Hoyle Building Library Area for the month of August. There is a clipboard underneath the display where you can record your interest in any of the books. The book will then be loaned to you at the end of the month.

NEW BOOKS: AUGUST 2018

New books for July 2018

Published on 03/07/2018 

NEW BOOKS: JULY 2018

These new books will be on display in the Hoyle Building Library Area for the month of July. There is a clipboard underneath the display where you can record your interest in any of the books. The book will then be loaned to you at the end of the month.

Nature Astronomy

Published on 25/06/2018 

We are pleased to announce that we have online access to the journal 'Nature Astronomy'.  Abbreviation: NatAs.

Current and back issues of the journal can be accessed through the journal homepage: NATURE ASTRONOMY

Monday 21 May: Occupation of Greenwich House

Published on 21/05/2018 

Following the occupation and closure of Greenwich House at the weekend.  The Institute of Astronomy Library is working normally.  However, the front door (requiring an Institute key) will remain locked.  People without an Institute key should contact the Librarian for access.

M.Hurn (Departmental Librarian)

 

New books for May 2018

Published on 04/05/2018 

These new books will be on display in the Hoyle Building Library Area for the month of May. There is a clipboard underneath the display where you can record your interest in any of the books. The book will then be loaned to you at the end of the month.

Cosmic Magnetic Fields / edited by Jorge Sanchez Almeida and Maria Jesus Martinez Gonzalez. Cambridge University Press, 2018. Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics, Volume 25. xiv, 190 Pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. ISBN:9781107097810 (49/ALM)

New books on display for March 2018

Published on 01/03/2018 

These new books will be on display in the Hoyle Building Library Area for the month of March. There is a clipboard underneath the display where you can record your interest in any of the books. The book will then be loaned to you at the end of the month.

Handbook of supernovae /  Athem W. Alsabti, Paul Murdin, Editors. Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2017. 2727 pages (3 volumes) : illustrations ; 24 cm. Springer Reference. ISBN:9783319218458 (122/ALS)

Important changes to Library systems

Published on 29/11/2017 

In common with the majority of Cambridge University libraries, there will be important changes to our library systems over the next two months.