Astronomy Research Guide
This is a general research guide for the undergraduate courses in Astronomy at OSU. You'll find suggestions for locating books, articles, topical overviews, research tools, and factual information. If further assistance is needed, please contact the subject librarian for Astronomyto arrange an appointment: Uta Hussong (737-7278), Uta.Hussong@oregonstate.edu.
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Associations
Agencies
Space Missions
People in Astronomy
Observations
Data Sets
Finding Books in Online Catalogs
Finding Articles in Journals
- Academic Search Premiere - Library web (1990-present).
Indexes about 1250 publications including general interest and scientific magazines and some newspapers as well as many research journals. Abstracts included and many articles are full-text. The Valley Library subscribes to most of the magazines and journals indexed in this database. Useful for finding information on current issues in the news media. - Applied Science & Technology Abstracts - Abstracts & Index: 1983-present
Index to journal articles from over 400 research journals covering aeronautics; chemistry; computer technology; engineering; environment; food science; geology; mathematics; metallurgy; mineralogy; oceanography; petroleum/gas; physics; plastics; textiles; transportation; etc. - Computer & Electrical Engineering and Physics Abstracts Databases (INSPEC) -- Abstracts and index: 1969-present
INSPEC includes citations and abstracts for research articles in physics, computer science and electrical engineering. It corresponds to the following print indexes: Physics Abstracts; Computer & Control Abstracts; and Electrical & Electronics Abstracts. - National Technical Information Service (NTIS) -- Abstracts and index: 1983-present
Government sponsored research reports and technical papers from all areas of physical, life and applied science. - PapersFirst/ProceedingsFirst -- Index only: 1993-present
Index to conferences and the papers presented at them. Use PapersFirst to search by author or paper title. Use ProceedingsFirst to search by subject or conference name. - ArticleFirst -- Index only: 1990-present
Indexes articles from over 12,500 journals in all fields. Use ArticleFirst to search by author, title and keyword. Also contains table of contents and holdings information for the ArticleFirst journals; search by journal name, journal subject or year. - Dissertation Abstracts -- Abstracts and index: 1861-present
Index to doctoral dissertations and masters theses in all academic disciplines completed at U.S. institutions. Abstracts only since 1980. - Science Citation Index -- Index only: 1987-present
CD Network - Use limited to campus network. - Index of cited articles from over 5000 scientific journals in all areas of science. Search by cited author, original author, title keywords or journal name. - WorldCat
Index to over 30 million records cataloged by most North American and European libraries. Materials indexed include books, journals, conferences, films, videos, recordings, musical scores, computer software, maps and manuscripts. Materials date back to the 11th century. - ADS Astronomy and Astrophysics Abstract Service
Site has abstracts and bibliographic data for reports from 1982 to the present; searchable by author, object, title or abstract keywords - ARIBIB
ARI Bibliographical Database for Astronomical References - NASA CASI Technical Report Servicer
The NASA/ReconPLUS database; searchable by multiple fields, including keywords, report number, and date - Union List of Astronomy Serials (ULAS)
Searchable index of bibliographic information of approximately 2300 astronomy titles
- Preprints
- MSSSO Preprints - Mount Stromlo and Sliding Spring Observatories
- Bologna Astrophysical Preprints
- National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) RAPS database of Preprints and Published Papers
- Princeton Observatory Preprints
- Io Fact Sheet - Part of NASA's Project Galileo web site
- OSU's Electronic Journal list for Physical Sciences
- ASTRONOMY Magazine - The world's largest English-language magazine for astronomy hobbyists
- Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement Series - A European journal
- The Astronomical Journal - Published by the University of Chicago for the American Astronomical Society
- Astrophysical Journal - University of Chicago Press
- Icarus - International Journal of Solar System Studies; Table of Contents only
- Sky and Telescope: The Essential Magazine of Astronomy
- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society - A Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society
- PASP, Electronic Edition - Electronic version of Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
- The Woman Astronomer - Quarterly journal focusing on women in astronomy
- Notes on Motion by Galileo - Joint Project of Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Florence, Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, Florence, and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin
- Information and On-Line Data in Astronomy - Online compliment to book of same title edited by Daniel Egret and Miguel A. Albrect
- Exobiology of Comets and Meteorites: Annotated Bibliography
- On the Question of the Mars Meteorite - Site maintained by the Lunar and Planetary Institute
- Astrographic Catalogue (AC) 2000 - An international effort designed to photograph and measure the positions of all stars brighter than magnitude 11.0.
Reference Sources
- Encyclopedias and Star Atlases
- Encyclopedia of the Solar System (Ref QB501 .E521 1999)
- Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia - Compiled by Jean Schneider, Observatoire de Paris; has both English and French versions
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/planets/ - Millennium Star Atlas (Ref QB65 .S62 1997) - An all-sky atlas comprising one million stars and 10,000 nonstellar objects
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
- European Space Agency (ESA)
- Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) - Studies current state, evolution and formation of the solar system
- Cassini: Voyage to Saturn - Cassini Mission home page
- Galileo Solid State Imaging Full Data Releases - Images and data obtained by NASA/JPL's Galileo mission
- Hipparcos Space Astrometry Mission - Hipparcos is a pioneering space experiment dedicated to the precise measurement of the positions, parallaxes and proper motions of the stars.
- Mars Global Surveyor - NASA site with information related to Mars Global Surveyor
- Mars Pathfinder Mission - NASA site with photos and information on the Mars Pathfinder Mission
- Lunar Prospector Home page - Site maintained by the NASA/Ames Research Center in Mountain View, CA
- AAS Membership Directory
- Women of NASA - Profiles of women working in various fields of NASA (K-12 Orientation)
- Helen Sawyer Hogg - Site named for former professor of astronomy; site has links to other Women in Astronomy Resources
- CSWA Women in Astronomy - Produced by the American Astronomical Society's Committee on the Status of Women. It includes the names, professional affiliations and scientific interest information of females in the disciplines of astronomy and astrophysics.
- Planetary Data System (PDS) - Digital data from NASA planetary missions, astronomical observations and laboratory measurements
- CHIANTI: A Database for Astrophysical Emission Line Spectroscopy - The CHIANTI project was originally set up by Dr. Ken Dere of the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, Dr. Helen Mason of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge, and Prof. Brunella Monsignori-Fossi of the Arcetri Astrophysical Observatory in Florence, Italy
- SIMBAD Astronomical Database - Data and references for galactic objects
- NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED) - Data and references for extragalactic objects
- Catalog of Infrared Observations (CIO) - Database of over 325,000 published infrared observations of more than 55,000 individual astronomical sources over the wavelength range from 1 to 1000 microns
- International Ultraviolet Explorer - IUE Data Archive at the Space Telescope Science Institute
Other Useful Internet Sites
- Gateways to Astronomy Resources
- NetFirst - Index of internet sites searchable by subject, title, author, etc.
http://osulibrary.orst.edu/research/databases/dbtitle.htm#N - Net Advance of Physics: Bioastronomy - Experimental page with links to bibliographies and other reference material related to bioastronomy
http://web.mit.edu/afs/athena.mit.edu/user/r/e/redingtn/www/netadv/bioast.html - Net Advance of Physics: Meteors - Links to bibliographies, reference materials, and Internet sites related to meteors, including the Martian meteorites
http://web.mit.edu/afs/athena.mit.edu/user/r/e/redingtn/www/netadv/meteors.html - Resources in Astronomy - University of Minnesota Science and Engineering Library
http://sciweb.lib.umn.edu/subject/astro.html - Astronomy Education Resources - Links to workshops, resource materials; maintained by the University of Hawaii
http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/tops/resources.html
- NetFirst - Index of internet sites searchable by subject, title, author, etc.
- AAS Job Register - Job site maintained by the American Astronomical Society
http://www.aas.org/JobRegister/aasjobs.html - The Astronomy Thesaurus - Thesaurus of astronomical terms compiled by Robyn M. Shobbrook (AAO) and Robert R. Shobbrook (Sydney University); terms cam be searched in English, French, Spanish, German, or Italian; gives related terms, broader terms, and narrower terms
http://msowww.anu.edu.au/library/thesaurus/ - Bad Astronomy - Philip Plait, an astronomer at Goddard Space Flight Center, has created this page that identifies and counters bad astronomy in the news.
http://www.badastronomy.com/ - College-Level Astronomy Courses - A set of links maintained by Eckerd College to over one hundred different college-level astronomy courses, mostly at the beginner level.
http://www.eckerd.edu/academics/nas/chn/sitescol.html - Comet Hale-Bopp Home Page (JPL) - NASA site with over 4,700 images, this site has the largest collection of Comet Hale-Bopp images in the world available on the Internet.
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/comet/ - Comets and Meteor Showers - Gary W. Kronk's (an amateur astronomer) site
http://comets.amsmeteors.org/ - Earth-crossing asteroids - Scott Hudson's page that describes and presents results from NASA-sponsored research on the physical modeling of Earth-crossing asteroids
http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/~hudson/Research/Asteroids/index.htm - Exploring Mars - Educational products about Mars; maintained by the Lunar and Planetary Institute
http://cass.jsc.nasa.gov/expmars/expmars.html - Galaxies and Quasars - Astrophysics Research Center of the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory site
http://www.llnl.gov/urp/IGPP/galaxies/homepage.html - The Galileo Project, Home page - Rice University hypertext source of information on the life and work of Galileo Galilei
http://es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo/ - Gazeteer of Planetary Nomenclature - Detailed information about all names of topographic and albedo features on planets and satellites
http://wwwflag.wr.usgs.gov/USGSFlag/Space/nomen/nomen.html - International Astronomy Meetings - List of astronomy meetings is compiled by Liz Bryson of the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope and is formatted by the CADC of the National Research Center (NRC)
http://cadcwww.dao.nrc.ca/meetings/meetings.html - Multiwavelength Milky Way - Astrophysics Data Facility site
http://adc.gsfc.nasa.gov/mw/milkyway.html - Solar Eclipse: Sun-Earth Connection - This resource is presented by The Exploratorium and NASA's Sun-Earth Connection Education Forum
http://www.exploratorium.edu/eclipse/cmes.html - Spacetime Wrinkles - University of Illinois site with information and Internet links related to Einstein exhibit
http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Cyberia/NumRel/NumRelHome.html - Space Telescope Science Institute - Hubble Space Telescope
http://www.stsci.edu/top.html - Space Weather: A Research Perspective - A National Research Council site
http://www.nas.edu/ssb/cover.html - Universe at the Museum of Science - Exhibit at the Museum of Science, Boston
http://www.mos.org/sln/wtu/index.html - Virtual Trips to Black Holes and Neutron Stars - by Robert Nemiroff (Michigan Technological University)
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/rjn_bht.html
Other Useful Subject Research Guides
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