Literature

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Electronic Access to Journals, Articles, Books, etc.

• Preprint Server
  • astro-ph Astrophysics Preprint Server Los Alamos, USA
    • mirror at Augsburg University (Germany)

• Table Of Contents Services
  • ADS Table of Contents Service
    (ApJ, ApJL, AJ, A&A, MNRAS, PASP, .....)
    • Mirror site at ESO (Garching, Germany)

• Abstract Services
  • ADS Astronomy Abstract Service
    • Mirror site at ESO (Garching, Germany)
  • ADS Abstract Service
    • What's New
    • ADS Space Instrumentation Abstract Service
    • ADS Physics and Geophysics Abstract Service
  • CDS abstract service : (A&A , A&A-SS)
  • McDonald Observatory Peridier Library (University of Texas, USA)

• Article Services (full papers)
  • ADS Article Service : (A&A, ApJ, PASP, ..... )
    • Mirror site at ESO (Garching, Germany)
  • ADS Online Proceedings
  • ESA Publications (via ESRIN )

• Google Scholar search engine for search of scientific/academic material

• Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek Uni Regensburg mit Zugriff für MPG

• The Astronomical Journal

• Astronomische Nachrichten

• Astronomy & Astrophysics
  • up to end of 2000
  • 2001 ff.

• The Astrophysical Journal

• European Geophysical Society (EGS):
  • Natural Hazards And Earth System Sciences
    (journal)
  • Athmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussion
    (interactive EGS fully electronic journal)

• Monthly Notices Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS, UK)

• Physical Review Letters (American Physical Society)

• Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan (PASJ)

• Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (PASP)

• New Astronomy
  An international, electronic Journal in Astronomy and Astrophysics

• The Open (Access) Astronomy Journal
  The Open Astronomy Journal is an Open Access online journal, which publishes research articles, reviews, and letters in all areas of astronomy and astrophysics.

• Active Galaxies Newsletter

• Information Bulletin on Variable Stars
  Comissions 27 and 42 of the IAU

• Star Formation Newsletter (galactic SF only)
  
  
• NASA e-books

Other General Data Bases for Articles

• INSPEC Database for Physics, Electronics and Computing provided by FIZ
  • How to get the access rights if you are employee of the MPE
  
  
  
• Journals
  If you have access problems, switch off the PROXY!
  • Astronomy Magazines
  • Journal of Geophysical Research - Space Physics
  • Legacy The Journal of the High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Center (HEASARC)
  • Nature
  • Nature News
  • Nature - deutsche Web-Version
  • Science On-Line Science Magazine
  • New Journal of Physics
  • Scientific American
  • Sterne und Weltraum
  • Sky & Telescope
  • The Journal of Astronomical Data (JAD)

• Books
  • ADS Digital Library
  • Zombeck : Handbook of Space Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • The Physics Textbook

  • Selected Astronomy Book and Software Reviews

• NASA Press Releases
  • NASA Press Releases
  • Kennedy Space Center Press Releases
  • Shuttle Status Reports
  
  
  
• Libraries
  • The WWW Virtual Library
  • Astrobibliothek (MPA/MPE)
  • Library Catalogue of the MPA/MPE Library (LIBERO)
  • CFHT Library Home Page (Hawaii, USA)
  • ESO Libraries homepage
  • The Library of Congress (USA)

• Astronomy Thesaurus

• Information Systems
  • ADS : Astrophysics Data System (Harvard, USA)
  • CDS Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg
  • FIZ : Fachinformationszentrum Karlsruhe
    (STN Service Center Europe - more than 190 databases in science, technology etc.)
  • ZIM : Zentrum für Informationsmanagement in der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
    (Zugang nur MPG intern)

• 200 Most Recent IAU Circulars
  Username und Password für die IAUCs finden Sie hier!
  • All IAU Circulars received at MPE up to no. 8555
    ( restricted access : for MPE only)

• All Minor Planet Electronic Circulars (MPEC) received at MPE
  (restricted access : for MPE only!)

• Publishers
  • Cambridge University Press (U.K.)
  • EDP Sciences (France), publishing A&A
  • Elsevier Science Information Service
  • Kluwer Academic Publishers Information Service
  • Springer Information Service
  • Twin Press

• Citation Index
  Web of Science and Journal Citation Report for the Institutes of the Max-Planck-Society
  If you have access problems, switch off the PROXY!

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For more information look at the relevant sections of the AstroWeb or the WWW Virtual Library .

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