Research Guides: Astronomy: Articles, Technical Reports, and Journals

Articles, Technical Reports and Journals

The following databases will help you locate astronomy and astrophysics related journal articles, technical reports, and top journals.

arXiv This link opens in a new window
Openly accessible, moderated repository for scholarly articles in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, nonlinear sciences, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, and statistics.
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Astrophysics Data System (ADS) This link opens in a new window
Abstracts/articles in the fields of Astronomy and Astrophysics.

NASA in PubSpace in PMC
Web portal for easy public access to the peer-reviewed papers resulting from NASA-funded research held in PubMed Central (PMC). PMC is a full-text, online archive of journal literature operated by the National Library of Medicine.

Ebook Central This link opens in a new window
Extensive collection of ebooks on a variety of subjects, such as aviation and human factors.
- Bookshelves are based on your ERNIE login. (Older versions of bookshelves were overridden.)
- A separate Ebook Central account is no longer required for the use of Bookshelf, highlighting, and downloading features.
- You can add books to your Bookshelf by clicking on the Add to Bookshelf link located on the left of the book’s Detail Page or by placing a bookmark on any page within the book.
- For most books the print/download limit is 40% of the book's pages. Printing or downloading a chapter or page range do the same thing and deduct in the same way based on the pages allowed. Both options create a PDF that does not expire.
- Check the "Availability" section, on the Detail Page, or in the Book Details side panel to see how many copies are available and if it is for Online reading or Download, or both.
- You can change the language of the interface by clicking on Settings in the naviagation bar and clicking on Language. Choose your language and save the changes.
- To share ebooks or chapters, click the Share Link to Book button.
- For help using and searching in the database, click the question mark icon (?) in the upper right corner, or use their Help Guide
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- Click on the Request button or request this book link to fill out the form to request the library purchase it if you cannot locate it in our catalog.
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Provides access to citation/abstract details for hundreds of thousands of worldwide publications such as journals (including open access journals), conference papers, books, and book chapters. Includes journal impact factors in the Journal Citation Reports tab.
- Web of Science includes a subscription to Journal Citation Reports (JCR), a tool which analyzes citation references, measures research influence and impact at the journal and category levels, and shows the relationship between citing and cited journals. To learn more about JCR, please see the following sources:
  - Getting Started with Journal Citation Reports
  - Journal Citation Reports: Learn the Basics
- To create a shareable link to a document, copy the URL in the browser's address bar and use the Create Proxy Links tool to create an authenticated link.

IsisCB
A digitized version of the Isis Cumulative Bibliography of the History of Science, spanning sixty years from 1913 to 1975, This resource contain data accumulated and published annually and semi-annually in the journal Isis since its founding.
IsisCB Explore
IsisCB Explore is a research tool for the history of science, whose core dataset comes from bibliographical citations in the Isis Bibliography of the History of Science. The IsisCB currently contains 40 years of citation data from 1974 to 2014.
The dataset is composed of two main types of records: Citations, items from the bibliography that have been classified and indexed, and Authorities, records that include both subject terms that classify citations as well as authors, publishers, and journals that have written and published those works.

Scopus This link opens in a new window
Abstracts and citations of scholarly articles in the fields of life science, health science, physical science, and social science.
Springer Nature Link This link opens in a new window
Ebooks and peer-reviewed journals in the areas of life sciences, biomedicine, behavioral sciences, engineering, and mathematics. Previously called SpringerLink.
- To create a shareable link to a document, copy the URL in the browser's address bar and use the Create Proxy Links tool to create an authenticated link.

ESSOAr: Earth and Space Science Open Archive
Open Access pre-print server on the subject of earth and space science.

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) This link opens in a new window
NASA-created and NASA-funded materials including conference papers, NACA documents, images, journal articles, photos, meeting papers, patents, research reports, and technical videos.
SPIE Digital Library This link opens in a new window
Optics and photonics technical papers from SPIE journals and conference proceedings.
- To create a shareable link to a document, copy the DOI URL in the record and use the Create Proxy Links tool to create an authenticated link.

SciTech Connect
Search publicly available research documents, including technical reports, from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Scientific and Technical Information.
TRAIL: Technical Report and Image Library
Use the TRAIL search tool to find and access digital versions of U.S. technical reports published prior to 1975.

DTIC Online: Public Technical Reports This link opens in a new window
Searches declassified Department of Defense and government-funded scientific, technical, engineering, and business-related documents from the Defense Technical Information Center.
National Technical Reports Library (NTRL) This link opens in a new window
U.S. government-funded scientific, technical, engineering, and business information from more than 200 U.S. government agencies.

Nature Astronomy
Publisher: Full-Text Availability. 2017- Present
Nature Astronomy publishes research, reviews and commentary at the cutting edge of astronomy, astrophysics and planetary science. Aiming to promote closer interaction between diverse astronomy-relevant disciplines, they consult widely with researchers at all stages of their careers, and more than one third of their commissioned authors are women.
Nature
Publisher: Full-text availability. 1869 - Present
Nature is a British multidisciplinary scientific journal, first published on 4 November 1869. It is one of the most recognizable scientific journals in the world, and was ranked the world's most cited scientific journal by the Science Edition of the 2018 Journal Citation Reports and is ascribed an impact factor of 43.070, making it one of the world's top academic journals.
The Astrophysical Journal
Publisher: Full-text Availability, 1996 -2019
The Astrophysical Journal is devoted to recent developments, discoveries, and theories in astronomy and astrophysics. Publications in ApJ constitute significant new research that is directly relevant to astrophysical applications, whether based on observational results or on theoretical insights or modeling.
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Publisher: Full-text Availability, 2001 -2020
Astronomy & Astrophysics is a leading international Journal that publishes papers on all aspects of astronomy and astrophysics (theoretical, observational, and instrumental) independently of the techniques used to obtain the results.

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