Subject Guide: Astronomy
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Web Resources:
- A select list of Astronomy resources on the Web.
Citation Guides:
- Use these guides (APA Guide, Other guides) to learn how to cite the materials you find and create a bibliography.
Web Resources:
Selected Astromy Resources on the Web
PROLA
The server was launched in 1998, with an archive of online copy of
Physical Review from 1985 through 1996. Starting in January 2001,
it was expanded to include all APS journal content back to 1893. For
the year 2002, 1998 material has been migrated. In 2003, 1999 will
be migrated and so forth. Reviews of Modern Physics is now part of
PROLA as well. The complete archive consists of all of Physical Review
back to 1893, all of Physical Review Letters back to 1958, and all
of Reviews of Modern Physics back to 1929.
Astronomy Center
AstronomyCenter.org is a web-based databank that provides faculty
with links to a wide range of teaching and learning resources for
the Undergraduate Introductory Astronomy course. All materials are
classified by their topic and activity type, and have descriptions
outlining their content. Information about authors, publishers, costs,
and copyright is also provided.
Educators can use this collection to find curriculum materials, images,
classroom demonstrations, labs, online learning resources, evaluation
instruments, and articles about approaches to astronomy education.
The collection can be searched by keyword or browsed by topic or type
of resource. Advanced Search with more details can also be performed.
Users of the AstronomyCenter.org are encouraged to actively participate.
They may suggest materials for the editors to include in the collection,
share comments, and build personal collections of materials. Although
anyone may use the database, participation requires the creation of
a user account so that contributions can be connected to the user.
Account creation is free and requires only a name and email address.
AstronomyCenter.org is a service provided by the American Astronomical
Society in collaboration with the American Association of Physics
Teachers and the ComPADRE project. It is supported, in part, by the
National Science Foundation and the American Physical Society Campaign
for Physics. Opinions expressed here are not necessarily those of
the AAS, AAPT, APS, or the NSF.
Google Scholar
Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature,
including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts
and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google
Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers,
professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as
well as scholarly articles available across the web.
Office of Scientific
and Technical Information (OSTI)
Discover and use the scientific and technical information resources
of the Department of Energy's Office of Scientific and Technical Information
(OSTI) in broad disciplines such as physics, chemistry, materials,
biology, engineering, energy efficiency, and other related subject
areas. Resources include tools for cross searching bibliographic citations,
full-text technical reports, preprints, and journals citations residing
in multiple databases and Wecb sites.
Scirus - The Search
Engine for Scientists | On-campus | Off-campus
Index to web sites and journal articles with some full text links
Covers scientific, technical and medical information sources.
Excludes sites that contain no scientific content. Scirus reads
non-text files (like pdf), classifies results into pre-defined subject
areas. Coverage: 1973- present
Galileo
Galilei's Notes on Motion
Digital version of Galileo Galilei's Notes on Motion. Contains
folios 33 to 196 from the original loose sheets plus three letters,
all from 1600 to his arrest in Arcetri about 30 years later. The manuscript
has never been translated in full until this electronic representation
in hypertext. The documents are seen in their original Latin with English
translations available for the geometric proofs and the other mathematical
arguments.
Gazetteer
of Planetary Nomenclature
Alphabetical list of names and a list organized by planetary body. Searchable.
The Nine Planets
A multimedia tour of the Solar System.
NASA Planetary
Science Research Discoveries
Archives full-length articles on topics of interest to amateur astronomers,
educators, and general readers. Site administered by two planetary geophysicists
(Univ. of Hawaii) and cosponsored by NASA's Cosmochemistry Program and
has an advisory board that includes scientists from the Johnson Space
Center and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Most of the articles archived
since the site went online (Sept. 1996) are written by one of the two
site managers.
Astrophysics Data
System sponsored by NASA
Provides free access to abstracts, and in some cases particularly for
older articles complete text. One stop search with powerful search
features for astronomy and astrophysics.
Sun-Earth
Viewer
This site makes excellent use of technology to combine materials previously
available on several different sites and in several different formats
into one integrated resource. The site offers images, illustrations,
visualizations, and interviews. Up-to-date solar images in several
wavelengths from the last 24 hours under different conditions and
via different techniques are now easily accessible from one link,
and include information to make this useful to all interested. The
Illustrations section shows solar effects on Earth, the solar interior,
the ionosphere, and other solar effects that involve Earth. Visualizations
include nine movies on different types of solar-planet interactions.
Interviews operate by choosing a video mode, then a subject from a
list, and finally a related question from a box; an expert then will
answer the question. The ability to zoom and pan to areas of interest
is particularly useful.
Teaching Resources