LibGuides: Astronomy &amp; Astrophysics: Literature Search

Top Astronomy Databases & Repositories

ADS (Astrophysics Data System)
The ADS maintains three bibliographic collections containing more than 15 million records covering publications in astronomy and astrophysics, physics, and general science, including all arXiv e-prints. Abstracts and some full-text of major astronomy and physics publications are indexed and searchable. ADS is free to all. To enable access to full text of UT’s subscribed content, register for a user account and then choose UT Austin from the list of institutions.

INSPEC
Primary index for literature in physics, as well as computer and electrical engineering. It covers over 4500 current journals as well as ArXiv preprints and conferences. See information about Inspec's astronomical indexing.
arXiv.org
Primary preprint server for physics and related disciplines, often the first stop for finding papers. Astrophysics section: astro-ph.

NASA PubSpace
NASA's designated public access repository. It is a collection of NASA-funded scholarly publications within the STI Repository, aiming to increase access to federally funded research in accordance with NASA Public Access Policy.
NTRS - NASA Technical Reports Server
The NASA STI Repository (also known as the NASA Technical Reports Server, NTRS) provides access to NASA metadata records, full-text online documents, images, and videos. The types of information included are conference papers, journal articles, meeting papers, patents, research reports, images, movies, and technical videos – scientific and technical information (STI) created or funded by NASA.
ARIBIB
Astronomisches Rechen-Institut BIBliographical Database for Astronomical References: a historical bibliography of astronomy literature up to 2000, based on various printed indexes.

Web of Science
Indexes over 12,000 journals across all the scientific fields.
Google Scholar
Unlimited users.
Google Scholar uses the popular Google search engine to enable searches for scholarly materials such as peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from broad areas of research. It includes a variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web. Google Scholar includes full text and citations.

Use this link to access Google Scholar, and see our Google Scholar Guide for information on using this resource.
Academic Search Complete
A general database with wide coverage of academic and popular literature, such as newspapers, magazines, etc. Good for discovering opinion pieces or journalism sources that might discuss the impact of astronomy on society. This includes recent years of Scientific American, New Scientist, and Astronomy magazine, among other popular science magazines.

Library Catalog
Find books and e-books, journals, media, theses, and everything in the Libraries collections.

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