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Contents

• Encyclopedias and ebooks
• Astronomy & Science Journals
• Databases
• Online Tutorials
• Astronomy Websites
• Astronomy Conferences & Meetings
• Observatories & Organisations

Encyclopedias and ebooks

• COSMOS: the SAO Encyclopedia of Astronomy
  Written by members of the Swinburne Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing.
  
• Encyclopedia of Astronomy & Astrophysics
  Covers the entire field of astronomy and astrophysics; frequently updated.
  
• Encyclopedia of Space Science & Technology
  Covers astronomy and astrophysics and space technology.
  
• AccessScience
  Science encyclopedia; includes entries on astronomy, space science and physics.
  
• Encyclopedia of Applied Physics
  Comprehensive physics encyclopedia, covers many aspects of applied physics.
• Minding the heavens: the story of our discovery of the Milky Way
• Life's solution: inevitable humans in a lonely universe
• Galaxies in the universe: an introduction
• Handbook of CCD astronomy
• Digital SLR astrophotography

Astronomy & Science Journals: a selection

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• Annual Review of Astronomy & Astrophysics
• Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences
• Astrobiology
  
• Astronomical Journal
  
• Astronomy & Astrophysics (1969-2000)
  Astronomy & Astrophysics (2001+)
  See also Astronomy & Astrophysics Supplement Series
  
• Astronomy & Astrophysics Review
  
• Astronomy & Geophysics: the Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society
  
• Astrophysical Journal
  See also the Supplement Series and Letters
• Icarus
  
• Mercury: the Magazine of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
  
• Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  See also Monthly Notices Letters
  
• Nature (1869+)
  
• Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia ( 1999-2000) issues, see PASA
  
• Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
  Note: most recent two years not available.
  
• Science (1880+)
  
• Scientific American (2006+)
  

Databases

• Web of Science
  Web of Science indexes all the major scholarly journals in astronomy and physics.
  Cited reference search finds articles that cite a person's work from 1900 onwards.
  See the Web of Science demonstrations in online tutorials.
  
• Scopus
  Scopus indexes major scholarly journals and conference papers in astronomy and
  physics. See the Scopus demonstrations in online tutorials.
  
• International Astronomical Union Publications
  Inlcudes the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams, Minor Planet Center
  Publications and International Comet Quarterly.
  
• ADS (Astrophysics Data System)
  Covers astronomy, astrophysics, physics and ArXiv e-prints.
  
• ScienceDirect
  Scholarly journals published by Elsevier and associated publishers.
  Quick search from the homepage or select advanced search
  
• SpringerLink
  Scholarly journals published by Springer.
  Quick search from the homepage or select more options
  
• IOPscience
  Scholarly journals published by the Institute of Physics.
  Search or browse journals
  
• American Institute of Physics - AIP Journals
  Scholarly journals published by the American Institute of Physics.
  
• American Physical Society - APS Journals
  Full text access to Physical Review and Physical Review Letters.
  Search or browse journals
  
• Annual Reviews
  Full text of 33 Annual Reviews in the Science Collection.
  Search or browse reviews
  
• Wiley Online Library Journals
  Scholarly journals published by Wiley, including physics and astronomy.
  Search from the homepage or select advanced search
  
• DOAJ - Directory of Open Access Journals
  Directory of free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.
  Browse astronomy journals.
  Browse physics journals.
  
• Academic Search Complete (EBSCOhost)
  General database with good coverage of astronomy and planetary science articles. Includes articles from New Scientist, Sky and Telescope, Scientific American, Science News, Astronomy and many others. Learn how to use the subject index of this database in online tutorials.
  

Online Tutorials

• 
  Flash video tutorials: astronomy topics
  Each tutorial demonstrates a different database search strategy using astronomy topics.
  Access and search the live databases using the links above.
  • 1. Academic Search Complete: using subject terms to find astronomy articles
    2. Scopus: searching a phrase
    3. Scopus: searching a publication
    4. Scopus: refining results
    5. Scopus: using truncation
    6. Web of Science: searching a publication
    7. Web of Science: searching phrases, sorting by relevance
    8. Web of Science: searching a topic
    9. Web of Science: using truncation, refining a search
    
    

  Astronomy Websites

  • Australian Astronomy
    From the Astronomical Society of Australia.
    
  • Swinburne Astronomy Online Astronomy Links
    From the Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing.
  • Melbourne's Astronomy Central
    Links compiled by Melbourne University.
  • Resources of Scholarly Societies - Astronomy
    Links to the websites of scholarly astronomical societies around the world.
    

  Astronomy Conferences & Meetings

  • Astronomical Society of Australia Harley Wood School
  • Astronomical Society of Australia - Upcoming Meetings
  • International Astronomy Meetings

  Observatories & Organisations

  • Professional Observatories in Australia
  • Public Observatories in Australia
  • Astronomy Research Organisations
  • Astronomical Society of Australia (ASA)