Key Journals:
Highlighted Databases
Smithsonian/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Operated by the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian under a NASA grant, ADS is a digital library portal for researchers in astronomy and physics.
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ESASky - European Space Agency (ESA)
ESASky is an application that allows you to visualize and download public astronomical data from space-based missions.
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NASA Exoplanet Science Institute (NExScI)
NExScI is the science operations and analysis center for NASA's Exoplanet Exploration Program. It provide tools and archives for the exoplanet community.
Article Databases
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SIMBADhe SIMBAD astronomical database provides basic data, cross-indentificatons and bibliographic references for celestrial objects outside the solar system.
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ArXiv.org (e-Prints)Started in 1995, this site provides a fully automated electronic archive and distribution server for research papers. Covered areas include physics and related disciplines, mathematics, nonlinear sciences, computational linguistics, and neuroscience.
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NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED)he NED database contains positions, basic data and names for extragalactic objects, as well as bibliographic references to published papers, and notes from catalogs and other publications.
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Web of Science This link opens in a new window
This database is a core general science resource, covering all aspects of scientific literature. It also has a number of tools that make it a unique resource for finding scholarly literature. Item records come with links both to the works cited by the paper in question and the future works that cite that paper. Web of Science also allows the user to set up email alerts for specific authors or topics, provides researcher profiles, and to use associated journal metrics provided by the vendor.
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Inspec This link opens in a new window
Inspec is a database of research literature in the fields of engineering, physics and computing. It includes journal articles, conference papers and book content.
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Energy Citation DatabaseContains publicly available bibliographic records for energy and energy-related scientific and technical information from the Department of Energy (DOE). 1948+
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CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics This link opens in a new windowThis reference work comprises hundreds of tables of scientific data, including physical constants, chemical properties, mathematics, and laboratory safety. Searching by chemical structure is possible via a drawing tool.
Journal Article & Book Chapter Collections
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ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
ScienceDirect is a general science database that searches journal articles and book chapters in all areas of science, technology, and health. ScienceDirect also provides full text access to a number of major reference works, allows the user to create email alerts for specific journal titles, book series, or research topics, and provides access to a limited number of "pre-pub" articles (articles accepted for publication but not yet officially released).
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SPIE Digital Library This link opens in a new window
The SPIE (The International Society for Optics and Photonics) Digital Library includes SPIE journals and conference papers on optics and photonics.
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JSTOR This link opens in a new window
This database provides full text access to the back issues of core scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Book reviews are included as well as journal articles. Abstracts are available for some of the articles.
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Springer Nature Link This link opens in a new window
The Springer Nature Link database provides full-text access to selected journals, eBooks, reference works, and proceedings. Abstracts of articles and books are also included.
