Astronomy & Astrophysics Research Guide

Article Databases

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INSPEC This link opens in a new window
Index of citations for articles and conference papers on physics, electrical engineering, computer engineering, and information technology. Contains abstracts.
GeoRef This link opens in a new window
Covers the geology of North America from 1693 to the present and the geology of the rest of the world from 1933 to the present. Describes materials in geology and geophysics, in particular: energy sources, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, groundwater pollution, erosion, nuclear reactor sites, the structure of the earth, and geostatistics. Includes abstracts.
SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data Systems (ADS) This link opens in a new window
Contains abstracts and citations for materials in astronomy and astrophysics, instrumentation, physics and geophysics, Los Alamos preprints, and many archives. From Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, under a NASA grant.

NED: NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database
Contains millions of extragalactic objects, including names, positions, basic data, and references to published papers.
SIMBAD
Contains basic data, cross-identifications, measurements, and references to published works for astronomical objects outside the solar system.

Publisher Specific:
These are limited to one or two publishers. Be mindful of what you may be missing!

Optics InfoBase This link opens in a new window
Journals and conference papers published by the Optical Society of America.
SPIE Digital Library This link opens in a new window
Ebooks, journal and conference articles in optics, photonics, and imaging published by SPIE.

Multidisciplinary:

Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Multidisciplinary database of scholarly articles. Searches citation indexes in Arts and Humanities, Social Science, and Science. Includes "cited by" feature and allows sorting by citation count.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Database covering many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, and online repositories. Use Eduroam (on campus), or the VPN (off-campus) to access full-text of UCSC subscribed content.
UC Library Search This link opens in a new window
This searches across all 10 UC Library collections and beyond. Sign in using your CruzID Gold in order to find: books, e-books, articles, journals, films, maps, and more.

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Displays in databases that only describe the sources (these usually only include citations and abstracts). Use it to find links to the full item or request it through interlibrary loan.

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