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Astronomy Research Guide

Article Databases

Subject Specific:

INSPEC
Index of citations for articles and conference papers on physics, electrical engineering, computer engineering, and information technology. Contains abstracts.
MathSciNet
Searchable database of citations for articles in 'Mathematical Reviews' from the American Mathematical Society. Covers mathematics, statistics, engineering, and the physical sciences. Full-text links to many original articles from the American Mathematical Society.
SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data Systems (ADS)
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.

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

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

Multidisciplinary:

Web of Science
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
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.
Academic Search Complete from EBSCO (ASC)
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Database of articles in peer-reviewed journals, magazines, and news sources with full-text journal coverage for nearly all academic areas of study.

Citation Linker

Already know which article you need? Enter the citation in Citation Linker to access it.

Connect From Your Computer

For access to e-books, online journals, databases:

For Off-Campus Access - Use the Campus VPN
For On-Campus Wireless Access - Use eduroam (note: Cruznet no longer works for access to library resources.)

Find Open Access versions of paywalled articles with the Unpaywall browser app.

Preprints

arXiv.org
Open access to over one million e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics.
eScholarship from the California Digital Library
Open Access database of working papers, pre-publication scholarship, and electronic texts by researchers in UC research units, centers, and academic departments.

UC-eLinks

Find the full text

Use UC-eLinks to access full text of an article. See the Use UC-eLinks guide for instructions.