Astronomy Research Guide

Article Databases

Subject Specific:

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.
MathSciNet This link opens in a new window
MathSciNet is the most comprehensive resource for the international literature of mathematics and statistics. Covers approximately 1800 mathematical journals. [1940 - present] Also hosts the Current Index of Statistics (CIS) [1975-2017]
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.

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.
Academic Search Complete from EBSCO (ASC) This link opens in a new window
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 the Find Items by Citation form 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.

Use the Nomad extension for quick links to subscription-based full text. Works on publisher sites, Wikipedia and some databases.

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.

Get It at UC

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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