Literature

Electronic Access to Journals, Articles, Books, etc.

• Preprint Server
  • astro-ph Astrophysics Preprint Server Los Alamos, USA
• Table Of Contents Services
  • ADS Table of Contents Service
    (ApJ, ApJL, AJ, A&A, MNRAS, PASP, .....)
    • Mirror site at ESO (Garching, Germany)
• Abstract Services
  • ADS Astronomy Abstract Service
    • Mirror site at ESO (Garching, Germany)
  • ADS Abstract Service
    • What's New
    • ADS Space Instrumentation Abstract Service
    • ADS Physics and Geophysics Abstract Service
  • CDS abstract service : (A&A , A&A-SS)
  • McDonald Observatory Peridier Library (University of Texas, USA)
• Article Services (full papers)
  • ADS Article Service : (A&A, ApJ, PASP, ..... )
    • Mirror site at ESO (Garching, Germany)
  • ADS Online Proceedings
• Google Scholar search engine for search of scientific/academic material
• Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek Uni Regensburg mit Zugriff für MPG
• The Astronomical Journal
• Astronomische Nachrichten
• Astronomy & Astrophysics
  • up to end of 2000
• The Astrophysical Journal
• European Geophysical Society (EGS):
  • Natural Hazards And Earth System Sciences
    (journal)
  • Athmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussion
    (interactive EGS fully electronic journal)
• Physical Review Letters (American Physical Society)
• Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan (PASJ)
• Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (PASP)
• New Astronomy
  An international, electronic Journal in Astronomy and Astrophysics
  The Open Astronomy Journal is an The Open (Access) Astronomy JournalOpen Access online journal, which publishes research articles, reviews, and letters in all areas of astronomy and astrophysics.
• Active Galaxies Newsletter
• Information Bulletin on Variable Stars
  Comissions 27 and 42 of the IAU
• Star Formation Newsletter (galactic SF only)
• NASA e-books

Other General Data Bases for Articles

• INSPEC Database for Physics, Electronics and Computing provided by FIZ
  • How to get the access rights if you are employee of the MPE
• Journals
  • Journal of Geophysical Research - Space Physics
  • Legacy The Journal of the High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Center (HEASARC)
  • Nature
  • Nature News
  • Nature - deutsche Web-Version
  • New Journal of Physics
  • Scientific American
  • Sterne und Weltraum
  • Sky & Telescope
  • The Journal of Astronomical Data (JAD)
• Books
  • ADS Digital Library
  • Zombeck : Handbook of Space Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • The Physics Textbook
  • Selected Astronomy Book and Software Reviews
• NASA Press Releases
  • NASA Press Releases
  • Kennedy Space Center Press Releases
• Libraries
  • The WWW Virtual Library
  • Astrobibliothek (MPA/MPE)
  • Library Catalogue of the MPA/MPE Library (LIBERO)
  • CFHT Library Home Page (Hawaii, USA)
  • ESO Libraries homepage
  • The Library of Congress (USA)
• Astronomy Thesaurus
• Information Systems
  • ADS : Astrophysics Data System (Harvard, USA)
  • CDS Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg
  • FIZ : Fachinformationszentrum Karlsruhe
    (STN Service Center Europe - more than 190 databases in science, technology etc.)
• 200 Most Recent IAU Circulars
  Username und Password für die IAUCs finden Sie hier!
• Publishers
  • Cambridge University Press (U.K.)
  • EDP Sciences (France), publishing A&A
  • Elsevier Science Information Service
  • Kluwer Academic Publishers Information Service
  • Springer Information Service
  • Twin Press