Astronomy
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Finding Articles
Limited to University of Arizona students, faculty, staff and library users.
MAJOR DATABASES
The Astrophysics Data System (ADS) is a NASA-funded project which maintains four bibliographic databases containing access to more than 6 million records: Astronomy and Astrophyics, Instrumentation, Physics and geophysics, and the arXiv e-prints (prepritn s in astronomy and physics).
INSPEC comprehensively covers the research literature in physics, astronomy and astrophysics, optics and optoelectronics, electrical engineering, electronics, computers and computing technology.
Aerospace & High Technology Database
Aeronautics, astronautics, and space sciences · Abstracts of proceedings, reports, government documents.
Ei Compendex (Ei Engineering Village)
Engineering, Applied Science, Technology · Abstracts of journal articles, conference proceedings, & technical reports.
ADDITIONAL DATABASES
Meteorological & Geoastrophysical Abstracts
Covers the world's literature on meteorology, climatology, atmospheric chemistry and physics, physical oceanography, hydrology, glaciology, and related environmental sciences.
National Technical Information Service
Index to results of U.S. sponsored research, development and engineering, plus analyses prepared by federal agencies, their contractors or grantees. Some state and local government agencies contribute their reports to this database. Other countries included are Japan, Germany, France, the U.K. and other leading industrialized nations.
Web of Knowledge (Science Citation Index)
Plants, animals, human biology, engineering; citation searching · Abstracts of journal articles.
Some full text · Engineering · Journal articles, conference papers, and standards.
The world's largest collection of technical standards-with over 500,000 documents available for electronic download.
POPULAR ALL-PURPOSE DATABASES
Some full text · All Subjects · Journals articles, newspaper articles.
Academic Search Elite, Alt HealthWatch, American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies, ATLA Religion, CINAHL, Communication & Mass Media Complete, Econlit, ERIC, Health Business Fulltext Elite, MagillOnLiterature Plus, MedicLatina, MLA International Bibliography, The New Republic Archive, PsycARTICLES, PsycINFO, Salud para todos, SPORTDiscus, The Serials Directory.
Some full text · All Subjects · Journal and magazine articles, newspaper articles and newswires.
Mostly full text · News, business, law, health, biography · Newspapers and news magazines.
