Preprints and Indexes

Preprint Services [go to Indexes]

STScI STEPsheet, including the HST Bibliography of papers using HST data.  The non-HST portion of the database includes all preprints received at STScI since 1982, with citations added as they become available.  There are hotlinks to the ADS for those papers available there.  Statistics on the number of HST papers by instrument and year are also available.

NRAO RAPsheet
A list of preprints received at NRAO from 1986-2002, plus all NRAO staff and visitor papers, 1957 forward, indexed for searching via a forms interface.

AAS Yellow Pages
Papers submitted to North American astronomical publications.

Astrophysics preprint abstracts (arXiv) plus the other arXiv databases

Dept. of Energy's E-print Network
A gateway to over 12,000 Web sites and databases worldwide, containing e-prints in basic and applied sciences, primarily in physics.

Electronic abstract newsletters
Links to newsletters with abstracts of submitted papers and other info on specific astronomical topics.

Telescope bibliographies
Links to lists of papers based on observations with various ground- and space-based telescopes.

Indexes, Abstracts, Finding Aids [go to preprints]

ADS (NASA Astrophysics Data System) abstract service

ARIBIB The online version of Astronomy and Astrophysics Abstracts

FirstSearch databases from OCLC. Detailed help is available from within FirstSearch or ask a Library staff member for assistance.

NASA Technical Reports Server The NTRS collects scientific and technical information from NASA's technical report servers and non-NASA sites using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH).

NED (NASA Extragalactic Database)
OAIster a collection of freely available, difficult-to-access, academically-oriented digital resources
SIMBAD Astronomical Database
SPIN Web databases from the American Institute of Physics