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Home: ASTRONOMY

Article and Preprint Databases

Data Centers

Individual journal tools (from CDS)

Electronic Journals

Tutorial
  (From the CDS)

Professional Organizations

Major Observatories

Software

Astronomy Libraries

Astronomy Research Guide

Librarian: Josh Wilson

This guide provides information sources relating to professional astronomy. It is intended as a comprehensive portal for academic faculty, graduate students in astronomy, and advanced undergrads conducting research. Resources include materials available electronically (both information licensed through the NCSU Libraries and information freely available) and print materials held in the D. H. Hill Library.

Use the Table of Contents on the left to navigate through the following topics:

  • Article and Preprint Databases- use this to find articles, abstracts, citations, and preprints
  • Data Centers- Web interfaces to raw data collections from astronomical catalogs, instruments, and missions
  • Individual journal tools (from CDS) resources focused on searching individual journals such as the ApJ, AJ, PASP, A&A
  • Electronic Journalsaccess to fulltext journals that NCSU subscribes to; information about older journals
  • Tutorial- for the CDS tools (VizieR, Aladin, and Simbad)
  • Professional Organizations- websites on major professional organizations
  • Major Observatories- websites for some major observatories
  • Software- including data reduction and statistical packages
  • Astronomy Libraries and other resources for Librarians

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