Databases

• ADS - Astrophysical Data System 
  THE source for astrophysics research.  Take a look.  It's impressive.  See ADS Quick Tips as needed.
  
• GEOBASE
  An index of articles and other sources on geology, geography and ecology.  Worth a try if you're researching the geology of other planets.
  
• GeoRef
  Select GeoRef from alphabetical list. This is an index of articles and other sources on geoscience.  Worth a try if you're researching the geology of other planets. TIP: Use the for more targeted results.
  
• History of Science, Technology and Medicine
  An excellent source for articles and other sources on the history of astronomy.
  
• JSTOR
  Full text journal archive covering the arts and sciences.  There's some great stuff in here. Contains Science 1887-1997.
  
• Academic Search Premier
  Not a science specific database, but this database does provide abstracts and fulltext for both peer reviewed and popular press periodicals. 
   
• Research Library
  Another full text database that covers all subjects.  It has both scholarly and popular sources.
  

Journals

• Collins Library astronomy titles
• Collins Library physics and astronomy subscriptions
• All library journals
• Additional titles
  • Nature
  • Science
  • Science News
  • Scientific American

The bulk of astronomy books begin with the Library of Congress call number letters QB.  Others can be found in Q (general science), QC (physics), QE (geology), and other areas. The Qs are located on the 4th floor of the Library.  Reference titles are on the first floor.

Here are a few key astronomy reference books:

Allen's Astrophysical Quantities, Fourth edition.  Cox, ed. AIP Press.  [QB461 A564 2000 Reference]

Astronomical Almanac 2004. U. S Naval Observatory. [QB8 U6 A77 2003 Reference]. 2005 edition also available.

Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics. Murdin, ed. Institute of Physics and Nature Publishing Group. [QB14 E534 2001 v. 1-4 Reference]

Catalogs

• SIMON - UPS Library holdings.  Some astronomy subject headings: astronomy, astronomy -- history, astrophysics, cosmology, galaxies, etc.
• Summit - Cast a wider net.  Search Washington & Oregon academic libraries, including all six WA state public universities (Orbis-Cascade consortium catalog). 
• WorldCat - The mother of all library catalogs.  If you can't find it here, contact Elizabeth, eknight@ups.edu. No wait, try these first: If it's a fairly recent title, try Books in Print.  Or try amazon.com.  Also try the publisher's web site. Try Library of Congress. For older or out-of-print titles try abe books and bookfinder.com.  Okay, contact me if you've tried all those!
  
  ILL Books Request Form - Request a book not owned by UPS or ORBIS.

general

• Astronomical Survey Projects
• Astronomy Picture of the Day
• Astronomy Research Guide
• Astroweb
• Bad Astronomy
• Hubble Space Telescope 
• International Astronomy Meetings List
• Nine Planets Astronomy Glossary
• Sky & Telescope Astronomy Web Sites
• Sky View Cafe
• Sky View Internet Virtual Telescope
• Telescopes and Observatories
• UW Physics Astronomy Library list of web links (I helped compile this)

Mars 

• JPL Mars Exploration
• Mars Now Library
• Mars Network
• NASA Human Spaceflight - Mars

cosmology

• 2df Galaxy Redshift Survey
• 2 Mass Redshift Survey
• Fermilab - Science of Matter, Space and Time, Physics Questions
• Sloan Digital Sky Survey
• WMAP

Elizabeth Knight
Science Liaison Librarian
Collins Memorial Library
Library Rm. 119
Phone: (253) 879-3646
Email: eknight@ups.edu

I'm an amateur astronomer and I worked in a couple planetariums (Adler Planetarium and Cernan Earth & Space Center) for about eight years teaching astronomy and presenting star shows before becoming a science librarian. I'm most interested in cosmology and the history of astronomy. I also love to hunt down galaxies with my 13.1" Dobsonian telescope using Tirion's Sky Atlas 2000, a Telrad and star hopping.  I've seen all 110 Messier Objects (some many, many times) and am now working my way through the 225 galaxies on the Herschel list (I've seen ~100 so far). Next, I'll tackle the Astronomical League's list of 250 galaxy groups and clusters.  What fun!

Last Updated: 08/22/2005