Astronomy Research Guide
These Research Guides are intended as starting points for research.
Please contact the subject-specialist librarian if you have research questions, would like library instruction, or have material purchase requests.
Janie Jones
Periodical Department - Office 112A
phone: 254-968-9867
email: jsjones@tarleton.edu
Help is also available by using the Ask a Librarian page, emailing reference@tarleton.edu, calling (254) 968-9249, or coming into the library.
Books, Documents, Reports, Journals Titles, AV Materials, Etc.
Tarleton State University Libraries Catalog - Database of all items owned by Tarleton Libraries. Look here for books, government reports, journal titles, videos, CDs, etc. Keyword searching is available.
Library of Texas - Search for Books and Articles from libraries located in Texas. The Library of Texas lets you pick the library collections you search, helping you locate items near you.
WorldCat - (FirstSearch Core) Books and other materials in libraries worldwide. WorldCat contains more than 32 million records describing items owned by libraries around the world. If Tarleton does not own these items, they can be requested through Inter-Library Loan.
Databases and Journal articles
Academic Search Complete - A general topic database that includes astronomy topics from Sky & Telescope, Science News, and Discover. Many articles are full text.
Annual Reviews - authoritative, analytic reviews in 29 focused disciplines within the Biomedical, Physical, and Social Sciences. Annual Reviews publications are and have been among the most highly cited in scientific literature.
Dissertations and Theses Full Text - The database includes bibliographic citations for materials ranging from the first U.S. dissertation, accepted in 1861, to those accepted as recently as last semester. Citations for dissertations published from 1980 forward also include 350-word abstracts written by the author. Citations for master's theses from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts. The full text of more than one million of these titles is available in paper and microform formats. Institutional subscribers to ProQuest Dissertations and Theses - Full Text receive on-line access to the complete file of dissertations in digital format starting with titles published from 1997 forward.
Institute of Physics - database of journals from the Institute of Physics that goes back to the Nineteenth Century.
SciVerse - Web database for scientific research that contains the full-text of more than 1,000 Elsevier Science journals on many scientific topics including earth and planetary sciences available through the Internet. Some astronomy journals include Planetary and Space Science, New Astronomy Reviews, and Earth and Planetary Science Letters.
SpringerLink - is one of the world's leading online information services for scientific, technical, and medical (STM) books and journals. SpringerLink is a preferred data source for researchers in academic and corporate institutions and other vital knowledge centers.
Wiley Online Library - includes content of over 2000 journals, books, reference works, databases, and Current Protocols laboratory manuals.
E-Journals and Internet Links
- Electronic Journals by Category (Subject).
- Electronic Journals by title.
- Internet Links: including NASA, Telescopes, Professional Societies and Organizations, and University Programs.
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