A full-text searchable archive of abstracts for major astronomical
publications since 1975. Full text of some articles, including
illustrations, is available.
ESISBIB:
European Space Information System Bibliographic Service
This is a searchable abstract of European astronomical journals.
JGR-Planets
has author info, free recent tables of contents,
and full text back to 1994 for subscribers.
JGR-Space Physics
has author info, free recent tables of contents,
and full text back to 1994 for subscribers.
Radio Science, which includes radio astronomy technical issues,
has author info, free recent tables of contents,
and full text back to 1994 for subscribers.
EOS, their weekly
newsletter, is only partially on-line.
Starting in January 1998, there is an
electronic edition
as well as the usual author guidelines and subscription information. The
online edition is available in HTML, PDF, or Postscript. Access was free
until mid-1998, after which it became
limited.
All contents from September 1, 1995 in HTML format, with JPEG figures.
Current issues of the Letters appear here approximately one month
before the cover date.
This nonprofit organization, with principal funding coming from
subscriptions to its various services, is responsible for the
dissemination of information on transient astronomical events, via the
IAU Circulars (IAUCs), a series of postcard-sized announcements issued at
irregular intervals as necessary in both printed and electronic form.
NASA's small-class Discovery missions and the medium-class New Frontiers
missions complement NASA's flagship missions to meet the many scientific and
technical challenges of deep space exploration. This quarterly newsletter
gives the current status of all of the interesting probes run out of this
office.
The Kuiper Belt Electronic Newsletter, with news of discoveries, abstracts
of published papers, titles of submitted papers, and pointers to conference
contributions. It is available as HTML, Postscript, PDF, or LaTex online.
The official journal of
The Geochemical Society and
The Meteoritical Society
Elsevier has an excruciatingly slow web site which apparently supplies
tables of contents and abstracts, with full published contents available
to subscribers.
Icarus:
International Journal of Solar System Studies
At the Academic Press
IDEAL site,
complete contents since January 1996 are available to registered users,
and abstracts since January 1996 are available to everyone (for now).
A non-profit scientific journaldevoted to the observation, news, and
study of comets; it serves as a link between amateur and professional
astronomers in the exchange of useful observations (following a standardized
format) and news regarding all comets.
The Journal of the
Meteoritical Society
publishes invited reviews surveying major topics in planetary science,
research articles describing the results of major new studies, editorials
on topics of current interest and book reviews. MAPS brings together
professional scientists from a variety of backgrounds and disciplines
including astronomy, chemistry, geology, physics, and biology
The web site includes abstracts and tables of contents.
Announces new meteorites and gives basic characterizations and locations.
Supplemental maps and photographs are provided at the Bulletin web site.
It is published annually in a supplement to Meteoritics and Planetary Science
Current issues are available in PDF format; older issues in both PDF and HTML.
Since January 1998, there has been an
electronic edition
as well as the usual author guidelines and subscription information. The
online edition is available in HTML, PDF, or Postscript. Access is free for
now. The
Astronomical Society of the Pacific
has a lot of other information on their web site.
Tables of contents
and abstracts are available from January, 1992 to December 1997.
"The Magazine of SETI and Bioastronomy" provides both professional
and amateur astronomers with information concerning SETI (Search for
Extraterrestrial Intelligence) and bioastronomy.
Tables of Contents for all
past issues and a summary of articles in the current issue are
provided, as well as pointers to other SETI news.
An e-mail news service to alert small-telescope users to significant
happenings in the sky -- those that involve especially rare events or
require immediate follow-up observations worldwide. You can subscribe
to notification of events concerning
Comets, Extragalactic Supernovae, Gamma-ray bursters, Meteors,
Minor planets (asteroids), Neutrino-detected supernovae, Novae,
Occultations, Planetary, Solar Activity/Auroras/Geophysical Phenomena,
and Variable Stars, using
the
online subscription form.
Published by the
Astronomical Society of the Pacific
and written for the motivated non-specialist, Mercury features nontechnical
articles on astronomy research, education, history, and public policy.
Tables of contents plus summaries of major articles are online.
An educational site at the University of Hawaii devoted to sharing
discoveries being made in planetary and space sciences by NASA-sponsored
scientists with the rest of the world. It is a "link for education,
planetary and space sciences, and for learning how science works."
This daily US public radio feature from the University of Texas started
out being entirely about astronomy but has expanded to include earth science
and biology as well. Their web site still presents
a daily chart of an interesting night sky event.
This web site for Patrick Moore's long-running (42 years and counting)
BBC radio show about astronomy features a broadcast schedule, astronomical
news, a quiz, and help selecting a telescope.
Jack Horkheimer's syndicated US TV series on naked-eye astronomy,
formerly Star Hustler is carried on many PBS stations in the US.
The web site contains scripts, schedules, and other information.
