Electronic Journals
Please note that electronic journals must be used in accordance with copyright law in general and the terms and conditions of the individual journal's license agreement in particular. Further electronic publications are accessible from the ESO Libraries Catalog.Related links:
| Author instructions | Historical literature in the ADS | Astronomical Newsletters |
| Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) | Publisher copyright & self-archiving policies (SHERPA) |
| Electronic Books |
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AAVSO Bulletin | Current issue | HTML, plain text and PDF file of Bulletin |
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AAVSO Alert Notice | 1998 and earlier archives | Sign-up for E-mail Mailing lists |
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Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics | 1963 - | Register to get customized email alerts, create favorite lists, save complex searches |
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Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences | 1973 - | Register to get customized email alerts, create favorite lists, save complex searches |
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Applied Optics | 1962 - | Register to access Table of Contents (TOC) alert service |
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Astrobiology | 2001 - | Register to receive TOC alerts |
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Astronomical Journal | 1998 - Earlier issues (1849-1997) available through the NASA Astrophysics Data System service. |
See Papers submitted Subscribe to AJ-TOC |
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Astronomie heute (popular magazine) |
Current issue | German edition of Sky & Telescope |
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Astronomische Nachrichten / Astronomical Notes | 1999 - |
Contents 1995-1998 (Abstract only); |
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Astronomy (popular magazine) |
Current and next month's issue; Table of contents from 1973 with selected articles online since 2002 |
Sign-up for Astronomy's
free e-newsletter. Unlimited access via the library or access code within the journal |
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Astronomy & Astrophysics | 2001 - | Register to access TOC
e-mail alert: aa_toc A&A mirror at the CDS: http://cds.aanda.org/ |
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Astronomy & Astrophysics Main Journal |
1996 - 2000 | Earlier issues (1969-1996) available through the servers of ADS and Springer-Verlag |
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Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement Series | 1996 - 2000 |
Earlier issues (1970-1996) available through the NASA Astrophysics Data System service. |
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Astronomy and Astrophysics Review | 8 (1997) - | Register to create Table of Content alerts |
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Astronomy and Geophysics | 2000 - Alternative access through IngentaConnect: |
Register to access Table of Contents (TOC) alert service |
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Astronomy Letters | v.26, 2000 - v.30, 2004, v.32, 2006 - v.26, 2000 - v. 31, 2005: Archive at AIP |
Register to create Table of Content alerts. All Abstracts (Includes Soviet Astron. Letters 1975-1992) |
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Astronomy Now (popular magazine) |
Current issue features (abstract only) and Top stories (HTML) | News archive by month (HTML) |
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Astronomy Reports | v. 44, 2000 - v. 44, 2000 - v.49, 2005: Archive at AIP |
Register to create Table of Content alerts. All Abstracts (Includes Soviet Astron. 1975-1992) |
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Astrophysical Journal incl. Letters and Supplement Series | 1995 - Earlier issues of ApJ (1895-1996) and ApJ Suppl. (1954-1996) available through the NASA Astrophysics Data System service. |
Future
articles Subscribe to ApJ preprints: daily and weekly Subscribe to ApJ-TOC |
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Astrophysics | Current year | Register to create Table of Content alerts |
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Astrophysics and Space Science | 1997 - Alternative access through IngentaConnect: |
Click on Articles in advance for PDF version of the articles |
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Astrophysics and Space Sciences Transactions | v. 1, 2005 - (volumes and issues) Special issues: 2005 - |
Open Access journal: online version free of charge. Sign-up for Alert email services |
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Atomic Data and Nuclear Data Tables | v. 59, 1995 - | Included in Elsevier ScienceDirect subscription. |
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Bild der Wissenschaft | Current issue | Table of contents only |
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Boundary Layer Meteorology | 2002 - 2004 | Through IngentaConnect |
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Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society | 1996 - | HTML |
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Bulletin of the Astronomical Society of India | Current year | BASI home page |
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Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy | 1997 - Alternative access through IngentaConnect: |
Register to create Table of Contents alerts |
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Chinese Astronomy and Astrophysics | Past 12 months only | Included in Elsevier ScienceDirect subscription. |
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Chinese Journal of Astronomy and Astrophysics | v. 19, 1995 - | |
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Ciel et Espace | Current issue (TOC) | Subscribe to the Newsletter (click on 'Recevez la newsletter') |
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Computing
in Science & Engineering |
1999 - | Peer-reviewed articles from the archival Journal Section of
Computers in Physics for the years 1997 and 1998 only are freely
available at this location Subscribe to the E-mail Alerting service |
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Earth and Planetary Science Letters | v. 129, 1995 - | Included in Elsevier ScienceDirect subscription. |
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Earth, Moon and Planets |
Past 12 months only | Register to create Table of Content alerts |
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Europhysics News |
Current year (Use SpringerLink to access 1997 - 1999 issues) |
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Experimental Astronomy
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Past 12 months only | Register to create Table of Content alerts |
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High Altitude Medicine and Biology | 2000 - | Sign-up for the Table
of Contents (TOC) Alerting service This journal is e-access only |
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IAU Circulars | No. 2700, 1974 - | To access the most recent Circulars, please contact the librarians |
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Icarus | v. 113, 1995 - | Included in Elsevier ScienceDirect subscription. |
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Information Bulletin on Variable Stars | 1961 - | Search the IBVS (Table of contents, full text, IBVS holdings of the ADS) |
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Infrared Physics and Technology | v. 36, 1995 - | Included in Elsevier ScienceDirect subscription. Register to create Search Alerts, Volume/Issue Alerts and Citation Alerts |
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International Journal of Astrobiology | Vol. 1 (2002) - | Sign-up for E-mail alerting service |
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International Journal of Infrared and Millimeter Waves | Past 12 months only Alternative access through IngentaConnect: |
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International Journal of Modern Physics D | 2000 - | Register to receive content updates through email |
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Journal for the History of Astronomy | 2007 - (through IngentaConnect) |
Issues more than 24 months old will shortly be freely available through the ADS at http://adsabs.harvard.edu/journals_service.html and through the publisher's website at www.shpltd.co.uk |
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Journal of Applied Remote Sensing | v. 1, 2007 - |
Electronic-only journal. Included in SPIE Digital Library. |
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Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy | v. 19, 1998 - v. 27, 2006 (Ind. Acad. Sci.) v. 28, 2007 - (Springer) |
Earlier issues (1980-2001) available through the NASA Astrophysics Data System, 1998-2006 from the Indian Academy of Sciences, starting in 2007 from Springer. Open Access journal. |
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Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics | 2003 - | Electronic-only journal. |
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Journal of Geophysical Research / E: Planets | 2007 - |
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Journal of Modern Optics | 1 (1954) - | |
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Journal of Optical Technology | 1999 - | Journal of Optical Technology is an English-language translation of Opticheskii Zhurnal |
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Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics | 1999 - | Sign-up for E-mail Alerting service |
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Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data | 2000 - | Sign-up for E-mailAlerting service |
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Journal of the AAVSO | 1984 - |
Search the ADS
for Abstracts, tables of contents, and full scanned articles from JAAVSO
volumes 13-28 (1984-2000) |
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Journal of the
British Astronomical Association |
Dec 2002 - (Earlier issues (1981-2002) available through the NASA Astrophysics Data System service.) |
Archive (1995-2000) |
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Journal of the Optical Society of America (JOSA) A | 1984 - | Register to access Table of Contents (TOC) Alert service |
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Journal of the Optical Society of America (JOSA) B | 1984 - | Register to access Table of Contents (TOC) Alert service |
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Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada | 1907 - 2001 available through the NASA Astrophysics Data System service.) | Back issues (1998-2002) available in PDF format |
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Laser & Photonics Reviews | 2007 - | Free online access during 2007 |
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Living Reviews in Solar Physics | 2004 - | Open Access journal; e-only. Sign-up for the E-mail notification list |
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Memorie della Società Astronomica Italiana | Vol. 74 (2003) - | Table of Contents and pdf articles |
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Memorie della Società Astronomica Italiana - Supplementi | N. 1 (2003) - | Table of Contents and pdf articles |
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Mercury | 1994 - | Table of Contents and select excerpts only |
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Messenger (The ESO Messenger) | 1995 - | Issues in PDF format Detailed Table of Contents with links to individual abstracts and papers |
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Meteoritics and Planetary Science | April - December 2002 (vol. 37, #4 - #12, suppl.) | To access the articles, click on "Electronic issues". To obtain user ID and password, please contact the librarians. |
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Minor Planet Circulars | 1993-S01 - | CBAT/MPC/ICQ Index |
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS) | 1998 - Alternative access through IngentaConnect: |
Sign-up for E-mail TOC alert (select Sign up for FREE email table of contents alerts) |
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society : Letters | 2005 - Online-only Letters section of MNRAS |
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Nature | 1997 - News@Nature: Sept. 06 - |
Register for free access to searchable abstracts, customised e-mail alerting services and web-only content |
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New Astronomy | v. 10 #3, 1995 - | Included in Elsevier ScienceDirect subscription. Register to create Search Alerts, Volume/Issue Alerts and Citation Alerts |
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New Astronomy Reviews | v. 42, 1998 - | Included in Elsevier ScienceDirect subscription. Register to create Search Alerts, Volume/Issue Alerts and Citation Alerts |
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New Journal of Physics | 1998 - | Register for E-mail
Alerting service and other user options This journal is e-access only |
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New Scientist | Selected articles of current issue | Selected articles Sign-up to free e-zines, the NewScientist.com e-zine every Thursday, and the print edition e-zine every Monday |
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Observatory (The) | Scanned articles (1877-2003, individual
volumes missing) available through the NASA Astrophysics Data
System service |
Contents tables (1999- ) and Author/Subject indexes (1994- ) available from the The Observatory journal pages |
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Optical Engineering | v. 29, 1990 - | Included in SPIE Digital Library, AAO (Astronomy and Astronomical Optics) segment. Sign-up for E-mail alerts |
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Optics and Spectroscopy | 2006 - |
Register to create Table of Content alerts. |
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Optics Express | 1997 - | Sign-up for the free e-mail alerting
service and receive the table of contents bi-weekly This journal is e-access only |
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Optics Letters | 1977 - | Register to access Table of Contents (TOC) Alert service |
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Physical Review D | 2006 - | Sign-up for E-mail Alerting service |
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Physical Review Letters | 2001 - | Sign-up for E-mail Alerting service |
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Physics Today | 1995 - | Only selected articles available for free |
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Physics World | 1997 - | Free access to some articles Sign-up for E-mail Alerting service |
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Planetary and Space Science | v. 43, 1995 - | Included in Elsevier ScienceDirect subscription. |
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Public Understanding of Science | vol. 8, 1999 - | Sign-up for E-mail Alerting
Service This journal is e-access only |
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Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia (PASA) | 2001 - Earlier issues (1967-2003) available through the NASA Astrophysics Data System service. |
Sign-up for Early
Alert for the latest journal issue contents Online access only |
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Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan (PASJ) | 2001 - |
Earlier issues (1949-2000) available through the NASA Astrophysics Data System service |
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Publications
of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (PASP) |
1998 - Earlier issues (1889-1997) available through the NASA Astrophysics Data System service. |
Papers
recently submitted to PASP Subscribe to PASP-TOC -- PASP Tables of Contents |
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Recherche (La) | 1996 - | Access via the library to selected articles |
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Reports on Progress in Physics | 1994 - | Sign-up for E-mail Alerting service |
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Reviews of Modern Physics | 2001 - | Sign-up for E-mail Alerting service |
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Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica | 2002 - Earlier issues (1974-2001) available through the NASA Astrophysics Data System service. |
Abstracts of recently received papers |
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Science | 1997 - | Issues prior to October 1995 only have access to tables of contents. Subscription also includes access to ScienceNOW. Science Express papers are only available through a seperate subscription. |
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Science in School | 2006 - | Sign up for Email Alert serice via http://www.scienceinschool.org |
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Scientific American | Current issue | Access via the library to articles online (1993 - ). Browse journal (1993 - ) at
http://www.sciamdigital.com/browse.cfm. Subscribe to Science Newsletters and Alerts |
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Sky & Telescope | Free online index from the first issue in 1941 to the present | Access via the library to articles online Name index to Sky & Telescope, maintained by Kevin Krisciunas. |
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Solar Physics | 1997 - Alternative access through IngentaConnect http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/klu/sola (2002 - 2004) |
Click on Articles in advance
for PDF version of the article Sign-up for Alert email services |
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Space Science Reviews |
1997 - Oct. 2005 Alternative access through IngentaConnect http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/klu/spac (2002 - 2004) |
Click on Articles in advance
for PDF version of the article Sign-up for Alert email services |
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SPIE Letters | 2007 - | SPIE Letters is an open-access, online collection of rapid communications, covering topics of significant originality and interest, from the four journals published in the SPIE Digital Library. SPIE Letters presents a virtual table of contents with links to abstracts and free, full-text downloads of all letters in their parent journals. |
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Sterne und Weltraum | Current issue | Archive search from May 2002 |