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Electronic Journals

	Astronomy & Astrophysics introduces structured abstracts. For more information see the A&A 441, E3-E6, 2005 Editorial by Bertout & Schneider at http://www.edpsciences.org/articles/aa/abs/2005/37/aa441100f/aa441100f.html (November 4, 2005)
	Nature Physics: Nature has launched a new magazine: Nature Physics. The first issue can be viewed and downloaded at http://www.nature.com/naturephysics (November 2, 2005)
	Astrophysics (translation of Astrofizika): current year is now available electronically at http://www.springerlink.com/openurl.asp?genre=journal&issn=0571-7256 (October 18, 2005)
	The Star Formation Newsletter, edited by Bo Reipurth, will no longer be distributed by email. Issues can be accessed at the newsletter's website http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/users/reipurth/newsletter.htm (October 16, 2005)
	Science Magazine is now available institution-wide at ESO (July 9, 2003)
	Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics: new peer-reviewed, electronic-only journal from IOP. Free of charge in 2003.(June 20, 2003)
	Journal of Optical Networking (JON) is new electronic-only journal published by the Optical Society of America (OSA), focusing on fiber optics and optical networks. (November 19, 2002)
	Linux Journal: electronic version now available. For User ID and Password, please contact the librarians. (October 14, 2002)
	E-Journal Archive DTD Feasibility Study: Harvard University Library has released an E-Journal Archive DTD Feasibility Study. The report examines the feasibility of creating a DTD (Document Type Definition) that can be used to reasonably represent and archive the intellectual content of journal articles published by a range of different publishers. It is available at http://www.diglib.org/preserve/hadtdfs.pdf (January 16, 2002)
	Science Express: Science Express provides rapid electronic publication of selected Science papers. For access, please contact the librarians (November 16, 2001)
	Elsevier journals: the recent 12 months of subcribed journals are available electronically: Chinese Astronomy and Astrophysics, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Infrared Physics & Technology, Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, New Astronomy, New Astronomy Reviews, Planetary and Space Science (Nov. 7, 2001)
	Astronomische Nachrichten: e-version now available from terminals located in the library (Apr. 5, 2001)
	Nature: Nature is now available without User ID and Password from the eso.org domain. (January 26, 2001)
	OSA journals: online access is available to Optics Letters, Josa A and B and Applied Optics at http://www.opticsinfobase.org (January 4, 2001)
	International Journal of Modern Physics D: electronic version available from vol.9, 2000 onwards (click on Physics / IJMPD). Articles are in PDF-format only.(July 13, 2000)
	Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: as of January 2000, access to MNRAS is controlled by IP address; user ID and password are no longer required. Articles are available from Jan. 98 onwards, but links from ADS to 1998 articles currently go to the wrong place; full access is available from the ESO Libraries E-Journals page (May 15, 2000)
	Icarus: e-version now available, beginning with 1st issue of the year 2000. Access is also provided to all other Academic Press e-journals (Feb. 16, 2000)
	Astronomy Reports, an English translation of the journal Astronomicheskii Zhurnal, available at http://ojps.aip.org/asr/ (January 11, 2000)
	Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan: a trial electronic version has been made available at http://pasj.riken.go.jp/ (November 25, 1999)
	Computing in Science & Engineering: access to full-texts from eso.org domain. Articles are provided in PDF and gzipped PostScript format. (June 9, 1999)
	Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics and Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences: electronic access now available from the eso.org domain. (April 1, 1999)

Electronic Books

Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics: all volumes back to vol. 1 are now available electronically at ESO (October 9, 2003)

Encyclopedia of Space Science and Technology available from the eso.org domain(May 22, 2003)

Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics: electronic version of the EAA can be accessed from the eso.org domain. (February 15, 2001)

Information Resources

The LISA V Call for Papers has been distributed. (June 27, 2005)

The ESO Telescope Bibliography was presented in a poster at the 205th AAS Meeting in San Diego, CA. (January 13, 2005)

Google launched a new service, Google Scholar, which intends to provide access to scholarly information. (November 18, 2004)

The ESO Telescope bibliography can now be queried through a web interface. (July 5, 2004)

ADS announces release of myADS, a personalized notification service(January 9, 2004)

ESO Libraries homepage provides now a direct link to the catalog for quick searches (May 15, 2003)

eLISA proceedings: the LISA IV (Library and Information Services in Astronomy IV) conference proceedings are now available at http://www.eso.org/libraries/lisa4/ (April 14, 2003)

The University of Chicago Press and the American Astronomical Society announce a new online preprint service. The mission of the preprint service is to make available online all articles from the Astrophysical Journal and Supplement as soon as they are accepted for publication. Posted only after rigorous peer-review, these articles maintain the highest scientific standards, making them timely, reliable and accurate. (August 9, 2002)

LISA IV: The fourth conference on Library and Information Services in Astronomy (LISA IV) took place in Prague, Czech Republic, July 2-5, 2002. The proceedings will be published by the U.S. Naval Observatory and will be made available electronically on the ESO Libraries web pages. (July 15, 2002)

Annual reports of observatories: a new web source listing reports from observatories has been made available (Feb. 16, 2000)

New library acquisitions: a new page on our Web site lists recently purchased books and journals and invites you to subscribe to our New Acquisitions Alerting Service. (October 22, 1999)

Information on the ESO Chile libraries has been made available at http://www.sc.eso.org/santiago/science/libinfo.html (September 29, 1999, address updated April 2, 2001)

Data Centers: the Library offers a new page, listing the most important data centers and systems. (May 4, 1999)

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Last update: May 31, 2007

	Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics: all volumes back to vol. 1 are now available electronically at ESO (October 9, 2003)
	Encyclopedia of Space Science and Technology available from the eso.org domain(May 22, 2003)
	Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics: electronic version of the EAA can be accessed from the eso.org domain. (February 15, 2001)

	The LISA V Call for Papers has been distributed. (June 27, 2005)
	The ESO Telescope Bibliography was presented in a poster at the 205th AAS Meeting in San Diego, CA. (January 13, 2005)
	Google launched a new service, Google Scholar, which intends to provide access to scholarly information. (November 18, 2004)
	The ESO Telescope bibliography can now be queried through a web interface. (July 5, 2004)
	ADS announces release of myADS, a personalized notification service(January 9, 2004)
	ESO Libraries homepage provides now a direct link to the catalog for quick searches (May 15, 2003)
	eLISA proceedings: the LISA IV (Library and Information Services in Astronomy IV) conference proceedings are now available at http://www.eso.org/libraries/lisa4/ (April 14, 2003)
	The University of Chicago Press and the American Astronomical Society announce a new online preprint service. The mission of the preprint service is to make available online all articles from the Astrophysical Journal and Supplement as soon as they are accepted for publication. Posted only after rigorous peer-review, these articles maintain the highest scientific standards, making them timely, reliable and accurate. (August 9, 2002)
	LISA IV: The fourth conference on Library and Information Services in Astronomy (LISA IV) took place in Prague, Czech Republic, July 2-5, 2002. The proceedings will be published by the U.S. Naval Observatory and will be made available electronically on the ESO Libraries web pages. (July 15, 2002)
	Annual reports of observatories: a new web source listing reports from observatories has been made available (Feb. 16, 2000)
	New library acquisitions: a new page on our Web site lists recently purchased books and journals and invites you to subscribe to our New Acquisitions Alerting Service. (October 22, 1999)

	Information on the ESO Chile libraries has been made available at http://www.sc.eso.org/santiago/science/libinfo.html (September 29, 1999, address updated April 2, 2001)
	Data Centers: the Library offers a new page, listing the most important data centers and systems. (May 4, 1999)