Journal Article Databases
These databases contain various mixes of citations to articles as well as the full text of articles. In all cases you can use JournalFinder or embedded ArticleLinker to determine if immediate access to the full-text of an article is possible.
- SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System This link opens in a new windowThough a bit cryptic in its formatting, this database is used by many faculty members in Astronomy.
- Web of Science This link opens in a new windowCoverage: 1989–present. Access to Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index, and/or Arts & Humanities Citation Index. This resource has broad, multidisciplinary coverage of scholarly articles. A feature that is somewhat unique to this resource is citation searching; using an important historic reference one can see the more recent articles that cited the key reference. Part of Web of Knowledge.
Terms of use - arXiv.org This link opens in a new windowGood for breaking research as many preprints are indexed here. Astrophysics coverage includes: Astrophysics of Galaxies; Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics; Earth and Planetary Astrophysics; High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena; Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics; Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowGood for earlier and historical articles. Perform an advanced search to limit to astronomy only journals.
