Astronomy: Home

Guide content supports the teaching and research goals of multiple departments on campus. Content represents a non-exhaustive selection of essential resources and tools for engaging a wide range of backgrounds and viewpoints. 

Welcome!

This subject guide has been created to help you find astronomy information. You can use the links on these pages to access materials the library has purchased or subscribed to whether you are on or off-campus. Also listed are links to valuable information available for free on the Web. If you have any questions or need assistance, please contact Carol Hollier. Thanks for visiting!

Sciences Reference and Outreach Librarian

Carol Hollier

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Contact:

Mon & Thur: B20H MacLean
Tues & Fri: 450 Van Allen

319-467-4535

Subjects: Actuarial Science, Mathematics, Physics and Astronomy, Sciences, Statistics

Sciences Library

120 Iowa Ave. (104A SL)
(hours | map | floorplan)

http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/sciences or
http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/m/sciences

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Phone: (319) 335-3083

E-mail: lib-sciences@uiowa.edu

Browzine

BrowZine Mobile Apps
Available for iOS, Android, and Kindle devices. BrowZine works by organizing the articles found in Open Access and subscription databases, uniting them into complete journals, then arranging these journals on a common newsstand. The result is an easy and familiar way to browse, read and monitor scholarly journals across the disciplines.
1. Download the app.
2. When prompted, select "University of Iowa" from the list.
3. Log in with your HawkID and password and you're ready to use the app.
4. When you try to add a journal to My Bookshelf for the first time, you’ll be prompted to create a BrowZine account to log in. Having a BrowZine account will allow seamless synchronization of My Bookshelf across all devices and the web version.
BrowZine Web
BrowZine works by organizing the articles found in Open Access and subscription databases, uniting them into complete journals, then arranging these journals on a common newsstand. The result is an easy and familiar way to browse, read and monitor scholarly journals across the disciplines.

Recommended Astronomy Resources

arXiv.org
An e-print service run by Cornell University Libraries. It is an avenue for rapid dissemination of recent results prior to publication and is frequently used by astronomers.

SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System
The SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) is a Digital Library portal for researchers in Astronomy and Physics, operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) under a NASA grant. The ADS maintains three bibliographic databases containing more than 8.7 million records: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Physics, and arXiv e-prints.

IOPBooks
IOP ebooks™ brings together innovative digital publishing with leading voices from the scientific community. Being unconstrained by a print legacy, we developed IOP ebooks with a fully digital vision. Our books carry a wealth of interactive features and are available alongside our journals content on IOPscience, our semantically enriched platform. The University of Iowa does not subscribe to all content on this site.
IOPscience
IOPscience is an online service for journal and book content published by IOP Publishing.

InfoHawk+
Use InfoHawk+ to search for items available from the University Libraries. Sign in to request and save.

Scopus
[Help Searching Scopus]Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. Delivering a comprehensive overview of the world's research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities, Scopus features smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research.
Web of Science
[Help Searching Web of Science]A citation reference that includes Science Citation Index (1900-present), Social Science Citation Index (1900-present), Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975-present), Book Citation Index- Science (2005-present), Book Citation Index- Social Sciences & Humanities (2005-present), and Medline, and links to Journal Citation Reports and EndNote web version.

If you experience trouble connecting to WoS from off-campus, try clearing your cache or changing browsers. Firefox seems to be best for this.

Proxy Link Generator

For assistance accessing library resources from off-campus, please contact the Sciences Library at lib-sciences@uiowa.edu or (319) 335-3083.