Research for your Papers

For the research papers you are writing, you need to go track down resources to help you write your paper. Most major astronomical journals are indexed by the "Astrophysics Data System" (ADS, for short), administered by the Harvard-Smithsonian Astronomical Observatory and NASA. See their search form here:

ADS at Harvard

Note that these link directly to journals, so they are subject to the subscription that each school's library has. If you would like a copy of a paper and your school doesn't have a subscription, let me know and I can get it for you. In particular, if you'd like PDFs of the pages from Scientific American or Sky & Telescope, I have access to the full pages (i.e. including pictures and figures).

Also, before journal articles are published, many authors put them up on the Astrophysics Preprint Server. This is strictly voluntary, so many papers may not be up there. But, as opposed to the Journals, it is completely free to access from anywhere in the world:

Astrophysics Preprint Server ("astro-ph")