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Resource Materials for Summer Undergraduate Research Program 2019
Astronomy and Astrophysics Databases
- ADS
- - ADS consists of bibliographic records covering most research literature in astronomy and
astrophysics (abstracts and articles in the ADS are copyrighted by the publisher, and their
use is free for personal use only)
- - Help Pages for ADS and in particular the
use of the Abstract Query Form.
- arXiv
- - arXiv provides open access to over 1.5M e-prints in Physics (including Astronomy),
Mathematics, Computer Science,
Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics
- University of Toronto Library
- - provides access to the full UofT catalogue. Use the search box to find articles, online journals,
or books on topics such as Stellar Evolution.
The following websites and links may have useful information:
- NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED)
- - Operated by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under contract with NASA
- SIMBAD
- - The SIMBAD astronomical database provides basic data, cross-identifications, bibliography and measurements
for astronomical objects outside the solar system.
- Astrobites
- - Astrobites is a daily astrophysical literature journal written by graduate students in astronomy. Their
goal is to present one interesting paper per day in a brief format that is accessible to undergraduate
students in the physical sciences who are interested in active research.
- - The Databases of Astronomy:
Organizing the Knowledge of the Field
- How to Craft a Well-Argued Proposal
- - good article from Discover Magazine, 2012.
Helpful Books on Science Writing and Science Presentations
Title: The craft of scientific presentations : critical steps to succeed and critical errors to avoid
Author: Michael Alley
Available electronically--UTL
Title: The craft of scientific writing
Author: Michael Alley
(Section on writing proposals pp. 178-194)
Engineering & Computing Science Library
T11 .A37 1996
Andromeda Galaxy image from Michael Richmond.
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