Astronomy

Knovel is an online library of technical reference works for engineers and applied scientists. It provides full-text searchable ebooks on engineering and related subjects, with interactive features such as tables, graphs, and equations. Users can extract data, including material properties for thousands of chemical compounds, and export results to tools like Excel. Some content is available offline via the Knovel mobile app. Coverage varies by title. Knovel is also searchable through the Engineering Village interface.

Inspec indexes literature for physics, computer science, electronics, and information technology. It includes scholarly articles, books, conference articles and proceedings, reports, standards, and some patents.

arXiv.org is an open-access repository of scholarly preprints hosted by Cornell University. It provides full-text articles in physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering, systems science, and economics. Researchers use arXiv to share early versions of their work prior to formal peer review. Content is available in PDF and other formats, and submissions are moderated for relevance and quality.

Scopus indexes citations of journal articles, conference papers, and books in the sciences, medicine, social sciences, arts, and humanities. You can perform cited reference searches. You can compare authors, institutions, and journals using various metrics. Helpful resources include Scopus training videos, Scopus webinars (recorded and upcoming), and the Quick reference guide PDF. Coverage spans from the 1800s to the present.

The Web of Science (WoS) research platform hosts multiple, specialized databases covering academic literature, conference proceedings, patents, and other scholarly content. At the heart of the platform is the Web of Science Core Collection, a curated set of citation indexes for high-quality, peer-reviewed journals, books, and conference proceedings. Additional databases cover specific subject areas (e.g. biology), formats, or regional publications (e.g. Korean). Users may search across all databases on the platform or select a specific database from the 'Search in' drop-down menu.

NASA Astrophysics Data System provides full-tesxt conference papers in PDF, PostScript, and scanned image formats.

SIMBAD indexes bibliographic references and data on astronomical topics: stars, galaxies, planetary nebulae, clusters, and novae and supernovae. Each object indexes has description data, cross identifications, observational data, plus a general bibliography of references,