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                 JOHN WHELAN LIBRARY BULLETIN No. 2 - 17/06/97
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John Whelan Library (JWL) Bulletin is issued when there is something important
to communicate. Suggestions and comments on this bulletin are welcome.


Topics
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1. LIBRARY SPLIT HAS FINISHED. WHAT THERE IS IN EACH LIBRARY.
2. PLATE LIBRARY.
3. ELECTRONIC SERVICES: E-JOURNALS, IAU CIRCULARS, PREPRINTS AND JOURNAL
   CATALOGUES.
4. NEW ACQUISITIONS.
5. NEWS.


1. LIBRARY SPLIT HAS FINISHED. WHAT THERE IS IN EACH LIBRARY
------------------------------------------------------------

JWL has been split in order to stablish a new library at the Sea-Level Office 
(SLO). Now the library at the Isaac Newton Telescope (INT) is specially 
dedicated to visiting astronomers and observers, and the library at the SLO is
the main library. Roughly this is what you can find in each library:


INT LIBRARY - INT BUILDING, 1st FLOOR, NEXT TO RECEPTION

Astronomy and Astrophysics Abstracts (only duplicates from SLO library)
Books (sections)
	Commonwealth Universities Yearbooks
	Health and Safety at Work
	La Palma
	Technical Catalogues (manufacturers, electronic components, etc.)
       	Astronomical Catalogues
		Stars
		Sky
		Binary stars
		Galaxies
		Variable stars
		Spectra
		Infrared Observations
		Ultraviolet Observations
		Others (Supernova, nova, etc)
	Astronomical indexes and directories	
	Physical and Astronomical Data Tables
	Astronomical Ephemerids
	Meteorological Data (CAMC archives)
	Astronomical Atlases
	Atlases of the world
	'Nice and old' astronomical books  
Dictionaries and Almanacks
Journals (display)
	Astronomical Journal
	Astronomy and Astrophysics
	Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement Series
	Astrophysical Journal
	Astrophysical Journal Letters
	Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
	Electrical Review
	Electrical Times
	Electronic Engineering
	Electronics Weekly
	Electronics World
	IAC Noticias
	IAU Information Bulletin
	ICE (Revista de Instrumentacion de Componentes y Equipos Electronicos)
	Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
	NRC Handelsblad
	Occupational Safety and Health
	Open Space (PPARC)
	Personal Computer Magazine (in dutch)
	PPARC Bulletin
	Professional Engineering
	Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
	RB Electronika
	RosPa Bulletin
	Spectrum
	The Messenger (ESO)
	Zenit
Journals (collections) --> have a look at ~library/pub/catalogue/jou_mou.cat
	Astrophysical Journal: Vol.67(1928)-Vol.87(1949) incomplete, 
	Vol.111-...(1950-...) complete
	Astrophysical Journal Supp. Series: Vol.1-...(1954-...)
	Astrophysical Journal Letters: Vol.153-...(1968-...)
	Astronomy and Astrophysics: Vol.1-...(1969-...)
	Astronomy and Astrophysics Supp. Series: Vol.1-...(1970-...)
	Astronomy and Astrophysics Review: Vol.2-...(1991-...) incomplete
	Astronomical Journal: Vol.51-...(1946-...)
	Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics: Vol.34-... (1996-...)
	Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Vol.110-...
	(1950-...)
	Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific: Vol.51-67
	(1939-1955) incomplete, Vol.68-...(1956-...) complete
	Nature: Vol.307-357(1984-1992), Vol.360-370(1993-1995)
	Boletin Oficial del Estado 
	Boletin Oficial de Canarias
	Boletin Oficial de la Provincia de Tenerife
	Others (electronics, dutch and engineering journals, and duplicates 
	from SLO library)
Reports of the 70's Site Testing Project 
Other Observing Sites Documentation
ING Technical Publications (Technical Notes, User Manuals and Observers'
Guides)


SLO LIBRARY - MAYANTIGO BUILDING, 6th FLOOR


Astronomical Atlases (only duplicates from the mountain)
Astronomical Catalogues (only duplicates from the mountain)
Astronomical Ephemerids
ING Technical Publications (Technical Notes, User Manuals and Observers'
Guides)
Astronomical Preprints
	Anglo-Australian Observatory
	Astronomical Institute Anton Pannekoek
	Australia Telescope National Facility
	Caltech Astrophysics Abstracts
	Cambridge University Astronomy
	Carnegie Institution of Washington
	Center for Astrophysical Sciences
	Centro Astronomico Hispano Aleman Almeria
	Chalmers University of Technology
	COBE
	Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies
	European Southern Observatory
	Gemini Telescope
	Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics preprints and abstracts
	Hubble Space Telescope Key Projects
	Institut D'Astrophysique de Paris
	Institute for Advanced Study
	Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias
	Jodrell Bank
	Kapteyn Institute
	Laboratorio Nacional de Astrofisica
	Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics
	Leicester X-ray Astronomy
	Liverpool John Moores University
	Max Planck Institut
	National Research Council Canada
	Netherlands Foundation for Research in Astronomy
	Nobeyama Radio Observatory
	Observatoire de Haute-Provence
	Observatoire de Lyon
	Observatoire de Paris
	Planetary Science Institute
	Royal Greenwich Observatory
	Space Telescope Science Institute
	Sterrenkundig Institut Utrecht
	Sterrewacht Leiden
	Stockholm Observatory
	The Open University
	Universitat de Barcelona
	Universite de Lausanne
	University College London
	University of Bristol
	University of Cambridge
	University of Chicago
	University of Edinburgh
	University of Hertfordshire
	University of Leeds
	University of Manchester
	University of Maryland College Park
	University of New South Wales
	University of Oxford
	University of Tokyo
	University of Texas at Austin
	University of Washington
	Wisconsin Astrophysics
Newsletters (display)
	Active Galaxies 
	Agrupacion Astronomica de Madrid
	American Astronomical Society
	American Astronomical Society
	Anglo-Australian Observatory
	Astronomical Data Center (NASA)
	Astronomical Society of the Atlantic
	Asymptotic Giant Branch
	Australia Telescope National Facility
	Be Stars
	Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope
	Chemically Peculiar Red Giant Stars
	Astro News (ESA)
	Cool Stars
	Magellanic Cloud
	EUVE Observatory
	Galactic Center Research
	Gemini Telescope
	History of Astronomy
	HoT Stars
	HVAR Observatory
	IAC Noticias
	ISO Info
	James Clerk Maxwell Telescope
	Mercury
	The Messenger
	Multiple Mirror Telescope
	Astro (NFRA)
	National Optical Astronomy Observatories
	Nordic Optical Telescope
	Obsevatoire de Haute-Provence
	Open Space (PPARC)
	PPARC Bulletins 
	Pulsars
	South African Astronomical Observatory
	Space Telescope - European Coordinating Facility
	Space Telescope Science Institute
	Spectra (Carnegie Institution of Washington)
	Spectrum
	Standard Stars
	Star Formation
	Astronomia Latino Americana
	Subaru Telescope
	Telescopio Nazionale Galileo
Technical Reports (from other telescopes and institutions)
New Acquisitions (they are displayed on the New Acquisitions shelf)	
Annual Reports (ours and other institutions')
Journals (collections) --> have a look at ~library/pub/catalogue/jou_slo.cat
	Astronomy and Astrophysics
	A&A Supplement Series
	A&A Review
	Astrophysical Journal
	ApJ Supplement Series
	ApJ Letters
	Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics: Vol.1-...(1963-...)
	Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
	Astronomical Journal
	Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
	Others (software, astronomical and general journals)
Books (sections)

	ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS
	Astronomy and Allied Sciences
	Positional and Dynamical Astronomy
	Techniques and Instrumentation
	Observatories
	Telescopes
	Photometry
	Photography
	Spectroscopy
	High-energy Astronomy
	Astrophysics and Cosmochemistry
	Cosmology
	Galaxies
	Milky Way
	Interestellar Matter
	Quasars
	Solar System
	The Sun
	Stars
	Variable Stars
	Terminal Stages of Stars
	Astronomical Geography and Chronology
	
	COMPUTER SCIENCE
	Systems
	Data Processing and InterNet
	Computer Programming
	Special Computer Methods
	
	MATHEMATICS
	Mathematics
	Applied Mathematics and Statistics
	
	PHYSICS
	Physics
	Optics
	
	OTHER SCIENCES
	Geology, Hydrology, Meteorology
	
	ENGINEERING
	Engineering
	Electronics
	
	OTHERS
	Buildings
	Literature
	Biographies
	La Palma
	Directories and Technical Catalogues
	Table and Data Books
	
	SPIE COLLECTIONS

IAU Symposia: Vol.50-66 incomplete, Vol. 72-... complete
ASP Conference Series: Vol.1-...
Astronomy and Astrophysics Abstracts: Vol.1 (1969)-...
Journals (display)
	Applied Optics
	Acta Astronomica
	Agrupacion Astronomica de Sabadell
	Astronomical Journal
	Astronomy and Astrophysics
	A&A Review
	A&A Supplement Series
	Astrophysical Journal
	ApJ Supplement Series
	ApJ Letters
	Astrophysical Letters and Communications
	BBC On Air
	Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society
	BYTE
	Computer Weekly
	Datamation
	The Economist
	El Empresario
	EXE
	Experimental Astronomy
	Fronteras de la Ciencia y la Tecnologia
	Graphics and Visualization
	IAU Information Bulletin
	Iberica
	IEEE Computer
	IEEE Software Engineering
	IEEE Software
	ICEX Informa
	Journal of the British Astronomical Association
	Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
	Nature
	New Scientist
	Photonics Spectra
	Physics World
	Popular Astronomy
	Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan
	Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
	Resident Abroad
	Revista Mexicana de Astronomia y Astronautica
	Science
	Scientific American
	Sky and Telescope
	Starlink Bulletin
	The Astronomer
	The Observatory
	The Universe
	Vistas in Astronomy
	Weather
Dictionaries and Encyclopedias (location: rest room, sixth floor)	
	

2. PLATE LIBRARY
----------------

ING has a plate library at INT building, 2nd floor, northern side. This library
has been reorganized recently. It consists of 4500 transparent and 1000 opaque
photographic plates aproximately and two machines: one for measuring distances
on the plates and another one to take polaroid photographs. Plates cover the 
whole sky in different filters. These are the features of the available 
surveys:

NORTHERN SKY

- Palomar Sky Survey (PSS)+overlays to identify the objects on the plates.
  Opaque plates. -42DEC>-90. Filter J has a
  wave band 395-540 nm and is nearly equivalent to B. ESO plates were taken by
  the 1-meter ESO Schmidt telescope at La Silla and the SERC plates by the 
  1.2-meter UK Schmidt telescope at Siding Spring. The limiting magnitude in J
  is 23. ESO plates are 5.4*5.4 degrees at a scale of 67.6 arcsec/mm, and SERC
  plates are 6.4*6.4 degrees at 67.2 arcsec/mm.
- SERC EJ Sky Survey in filter J, covering 0>DEC>-15. The plates are 6.5*6.5
  degrees at 65.7 arcsec/mm.
- SERC SR and I sky atlas, covering 0>DEC>-75.


3. ELECTRONIC SERVICES: E-JOURNALS, IAU CIRCULARS, PREPRINTS AND JOURNAL
------------------------------------------------------------------------
CATALOGUES
----------

For ING users and visitors is now possible to consult the electronic services 
of library. To reach them type: cd ~library/pub. You will find the electronic
journals we are subscribed to, the IAU circulars, the abstracts of recent 
astronomical preprints with links to the full text and the journal catalogues.
The files in these directories are compressed except for the issues which have
arrived recently. To uncompress:

% cp  ~user
% cd ~user
% uncompress 

To read an uncompressed file from ~library/pub, see first its extension:

.txt
----
more  or
jed , to abandon the application: CTRL+x, CTRL+c. Answer 'No' when asked
for saving. To search using keywords use CTRL+h, ?, 0, 0, 0 (forward) or 1
(backward). Use CTRL+v to move forward quickly and ESC+v to move bakcward. 
Another possibility to search is to use grep command from the Unix prompt: 
grep 'keyword' , and then: grep 'ISSN number'  | more. See below 
for more details.

.dvi
----

xdvi , you need to set display first.

.ps
---

ghostview 


I strongly recomend reading all the  files.


1.1. Electronic Journals
------------------------

JWL is subscribed to 15 free astrophysical electronic newsletters. In 
~library/pub/ejournals directory you can access to all of them including back 
issues. Latest issues can be read directly without uncompressing using the 
right tools (see above). DON'T PRINT THESE ELECTRONIC JOURNALS UNLESS IT'S 
EXTREMELY NECESSARY!! Printed copies can be found at the SLO library. This is
the list:

ALA - Astronomia Latino Americana
	Journal in Spanish about congreses, papers, tesis, etc. in Latin
	America. Periodicity: irregular.
The Magellanic Clouds Newsletter
	The Magellanic Clouds Newsletter is an electronic publication to
	promote information exchange and interdisciplinary collaboration on 
	the Magellanic Clouds. The Magellanic Clouds Newsletter covers all 
	areas of Magellanic Clouds research - young and old stellar 
	populations, individual stars, the star formation history, the 
	interstellar medium, interactions within and between the Magellanic 
	Clouds, and with the Milky Way, kinematic and dynamical studies, 
	astrometry and catalogs, photometry, spectroscopy, and studies in all
	wavelength ranges. Monthly.
The HoT Star Newsletter
	An electronic publication dedicated to A, B, O, Of, LBV and
	Wolf-Rayet stars and related phenomena in galaxies. Monthly.
Asymptotic Giant Branch Newsletter
	An electronic publication dedicated to stellar evolution on the 
	asymptotic giant branch and beyond. Monthly.
The Star Formation Newsletter
	An electronic publication dedicated to early stellar evolution and
	molecular clouds. Monthly.
Standard Star Newsletter
	An electronic publication of the Working Group on Standard Stars,
	IAU commissions 29, 30, 45. Monthly.
Radio Pulsar Newsletter
	A newsletter dedicated to radio observations of Pulsars. Monthly.
Galactic Center News
	Galactic Center News contains abstracts of recently submitted papers
	which revolve around the Galactic Center. Bi-monthly.
Cool Stars Newsletter
	An electronic Newsletter whose purpose is to rapidly disseminate new
	research results dealing with cool stars and the sun. The subject
	matter should pertain directly to F, G, K, M stars or the sun. Monthly.
Newsletter of Chemically Peculiar Red Giant Stars
	A newsletter dedicated to late and peculiar spectrum stars. Monthly.
Active Galaxies Newsletter
	An electronic publication dedicated to the observatoion and theory of 
	active galaxies. Monthly.	
Electronic Newsletter for the History of Astronomy
	Published by the Working Group for the History of Astronomy. Monthly.
Electronic Newsletter of the EUVE Observatory
	The EUVE Electronic Newsletter is published by the EUVE Science
	Archive Group and contains information on a variety of mission-related
	topics (e.g., science discoveries, the Guest Observer Program and the
	Science Archive). Monthly.
Astronomical Data Center (NASA) Electronic News
	News on the NASA Astronomical Data Center. 4 times a year.
Be Star Newsletter
	A newsletter dedicated to Be Stars. Once a year.

If anyone wishes to receive any of these e-journals when they arrive at the
library count, please email me telling which ones.

Other newsletters are available directly from an URL or a ftp server (so there
isn't a subscription) and printed copies are not always available at the SLO
library. These are:

UC Irvine Physics and Astronomy Newsletter
	http://www.ps.uci.edu/physics/newsletter.html
Subaru Telescope Newsletter
	http://opal.mtk.nao.ac.jp/subaru/snl/snl_index.html
ESA Space Science Newsletter
	http://www.estec.esa.nl/spdwww/h2000/html/indexnl.htm
NRAO Newsletter
	Newsletter of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory. 
	http://www.cv.nrao.edu/html/newsletter/
The ASA Newsletter
	The official newsletter of the Astronomical Society of Australia.
	http://www.atnf.csiro.au/asa_www/newsletter.html
AAO Newsletter
	Anglo-Australian Observatory Newsletter. http://www.aao.gov.au/news.html
ESA Publicatons
	http://esapub.esrin.esa.it/
IRAM Newsletter
	Institut de Radio Astronomie Millimetrique Newsletter.
	http://iram.fr/newsletter/newsletter.html
IBVS
	The Information Bulletin on Variable Stars, Comissions 27 and 42 of
	the IAU. ftp://ftp.konkoly.hu/pub/ibvs/4000
Delta Scuti Star Newsletter
	http://dsn.ast.univie.ac.at/dssn/index.html
CDS Information Bulletin
	The CDS Information Bulletin is a specialized publication containing
	information related to the specific role of the astronomical data
	centers. http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/Bull.html
BARS Newsletter
	This is the newsletter of the BARS, Barred and Ringed Galaxies, ITP
	project. ftp://star.herts.ac.uk/pub/Knapen/BARS/nl
EJASA
	Electronic Journal of the Astronomical Society of the Atlantic. General
	interest stories and practical articles for the amateur and 
	professional astronomers. Features include book reviews. 
	http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/ftp/info/newsletters/ejasa
SAAO Newsletter
	South African Astronomical Observatory Newsletter.
	ftp://da.saao.ac.za/pub/info/
Peculiar Newsletter
	A very specialized astronomical circular of the IAU Working Group on
	Ap and related stars.
	http://obswww.unige.ch/~north/newsletter/no24/N24/N24.html
Analysis of Astronomical Spectra
	A newsletter containing reports of recent CCP7 activities. Published
	two times per year.
	http://icarus.stsci.edu/~hulbert/ccp7/www/news.html	

Finally here you are the URLs of the most used journals:

Full text:

A&A
http://link.springer.de/link/service/journals/00230/index.htm
A&A Supplement Series
http://www.ed-phys.fr/docinfos/OnlineAetA.html
ApJ journal, letters and supplement (ING users have complete access)
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/ApJ/journal/         	
New Astronomy
http://www1.elsevier.nl/journals/newast/Menu.html	

Abstracts and indexes only:

Annual Review of A&A
http://www.annurev.org/series/astro/astro.htm     
Astronomical Journal
http://www.astro.washington.edu/astroj/index2.html
MNRAS
http://www.blackwell-science.com/products/journals/mnras.htm
Nature						
http://www.america.nature.com/			
Science
http://www.sciencemag.org/			
New Scientist
http://www.newscientist.com/home.html		
Scientific American
http://www.sciam.com/				
PASP table of contents
http://www.stsci.edu/pasp/list.html		
PASP Abstratcs searchable version with links to full text.
http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/PASP.html		
ASP Conference Series
http://www.stsci.edu/pasp/confer.html			
IAU Symposia
http://www.wkap.nl/kapis/CGI-BIN/WORLD/series.htm?IAUS	

General search:

ADS NASA service
http://adswww.harvard.edu/
CDS Strasbourg						
http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/CDS.html		
NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database
http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/			
Astro-ph service
http://xxx.unizar.es/archive/astro-ph		


1.2. IAU Circulars
------------------

IAU circulars are at ~library/pub/iaucirc and they are in .txt format. Last 20
circulars aproximately are uncompressed. If you wish I forward them to you 
when they arrive, please, let me know.


1.3. Preprints
--------------

The abstracts of recent published preprints can be read in
~library/pub/astro-ph directory. To look for authors, titles, etc. of the last 
6 years, link to http://xxx.unizar.es/archive/astro-ph  These abstracts are 
submitted by the authors directly. Nowadays most of the authors send here 
their papers.

1.4. Journal Catalogues
-----------------------

They can be found at ~library/pub/catalogue. There are two files: file 
 contains the journals at SLO library and  the
ones on the mountain (INT library). Both catalogues include journals, 
magazines and newsletters and are not complete yet. Anyway, the most 
important publications are updated and the information is complete.
These files can be consulted using: 

% grep 'keyword' 

Output is a line with an ISSN number on the left. Grep again using this number
and you will get the full information. Example:

% grep 'Datamation' jou_slo.cat

ISSN 0011-6963 Datamation

% grep 'ISSN 0011-6963' jou_slo.cat

ISSN 0011-6963 Datamation
ISSN 0011-6963 2 years
ISSN 0011-6963
ISSN 0011-6963          Volume Issue  Date    Received Date  Mark
ISSN 0011-6963          -----------------------------------------
ISSN 0011-6963            42    07   01/04/96   08/05/96
ISSN 0011-6963            42    08   15/04/96   08/05/96
ISSN 0011-6963            42    09   01/05/96   03/06/96
ISSN 0011-6963            42    10   15/05/96   21/06/96
ISSN 0011-6963            42    11   01/06/96   08/07/96
ISSN 0011-6963            42    12   15/06/96   08/07/96
ISSN 0011-6963            42    13   07/96      13/09/96
ISSN 0011-6963            42    14   08/96      16/10/96

For further information on grep command, type:

% man grep

Another possibility is using jed editor or more command (see above). 


4. NEW ACQUISITIONS
-------------------

The following books have arrived recently. If location is not specified, they
are on the New Acquisitons shelf at SLO library and can be borrowed filling 
the loan cards as usual:

1. 'Physical Processes in Symbiotic Binaries and Related Systems', Proceedings
   of the International Conference held at Koninki, Poland, J. Mikolajewska,
   1997.
2. 'Gran Atlas Mundial', Plaza and Janes. Location: SLO rest room.
3. 'Gravity's Fatal Attraction', M. Begelman and M. Rees, Scientific American
   Library, 1996.
4. 'Software Inspection', Tom Gilb and Dorothy Graham, Addison-Wesley.
5. 'Charge-Coupled Devices and Solid State Optical Sensors IV', SPIE 
   Proceedings Series Vol. 2172, Blouke M.M. (editor).
6. 'Charge-Coupled Devices and Solid State Optical Sensors III', SPIE 
   Proceedings series Vol. 1900, Blouke M.M. (editor).
7. 'Voyager in Time and Space - The life of Couch Adams', Cambridge
   Astronomer, Harrison H.M., The Book Guild Ltd., 1994.
8. 'Seeing at the WHT', Report on the Half Arcsecond Project up to 31 July 
   1996, Mike Breare, February 1997.
9. 'Understanding Client/Server Computing', One video plus a workbook.
10. 'Design Project Planning', William T.F. Bond, Prentice Hall, 1996.
11. 'Perspectives in Astrophysical Cosmology', Martin Rees, Cambridge
    University Press, 1995.
12. 'Old Populations and the Star Formation History of the Local Group Dwarf
    Irregular Galaxy NGC 6822', Carme Gallart Gallart, IAC, 1996.
13. 'Electronic Journals 1995', Association of Research Libraries, 1995.

5. NEWS
-------

CCD ASTRONOMY NO LONGER PUBLISHED

CCD Astronomy has ceased publication after winter 1997 (JWL was subscribed to).
Instead they will devote more space to digital imaging in Sky & Telescope. It 
no longer makes sense to relegate digital imaging to a separate publication. 
So, beginning with the May issue, S&T will include regular coverage of 
electronic astronomy in the form of review articles, technical tips, equipment
reviews, and - of course - glorious CCD images of the night sky.
		 
THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC IN CHARGE OF PUBLISHING IAU
PUBLICATIONS

The Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) is pleased to announce that
the Society has been selected to issue the publications of the International
Astronomical Union (IAU). The ASP will assume the publishing responsibilities
from the present publisher in January of 1998.

URANIA

The Urania resource is composed of electronic astronomical scholarly journals,
bibliographic information, electronic archives of original data, electronic 
astronomical catalogs, electronic copies of the historical scholarly 
literature for the last twenty years and a special reference system archive
organized by object in the sky. Linked together effectively by a mutual,
standardized reference system, the separate resources which make up Urania
comprise a functioning digital library of astronomical information, providing 
a power and utility which, until now, was only dreamed of.

At present, Urania is composed of the following components:

Peer Reviewed Journals:
The Astrophysical Journal (18,500 pages)
The Astrophysical Journal Supplements (4,000 pages)
The Astrophysical Journal Letters (2,500 pages)
Astronomical Journal (6,000 pages - March  1997)
Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplements (3,500 pages - expected shortly)
Astronomy and Astrophysics (13,5000 pages - coming in 1997)
Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (1,500 pages -
coming in 1997)

Bibliographic Resources:
NASA/Astrophysics Data System (searchable authors, titles, abstracts - links
to articles and data)

Data Centers:
Centre de Donn es astronomiques de Strasbourg (CDS)
NASA/Astronomical Data Center  (ADC)
NASA Extragalactic Data Center (NED)

Object-indexed Data and Bibliographic Search Systems:
NASA Extragalactic Database
SIMBAD

Historical Journal Archive:
NASA/Astrophysics Data System (page images of all major journals sinc
1980)

URANIA is at:  http://www.aas.org/Urania

DEC COMPUTING

Dec Computing has ceased publication and subscription has been cancelled.
None of 1997 issues were published.



Javier Mendez Alvarez
ING librarian
jma@ing.iac.es

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* To order books, email me with this information: title, author, ISBN number, 
  approximate price, publisher and year of publication. Further information 
  is welcome too. 
* To borrow books, fill the loan card specifying your name (extension and
  email address), date and where you are going to keep the book. In
  principle, you can borrow all the books except for those which are for
  reference only. Put the card into a red plastic bag and leave it where
  exactly the book was. Return the book to the 'Returned Books' tray when
  finished.
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