The following links may help you find new papers of interest on various aspects of star formation. In each category, the first link is one that I find extremely useful.

Preprints

• The Star Formation Newsletter. Abstracts of recently-accepted papers on star formation and molecular clouds, many with URLs for preprints.

• Astrophysics preprint server. Searchable archive of astronomy preprints, with links to the Postscript or TeX/LaTeX source.
  Beware! Unlike those in the Star Formation Newsletter, not all of the preprints here have been refereed - some are just recently submitted papers. On the other hand, you can find preprints of papers from conference proceedings here that you wouldn't find elsewhere.

• ApJ Letters abstracts. Abstracts of ApJ Letters that are accepted but not yet published. Links to full-text preprints for some papers.

• STScI STEPsheet. A searchable database of preprints received at STScI, with citations given for those that have since been published. No links to actual papers, though.

Published Papers

• ADS Astronomy Abstract Service. One of the best resources around for finding papers - a searchable index of the papers in all the major (and some minor) astronomy journals. You can search by author, title, object name, etc. The full text of most papers from the last several years is available, with more added all the time.

• Astrophysical Journal Online. Full access to the latest ApJ letters, papers, and supplements. Much of the older material is available through ADS (above), but new things appear here first, including the latest ApJ issues a full month before the printed version appears. This also has a full-text search of the ApJ. (Accessible only from the asu.edu domain - this is a service for subscribers only, and we get access because the ASU Library subscribes.)

• Astronomy & Astrophysics online. Full access to the latest A & A papers. Again, access to newer material than you can get through ADS.

• Nature and Science. You won't have found preprints of these papers, since these commercial journals don't allow it. At both sites, you have to register and then you can get access to recent tables of contents and short article summaries, but that's about it. Still, it can be useful since these journals are sometimes a bit slow getting to the library.

• New Astronomy, a new astronomy journal with extensive on-line availability (at least for now).

Meta-lists

• AstroWeb. A huge collection of astronomy and astrophysics resources on the Web, including many publication-related links.

• The NRAO Library has an extensive list of electronic resources.

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