Dear Colleagues, Free trial online access to e-books titles from Cambridge University Press is activated in all the campuses of IIA from 25th Nov. 2013 to 9th Dec. 2013. Kindly send us your valuable recommendations and comments as early as possible. In order to access the e-books of “Astronomy” Subject collections please follow the link…
Dear Colleagues, The “Open Journal for Astrophysics” is completely free both for submission and for access; there are no Author Processing Charges and no subscription payments. All papers will be fully peer-reviewed. All this is provided free by members of the astrophysics community as a service to the astrophysics community. Read More: http://telescoper.wordpress.com/2013/11/17/the-open-journal-for-astrophysics-is-open-for-test-submissions/ With Regards,…
The new panoramic mosaic of the majestic Saturn system taken by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft shows the view as it would be seen by human eyes. NASA has released the first-ever natural-colour portrait of Saturn, in which the planet, its seven moons and rings, and Earth, Venus and Mars, all are visible. Read More: The Hindu,…
Discover is hosting the Comet ISON Photo Contest, together with the National Science Foundation’s Division of Astronomical Sciences, and Astronomy magazine. The contest is open to amateur and professional photographers worldwide. You can submit images online at www.nsf.gov/comet beginning October 15, 2013, through January 15, 2014. Judges will consider images in three categories; in…
Dear Colleagues, Emerald Publishing has announced complete access to all Emerald eJournals for a month (between November 1 and 30, 2013). This complete access will enable you, to download / read articles that are not part of our current subscription to Emerald eJournals. The following are the link to access the content, http://www.emeraldinsight.com/ …
Dear Colleagues, SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, has announced it will launch the Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems (JATIS), covering fundamental research and applications focused on the full range of astronomical instrumentation. JATIS will launch in mid-2014. For more information: http://spie.org/x103617.xml With Regards, Librarian
Indian Institute of Astrophysics Library Koramangala Bangalore – 560 034 India List of Books Displayed on 7th November 2013 1 Bennett, Jeffrey , Donahue, Megan , Schneider, Nicholas and Voit, Mark The cosmic perspective: the solar system.–7th ed.– San Francisco: Pearson Education, 2014. 52/ BEN 19732 2 Bennett, Jeffrey O….
Full text of the research papers published in October 2013 can be accessed from Indian Institute of Astrophysics Repository. Bhavya, B., Subramaniam, A., Kuriakose, V. C., 2013, Study of Young Stellar Objects and Associated Filamentary Structures in the Inner Galaxy, MNRAS, 435, 663 Cui, W. Y., Sivarani, T., Christlieb, N., 2013, The Hamburg/ESO R-process…
Dear Friends, To support the ‘International Open Access Week’ event observed all over the world between 21st to 27th Oct.,2013, IIA library has designed a poster. This poster is available for viewing in the following URL, http://prints.iiap.res.in/handle/2248/6423 With Regards, Christina Birdie
