Welcome to ADS Labs! Tired of cluttered user interfaces? Looking for new ways to explore the literature? You’ve come to the right place. The ADS team has been working hard on reinventing its services and interfaces to better support our community’s research needs. ADS Labs is a new interface built on the old tried-and-true ADS…
We have tabulated the Impact Factor for some of the journals for the year 2011 for your reference. If you require the IF of any of the journals not listed in this list kindly contact the Librarian Sl. No. Journal Name ISSN Impact Factor 1 Advances in space research 0273-1177 1.178 2 Applied Optics 1559-128X…
Recently the team GalileoMobile project, in collaboration with IIA and the Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium at Bangalore travelled to 12 villages/towns in Karnataka to reach and educate the school children to kindle their awareness and inspire them in pursuing the knowledge in Astronomy. IIA library actively participated in this outreach program and one of the library…
Dr. Christina Birdie, Librarian has been invited by the IAU WG on Libraries committee, under IAU commission 5 to serve as a member in the panel to discuss “Scientists’ Need for Libraries in the Age of the Internet“, during the forthcoming IAU GA to be held at Beijing between 20th to 31st Aug. 2012 Dr….
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ASTRONOMY BLOG Astronomy Blog describes itself like this: “An astronomy blog based in the UK. Pondering questions such as ‘Why does the Moon look orange?’” The blogger, Stuart states he set it up as “somewhere to write about astronomy and astrophysics related stuff.” He does a good job of it, too.
New Books Display 1. Curiosity: how science became interested in everything Ball, Philip Curiosity: how science became interested in everything London: Bodley Head, 2012 Call No. 5/ BAL Accn. No. 19215 Reviews… 2. Challenges in stellar pulsation Balona, L. A. Sharjah, UAE: Bentham Science Publisher Ltd., 2010 Call No. 524.331/ BAL…
Mrs Fatima al-Kalbani from the Sultanate of Oman is currently preparing an astronomical dictionary dedicated to the deaf community. This dictionary contain many astronomical terms. Mrs Fatima is a teacher of computing. Astronomer have paid little attention to the deaf community, and this would be a dream for the Deaf in all countries of the…
From Hidden Collection… The recent Transit of Venus that took place on June 6, 2012 drew lot of attention and interest among the public and scientific community. Historically this event is connected to Madras Observatory, as elaborate arrangements were made in the Observatory to observe the Transit of Venus that occurred in 1874 and 1882….
