CfA Bibliography for February 2014
Refereed articles published by CfA authors in February 2014 (View this list in ADS 2.0 to filter, analyze, view, export, sort)
Visual Astronomy Display: February 2014
Visual Astronomy Display for February 2014 Highlights… Engineers and scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory talk about the amazing discoveries of Opportunity which is still functioning on the surface of Mars a full ten years after it landed in 2004; A neat little video from MinutePhysics about how the solar system has ended up relatively …
CfA Bibliography for January 2014
Refereed articles published by CfA authors in January 2014 (View this list in ADS 2.0 to filter, analyze, view, export, sort)
CfA News Feed
Here are just a few places to find CfA in the News: AAAS EurekAlert! Smithsonian Science e!Science News PhysOrg.com Astronomy Picture of the Day CfA in the News Archive starting from October 2010 and ending in January 2012. Recent CfA News Releases
Introducing the Visual Astronomy Display
I’m excited to share a new project I’ve been working on at the Wolbach Library recently: The Visual Astronomy Display. Basically, it is a large screen monitor showing a curated list of YouTube videos about astronomy. The playlist, usually running about an hour and a half to two hours, is refreshed on a monthly basis …
John G. Wolbach Library
The John G. Wolbach Library combines the collections of the Harvard College Observatory (HCO) Library and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) Library, forming one of the world’s preeminent astronomical collections. The joint collection is known as the John G. Wolbach Library at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. The principal subject areas contained within the Wolbach Library collection include …
Zenodo: A new grey literature and data publication solution from CERN
I’ve been with the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics as the Head Librarian for 3+ years, but a patron request that the John G. Wolbach Library received during my first few weeks still clings to the back of mind. It involved a graduate student simply wishing to submit her dissertation to the Library in electronic format. …
Unified Astronomy Thesaurus
The Unified Astronomy Thesaurus (UAT) is an open, interoperable and community-supported thesaurus of astronomical and astrophysical concepts and their relationships. It unifies existing divergent and isolated astronomy and astrophysics thesauri into a single high-quality, freely-available open thesaurus formalizing astronomical concepts and their inter-relationships. We expect that the Unified Astronomy Thesaurus will be further enhanced and …