Free scientific journals on astronomy?

Question

I am doing a research report on Nicolaus Copernicus. The assignment requires 3 professional journals concerning modern day research in regards to the study of Copernics. I am having trouble find websites the offer FREE professional journals. Please can someone help me! I need free professional journals with abstracts in relation to the further research of Copernicus's theories. I already tried pubmed, highwire... any more?

Answer 1

http://www.cv.nrao.edu/fits/www/yp_full_text.html

http://xxx.lanl.gov/

http://www.rhodes.edu/public/2_0-Academics/2_5-Library/2_5_2-SubjectGuides/2_5_2_4-Astronomy.shtml

http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/astroweb/full_text.html

http://www.astro.virginia.edu/

et cetera

Answer 2

It's worth noting that even most paid journals will offer current articles for free. Another option to try is that if you're interested in an article that you can't get from the journal there might be preprints available through one of the article's authors or their institutions.

I happen to know that http://www.arxiv.org offers reprints of many articles, and that astrophysics is one of the subjects they cover.

Then there's also open access journals. More and more journals are going online and offering articles for free, and more scientists are publishing to them. The Directory of Open Access Journals (http://www.doaj.org) is a good place to look for these.

Answer 3

Try astroPH. http://arxiv.org/ Free astronomy articles that will probably be published, or have already been published - but many will be technical, so good luck.

Also, you can search for articles on ADS http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abstract_service.html - but again, technical, and not all of these will be free unless you're accessing the page from a university computer with a license. But some will be free.

Answer 4

Your library may have some available online for you to use.

Answer 5

http://www.crystalinks.com/copernicus.html