Lecture 8

Colloquium Review

Keeping up with the Literature

• Why bother?
• How to start
• Good habits
• Citation indicies, and their use and abuse

Astrophysics Literature Search Tools

• Astrophysics Data System (ADS), the mother of all bibliographies: old school version, ADS 2.0, fancy new bumblebee
• Particle-physics oriented INSPIRE
• Google Scholar

Colloquium Preview

• Go!
• Next week: Chemical Enrichment in Galactic Halos Hsiao-Wen Chen
• circumgalactic and intergalactic baryons: quasar absorption line systems an awesome example
• GRBs as probes