Synopsis
1. Data from the ROSAT Observatory. 2. The EXOSAT Database System. 3. IRAS. 4. Databases from Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE). 5. The Many faces of the Archive of the International Ultraviolet Explorer Satellite. 6. Data Archive System for the Hubble Space Telescope. 7. Database Aspects of the Guide Star Catalog. 8. The HIPPARCOS INCA Database. 9. The SIMBAD Astronomical Database. 10. The NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database. 11. The ESO Archive Project. 12. Archives of the Isaac Newton Group, La Palma and Westerbork Observatories. 13. Archiving at NRAO's VLA and VLBA Telescopes. 14. ESIS A Science Information System. 15. The NASA Astrophysics Data System. 16. The NSSDC Services. 17. The Space Data Centre at RAL. 18. Database Applications in Starlink. 19. Database Applications in Astronet. 20. Database Services at the Canadian Astronomy Data Centre. 21. Astronomical Bibliography from Commercial Databases. 22. Astronomical Directories. 23. Science Networks: A Short Overview. 24. User Interfaces in Astronomy. 25. The FITS Data Format. List of Acronyms. Index.
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Review
` The book is a reference work, useful and probably a must for the astronomer wanting to use archived data. It should be in the library of each astronomical research institute. '
Space Science Reviews, 62:393
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