Literature: Search and new papersAntony Lewis

arXiv, Spires and ADS

Most papers > 1994 and free, PDF and source: eprints and postprints

Could use“Lewis_A”to narrow down

Or “Lewis AND challinor”

What’s the latest on XXX?

Find citing papers to a key reference.

e.g. latest on cold spot in the CMB?

Direct search: google, Google Scholar (http://scholar.google.co.uk)

Google “CMB cold spot” -> Wikipedia –> References ->

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/ http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abstract_service.html

ADS esp. good for pre-arXiv papers(has huge archive of scanned journals)

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/journals_service.html

http://inspirehep.net/ (bias away from astronomy towards HEP, but has most)

http://cosmocoffee.info

Links to custom full-text Google searches and ADS at cosmocoffee.info

arXiv New: daily keyword paper search

Bookmarks and clubs (start your own student journal club!)

Use BibTex for citing references

arXiv paper page:

(or use BibTex link on CosmoCoffee)

e.g. file “antony.bib” my_paper.tex

To automatically update your list of bibtexreferences as things are published (arXiv -> journal) see

http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/hep/bib/bibtex.shtml or google “spires bibtex update”

Digest emails of new papers (weekly/daily/keyword):

http://myads.harvard.edu/