The OCA libraries' users can access to internal and external resources :
The OCA library's catalog specialized in Earth Sciences and Astronomy
- This catalog contains 25802 titles (dec 16 2022)
- A reader account makes its possible to reserve documents, to consult its list of loan
Journals in print or electronic format
- Individual titles funded by the observatory ;
- Journal packages funded by the CNRS or jointly acquired with the Université Côte d'Azur (UCA) ;
Main publishers : AAAS (nature) ; AMer. Meteor. Soc. publ. ; Assoc. for Comput. Machinery (ACM) ; AGU ; Amerian Institue of Physics (AIP) ; American Physical Society (APS) ; Elsevier ; GeoscienceWorld (GSW) ; IOP ; IOS press ; JSTOR Math. Stat (archive) ; Optical Society of America (OSA) ; Oxford Univ. press (archive) ; Springer (until 2017) et Wiley - Journal archives acquired under national licences
Bibliographic and citation databases
- specialized databases accessible to all
Main databases : ADS ; ArXiv ; HAL - paid databases funded by the CNRS or the UCA
Main databases : GEOREF ; INSPEC ; Scopus (Elsevier) ; Web of science (Clarivate analytics)
Collections of e-books
- These collections were acquired under national licences or funded by CNRS
- Main collections : AIP conference proceedings ; GSL special publication ; Lyell collection ; Safari book ; Science direct e-book (3 ebook packages) ; Springer e-book (Physics and Astronomy package) (until 2017)
The terms and conditions of access vary according to the sources of funding and the rights granted by the publishers.
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