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B. G. Corbin (U.S. Naval Observatory)
A wealth of new resources are available on the web to aid the historian of astronomy in research. Digital images of portraits and photographs can be found online at the U.S. Naval Observatory, the Center for the History of Physics, the Library of Congress, and in other collections. Finding lists of obituaries and full text obituaries of astronomers are now available at several sites including the Royal Astronomical Society. Archival materials relating to astronomers and observatories are indexed at many university and society web sites. The Astrophysics Data System (ADS) contains full text astronomy journals, some back to the beginning volume, but other sites also have full text general science journals online, such as the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, which has many early articles on astronomy, optics and related subjects. As large numbers of libraries now have their card catalogs online, many citations to historical astronomy publications which formerly were not widely known can be easily located. An overview of these collections will be given, with web addresses supplied for each site mentioned.