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Originally Posted by Bessler007
Here is the point. I think if BAUT would begin to grow a repository of PDF papers on different aspects of Astronomy there would be interest. Eventually courses could be offered that would make use of that library.
The writers of the papers would be given credit for their ideas and could cite them on their resumes. I've read this thread and I can see there is interest. I'm not sure if that interest has reached a critical mass to cause some action. That would be good to see.
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Well, the Astrophysics Data System
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abstract_service.html
has copies of the titles and abstracts of nearly every paper published in the refereed astronomical literature for the past century. It even has PDF copies of many of the entire papers. You can search and browse and read them at your leisure.
There is also the astro-ph preprint archive:
http://arxiv.org/archive/astro-ph
with a smaller selection from the past decade only, but always the full text of the paper.
Perhaps you want a guided tour through some portion of the field. If so, you might simply do a little searching for course notes which are freely available on the Internet. There are plenty of them.
Can you explain in concrete terms exactly what you want that cannot be satisfied by a little self-guided reading?