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Internet resources for physics
The best of the Web
Welcome to this guide to the best of the Web for Physics. In these pages you will find a selection of some of the most useful websites for students, lecturers and researchers working in Physics. The selection is by no means exhaustive, but it should give you a flavour of the range of resources available on the Internet for education and research.
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Bibliographic databases Data collections and databanks Journals Eprints Web directories Professional societies, institutes and associations Mailing lists Educational resources Physics news 1 3 4 6 6 8 9 10 12
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Internet resources for physics
Bibliographic databases
For the majority of bibliographic databases access is restricted to institutional subscribers.
Inspec
http://www.iee.org/publish/inspec/ Published by the IEEE, Inspec is the leading English-language bibliographic information service providing access to the world's scientific and technical literature in physics, electrical engineering, electronics, communications, control engineering, computers, computing, information technology, manufacturing, production and mechanical engineering. The database also contains extensive information relevant to physical chemists. An institutional subscription is required for access.
ISI Web of Knowledge
http://wos.mimas.ac.uk/ The Web of Knowledge service provides access to a number of databases in the sciences and other disciplines, including the Science Citation Index from 1981, ISI Proceedings Science and Technical edition from 1990, Current Contents Connect Physical, Chemical and Earth Sciences edition, Journal Citation Reports, ISI Chemistry, and Derwent Innovations Index. This platform provides a unique way of searching, including the ability to cross-search the content of multiple products and external resources simultaneously. An institutional subscription is required for access.
NASA Astrophysics Data System
http://adswww.harvard.edu/ This NASA-funded service provides access to over 5 million abstracts in three bibliographic databases: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Physics and ArXiv e-prints. These include all the major journals, many minor journals, conference proceedings, many Observatory reports and newsletters, many NASA reports, and PhD theses. The service also provides access to scanned images of articles from most of the major and many smaller astronomical journals, as well as many conference proceedings, and bulletins and Observatory publications. Users can also browse the latest tables of contents from a selection of major journals. Mirror sites are available.
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SciFinder Scholar
http://www.cas.org/SCIFINDER/SCHOLAR/ This is a major database that provides extensive coverage of the literature for chemistry and a wide range of other scientific disciplines, and is maintained by the American Chemical Society. SciFinder Scholar is the world’s largest collection of organic and inorganic substance information. The database provides more than 30 million substance records, over 10 million reactions, and over 23 million abstracts drawn from more than 9500 journals, patents, conferences and reports. Users can search by keywords, author names, chemical substances or reactions (using chemical name, chemical structure, molecular formula, or CAS Registry Number), and patents (using patent number). An institutional subscription is required for access.
Scopus
http://www.scopus.com/scopus/home.url Scopus is a bibliographic database from Elsevier. It ‘includes the abstracts and cited references of over 14,000 titles from more than 4,000 international publishers in the sciences and social sciences’. UK FE and HE institutions can subscribe via the JISC funded site licence initiative (UK students should check with their University/College library whether access is available). An institutional subscription is required for access.
Zetoc
http://zetoc.mimas.ac.uk/ Zetoc provides access to the British Library’s Electronic Table of Contents of around 20,000 current journals and around 16,000 conference proceedings published per year. The database covers 1993 to date, and is updated on a daily basis. It includes an email alerting service, so that users can receive notification of relevant new data. zetoc is free to use for members of JISC-sponsored UK higher and further education institutions. The zetoc service is provided by MIMAS at The University of Manchester on behalf of the British Library and the JISC. An institutional subscription is required for access.
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Data collections and databanks
These resources provide you with physical data, sometimes in a form that you can import.
Fundamental Physical Constants
http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Constants/ This database gives values of the basic constants and conversion factors of physics and chemistry resulting from the 2002 adjustment of the fundamental physical constants as published by the CODATA (Committee on Data for Science and Technology) Task Group on Fundamental Constants and recommended for international use by CODATA. Site content also includes: the latest conversion factors for energy equivalents recommended by CODATA for international use; a searchable bibliography containing about 2000 published papers on the constants and related precision measurements; an introduction to the constants for non-experts; and links to selected scientific data. This site is a service of the NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) Physics Laboratory.
X-Ray Data Booklet
http://xdb.lbl.gov/ The X-Ray Data Booklet, second edition, was published in 2001 by the Center for X-Ray Optics and Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The content is available in full-text, and is organised into the following sections: X-ray properties of the elements; synchrotron radiation; scattering processes; optics and detectors; and miscellaneous. The Booklet is also provided in PDF format, requiring Adobe Acrobat Reader software.
Tables of Physical Data
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/tables/ttab.html Part of the HyperPhysics site by Rod Nave, these data tables include data for mechanics, electricity and magnetism, heat and thermodynamics, optics, astronomy, acoustics, modern physics, condensed matter, nuclear physics, chemistry, geophysics, fundamental physical constants, and combinations of constants.
Atomic and Molecular Databases Around the World
http://dpc.nifs.ac.jp/dblinks1.html This site, maintained by the National Institute for Fusion Science in Japan, provides lists of links to atomic and molecular databases. It covers: fundamental physical constants; spectroscopic data; collisional process data; nuclear physics data; and bibliographic databases. Links are also provided to the national data centres within the A+M/PMI Data Center Network.
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The Review of Particle Physics
http://pdg.lbl.gov/ The Review includes a compilation and evaluation of measurements of the properties of the elementary particles. It is compiled by the Particle Data Group (PDG), an international collaboration of scientists charged with summarizing particle physics, as well as related areas of cosmology and astrophysics.
Journals
A selection of websites useful for finding out about physics journals.
American Institute of Physics: Journals
http://journals.aip.org/ The American Institute of Physics (AIP) publishes several physics research journals. Their website offers browsing and searching to access contents lists and abstracts, and subscription details and instructions for authors. Access to full-text is available to subscribers or by purchase of individual articles. (UK students should check with their University/College library whether access is available.)
American Physical Society: Journals
http://publish.aps.org/ The American Physical Society (APS) publishes several physics research journals. Their website offers browsing and searching to access contents lists and abstracts, which extend from the first volume of publication in 1893 to the most recent issue. Access to full-text is available to subscribers or by purchase of individual articles. (UK students should check with their University/College library whether access is available.) The website includes subscription details and instructions for authors.
Institute of Physics: Journals
http://www.iop.org/EJ/ The Institute of Physics (IOP) publishes several physics research journals. Their website offers browsing and searching to access contents lists and abstracts, which extend from the first volume of publication in 1874 to the most recent issue. Access to full-text is available to subscribers or by purchase of individual articles. (UK students should check with their University/College library whether access is available.) The website includes subscription details and instructions for authors.
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Institute of Physics: Physics Reviews
http://www.iop.org/EJ/ejs_extra/-coll=rev Physics Reviews is a service from the Institute of Physics (IOP), that brings together all review articles published in IOP’s journals, including topical reviews and reviews from the Institute’s dedicated review journal ‘Reports on Progress in Physics’. Access to the review articles is subject to subscription status. (UK students should check with their University/College library whether access is available.) Non-subscribers of the source journals are given the option to buy the articles when they click on the full-text PDF links.
Institute of Physics: This Month’s Papers
http://www.iop.org/EJ/toc/-ff30=7 As a service to authors and to the international physics community, all papers published in Institute of Physics (IOP) journals are made freely available in the IOP This Month's Papers facility for 30 days from the date of online publication. Only fair use of the content is permitted, which excludes regular/systematic downloading of the content, and excludes downloading a substantial proportion of the content. If these guidelines are not followed, then IOP may withdraw the service. Non-subscribers are required to create login to gain access to this facility. Those who do not have a username and password need to create an account first.
NASA Astrophysics Data System: Journal Query Page
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/journals_service.html This NASA-funded service includes free access to scanned images of articles from most of the major and many smaller astronomical journals, as well as many conference proceedings, as well as observatory and society publications. Mirror sites are available.
ScienceDirect
http://www.sciencedirect.com/ ScienceDirect offers access to the Elsevier Science collection of over 2,000 journals, together with several bibliographic databases and full-text reference works. The collection contains over 8 million articles. Guest users may browse journal tables of contents, view abstracts and purchase copies of individual articles. Users from subscribing institutions have access to some or all full-text journal articles and other content, depending upon subscription options.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
http://www.doaj.org/ The aim of the DOAJ is to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals which meet certain quality criteria, thereby promoting their increased usage and impact. Browsing and searching options are available. A Frequently Asked Questions page is also offered.
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E-prints
arXiv.org e-Print Archive
http://www.arXiv.org/ Started in August 1991, arXiv.org is an automated electronic archive and distribution server for research papers. Areas covered include physics and related disciplines e.g. astrophysics, condensed matter, general relativity and quantum cosmology, high energy physics, mathematical physics, nuclear physics, quantum physics, mathematics, computer science, nonlinear sciences and quantitative biology. Authors can submit their papers to the archive. Mirror sites are available.
E-Print Network
http://www.osti.gov/eprints/ The E-Print Network is a free service of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI). It provides a gateway to over 22,000 websites and databases worldwide, containing e-prints in basic and applied sciences, primarily in physics but also including subject areas such as chemistry, biology and life sciences, materials science, nuclear sciences and engineering, energy research, computer and information technologies. The service enables distributed full-text searching of e-print databases, and enables browsing of e-prints and related scientific websites by science disciplines.
Web directories
A selection of sites that provide an insight into the range and quality of freely available Web directories in physics.
PhysicsWeb
http://physicsweb.org/ PhysicsWeb is an online service provided by the Institute of Physics and provides frequent physics news, highlights of Physics World magazine, collections of key articles and websites in physics organised by topic (including: applied physics; astronomy and astrophysics; atomic, molecular and quantum physics; careers; condensed matter; history of physics; optics and lasers; particle and nuclear physics; physics in biology; superconductivity), PhysicsJobs, an events calendar, and a buyer’s guide. Institute of Physics members can access Physics World magazine and other member services.
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Intute: Science, Engineering and Technology: Physics
http://www.intute.ac.uk/sciences/physics/ This resource contains over 4,000 descriptions of freely available Web-based high quality physics resources, which can be searched or browsed by subject. The catalogue contains links to full text tutorials and lecture notes, to databases and databanks, journal websites, email lists, professional societies, reference material, etc. There is also a free science magazine Spotlight that discusses topical issues in science, and a physics timeline.
Martindale's Reference Desk: Virtual Physics Center
http://www.martindalecenter.com/GradPhysics.html This resource comprises an extensive list of links to sites, compiled by Jim Martindale, covering all aspects of physics and some related science. It includes courses, textbooks, databases, dictionaries and glossaries.
PhysNet: the Physics Departments and Documents Network
http://physnet.uni-oldenburg.de/PhysNet/ PhysNet provides access to information from worldwide physics institutions and university departments. The site includes links to physics departments and institutions, document sources (such as preprints, research reports, annual reports and publication lists), free full-text journals, conferences, jobs, educational resources, and other physics websites. Mirror sites are available.
INIS (International Nuclear Information System): Internet Directory of Nuclear Resources
http://www.iaea.org/inis/ws/ The INIS Internet Directory, produced by the International Atomic Energy Agency, provides a database of annotated links to websites relevant to nuclear science and technology. The directory can be searched or browsed. Coverage includes: bibliographic databases, journals, reports, preprints, data, research institutions, nuclear installations, health and safety, other organisations, and nuclear gateways.
Net Advance of Physics
http://web.mit.edu/redingtn/www/netadv/ The Net Advance of Physics, compiled by Norman Hugh Redington of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, provides physics review articles and tutorials in an encyclopedic format. Topics can be browsed alphabetically or hierarchically. An annotated list of links to related sites is also provided.
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Professional societies, institutes and associations
A selection of the key contact groups for physics worldwide.
Institute of Physics
http://www.iop.org/ The Institute of Physics is an international professional body and learned society, established to promote the advancement and dissemination of knowledge and education in the science of physics, pure and applied. The IOP website includes information about the Institute, its activities, its publishing work (including links to IOP journals, magazines, and community websites), physics news, conferences and events organized by the Institute, physics Web links, and membership information.
American Institute of Physics
http://www.aip.org/ The American Institute of Physics (AIP) is a not-for-profit membership corporation chartered in New York State in 1931 for the purpose of promoting the advancement and diffusion of the knowledge of physics and its application to human welfare. The AIP website provides a wide range of resources including: physics news; links to member and affiliated societies; links to online journals of the AIP and its member societies; details of magazines, books, conference proceedings and other AIP publications; AIP publishing services; career services, including job listings; education and student services; science policy, including physics in government; The Center for History of Physics, including a newsletter, Web exhibits, the Niels Bohr Library, and the Emilio Segre Visual Archives; meetings and conference information.
American Physical Society
http://www.aps.org/ The American Physical Society, formed in 1899, is dedicated to the advancement and diffusion of the knowledge of physics. The site provides details of the activities of the society and a range of facilities. Some features (eg membership directory, full-text journals) are only accessible to members. Free facilities include: A Century of Physics Timeline; jobs; and links to physics Internet resources.
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European Physical Society
http://www.eps.org/ The European Physical Society is a not for profit association whose purpose is to promote physics and physicists in Europe. Created in 1968, the EPS provides an international forum to discuss science and policy issues of interest to its members. This home page provides the magazine ‘Europhysics News Online’, information of activities, publication, conferences, membership, educatio..."
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