Physics and Astronomy Internet Sources
The world physics community has been at the center of the development of
the World Wide Web. The sites listed below are only suggested starting points toward the large
amount of physics and astronomy information available.
- Founded in 1899, the American Physical Society now has more than 41,000 members
worldwide and publishes some of the world's leading physics research journals: the Physical
Review series, Physical Review Letters, and Reviews of Modern Physics.
Information about their journals, advance listings of accepted papers, and tables of
contents are available on the Web pages. Electronic access to
their journals is available from the library's home page through the
Journals link.
- The American Institute of Physics is one of the major publishers of physics information.
In addition to their complete book and journal catalog, the Web page also includes tables
of contents from the latest issues of more than 30 of their journals.
Electronic access to their journals is available from the library's home
page through the
Journals link.
- The Institute of Physics is the major British professional organization for physicists
with over 20,000 members worldwide. It is also a major publisher of physics books and
journals and the first publisher to place all its journals online to existing
institutional subscribers. The home pages of IOP journals provide
tables of contents and the full text of feature articles. Electronic
access to IOP journals is available from the library's home page through
the
Journals link.
- Site of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration,
this provides extensive information about the U.S. space program as well as other astronomical
topics.
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- arXiv.org, a site provided by Cornell
University, is "an e-print service in the fields of physics, mathematics,
non-linear science, computer science, and quantitative biology." It offers
open access to thousands of e-prints and is valuable for keeping up with
new research.
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- The SPIRES-HEP database, run by the Stanford Linear
Accelerator Center (SLAC) since the late 1960's, covers the particle
physics literature. In 1991 it became the first website in North America.
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The purpose of this site from the American Institute of Physics "is to
preserve and make known the history of modern physics and allied fields."
It includes interactive tutorials about prominent physicists and important
research, collections of historical photographs and other images, and even
sample syllabi and readings lists to help physics educators.
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Please send any comments or suggestions
about this page to Barbara MacAlpine, Science Librarian.
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