PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)
http://www.aapt.org/
Site includes the Physical Sciences Resource Center, a collection of information and resources for physical sciences education.
American Institute of Physics (AIP)
http://www.aip.org
The home page of the AIP offers links to digital resources online, information about publications, conference proceedings, subscriptions, memberships, information for authors, etc. The Scitation journal hosting service offers full-text of many physics journals to subscribers. Nonsubscribers can register and use the search engine to find articles. The AIP Center for the History of Physics includes a searchable visual archive.
Also available at this site is the 4th edition of the AIP Style Manual. The Table of Contents links to individual pages in PDF format.
American Physical Society (APS) http://www.aps.org
The APS publishes the world's most prestigious and widely-read physics research journals, indexed online in PROLA, conducts meetings, and develops and implements programs in physics education and outreach, such as Physical Review Focus, journal selections were written for students and researchers.
Copernicus.org
http://www.copernicus.org/
Supporting unions, societies, organizations and individuals engaged in the promotion of sciences and fine arts; organizing meetings, conferences, exhibitions and concerts; editing and publishing books, journals and magazines on print and electronic media; archiving data and information for public usage; developing appropriate hard- and software for achieving these aims; supporting, in particular, young people in science and fine arts. Online open access to journals with coverage of geophysics, atmospheric physics, and related topics.
ARCHIVES & DATABASES
Albert Einstein Archives
http://www.alberteinstein.info/
From the Jewish National & University Library, This collection contains the personal papers of Albert Einstein (1879-1955) and supplementary material documents the life and career of Albert Einstein. The collection includes manuscripts, correspondence, and non-textual materials such as photographs, sound recordings, and film footage. Finding Aid is also included.
Atomic & Molecular Physics (NIST)
http://www.nist.gov/srd/atomic.htm
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Atomic Physics Program produces the most comprehensive set of reliable atomic data available anywhere.
arXiv
http://arxiv.org/
An e-print service in the fields of physics, mathematics, non-linear science, computer science, and quantitative biology. arXiv is owned, operated and funded by Cornell University, and is partially funded by the National Science Foundation. The Physics Archive dates to 1991.
Central Online & Open Access Library (COOL)
http://www.sref.org/cool/
The aim is to provide an open online platform (reference library) and a free online reference and linking system (reference catalog) for the scientific electronic publications of scientific associations and organizations. A service of Copernicus.org
Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data Reprints (NIST)
http://www.nist.gov/srd/reprints.htm
Reprints published from Volume 1 (1972) through Volume 27 (1998). See also the JPCRD link below, under EJOURNALS.
Physics (NIST)
http://www.nist.gov/srd/physics.htm
NIST Physics Program produces the most comprehensive set of reliable physical reference data available anywhere; their collection includes atomic energy levels, transition probabilities, and collision data can be used for characterizing and modeling all types of gaseous systems, including plasmas, planetary atmospheres, and astrophysical media, and for health physics applications. The NIST Chemistry WebBook now contains electronic and vibrational spectra for over 4000 compounds. The WebBook also contains constants of diatomic molecules. The SRD Group has also produced several important compilations of molecular data.
Physical Review Focus
http://focus.aps.org/
American Physical Society (APS)
Selections from Physical Review and Physical Review Letters, explained for students and researchers. With an Image Index, and text search function. Archive dates to March 1998.
Physics Review Online Archive (PROLA)
http://prola.aps.org/
Browse and search the bibliographic records for all APS journals, 1893 to present. Full-text article content is only accessible by subscription to the PROLA archive.
Scientific Reference Linking System (SREF)
http://www.sref.org/site/index.php
A database in which links to the publications of participating publishers are stored. Search online journals (1980-present); view list of SRef publications. A service of Copernicus.org
Scitation (AIP)
http://scitation.aip.org/
Formerly the Online Journal Publishing Service - OJPS, Scitation is the online home of more than 100 journals from AIP, APS, ASCE, ASME, SPIE, and a host of other prestigious science and engineering societies. For users with no library or personal subscriptions, registration enables access to abstracts for which full text is available. Publications can be viewed alphabetically, by subject category, or publisher.
SPIRES HEP
http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/
From the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) with more than 500,000 high-energy physics related articles, including journal papers, preprints, e-prints, technical reports, conference papers, and theses comprehensively indexed. A centralized collection of official and personal documents is in development.
U.S. GOVERNMENT LABORATORIES
Argonne National Laboratory
http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/
Argonne National Laboratory is operated by the University of Chicago for the U.S. Department of Energy. The site includes general science news and educational programs, and a searchable database of records of publications written by ANL researchers. They also have a good list of web resources in Physics & Materials Science.
Berkeley Lab
http://www.lbl.gov
The Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National laboratory performs work in advanced materials, life sciences, energy efficiency, detectors, and accelerators. The Physics Division provides information on activities at the lab and links to other physics pages. The Reports Catalog contains citations for Lab-authored scientific and technical documents published since July 1989, and if the Library has the document in an electronic format, a link to the full text is included in the record. These include conference papers and proceedings, journal papers, and theses.
Brookhaven National Laboratory
http://www.bnl.gov/
Operated for DOE by Brookhaven Science Associates, a partnership of the State University of New York at Stony Brook and the Battelle Memorial Institute. The Physics Department carries out research in experimental and theoretical high energy, nuclear and condensed matter physics.
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
http://www.fnal.gov
Fermilab is a DOE lab for research exploring the fundamental nature of matter and energy. The site offers good online content, especially the Inquiring Minds and the For Physicists pages.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
http://www.llnl.gov
Operated by the University of California, Lawrence Livermore's mission is to apply science and technology in the national interest, with a focus on global security, global ecology, and bioscience. The Science & Technology Catalog is searchable by research area, linking directly to a page of resources.
Los Alamos National Laboratory
http://www.lanl.gov/external
A terrific source of online content with multilingual pages including the full-text of many documents on the history of the lab and the atomic bomb. The Research Library is also a great resource.
NIST Physics Laboratory
http://physics.nist.gov/
One of the major operating units of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). It's mission is to support the United States industry by providing measurement services and research for electronic, optical, and radiation technologies. Page of links to Physical Reference Data, reference page on Constants, Units, and Uncertainty, Measurements & Calibrations, and Publications, with a searchable bibliography.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
http://www.lanl.gov/external
The Oak Ridge National Laboratory is a DOE laboratory managed by Lockheed Martin Energy Research Corporation. Their history page contains a link to a Historical Photo Gallery. The Comprehensive Publications and Presentations Registry (CPPR) includes bibliographic information for ORNL reports from 1985. The full-text of many reports are available from the late 1990s onward.
LIBRARIES
Burndy Library
Dibner Institute for the History of Science & Technology
Grace K. Babson Collection of the Works of Sir Isaac Newton
http://burndy.mit.edu/Collections/Babson/
Home to The Online Newton Project, where the goal is to provide online access to all of the Newton manuscripts in the Babson Collection, and to all of the books of Newton that were published in his lifetime in Latin, French or English. Included currently are Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, his treatise on Opticks, the Arithmetica Universalis, containing the lectures in mathematics he gave in Cambridge, as well as Analysis per quantitatum series, fluxiones, ac differentias, etc. They have scanned manuscripts in PDF format.
CERN Scientific Information Service
http://library.cern.ch/
The portal to particle physics information; manages the Library and the Historical and Scientific Archives of CERN, providing online access to the CERN Document Server, including 220,000 full-text documents of interest to people working in particle physics and related areas. Covers preprints, articles, books, journals, photographs, and much more.
http://lii.org/search/file/physics
A program of the Library of California.
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Library
http://www.slac.stanford.edu/library/
Home of the SPIRES database, and another Internet Resources in Physics web page.
The Virtual Library: Physics
http://www.vlib.org/Physics.html
Oldest catalog of the web, started by Tim Berners-Lee, run by a loose confederation of volunteers, who compile pages of key links for particular areas in which they are expert; even though it isn't the biggest index of the web, the VL pages are widely recognized as being amongst the highest-quality guides to particular sections of the web.
EJOURNALS
Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data
http://jpcrd.aip.org/jpcrd/top.jsp
Published jointly by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the American Institute of Physics. Provides critically evaluated physical and chemical property data, fully documented as to the original sources and the criteria used for evaluation; site has all issues from Volume 29 (2000) to present online; viewable TOC and abstracts; full text available to subscribers or can be ordered online.
Physics Today (American Institute of Physics)
http://www.physicstoday.org/
Physics World (The Institute of Physics)
http://physicsworld.com/cws/home
Indexed 1997-present, with tables of contents and abstracts.
EBOOKS
Classics
- Aristotle. Physics. Written 350 B.C.E. Translated by R. P. Hardie and R. K. Gaye.
A 455k text-only version is also available for download.
- Newton, Isaac, Sir. Opticks. 1704-1722.
California Digital Library eScholarship Editions
MISCELLANEOUS
Everyday Mysteries: Physics (QC)
http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/mysteries/archive.html#physics
Science Reference Services, Library of Congress
Physical Sciences, Engineering, Computing & Math
http://infomine.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/search?category=physci
Most major disciplines in these areas are well covered. Basic science resources are emphasized though there is much of an applied nature as well. Climatology (incl. climate change information), paleontology and environmental science information with a physical science leaning are included.
Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics
http://www.intuitor.com/moviephysics/index.html
Reviewed or listed in Physics Today Magazine, The News Letter of the American Physical Society, The New York Times, and The Hollywood Reporter, and numerous other publications, this site reviews contemporary movies according to the Movie Physics Rating System (from GP - Good Physics to XP - Obviously physics from an unknown universe). Includes a list of Recommend Readings. Fun and educational site.
Laser Physics and Technology
http://www.rp-photonics.com/encyclopedia.html
This encyclopedia explains the basic terms and principles of laser physics and technology. It also has a lot of content from other topics such as general optics and optoelectronics, nonlinear optics, quantum optics, fiber optics, and optical communications.
The Laws List
http://www.alcyone.com/max/physics/laws/
Laws, rules, principles, effects, paradoxes, limits, constants, experiments, & thought-experiments in physics. The list is more of a minidictionary of physics and astronomy terms, rather than strictly a list of laws, rules, and so forth.
The Official String Theory Web Site
Patricia Schwarz, Ph.D.
http://www.superstringtheory.com
The diverse site with explanations, history, links, bookstore, discussion forum, and a lot more. The Links page is particularly comprehensive
The Particle Adventure
http://particleadventure.org/particleadventure/
The fundamentals of matter and force, presented in an interactive tour by the Particle Data Group of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Particle-Surface Resources on the Internet
http://chaos.fullerton.edu/mhslinks.html
California State University, Fullerton Dept. of Physics. A list of online resources of all types use to the particle-surface research community.
Phibot
http://phibot.org/new/Search/
Provides a full-text search of over 80 Million medical-science related web documents; currently, 5 million physics-related web documents are accessible. News search engine searches worldwide news, science news, and computer & internet news of the last two weeks.
Physics Portal (Nature)
http://www.nature.com/physics/
A one-stop resource for physicists, providing highlights of the latest research in Nature and elsewhere; open a free account and browse the research collections, classic papers in physics, and get an e-mail alert that provides a weekly summary of Nature’s physics content, and links to the new material posted each week on the portal.
A collection of information and resources for physical sciences education, searchable by keyword or name, or browseable by topic, object type, or grade level.
Physics 2000
http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/index.pl
This site, from the University of Colorado at Boulder, features numerous applets - small, interactive programs - offering an entertaining introduction to modern physics.
PhysicsWorld (IOP)
http://physicsworld.com/cws/home
Physics News, Jobs, and Resources
Print edition indexed 1997-2007 - http://physicsworld.com/cws/index/print
PhysLink.com
http://www.physlink.com
A comprehensive physics and astronomy online education, research, and reference the web site.
PhysNet
http://physnet.uni-oldenburg.de/PhysNet/about.html
Worldwide Network of Physics Departments and Documents - provides a set of information services for physicists. Lists of links to physics departments, documents, journals, conferences, jobs, and more.
PhysOrg.com
http://www.physorg.com/
The latest physics and technology news.
Scientific Biography: Physicists
http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/topics/Physicists.html
Eric Weisstein's World of Biography
Superstring Theory: A Brief Bibliography
http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/SciRefGuides/superstringbib.html
Science Reference Guide
Science References Services, Library of Congress
Superconductivity
http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/tracer-bullets/superconducttb.html
Science Tracer Bullet
Science Reference Services, Library of Congress
Teaching Physics With Superheroes
http://www.aip.org/pt/vol-55/iss-11/p29.html
Author of "The Physics of Superheroes" (Gotham, 2005) James Kakalios discusses his physics course at UMN; includes links to other sites on physics in comics and pop culture.
World of Physics
http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/physics/
Eric Weisstein
http://scienceworld.wolfram.com
World Year of Physics 2005
http://physics2005.org/
The 100th anniversary of Albert Einstein's annus mirabilis, his 'miraculous year' of 1905, in which he published three important papers describing ideas that have since influenced all of modern physics. WYP 2005 is a worldwide celebration of physics and its importance in our everyday lives.
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