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Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
 "The Astrophysics Data System (ADS) is a NASA-funded project whose main resource is an Abstract Service, which includes four sets of abstracts: 1) astronomy and astrophysics, containing abstracts; 2) instrumentation, containing 577,783 abstracts; 3) physics and geophysics, containing 877,721 abstracts; and 4) Los Alamos preprint server, containing 3,851 abstracts. Each dataset can be searched by author, object name (astronomy only), title, or abstract text words...In addition, we have extended the abstract service to include links to the full text of articles appearing in most of the major astronomical journals.

HighWire Press
Internet Imprint of the Stanford University Libraries
Assists in the online publication of 190 sites including 146,268 free full-text articles.
Mostly science publications.

The APS E-print Server
American Physical Society

Beyond Discovery
The Path from Research to Human Benefit
"...is a series of articles that trace the origins of important recent technological and medical advances. Each story reveals the crucial role played by basic science, the applications of which could not have been anticipated at the time the original research was conducted."
Subjects include: Agriculture ; Biology ; Chemistry ; Earth Sciences ; Environmental Issues ; Health ; Mathematics ; Physics ; Technology.

A Century of Physics - (dead link)
The American Physical Society

CERN Document Server - High Energy Physics Web Library
"Over 430,000 bibliographic records, including 170,000 fulltext documents, of interest to people working in particle physics and related areas. Covers preprints, articles, books, journals, photographs, and much more."

CERN Preprint Service

Cornell University - Laboratory for Elementary-Particle Physics (LEPP)
"The F.R. Newman Laboratory for Elementary-Particle Physics (LEPP) is a research laboratory of the Cornell University Department of Physics engaged primarily in experimental and theoretical Elementary Particle Physics (EPP) and Accelerator Physics."

DCOMP Research Gallery - (dead link) "Selected Links to Research Activities of DCOMP Members
The American Physical Society's Division of Computational Physics (DCOMP)

Doing Science: An Introduction to Physical Science (etext)
"This text concerns learning the fundamentals of physical science by doing science as science is done...This manual was developed to accompany a one semester introductory physical science course, Fundamentals of Physical Science (PHS 110), at Arizona State University."
By Susan Wyckoff, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Arizona State University

e-Print Archive (NLIN-SYS) - (dead link)

Earthquake (02/28/01) Damage to University of Washington Libraries

Einstein - see our separate Albert Einstein page.

Fermilab Publications Office Home Page - (dead link)
Includes Preprints and Technical Publications; Helpful Instructions and Tips; and Online Searchable Databases.

The Gazette - (dead link)
The newsletter of the APS Committee on the Status of Women in Physics (CSWP)

HEPDOC - (dead link)
Searches a collection of databases

High Energy Physics Libraries Webzine
(ISSN 1424-2729) No. 1- 2000-
"It aims to discuss issues relevant to high energy physics libraries from the point of view of both information workers and library clients. A secondary aim is to give librarians the opportunity to experience the world of electronic publishing from the inside..."

ICTP "One Shot World-Wide Preprints Search" - (dead link)
"This is a prototype service for a global lookup search throughout most on-line scientific preprints repositories in the world."
The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics

Images of Physicists
UC Santa Barbara

Journal of High Energy Physics
A SISSA Journal
Selected articles freely available via pdf.

LANL - (dead link)
Los Alamos Physics Preprints Repository

Light and Matter
Series of introductory physics textbooks.
"These books are meant for a one-year college physics course at either the algebra-based or the calculus-based level. Applications of calculus are treated in optional sections at the end of certain chapters."
By Benjamin Crowell, Fullerton College

Living Reviews in Relativity
"A refereed solely electronic journal offering reviews in all areas of relativity, including an extensive reference database."

Living Reviews in Solar Physics
"A refereed solely electronic journal offering reviews in all areas of solar physics."

mp_arc
Mathematical Physics Preprint Archive

National Academy Press (free online versions)

Optics Express
The International Electronic Journal of Optics
"...publishes original, peer-reviewed articles that report new developments of interest to the optics community in all fields of optical science and technology."
Published by the Optics Society of America

Particle Physics
On-line Review
"...an electronic information service covering the fields of experimental and theoretical particle physics (including cosmology). The service interfaces to the established public domain preprint servers, providing independent listings of a small number of the works contained therein."

Particle Physics in the UK - (dead link)
"Particle physics is the study of the fundamental constituents of matter and the forces of nature."
Sections include: What's New ; Education ; Industry ; Picture Index ; Directory ; Contents.

  • Particle Physics Picture Index - Quark Events - (dead link)

PBS - NOVA - The Elegant Universe (October - November 2003)
"Eleven dimensions, parallel universes, and a world made out of strings. It's not science fiction, it's string theory...Brian Greene explains why string theory might hold the key to unifying the four forces of nature."
Sections include: Articles & Interviews ; Slide Shows & Interactives ; Resources ; Links ; Teacher's Guide ; Watch the Program (all three hours are available for viewing online).

Phibot - Physics Index
"...phibot is a web-based experiment for collaborative information retrieval. We try to carry out an approach for query reformulation on a large scale internet search engine...In this experiment we want to investigate, if query reformulation improves the results of the search engine. We gather the users relevance feedback as well as the queries and the search results and constantly feed our search engine with this data. The whole process is fully automatic.

Physical Review Letters

  • Storage of Light in Atomic Vapor
     "We report an experiment in which a light pulse is effectively decelerated and trapped in a vapor of Rb atoms, stored for a controlled period of time, and then released on demand."
    By D. F. Phillips, A. Fleischhauer, A. Mair, and R. L. Walsworth ; M. D. Lukin, ITAMP, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Physics and Society Newsletter
- American Physical Society

Physics for Free
"This site contains two free books by Emeritus Professor Frank Firk, former Chairman of the Department of Physics and Master of Trumbull College, Yale University. The first, Essential Physics 1, is an intensive introduction for potential Physics majors. The second, Introduction to Groups, Invariants & Particles, is a book for Seniors and advanced Juniors, majoring in the Physical Sciences."

Physics Simulations - (dead link)
"This page is intended to include links to Java and Shockwave simulations from around the world."
Sections include: Measurements ; Math ; Mechanics ; Waves ; Electricity and Magnetism ; Thermodynamics ; Light and Optics ; Modern Physics ; Astronomy.

Physics Today Online

PhysicsWorld
Web interface for Physics World
Sections include: Latest Issue ; News ; Physics World ; Jobs ; Resources ; Events ; Best of Physics Web ; Industry.

PhysDoc - (dead link)
Physics Documents in Europe

Preprint Database System - (dead link)
Groups include: Astro Physics ; Atmospheric Physics ; Condensed Matter ; Plasma Physics ; Theoretical Physics.
Physics Dept., University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST)

PrePRINT Network
Energy, Science, and Technology Preprints
"...a searchable gateway to preprint servers that deal with scientific and technical disciplines of concern to DOE. Such disciplines include the great bulk of physics, materials, and chemistry, was well as portions of biology, environmental sciences and nuclear medicine."
U.S. Department of Energy

Principles of Charged Particle Acceleration
"The unabridged book with all illustrations has been converted to PDF format for Adobe Acrobat Reader. The conversion was supported by Los Alamos National Laboratory."

Relativity: The Special and General Theory
By Albert Einstein, 1920

The Review of Particle Physics (ejournal)
"...is the most cited publication in particle physics during the last decade."

SLAC-SPIRES
Stanford Public Information REtrieval System

Sudbury Neutrino Observatory - First Scientific Results
"Physicists from Canada, the UK and the US are today announcing that their first results provide a solution to a 30-year old mystery- the puzzle of the missing solar neutrinos. The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) finds that the solution lies not with the Sun, but with the neutrinos, which change as they travel from the core of the Sun to the Earth."

Top Cited HEP Articles
"1999 edition by Heath O'Connell - (dead link), SLAC. Reviewer is Michael Peskin, SLAC. Original edition by H. Galic. Work performed at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC)."

Women in Physics, 2000
"Data on the current and historic trends in the representation of women in physics, including comparative data on women in related fields."
Report from the American Institute of Physics

xxx.lanl.gov Physics e-Print Archive - (dead link)
Includes Mathematics & Nonlinear Science as well
"This archive is based upon activities supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation under Agreement No. 9413208 (1 Mar 1995 thru 28 Feb 2000) with the Los Alamos National Laboratory, and by the U.S. Department of Energy."

Bibliographies
Photonic & Sonic Band-Gap Bibliography
By Jonathan P. Dowling, Henry Everitt, Eli Yablonovitch

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