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Reference Resources
Full Text Preprints
Physics Organizations
Astronomy and Astrophysics Organizations
Electronic Newsletters


  Electronic Books & Journals

Electronic Journals

Advances in Solid State Physics

LNP Lecture Notes in Physics

STMP Springer Tracts in Modern Physics

IEEE journals and conference proceedings

ITPro Books 24X7 - Electronic books with a focus on information technologies and computing.


  Reference Resources

Access Science McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology Online

Columbia Encyclopedia

Encyclopedia of Astronomy & Astrophysics

CRC EngnetBase searchable database of engineering handbooks from CRC Press

CRC Handbook of Chemistry & Physics online version of the popular ready reference book of chemical and physical data

Encyclopedia Britannica

HubbleSite

INSPEC Physics, Astronomy, Electrical Engineering, and computer science journals indexed with coverage from 1969-present. Contains links to many full- text journal articles. articles.

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day Archive

NIST Chemistry WebBook

NSSDC Photo Gallery

Particle Physics Central provide images from snapshots of Nobel laureates to head-on collision between lead ions. Moreover, there is a video library.

Science Citation Index. Search the Science Citation Index on the WWW. 1965 -present. The index now contains links to many full text articles. Columbia University affiliates only.

NTIS database Unclassified technical reports of U.S.government sponsored research, development, and engineering projects by federal agencies, their contractors, or grantees.

The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia   Data on planets orbiting otherstars as they are discovered; guides to search programs and tutorials on techniques.

General Science Index A multidisciplinary index of core journals.

Handbook of Space Astronomy and Astrophysics. Martin V. Zombeck, 2nd edition. Cambridge University Text. Fulltext.

NIST Physical Reference Data. Includes: Physical Constants, Atomic Spectroscopic Data, Molecular Spectroscopic Data, Ionization Data, X-Ray and Gamma-Ray Data, Radiation Dosimetry Data, Nuclear Physics Data, Condensed Matter Data and other NIST resources.

PhysicsWeb News stories from all areas of physics, patent news, conference listings, articles from Physics World, Physics Jobs and more.

Revised Table of Nuclear Moments.  (Preprint)

DSS   Digital Sky Survey, includes the digitized photographic plates from the Palomer and UK Schmidt  sky surveys.

SDSS Sloan Digital Sky Survey Homepage.

The Star Pages The Star*s Family of Astronomy and Related Resources is a growing collection of directories, dictionaries, databases and related products on astronomy, space sciences, as well as related fields,organizations and people.

ThermoDex an index of selected Thermodynamic and Physical Property Resources


  Full Text Preprints

CERN Document Server

CERN Preprint Server -- Full text preprints, searchable by author, title, keywords. Also, theses, reports, photo archive, and document archives.

LANL / ArXiv.org e-print archives -- Contains full text preprints in high energy, condensed matter, relativity, cosmology, astrophysics, and nuclear theory dating as far back as 1991.


  Physics Organizations

American Institute of Physics - Links to the AIP member societies are available here.

American Physical Society Home Page

Brookhaven National Laboratories Homepage (BNL)

CERN homepage

European Physical Society Home Page

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Home Page

Institute of Physics (IOP) Home Page

Physical Society of Japan

SLAC Home Page --Stanford Linear Accelerator Center;  Slac preprint database, searchable by author or keyword. Links to news sources for high energy physics.


  Astronomy and Astrophysics Organizations

American Astronomical Society

AAVSO American Association of Variable Star Observers.

ASSA  Astronomical Society of Southern Africa

Astrophysics Data Systems (ADS) Abstract Service

Astrophysics Data Systems (ADS) Digital Library

Astronomical Society of the Pacific Includes information on ASP conferences and IAU publications.

AstroWeb Consortium Astronomical Resources List

Astrophysics Data System -- NASA's principle online research facility, maintained at Harvard University.

CDS Centre De Donnees Astronomiques de Strasbourg.

ESA - European Space Agency

ESO - European Southern Observatory

IMCCE/BDL Institut de Mechanique Celeste et de calcul des Ephermerides. Bureau des Longitudes. CNRS. France. Searchable Ephermerides on the server, link to the Institute's databases, images and publications.

International Astronomical Union

RASC  Royal Astronomical Society of Canada

Royal Astronomical Society, UK

NASA homepage.

Space Telescope Science Institute Homepage for the Hubble Space Telescope and the Next Generation Space Telescope.


  Electronic Newsletters

Blazar Times : a research newsletter dedicated to the BL Lac and blazar phenomena

Coolnews : a research newsletter dedicated to cool stars and the sun

The Delta Scuti Star Newsletter for Delta Scuti, Gamma Dor and SX Phe stars

Dwarf Tales : a newsletter devoted to all aspects of dwarf galaxy research

Elektronische Mitteilungen zur
Astronomiegeschichte (EMA)
; English version also available.

GCNews : a newsletter for up to date information on Galactic Center research

The Magellanic Clouds Newsletter : an electronic publication to promote information exchange and interdisciplinary collaboration on Magellanic Clouds

The Massive Star Newsletter :  IAU Working Group on Massive Stars Newsletters

Newsletter of Chemically Peculiar Red Giants

A Peculiar Newsletter : newsletter of the IAU Working Group on Ap and related stars

The Standard Star Newsletter

The Star Formation Newsletter : an electronic publication dedicated to early stellar evolution and molecular clouds


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