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Physics & Astronomy Internet Resources
Electronic Books & Journals
Reference
Astronomy & Astrophysics Resources
Physics Resources
Physics Organizations
Astronomy and Astrophysics Organizations
Electronic Newsletters
Electronic Books & Journals
Electronic Journals - a searchable list of all of Columbia University's electronic journals.
CRC Handbook of Chemistry & Physics online version of the popular ready reference book of chemical and physical data
CRC EngnetBase searchable database of engineering handbooks from CRC Press
Data Analysis Brief Book An introduction and reference for data analysis for scientists and engineers.
Handbook of Space Astronomy and Astrophysics. Martin V. Zombeck, 2nd edition. Cambridge University Text. Fulltext.
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 - Good for general science questions.
Encyclopedia Britannica - This is more authoritative and accurate than the Wikipedia!
Columbia Encyclopedia - Also preferable to the Wikipedia!
General Science Index A multidisciplinary database containing citations and abstracts.
Internet Astronomer A Gateway to resources in General Astronomy, Astrophysics, Astrobiology, Astrochemistry, Celestial Mechanics, Cosmology and Space
Internet Physicist - an excellent beginning tutorial on Physics resources.
INSPEC Physics, Astronomy, Electrical Engineering, and computer science journals indexed with coverage from 1969-present. Contains links to many full- text journal articles. articles.
NTIS database Unclassified technical reports of U.S.government sponsored research, development, and engineering projects by federal agencies, their contractors, or grantees.
Science Citation Index. (Web of Science) Search the Science Citation Index on the WWW. 1900 -present. The index now contains links to many full text articles. Columbia University affiliates only.
Astronomy & Astrophysics Resources
ADS Database This database is NASA funded project housed at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. It contains over 5.5 million citations and abstracts from preprints, journal articles to search or browse. There are links to some fulltext articles. The database also features an alert service, table of content service and other features.
ASTROTOOLS - Columbia University Astronomy Department's aggregation of all the electronic "tools" that are needed for Astronomy and Astrophysics. Includes links to journals, magazines, societies, atlases, surveys, observing, softwear and directories.
DSS Digital Sky Survey, includes the digitized photographic plates from the Palomer and UK Schmidt sky surveys.
Encyclopedia of Astronomy & Astrophysics - covers general astronomy topics
The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia Data on planets orbiting otherstars as they are discovered; guides to search programs and tutorials on techniques.
Hubble Telescope Site - Archive of the Hubble Telescope' s Data including explanatory material and photographs.
NSSDC Photo Gallery NASA Sopace Science Data Center Archive of photographs of planets, galaxies, stars and exotic objects.
SDSS Sloan Digital Sky Survey Homepage.
Physics Resources
INSPEC -- Physics, Astronomy, Electrical Engineering, and computer science journals indexed with coverage from 1969-present. Contains links to many full- text journal articles. articles.
NIST Chemistry WebBook
Physics Central -- Provides images from snapshots of Nobel laureates to head-on collision between lead ions. Moreover, there is a video library.
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)
Scitopia.org Free federated search portal produced by the APS and 12 other leading societies in the physical sciences. Search over 3 million documents including journal articles and conference proceedings. Links to the fulltext of many articles at the Societies' sites. Fulltext access requires Columbia University Affiliation.
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
Coolnews : a research newsletter dedicated to cool stars and the sun
Elektronische Mitteilungen zur
Astronomiegeschichte (EMA) ; English version also available.
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
The Standard Star Newsletter
The Star Formation Newsletter : an electronic publication dedicated to early stellar evolution and molecular clouds
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