UIUC Physics/Astronomy Library

Physics and Astronomy resources on the Internet


Major categories:
  1. Current events information
  2. Professional societies
  3. Major laboratories and observatories
  4. Preprints and electronic journals
  5. Reference data and image sources
  6. Pathfinders

Current events information:

  1. AIP's Physics News Update
  2. AIP's FYI policy newsletter
  3. APS's What's New
  4. Latest NASA News
  5. Physics World: IOP News from the UK
  6. HEPIC's listing of physics-related newsletters
Professional Societies:
  1. American Astronomical Society (AAS)
  2. American Institute of Physics (AIP)
  3. American Physical Society (APS)
  4. Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP)
  5. Institute of Physics (IOP)
  6. European Physical Society (EPS)
Major Laboratories and Observatories:
  1. Argonne National Laboratory
  2. Brookhaven National Laboratory
  3. CERN: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, birthplace of the World-Wide Web
  4. Department of Energy (DOE)
  5. European Southern Observatory (ESO)
  6. Fermilab
  7. Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
  8. Lawrence Berkeley Lab
  9. LBL Particle Data Group (Review of Particle Physics)
  10. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
  11. Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI)
  12. NASA
  13. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Physics Laboratory
  14. National Optical Astronomy Observatories (NOAO Newsletter, list of observatories, etc.)
  15. Stanford Linear Accelerator SLAC Home Page
  16. Space Telescope Science Institute
Preprints and Electronic Journals:

Major Preprint Servers


  1. arXiv.org E-Print Archive
  2. SLAC SPIRES: HEP Preprint Database
  3. Astronomy & Astrophysics Preprints & Abstracts
  4. CERN Preprint Server
  5. Chemical Physics Preprint Database: Brown University
  6. Chemistry Preprint Server (at ChemWeb)
  7. GrayLIT Network
  8. Institute for Mathematical Sciences Preprint Server
  9. Mathematical Physics Preprint Server
  10. E-print Network: Research Communication for Scientists and Engineers (was PrePRINT Network): Search for DOE articles
  11. University of Illinois Department of Mathematics Preprints


Abstracting and Indexing Sources


  1. INSPEC: Physics Abstracts (UIUC Only)
  2. COMPENDEX Engineering Index (UIUC Only)
  3. MathSciNet: Access to Mathematical Reviews (UIUC Only)
  4. US Dept. of Energy Citations Database
  5. NASA Astrophysics Data System Abstract Service

Electronic Journals

  1. Full Text Electronic Journals (Available to UIUC only)
  2. High Tc Update
  3. Icarus
  4. Information Bulletin on Variable Stars
  5. Physics Today
  6. Physics-Uspekhi Online (Uspekhi Fizicheskikh Nauk in English)
  7. The Scientist, biweekly newspaper for scientists and engineers
  8. SKY Online, informationfrom and about Sky and Telescope
Reference Data and Image Sources:

Physics

  1. Periodic table of the elements (© Yinon Bentor)
  2. NIST Elemental Data Index
  3. National Nuclear Data Center programs and data files


Astronomy

  1. NCSA Astronomy Digital Image Library
  2. Atomic and Molecular Data for Astronomy: by R.L. Kurucz and R.L. Kelly
  3. Your Sky: Star Map Maker

Pathfinders:

  1. PhysicsWeb
  2. The Net Advance of Physics
  3. WWW Virtual Library: Astronomy and Astrophysics & AstroWeb
  4. WWW Virtual Library: Physics
  5. HEASARC: High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center (NASA)
  6. The High Energy Physics Information Center
  7. PAMnet: The Physics/Astronomy/Math Division of the Special Libraries Assn.
  8. PhysLink
  9. The Nobel Prize in Physics
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Any comments should be addressed to: Mary Schlembach, acting Physics/Astronomy Librarian. (Last updated 19 April 2006)