Library and Internet Guide
The
following is a select list of resources available on the Internet
JCU Library Resources
 InfoHelp
- questions answered, assistance given online, or by phone or email
Catalogue
Databases
- General Information
Indexing/Abstracting Databases
- Current Contents Connect
is a multidisciplinary current awareness service for over 8,000
journals and more than 2,000 books
- IngentaConnect provides book and journal article searches as well as search alerting and tables of contents services.
- INIS The
International Nuclear Information System of the International Atomic
Energy Agency, is the world’s leading information system on the
peaceful uses of nuclear science and technology.
- SciFinder
Scholar Primarily a chemistry database, but with significant
coverage of physics.
- Web of Science Access
to Science Citation Index Expanded and other citation indexes.
As well as topic searching for journal articles, the citation indexes
allow "cited reference" searching and enable you to examine
a document's historical origin and follow through to its current position
in the research literature.
Full text databases and electronic journals
- ACM Digital Library
provides citations, abstracts, contents pages and full text articles
from computing journals and conference proceedings published by ACM
(Association for Computing Machinery).
- Expanded
Academic ASAP - (via InfoTrac) - full-text articles from around 2,000 journals, and abstracts or citations for many more.
- ScienceDirect
- Full text for around 300 of 1700 titles, with contents pages and
abstracts for the remainder
- Wiley
InterScience - provides full-text of all Wiley journals
back to 1997.
- ProQuest includes ProQuest Science Journals and other databases covering a range of disciplines.
- Electronic
journals - linked, alphabetical listing of full-text journals
available to members of James Cook University
- You can also link directly to journals via Tropicat:
the JCU Library Catalogue
Databases
on the WWW
- ADS: NASA Astrophysics
Data System Digital library for physics, astrophysics, and
instrumentation
- Energy Citations
Database Developed by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI). Provides access
to DOE publicly available citations from 1948 to the present. Includes
citations to report literature, conference papers, journal articles,
books, dissertations, and patents
- EprintWeb e-print service in the fields of physics, mathematics, non-linear science, computer science, and quantitative biology. Searchable & browseable with reference linking across the entire content
- GrayLIT Network
A science portal for technical report information
- intute: Science, Engineering & Technology Search the titles of every IoP journal article published since 1960 . Each journal article retrieved is hyperlinked to an abstract.
- Scitopia Search portal to the digital libraries of leading science and technology societies
- SIMBAD Astronomical Database Provides basic data, cross-identifications and bibliography for astronomical objects outside the solar system
Physics
Associations and Societies
Physics
Resources
- Astroweb: astronomy/astrophysics on the Internet More than 3,000 resource records. Categories include: Observing, Data, Publications-related, People-related, Organizations, Software, Research, Lists, and Astronomical Imagery.
- Atmospheric
Optics Shows and explains various phenomena seen in the atmosphere.
- Atomic Physics
on the Internet
- Australian Science
and Technology on the Internet National Library's selective list
of Australian science and technology Internet sites
- Center for history of physics
The history of modern physics and allied fields (including astronomy,
geophysics, and optics)
- DC Physics Links to simulations,
newsletters, books, employment opportunities, humor, journals, references,
tutorials & physics lectures. Primarily for undergraduate students.
- Eric Weisstein's World of Physics Encyclopedic reference source for 12 areas of physics with comprehensive cross-linking.
- Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
- HyperPhysics
Interactive physics exploration
- The Internet pilot to physics
- Internet Resources
Physics An annotated list of key Internet resources
- Mathematical
Physics Preprint Archive The University of Texas-Austin houses this
electronic archive for research papers in Mathematical Physics and related
areas
- MERLOT
Physics Free and open resource with links to online learning materials
along with annotations such as peer reviews and assignments
- NASA/IPAC extragalactic database Can be searched for data such as position and red shift for extragalactic objects
- National Aeronautic and Space AdministrationThis
page includes a link to 'Today@NASA', recent media releases about NASA
work.
- The
Net Advance of Physics Review articles and tutorials in an encyclopaedic
format
- NIST
physical reference data Measurement services and research for electronic,
optical and radiation technologies
- The Official String Theory Website The past and present of physics and cosmology
- Particle Physics
An experimental endorsement and alerting service
- Physics 2000
An interactive educational site by the University of Colorado
- Physics Applets clearinghouse of high-quality physics applets. The site is divided into topical areas, such as mechanics, waves, properties of heat and matter, and optics
- Physics Central The latest
research and the people who are doing it and, if you want more, where
to go on the web.
- Physics Internet
Resources The American Physical Society's metasite
- Physics.org Information on the physical universe and career prospects in physics-related areas
- PhysicsWeb Physics news, jobs
and resources
- PhysLink.Com Links to many
departments and sources of information, such as societies, journals,
history, news, companies, software
- PhysNet
A resource providing listings of physics departments, documents, free
journals, and conferences
- Plus2Physics: The learner's own toolkit
Tutorials in physics: Linear Motion, Vectors, Solid Friction, Capacitors, Electrostatic, Optical Interference etc
- ScienceNet
Physics and Astronomy Resources
- Sicyon Free-to-download software
- calculation tool for anyone using physical or chemical formulae and
tables of constants.
- SPIN Web - Searchable Physics
Information Notices Provided by the Amercan Institute of Physics
- a searchable database of more than 80 scientific journals from 1975
to the present, as well as a physics news service, searchable directories
of scientists, and more.
- Superstrings!
An online introduction to superstring theory, a leading candidate for
the theory of all fundamental interactions in the universe.
- Trends Online
Compendium of data on global change
- Visual Quantum Mechanics Teaches
quantum mechanics with interactive computer programs and digital multimedia,
without higher-level mathematics
- The Web
Physics Project For teaching and learning undergraduate physics
Directories
and Gateways
- EEVL : The Internet Guide to Engineering,
Mathematics and Computing
- eiNET: Physics searchable Internet directory aims to provide contextually relevant information by integrating technology with the human touch
- Intute: science, engineering & technology Selected web resources for education and research. It covers the physical sciences, engineering, computing, geography, mathematics and environmental science
- Martindale's
Reference Desk - Virtual Physics Center Courses, textbooks, databases,
dictionaries and glossaries for physics and some related science.
- Nature Physics Portal
Providing highlights of the latest physics research in Nature
and elsewhere
- NIST Data Gateway From
the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Provides access
to NIST scientific and technical data and links to selected free online
NIST databases.
- Optics
LINKS
- Physics
and Astronomy Departments Worldwide Directory Typical listings contain
all forms of contact information as well as a link to the department's
Web site.
- SciCentral Gateway to scientific
research news sources
- ScitechResources.gov
Provides access to key U.S. Government resources
- SpectroscopyNOW.com
Dedicated spectroscopy portal for all major spectroscopy techniques
- WWW Virtual Library: Physics
- www.science.gov.au Science information and services to industry, investors and the research and education communities
- Yahoo: Physics
Search
Engines
- Athenus Resources in science and engineering on the web. Indexes subject-specific web sites, publications, news and other resources, providing users with a current, focused collection of topic-specific material.
- Google - simple, fast with excellent
results
- Internet
Searching Tools - check out some other search engines here
- Metacrawler
- if searching the Web with 11 popular search engines simultaneously
appeals, try this
- Scientific-search-engines.com
- SCiNet Science, engineering, and
medical search engine and directory
- Scirus for scientific, technical
and medical information sources
Research
and Study Aids
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