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High Energy Physics Libraries
Webzine: Interesting Websites
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Abebooks claims to be the world's largest online marketplace for
used, rare, and out-of-print books. It links together sellers and
buyers
on a very easy to use website, searchable by author, title or
keyword.
Possible to set up library accounts for purchase orders. ****
American Scientist Bookshelf Archives
Every issue of the American Scientist contains reviews of about
20 new science books. From this site you can follow links to the
fulltext of selected reviews and a list of the other books reviewed in each
issue.
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Atomic Physics on the Internet
Collection of links to resources for atomic and plasma physics including
university departments and research groups, databases, free software,
conferences and jobs. ***
Beam Physics and Accelerator Technology Virtual Library
This provides a good starting point for resources devoted to accelerator
physics. Includes links for jobs, organizations, funding and other virtual
libraries for beam physics. One criticism is that the conference section
is very out of date. ***
Digital Librarian: a librarian's choice of the best of the Web
A large collection of websites selected by a librarian for quality and
content and indexed by subject. Particularly useful is the section on electronic
texts. ****
Erpanet - Electronic Resource Preservation and Access Network.
A European collaboration to support the preservation of
cultural heritage and scientific digital objects. The site includes
documentation, a forum, events' announcements, a directory and an archive
of relevant papers. There are additional services for registered members.
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Free Computer and Scientific books Online
A searchable database of links to over 400
computer-related and scientific books which are freely available online.
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Google Scholar is the new Google web search engine which focuses
specifically on scholarly publications in all subjects - both published
material (books and articles) and grey literature (including theses,
preprints, abstracts and technical reports). It crawls websites belonging
to publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and
universities, and is also analysing the citations within these documents
so if this service develops then there will be some interesting
competition for existing bibliographic databases.
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HEASARC High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center
This is an excellent resource for researchers working in the field of
high energy astrophysics including access to archival data and observational
analysis software. It also includes a selection of educational materials
suitable for various age groups. ****
HEPIC High Energy Physics Information Center
With their Global HEP Search, you have 'one-stop shopping' for HEP information.
HEPIC is basically a list of lists including: Employment Opportunities;
Events; Experiments; HEP Virtual Phonebook; Newsletters and Periodicals;
More HEP Resources; and References to Educational Resources, General Physics,
Physics Organizations, Preprints, Reports, Lists of papers. All the links
on the server are checked once a month. Certain links are checked on a
more regular basis. ****
As the name suggests, this site is seeking to build a comprehensive
archive of internet sites and other material in digital form. It covers
the period 1996 to the present day and contains around 100 Terabytes of
data.
A recent development is 'The Wayback Machine' which allows users to surf
the web archive. The downside of this excellent site is that very high
usage makes it extremely slow. ***
The Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (JCAP) is an
international, peer-reviewed journal created by the International School
for Advanced Studies (SISSA) and the Institute of Physics Publishing
(IOPP). JCAP's philosophy mirrors that of its successful sister journal,
Journal of High Energy Physics. Its coverage includes all aspects of
cosmology and particle astrophysics and complete fulltext access is free
of charge in 2003. From 2004, a low cost subscription rate will be
introduced for institutions.
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The LOCKSS project (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) was highlighted in
issue 7 of our Webzine. The project now supplies open source software that
provides librarians with an easy and inexpensive way to collect, store,
preserve, and provide access to their own, local copy of the authorized
content (ejournals) they purchase.
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A compilation of laws, rules, principles and constants in physics and
astronomy arranged alphabetically. ***
LibraryHQ.com - Resources for the Wired Librarian
Large collection of resources for librarians including conference
listings, information on library automation technology, advice for
job hunting and a classified ads section (mainly US based). Also
includes access
to a demo version of 'SiteSource',
a searchable database of more than 35 000 websites fully catalogued in
MARC format. ***
New Scientists Guide to the Quantum World
Selection of articles from the New Scientist which together
provide a
comprehensive introduction to quantum theory. ****
This is a well designed site for a wide range of information on particle
physics. There is a good selection of links to mainly
UK-based websites with important international sites included as
well.
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Large selection of resources for physics, grouped by topic
and
further categorized by level.
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PhysLink.com - Physics and Astronomy Online Education and Reference
Good collection of links for resources in astronomy and physics.
Includes news, jobs, reference material, online forums. It also includes a
'fun' section with cartoons and jokes. ****
PhysNet The Physics Departments and Documents Network
Hosted by the University of Oldenburg Department of Physics, PhysNet
offers a set of lists of links to physics institutions worldwide and a
search facility for locally stored documents. The Educational Resources
on Physics pages are listed in broad subject order and from there you find
lecture notes, online courses and tutorials and a link to The Particle
Adventure http://particleadventure.org/
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There are links to other disciplines such as astronomy,
biology, chemistry, crystallography and mathematics and a list of free
full-text physics journals on the Web. ****
Small collection of popular science articles in French on
various
aspects of physics, nicely presented. Also includes 'La list
noire' - a
selection of sites on the web that have been identified as
'pseudo-science' with explanations (in French) as to why they
have been
included.
Controversial but perhaps useful. ***
"The Scout Report Site contains only the best internet
resources,
as chosen by the editorial staff of the Scout Report, cataloged
and organized
for efficient browsing and searching." ****
SLA PAM Special Libraries Association Physics Astronomy Math
If you want links to everything in physics, here they are: People, Professional
Societies, Institutions, Reference, E-prints and E-journals, Pathfinders.
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The UNESCO Library Portal aims to enhance access to library resources
available on the Web. Special emphasis is given to activities in the main
areas of interest for UNESCO such as education, sciences, culture and
education. It is a good starting point for resources from areas such
as Africa. Librarians are encouraged to participate by providing
information on activities, news and useful links ***
Yahoo - High Energy and Particle Physics in the News
List of links to news articles in the fields of high energy and
accelerator physics. Sources covered include AIP Weekly Bulletin, BBC
Science and JHEP. Updated daily. Main page also includes a list of
related
web links in the HEP subject field *****
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