Internet resources for Physics and Astronomy
The gateways and subject guides included in the following list will lead to more focussed and quality assured information than general Internet search engines for queries relating to physics and astronomy.
| Gateways and subject guides | |
|---|---|
| AstroWeb | Guide to astronomy/astrophysics related resources available on the Internet. |
| britishlibrary.net: astronomy | Links selected by the British Library for astronomy and aeronautics. |
| BUBL: Physics | An extensive collection of selected Internet resources. Similarly for astronomy. |
| Yahoo: Astronomy | Extensive collection of global links for astronomy. |
| Yahoo: Physics | As above for physics. |
| Other useful links | |
|---|---|
| American Institute of Physics | Home page of the AIP. |
| arXiv | Pioneering fully automated electronic archive and distribution server for research papers in physics and related disciplines, mathematics, nonlinear sciences, computational linguistics, and neuroscience. |
| Eprint Network | Preprints in the areas of physics, materials, chemistry, mathematics, biology, environmental sciences from the US Office of Scientific and Technical Information. |
| Eric Weisstein's World of Science | An online encyclopaedia with links to other Internet resources. |
| EurekAlert! | News server including news for physics/chemistry and space/planetary science. |
| PhysicsWeb | Comprehensive site from the Institute of Physics Publishing including physics news, company, career and events information. |
| PhysLink | Information for physics students and teachers, including a directory of university and college physics and astronomy departments worldwide. |
| Royal Astronomical Society | Home page of the RAS. |
| Scholarly Societies Project | Links to websites of scientific scholarly societies including those for physics and astronomy. |