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Physical Sciences

 ANU Resources

• Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering (RSPhysSE) Home Page
  
• Department of Physics, Faculty of Science
  
• Research School of Earth Sciences (RSES)
• Research School of Chemistry (RSC)
• Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics (RSAA)
• The Faculty of Science, Department of Chemistry
  • The School of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
• Mathematical Sciences Institute (MSI)
  • MSI comprises the Department of Mathematics and
  • The Centre for Mathematics and its Applications (CMA)
• National Institute of Physical Science (NIPS) at the Australian National University.
  
• Virtual Centres with affiliations between The Institute of Advanced Studies and The Faculties.
  
  • Centre for Science and Engineering of Materials (CSEM)
    
  • Centre for Complex Systems draws together the disparate complex systems science components of the National Institute of Physical Sciences (NIPS) at the ANU.
    
    

 Electronic journals and databases

Electronic Journals

• Science Electronic Journals available to ANU staff and students.
  This page provides a list of Science Electronic Journal Collections, and an alphabetical list of science electronic journal titles.
• ANU Library Catalogue:Lists over 280 electronic journals in the Physical Sciences.
  
  
• ScienceDirect(Elsevier) Physics and Astronomy page.
  Access over 1500 scientific and technical journals, and register for an email alert service.
  
• Wiley InterScience - Physics page.
  
• IEEE's All Society Periodical Package (ASPP)
  The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ASPP includes over 100 IEEE titles.
  Full text access dates from 1998.
  
  
• Virtual Journals in Science and Technology. Developed by the American Institute of Physics and the American Physical Society, each journal provides a collection of relevant papers from a broad range of source journals. Most articles in these "virtual" journals are available in full-text to ANU staff and students. Each journal focuses one of the following research topics: superconductivity,
  biological physics, Nanoscale systems, quantum computing & cryptography, and
  ultrafast phenomena.
  
  
• PROLA - is The American Physical Society's Physical Review Online Archive. PROLA
  essentially covers full-text access to APS journals from 1893 to present.
  
  

  Other E-Resources
  

• INSPEC
  INSPEC is the most comprehensive bibliographic service covering physics, electronics, electrical engineering, communications and computing from 1969.
• Current Contents
  This database provides bibliographic data from current issues of the world's leading scholarly research journals in the sciences.
• MathSciNet
  MathSciNet provides access to bibliographic data and reviews of mathematical research literature contained in the Mathematical Reviews Database. Dates back to 1940.
• SciFinder Scholar Information page.
  SciFinder Schoar is the online equivalent of Chemical Abstracts, being the world's largest database in chemistry, covering biochemistry and chemical engineering. Special software is required to use SciFinder Scholar and is available for download.
  

 Australian Resources

• Australian Institute of Physics (AIP) home page, includes courses accredited by AIP
• ANSTO - Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation
• AINSE - Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering. AINSE is the key link between universities, ANSTO and major nuclear science and engineering and associated facilities.
• Telecommunications and Industrial Physics (CTIP) is a Research Division of CSIRO - Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organisation)
  
  
• Australian Institute for High Energy Physics (AusHEP)
• Australian Synchrotron Research Program (ASRP)
• National Institute for Theoretical Physics (NITP)
  
  

 Worldwide Resources

• American Institute of Physics - Home page has links to:
  Member Societies, a Career Services Site, and its Centre for History of Physics.
  
• American Physical Society - this site includes:
  
  • Phys Review Focus which explains selected physics research published in Physical Review and Physical Review Letters
• Institute of Physics (IOP) Based in Britain BOP provides Online Services and
• CERN- European Organization for Nuclear Research
  This site provides information on the research being conducted at the CERN Laboratory
• International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) This site has links to IAEA databases, Reports
• Particle Physics is an information portal linking to resources in the fields of experimental and theoretical high energy particle physics, including astronomy and astrophysics.
• High Energy Physics Information Centre (HECIP)
  
• INIS Web Services (International Nuclear Information System).
  INIS maintains a growing database of annotated links to Web sites on the Internet that are related to various fields of nuclear science and technology and the IAEA's work.
• United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
  
  
• PhysicsWeb This site has numerous useful links to physics, news, jobs and resources.
  
• PhysDep - Physics Departments Worldwide.
• PhysDis - Physics Theses in Europe
  
  

 General Resources

• Fundamental Physical Constants, CODATA Internationally recommended values of the -
• Material Safety Data Sheets on the Internet.
  
• Atomic and Molecular Physics - Data.
  Produced by NIST Atomic Physics Program, and The Standard Reference Data Program.
  
• Glossary of basic terms in polymer science - (IUPAC Recommendations 1996)
  
• NIST Physical Reference Data. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
  This site is searchable resource containing databases related to physics, including:
  • Physical Constants, Atomic Spectroscopic Data, etc.

Conferences

• PhysicsWeb Calendar
  This IOP site has links to Conferences, Workshops and Summer Schools worldwide.
  
• AIP Conference Proceedings American Institute of Physics page.
• eConf
  This site is a web-accessible archive for the proceedings of scientific conferences in High-Energy Physics and related fields.
• Rencontres De Moriond - Conferences in elementary and particle physics.
  
  

Mailing Lists and Discussion Groups

• Australian Electronic Mailing Lists (Ozlists - Science)
• Chebucto Community Net Discussion Groups - Physics
  This is a federally registered not-for-profit society based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
  

Preprints

• ArXive.org e-Print archive.
  Founded in 1991 (formally xxx.lan.gov) this archive is a fully automated electronic archive and distribution server for research papers. Areas covered include physics and related disciplines, mathematics, and computer science.

Professional Societies

• American Institute of Physics (AIP) Founded in 1931, AIP currently has ten member societies, including the American Physical Society.
• Australian Institute of Physics hosts a biennial AIP Physics Congress.
• Institute of Physics (IOP) Based in Britain IOP has over 37,000 members and publishes 34 journals in physics and related areas.
• European Physical Society Provides an international forum for physicists and acts as a federation of national physical societies
• AVS Science and Technology Society - the American Vacuum Society.
• American Association of Physicists in Medicine A scientific, educational, and professional organization of more than 4,500 medical physicists. Headquarters are located at the American Center for Physics in College Park, MD.
  
  
• Scholarly Societies Project - Physics
  This site is maintained by the University of Waterloo, providing up to date links to physics professional and scholarly societies around the world.
  

Subject Directories

• PhysicsWeb
  Includes: 'The Best of Physics Web', a site that brings together articles about the most exciting areas of modern physics, it also list jobs, and news.
  
• The Net Advance of Physics Review Articles and Tutorials in an Encyclopædic Format.
  
• Yahoo! Science:Physics
• The Virtual Library; Physics

People

• Who's Who in Atomic & Plasma Physics