Physics & Astronomy Journals
Current subscriptions in the Western Libraries Collection

Physics & Astronomy features in Access@Science, the online version of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology

Fundamental Constants

Physics

Astronomy and Space Science

Data, tables & tools

Search only in Physics

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Smithsonian physical tables online access.

Databases selected from the Online Resources page.

Web of Science
The Science Citation Index Expanded is a multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the sciences. It fully indexes 5,900 major journals across 150 scientific disciplines.

ArticleFirst

PapersFirst

ProceedingsFirst

Selected Reference

General

Britannica Online

Access Science

Oxford Reference Online

McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science & Technology

Comprehensive coverage of recent events and research.

Encyclopedia of Physical Science and Technology

Consists of 18 volumes, includes 790 full-length articles by leading international authors.

Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures

The purpose of the Encyclopaedia is to bring together knowledge of many disparate fields in one place and to legitimize the study of other cultures' science.

Dictionary of Scientific Biography

Information on the history of science through the medium of articles on the professional lives of scientists.

Online

Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics

Physics
WWW Virtual Library

Physics Directory
Google

Reference Collection

Astronomy and Astrophysics Abstracts
Devoted to the recording, summarizing, and indexing of astronomical publications throughout the world.

Macmillan encyclopedia of physics
The subject of physics from the insights of the past to the present.

Additional links

Sky and Telescope web site

AstronomyDaily.com web site

AstroWeb: Astronomy/Astrophysics on the Internet
A collection of pointers to astronomy-related information available on the Internet.

SIMBAD Astronomical Database
The SIMBAD astronomical database provides basic data, cross-identifications and bibliography for astronomical objects outside the solar system.

NASA Astrophysics Data System Abstract Service
This site is hosted by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

NASA Astrophysics Data System The digital library for physics, astrophysics, and instrumentation.

PPARC
Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council (United Kingdom)

Institute of Physics
Leading international professional body and learned society with over 37,000 members, which promotes the advancement and dissemination of a knowledge of and education in the science of physics, pure and applied.

PhysLINK: the ultimate physics resource.

SpaceRef
Space related news.

Zona land
In Zona Land you will find educational and entertaining items pertaining to physics, to the mathematical sciences, and to mathematics in general.

Astronomiae Historia/History of Astronomy
Welcome to the first general History of Astronomy pages on the Web. Astronomiae Historia / History of Astronomy was created in January 1995 on behalf of the Working Group for the History of Astronomy in the Astronomische Gesellschaft. Since March 1998 this site is also maintained on behalf of Commission 41 (History of Astronomy) of the International Astronomical Union.

The Daily Planet
University of Illinois Department of Atmospheric Sciences

Climate Diagnostics Center
National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration and the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences.

Astrobiology at NASA
Exploring the living universe.

The Astrobiology Web

NASA home page

Near Earth Object Program
Information concerning asteroids and comets that approach Earth's orbit.

Resources of Scholarly Societies: Physics

The Net Advance of Physics

Physics 2000
Physics 2000 relies heavily on the use of interactive "applets". These are different from the typical animations you see on the Internet because you can actually interact with them.

The Exploratorium
Online since 1993, the Exploratorium was one of the first science museums to build a site on the World Wide Web. Our site now contains over 12,000 Web pages exploring hundreds of different topics. We currently serve seventeen million visitors a year.

Earth and Moon Viewer
by John Walker

Planet Quest: the search for another earth
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

The California and Carnegie Planet Search

The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia