Useful Links for our Department
This is a collection of items of interest to our department.
There is a great collection of science pointers you may wish to view. The following list is just a small sampling of interesting places.
- APS
- American Physical Society.
- sponsored by the American Physical Society.
- What's New
- Bob Park's weekly digest of APS news
- The Chronicle of Higher Education
- Academe This Week
- AIP
- American Institute of Physics - see also their Statistical Research Center which has information on the evolving trends of the physics/astronomy communities - and the AIP Career web site.
- NSF
- National Science Foundation
- physicsweb
- Physics news, jobs and resource
- Fedworld Information Network
- Pointers to government documents by the National Technical Information Service.
- OTA Online
- Archive of Office of Technology Assessment publications to Congress
- Institute of Physics
- They have online access to their journals. See the Physics and Astronomy librarian for any access codes needed.
- Cornell Theory Center
- Computational resources - especially parallel computing.
- NIST data
- The 1986 CODATA recommended values of the fundamental physical constants plus a wealth of atomic and molecular spectroscopic data
- Shortcuts to Departments of Physics, Engineering and Mathematics
- From Waubonsee Community College, Sugar Grove, Illinois
- CIRS (the International Center for Scientific Research)
- this contains a broad set of scientific linkes
- The elements
- (by Tom Lehrer with some flash graphics added)
- Powers of 10
- (a Java remake of the old classic)
