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Reference Databases | Internet Gateways | Organizations | Patents | Science Humor

Last Updated: 06/27/2009

Reference Databases

• AIP Style Manual Fourth Edition (1990)
• ARI Bibliographic Database for Astronomical References
  From the Astronomisches Reichen-Institut Heidelberg, this database provides references to the astronomical literature from the Astronomy and Astrophysics Abstracts and its predecessors covering antiquity until the middle of the year 2000.
• arXiv.org e-Print archive
  The preprint server, formerly hosted by Los Alamos, now at Cornell
• Astronomical Data Services [U.S. Naval Observatory]
• Astrophysics Data System: Abstracts Service
  Abstracts from hundreds of astronomy journals and other publications.
• Astrophysics Data System: Article Service
  Full-images of articles from back issues of 21 astronomy journals.
• Center for the History of Physics
• Conversion of Units
• Dictionary of Scientific Biography, Complete
• Dictionary of Units of Measurement
• E-Print Network
• Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
• Hubble Site
• INSPEC
  The online version of Physics Abstracts
• International Critical Tables of Numerical Data, Physics, Chemistry & Technology
• Journal Citation Reports [ISI]
• Knovel Critical Tables
• Knovel Library
• Landolt-Bornstein Indexes
• Macrogalleria
  Polymers and related subjects for students of all levels, from K-12 to graduate level, and the general public as well. " A cyberwonderland of polymer fun."
• National Geophysical Data Center [National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration]
• NIST Standard Reference Data Products
• Periodic Table
• Physical Reference Data [NIST]
• Polymer Handbook
• Science Learning Network
• SciFinder Scholar
  The Chemical Abstracts database plus more. Only available on selected workstations on the 2nd floor of Park Library.
• Sloan Digital Sky Survey
• SPIN [Searchable Physics Information Notices]
  Abstracts from over 80 journals published by the American Institute of Physics and its member societies, 1975 to the present.
• Stephen Hawking's Universe
• Table of Fundamental Physical Constants

Internet Gateways

• NASA Astrophysics Data System
• Physics: An Annotated List of Key Resources on the Internet
• PhysLINK
• Science.gov: FirstGov for Science
  A gateway to authoritative selected science information provided by U.S. Government agencies, including research and development results.

Organizations

• American Society for Testing and Materials
• American Institute of Physics
• American Physical Society
• CMU Advanced Materials Research
• CMU Department of Physics
• Institute of Physics
• Materials Research Society
• NASA
• Star Worlds
  Searchable directory of organizations, institutions, associations, companies, and so on, involved in astronomy and related space sciences.
  

Patents

• US Patent and Trademark Office Web Patent Databases
  Full-page images of all US patents issued since 1790, plus fully-searchable full-text of all US patents issued since 1976. Also US patent applications since 15 March 2001.
• DEPATISnet Information
  Search US:1973+, EP:1978+, WO:1978+. DE:1973+, DD:1973+, AT:1973+, CH:1973+, FR:1973+, GB:1973+, and JP:1973+ patents and applications. Some links to full-text.
• European Patent Office
• Free Patents Online
  U.S. patents, 1976 to date, as PDF files, all pages in one file.
• Japan Patent Office
  Includes English machine-translations of some Japanese patents. Read help screens.
• Patent Fetcher
  All U.S. patents and some foreign patents, as PDF files, all pages in one file.
  

Science Humor

• Annals of Improbable Research
• Physics and Science Fun, Humor, Jokes, Cartoons and more..
• Physics Humor on the Web
• Physics Limericks
• Science Made Stupid
• Weird Research, Anomalous Physics