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Resources for Physics and Astronomy

Librarian: Carlin Sappenfield
Phone: 615/343-7107
E-Mail: carlin.sappenfield@vanderbilt.edu
Office: SC3218

Electronic Journals and Indexes

Inspec Physics and EE research database going back to 1896
Nasa Astrophysics Data System articles from back issues of many major Astronomical journals (searchable)
Web of Science Database for all natural and physical sciences

IOP Journals full text and searchable
Access to the full list of electronic journals and databases available to authorized Vanderbilt Library patrons

Current Interest and other Cool Sites

2007 Nobel Prize winners in Physics
Today's News in the Sciences from Science News Online
The Nine Planets a multimedia tour of the solar system

Preprints and other useful sites

CERN Preprint Server
Los Alamos Preprint Server
SLAC-SPIRES Information Retrieval System
The Astronomy Thesaurus (TREX)
The Parallax Project
The ESO/ST-ECF Archive
The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia

Societies and associations

American Astronomical Society
American Institute of Physics
American Physical Society
Astronomical Society of Australia
Astronomical Society of the Pacific
European Southern Observatory
Institute of Physics
International Astronomical Union
Royal Astronomical Society
Space Telescope -European Coordinating Facility

Local Vanderbilt Physics and Astronomy Websites

Vanderbilt Department of Physics & Astronomy
Dyer Observatory
Keck Free Electron Laser Center

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