Useful web resources Physics:

  • CERN – European Organization for Nuclear Research
  • Institute of Physics (IOP): good source of online physics information; you can search across the whole site using the search screen, or have a look at the index of available resources
  • SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS): digital Library portal for researchers in Astronomy, Physics and Astrophysics.  It is three bibliographic databases with over 12.2 million records, including the ArXiv e-prints.
  • Physicsworld.com: has links to reference sources from the Institute of Physics (IOP)
  • Astronomical Data Centre: from the Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit

Professional organisations and societies


PrePrint archives:

  • ArXiv-  ArXiv gives access to full text, open access research papers covering physics, mathematics and computer science. It contains articles that have not yet been peer-reviewed / published
  • CERN document server – high energy and particle physics information
  • InSPIRE -high energy physics literature database
  • NASA Technical reports server (NTRS)– aerospace-related citations, full-text online documents, and images and videos created or funded by NASA