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David Ginsburg, Reference Librarian/Physics Bibliographer

Phone: (989) 774-1293
E-mail:david.ginsburg@cmich.edu

Last Updated:02/05/08

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.
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
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
Los Alamos arXiv.org e-Print archive
Preprints.
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
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