Chemistry, Physics and Space Science Gateway sites chosen by the OWH reference librarians for authority and quality of content. |
- Chem
Center
American Chemical Society's central location for information. - Chemistry
Pointers
From UCLA, this site links to anything and everything in chemistry--academic institutions arranged geographically, commercial organizations, and associations with good annotated lists. - Complete
Journal List
From the American Chemical Society. These sites are not all full text, but they do provide information on the latest issues. - The
Information Retrieval in Chemistry Server
A gateway to chemistry and chemistry Internet related resources. Broken into topics and subtopics, this site (which boosts over 40,000 hits per month) links to some 60 databases, 50 journals, and 40 educational sites. - Learning
by Visualization
Visual Aids for organic chemistry from Colby College. Shockwave is required, free to download at the site. - Virtual
Library Chemistry Section Links for Chemists
Over 8,000 chemistry links organized and maintained by the University of Liverpool. - Visual
Elements
This site From the Chemical Society in Great Britain uses Flash to make the Table of Elements more exciting. May be hard to read on some computers; try increasing font size. Scroll down for navigation buttons. Some material may be downloaded. - The
Pictorial Periodic Table
An interactive periodic table where properties of the elements can be searched, collated or graphed. Scroll down for display preferences and many more links. Homepage states last update was 1998. - Web Elements In-depth information about the elements. Includes atoimic number, weight, physical properties, common compounds and photographs.
- ScienceBase: Anyone interested in chemistry and the related sciences. Includes the latest happenings in chemistry as well as articles on many current topics.
- American
Institute of Physics
The AIP's mission is to preserve and desseminate information on the history of modern physics, astronomy, geophysics, optics, and the like. Offers site links, a photo archive, and a site map. - Institute
of Physics
For physics professionals in Great Britain and Ireland. Search contents of their 31 journals. Some full text available. Use PhysicsWeb for web links and news. - Learn
Physics Todayl
A Thinkquest entry which begins with a basic skills in algebra and then has tutorials in mechanics, lights and waves, and electricity in 15 chapters. Each chapter ends with a short quiz. Scroll down to see helpful navigation. Developed by the faculty at Colegio Franklin D. Roosevelt, in Lima, Peru. - Eric
Weisstein's World of Physics
An online physics encyclopedia with easy to use hyperlinks. Browse or search. - PhysNet,
the physics departments and documents network
The Institute for Science Networking in Oldenburg, Germany maintains this comprehensive listing of physics departments worldwide. Also maintains links to journals, educational resources and specialized search engines. - Physics:
an annotated list of key resources on the internet
This annotated webliography, written by Laurel Kristick, was published by the Association of Research & College Libraries is very comprehensive. Not updated since 2001. - Physics
Homepage of Peggy Schweiger
This high school teacher of advanced physics has put up her lectures, notes and exercises. - Physics Central
Maintained by the American Physical Society, this comprehensive site offers updates in physics, biographies,news and additional links. It's mean to make physics fun and interesting, and it succeeds!
- NASA Homepage
The United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration homepage is nicely organized, allows the viewer to choose a pathway--kids, students, educators or media & press-- or just explore. Researchers can find press releases going back to 1990. Today at NASA has daily updates. Everything else is under "Cool Web Sites" so prepare to browse a little or use the search engine. Use A Space Library for excellent images and the Solar System Simulator to see the view from a spacecraft. - ExtraSolar
Planets Encyclopedia
New planets outside our Solar System are cataloged and analyzed at this site by Jean Schneider of the Paris Observatory.