Physics

Popular databases of published research applicable to several of the Physics Department's research groups.
Many of these databases are indexes, which may link to an indexed item's full text.

Videos | Mathematical or general | Astrophysics and astronomy | Geophysics and climate physics | High-energy physics | Imaging, spectroscopy and metrology

The following resources include preprint servers, bibliographic indexes, data sources, visualisation tools, and other resources.

Videos

• Richard Feynman Messenger Lectures (1964)
  Given at Cornell University on "The Character of Physical Law".
  Incidentally, The Feynman lectures on physics are listed in the Catalogue and free to read online at Caltech.
• Feynman's Douglas Robb Memorial Lectures
  On quantum electrodynamics (Auckland 1979).  UPDATE (July 2018): the University has a cleaner digital version that we hope to make available.
• Perimeter Institute video library
  Seminars; conference talks; and outreach events, including public lectures (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics).
• IOP's YouTube channel
  A channel hosting mainly lectures, features, the latest research and interviews.
• 100 second Science

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Mathematical or general

• Mathematical physics preprint archive
  Research papers in Mathematical physics and related areas (hosted by University of Texas).
• AIP's history programs
• Webelements
  Periodic table.
• Chart of nuclides
  Interactive Chart from the US National Nuclear Data Center [more NNDC resources].
• Weisstein's World of Physics
• The laws list
  Selected laws, principles, effects, paradoxes, limits, constants, etc.
• Library of Congress selected internet resources: Physics
  Professional societies, Archives, US government laboratories, … and miscellaneous sites.
• OSTI Search Tools
  "The Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) fulfills the Department of Energy (DOE) responsibility to collect, preserve, and disseminate research and development (R&D) results emanating from DOE funding."
• PhyNet's list of physics-related freely accessible journals.

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Astrophysics and astronomy

• Astronomy image explorer
  Images, illustrations, graphs, charts, and videos from peer-reviewed journals (IOPP and AAS).
• HEASARC
  Archiving data and images of missions relating to high energy electromagnetic radiation (NASA).
• ADS Labs integrated search
  Astrophysics Data System: astronomy, physics and geophysics; abstracts and full text (SAO/NASA) [help].
• SIMBAD Astronomical Database [Set of Identifications, Measurements & Bibliography for Astronomical Data]
  Provides basic data, cross-identifications, bibliography and measurements for astronomical objects outside the solar system Archiving data and images of missions relating to high energy electromagnetic radiation (NASA).
• NASA/IPAC Extragalatic Database (NED)
  Comprehensive database of multiwavelength data for extragalactic objects [more]
• Exoplanet data explorer
  Exploring and displaying data from the Exoplanet Orbit Database.
• Astronomy tools
  (Columbia University)
• Sky & telescope: online resources.
  Resources and News; but to access the magazine itself, please use its catalogue record.
• Unified astronomy thesaurus
  An open, interoperable and community-supported Astronomy and Astrophysics thesaurus.
• ARIBIB
  Astronomisches Rechen-Institut Bibliographical Database: bibliographic index only.
• Library of Congress selected internet resources: Astronomy.

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Geophysics and climate physics

• Worldwide earthquake information
  USGS recent earthquake information (includes a map interface).
• Interactive Map of Active Volcanoes and recent Earthquakes world-wide.
• ADS Labs integrated search
  Astronomy, physics and geophysics; abstracts and full text (SAO/NASA) [help].
• Astrogeology science center
  USGS resource to integrate planetary geoscience, cartography, and remote sensing; includes maps.

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High-energy physics

• INSPIRE-HEP
  Particle physics literature maintained by CERN, DESY, Fermilab and SLAC [more].
• CERN document server.

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Imaging, spectroscopy and metrology

• NIST Physical reference data
  Physical constants, nuclear data, etc, including spectra.
• Scifinder
  Also includes spectra.
• Chemistry Subject guide: Spectra.

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Harvard style

• Harvard referencing style

BibTeX

Most referencing software (including RefWorks, EndNote, and Mendeley) allow you to export all your existing references to BibTeX format.
Many scientific databases have BibTeX as an output option — If not, upload those results to RefWorks (or other viable software), then export to BibTeX.

Support

• Referencing
  Access a range of tools and support material to assist your referencing work.

Examples

• Quick©ite
  Use this interactive tool to view examples of references.
  Covers a range of styles used at the University of Auckland.