INTERNET RESOURCES: Physics
Laurel L. Kristick · College & Research Libraries News · 2000
An annotated lis t o f key resources o n the In te rn e t by Laur P hysicists have been using the Internet since its earliest days.The Department of Energy's high-energy physicists created HEPnet, developed in the 1970s along with other specialized nets.This group also helped develop the foundation of the World Wide Web in 1989-A physics laboratory (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center) was the first U. S. Web site.There are an incredible number of Internet sites related to physics.An AltaVista search on the word "physics" will pull up more than 2.7 million hits.The sites identified here will get you started in locating the most useful physics sites on the Internet. General physics metasites• Resources in Physics.The Physics-As tronomy-Mathematics (PAM) division of the Special Libraries Association maintains this site, which provides links to physics resources organized around the following areas: people, professional societies, institutions, reference, eprints, and pathfinders.