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At many institutes and in many fields of physics, use of the on-line preprint servers has become an established way of life. For those who have yet to explore this part of the net, here is a brief introduction to the major servers. Links with information on ancillary software are mentioned at the end.
http://www-spires.slac.stanford.edu/find/hep
The HEP
(high-energy physics) database, maintained by the SLAC and DESY libraries,
is the granddaddy of preprint databases. Although it only claims to cover
papers released since about 1974, it in fact lists some as old as 1931
(try searching on "Dirac"). The server provides a number of interfaces
for searching, with a choice of output formats that includes BibTeX citation
style. Even some of the oldest papers listed here are linked to lists of
papers that cite them or that they cite. The database is primarily an index,
but the more recent papers can be obtained in full, through links either
to the Los Alamos server or to scanned images stored at the KEK library
in Japan.
http://xxx.lanl.gov/
Begun in 1991, the Los Alamos National
Laboratory's e-print server is the place to go when you see references
that look like "hep-th/9701001." New users are urged to read
the help pages. The server can
also be accessed by e-mail: Send a message to hep-th@xxx.lanl.gov with
the word "help" in the subject line. One can also sign up to
receive daily e-mail that lists the new papers available in selected subjects.
Authors of papers submit them directly to the server for automatic processing
and indexing. The server provides abstracts in html (browsable form) and
can typically supply a paper in several formats: a source file (usually
a variant of TeX or LaTeX) and also postscript, dvi ("device independent")
and pdf (portable document format).
http://xxx.lanl.gov/form/
The very convenient form interface
allows one to browse new abstracts, browse by month and archive, search
on words in the title and author fields or select a specific preprint by
its number.
http://xxx.lanl.gov/new/
This link describes an October 1996 reorganization
of the Los Alamos site "to facilitate growth to areas of physics not
covered by the current archive structure." The server originally focused
on high-energy physics and grew in an ad hoc manner, adding archives
for specific subjects as required. The 1996 reorganization added a general
"physics" archive, with 23 subject classes including atomic physics,
biological physics, classical physics, fluid dynamics, geophysics, history
of physics, instrumentation and detectors, optics, physics education, physics
and society and popular physics ("covering Scientific American-level
articles").
Condensed matter physics has its own archive, with seven subject classes such as materials science and superconductivity. There are four archives on mathematics, six on nonlinear sciences and one on computation and language. The high-volume archives such as high-energy physics and nuclear physics remain unchanged.
http://xxx.lanl.gov/servers.html
The Los Alamos server has mirror
sites in France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan
and the UK. Russia, Brazil and Spain will be added soon.
http://preprints.cern.ch/
The CERN preprints server
provides CERN preprints and images of preprints received at CERN since
1994. Formats include postscript, pdf, tiff and gif---the last allowing
most Web browsers with any graphics capability to view the papers automatically.
A search engine allows searching of all the preprints on the CERN server.
http://aps.org/eprint/
The American Physical Society's
e-print server, covering all areas of physics, has been on-line for
about six months and currently has about 150 papers. See Physics Today,
October 1996, page 63, for more information.http://publish.aps.org/eprint/
http://www.ictp.trieste.it/indexes/preprints.html
The "one-shot"
server at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics is a prototype
system designed to let one simultaneously search various other preprint
servers on the Web. At present, searches are limited to a single keyword
and no more than four archives at once. It is described in Computers
in Physics, November/December 1996, page 520.
http://keklib.kek.jp/KISS.v2/kiss_prepri.html
This is the direct line to the KEK
Information Service System (KISS), which lists preprints received at
KEK since 1975 and has scanned images for those in the range 1987 to 1995.
Software: Depending on your computer set-up, a preprint supplied by a server can display automatically or you may have to save the file and process it through other software. For information on software to uncompress and view files, see Los Alamos's "requisite tools" page and CERN's help page.
News and information related to physics:
- Americal Institute of Physics' Physics News Update
- Americal Institute of Physics' FYI - policy newsletter
(previous issues: 1995 and 1994 )- Americal Physical Society's What's New
- Hot Topics from NASA.
- ER News - from the Department of Energy Office of Energy Research
- The Scientist - Newsletter
- Science news from wire services
Physics and Public Policy:
- The DOE Office of Human Radiation Experiments now has a web site with archives of declassified documents of interest. NPR reports on the federal task force investigating Cold War-era radiation experiments and ethics which is finishing its work. (This is in RealAudio 10kbps format. Players are available free.)
- The APS statement and report on 60Hz EMF health effects are available.
Accelerator information:
- Fermilab
- LEP operations report and current machine status.
- DELPHI home page.
- HERA current status
- SLD News
- The fate of the SSC
- See also: Experiments On-Line - Home pages of HEP experiments.
Past news headlines:
- The 1995 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Martin L. Perl (Stanford) and Frederick Reines (Irvine).
They were cited by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for "pioneering experimental contributions to lepton physics."
- TOP NEWS: See the Fermilab news release on the discovery of the top quark. CDF says 176 GeV, D0 says 199 GeV. See the papers for more details.
- 1994 Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to Bertram Brockhouse (McMaster) and Clifford Shull (MIT) for their development of neutron scattering techniques.
- Report on evidence of the top quark at CDF.
See also: The top quark paper by the Fermilab CDF group (.ps.gz, .7MB)
See also: how not to explain physics to the press.
- Papers that shaped modern high-energy physics: A list of the most cited HEP papers in the SLAC preprint databases has just been released.
- What does it take to make a bomb? Maybe less than you thought.
- Just when you thought the Web was safe for children... Cold Fusion magazine is on-line from MIT.
- Solar system traffic report: Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 July 1994 Jupiter Impact Information
- The Drell Panel's report on future of particle physics in the USA is now available. So are recent CERN press releases on the progress toward the LHC.
- Math news:
Andrew Wiles on status of Fermat proof - Hubble News: Before and after sample pictures from the recently repaired Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Planetary Camera. (Also: Shuttle mission to HST)
- Russell Hulse and Joseph Taylor win 1993 Nobel Prize in Physics for binary pulsar discovery. (figs 1, 2, 3.) For more details, look also here.
Miscellaneous news sources:
- Global Network Navigator - guided tour and catalog of the internet
- World weather - satellite photos, movies and data from MSU
- Publications:
- The NandO Times - The Web's fullest on-line newspaper
- The Tech - MIT student newspaper
- Mother Jones - magazine.
- International Teletimes - electronic magazine.
- Annals of Improbable Research - abstracts and highlights
- The Electronic Newsstand - excerpts from many periodicals
- Wired - magazine of "digital culture"
- Time - the proverbial 800 pound gorilla has joined the Internet.
- National Public Radio - RealAudio format radio-on-demand: Morning Edition and All Things Considered
- WCRB OnLine: ``New England's only full-time classical music station'' (For an opposing view, Metaverse is now on-line.)
UPI News Dispatches (Brown campus only)