
- 227 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
Guide to Information Sources in the Physical Sciences
About this book
This bibliographic guide offers users a basic overview of the current trends and the best, most important, and most up-to-date paper and electronic information resources in the field of physics. The author has selectively chosen and succinctly annotated a list of hundreds of major tools used by physical scientists and researchers, including bibliographic sources, abstracting and indexing databases, journals, books, online sources, and other subject-specific non-bibliographic tools. Stern also provides information on grants, personal bibliographic database tools, document delivery, copyright and reserves. In addition, he discusses future developments, directions, and trends in the field, and in the concluding chapter he outlines the history and developments of the physics. Designed to help students, new researchers in the field of physics, and working physicists in need of additional information resources outside their normal field of study, this is an invaluable reference, research, and collectio
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Table of contents
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Bibliographic Sources
- Chapter 2: Abstracting and Indexing Databases
- Chapter 3: Journals
- Chapter 4: Books
- Chapter 5: Online Sources
- Chapter 6: Other Non-Bibliographic Databases and Paper Resources
- Chapter 7: Grants
- Chapter 8: Bibliographic Management Tools
- Chapter 9: Document Delivery
- Chapter 10: Copyright and Reserves
- Chapter 11: Future Developments, Directions, and Trends
- Chapter 12: Important Works in the Development of Physics, 1600–1900
- Author/Title/Editor/Electronic Resource Index
- Subject Index