Physics Links

Preprints and Databases

• arXiv.org — Formerly known as the xxx LANL archives, now hosted at Cornell university; the definitive source for preprints in physics and mathematics.

• arXiv.org [hep-th/new] — The latest and greatest preprints in theoretical physics.

• SPIRES HEP Literature Database

• KEK Information Service System (KISS) for Preprints — Scanned preprints; might make your eyes hurt and but it saves a trip to the library.

Journals

• Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (JCAP)

• Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP)

• Living Reviews in Relativity — An online journal offering reviews in all areas of gravitational physics.

• Nuclear Physics Electronic

• Online Journal Publishing Service (OJPS)

• Public Library of Science

Organizations

• American Institute of Physics (AIP)

• American Mathematical Society (AMS)

• American Physical Society (APS)

• Institute of Physics (IoP)

Institutes and Research Centers

• Aspen Center for Physics

• Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) — Princeton, New Jersey.

• Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) — At the University of California in Santa Barbara.

• Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)

• National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

• SETI Institute Online — The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. We've given up on Terrestrial Intelligence.

Reference

• The NIST Reference on Constants, Units, and Uncertainty

• The Particle Data Group

• CelesTrak

Encyclopedias, Glossaries, and Biographies

• Wikipedia — A open, free online encyclopedia.

• ScienceWorld — Eric Weisstein's World of Science. Hosted by Wolfram Research.

• PlanetMath

• MathPages

• Biographies

Prizes

• The Nobel Prize Internet Archive

• The Millennium Prize Problems — Need a quick million dollars? Solve one of these seven problems from the Clay Mathematics Institute in Cambridge, Mass.

• The Ig Nobel Prizes — Recognizing outstanding achievements that cannot or should not be reproduced.

Popular Physics Sites

• PhysicsWeb — Physics news, jobs, and resources. Published by the IoP.

• Scientific American

• Space Telescope Science Institute

• The Official String Theory Web Site — I don't know how official it really is, but it has some good information (and some wrong information too).

• The Particle Adventure — Award winning site on particle physics.

Pseudoscience

• James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF) — One man's quest to cleanse the world of pseudoscience. It's a tough job, but somebody has got to do it.

• The Talk.Origins Archive

• The World of Richard Dawkins