Physics Research Resources

Open access to e-prints in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics. From Cornell University.

This is a digital library portal for researchers in astronomy and physics, operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) under a NASA grant.

The collection of databases at the website of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics includes the Chanda X-Ray Center atomic database for X-ray plasma spectral modeling, HITRAN molecular spectroscopy database, and others.

The National Nuclear Data Center (NNDC) collects, evaluates, and disseminates nuclear physics data for basic nuclear research and applied nuclear technologies. The NNDC is a worldwide resource for nuclear data. The information available to the users of NNDC services is the product of the combined efforts of the NNDC and cooperating data centers and other interested groups, both in the United States and worldwide.
The NNDC specializes in the following areas: Nuclear structure and low-energy nuclear reactions; Nuclear databases and information technology; and Nuclear data compilation and evaluation.

Access articles, reports and multimedia content in High Energy Physics.

CERN Openlab is a unique public-private partnership between CERN and leading ICT companies. Its mission is to accelerate the development of cutting-edge solutions to be used by the worldwide LHC community. This ZENODO community contains open access material published by the CERN Openlab, such as reports, white papers, presentations, videos, etc.

This site, derived from books by astrophysicist Eric Chaisson, divides the history of the universe into 8 periods: from particulate and galactic to biological and future. Each section has fully developed text plus links. Good resource for undergraduate cosmology.

Data.gov is the United States government's open data website. It provides access to datasets published by agencies across the federal government. Data.gov is intended to provide access to government open data to the public, achieve agency missions, drive innovation, fuel economic activity, and uphold the ideals of an open and transparent government.

The Durham High-Energy Physics Database (HEP Data) has been built up over the past four decades as a unique open-access repository for scattering data from experimental particle physics. It currently comprises the data points from plots and tables related to several thousand publications including those from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). HEPData is funded by a grant from the UK STFC and is based at the IPPP at Durham University.

Includes scientific and technical research results in disciplines of interest to the US Department of Energy such as chemistry, physics, materials, environmental science, geology, engineering, mathematics, climatology, oceanography, and computer science.

EurekAlert!, an online news service of AAAS, the science society, provides searchable research and awards news from universities, journals, government agencies, corporations, and other organizations.

America's particle physics and accelerator laboratory.

Use Google Scholar to discover scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts, and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Some content will be freely available on the web; most will only be accessible by subscription. This restricted link allows current University students, faculty, and staff to access the full text of licensed resources to which the University subscribes. Click on the "Find it @ SCU" links to see if the University has the article through its institutional database and e-journal subscriptions.

High Energy Physics literature database. The successor to Spires, inSpire offers articles, news, citation statistics, plus new features such as personal author pages, fulltext search, a blog, and the ability to claim your papers. The site is run by CERN, DESY, Fermilab, and SLAC (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center).

IOP is a UK-based learned society and professional body that works to advance physics education, research and application. The IOP provides services to its members including careers advice and professional development and grants the professional qualification of Chartered Physicist (CPhys), and Chartered Engineer (CEng) as a nominated body of the Engineering Council. The IOP's publishing company, IOP Publishing, publishes 85 academic titles.

IAU's mission is to promote and safeguard the science of astronomy in all its aspects, including research, communication, education and development, through international cooperation. They support extensive working groups and publish journals and other field information.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is the world's central intergovernmental forum for scientific and technical cooperation in the nuclear field. It works for the safe, secure and peaceful uses of nuclear science and technology, contributing to international peace and security and the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals.
Disclaimer: Distributed data products contain consensus values of physical constants. However, the IAEA does not guarantee the accuracy of such data products or their suitability for particular applied scientific purposes.

Entrée to Berkeley Lab's six physics sections: Electroweak Symmetry Breaking, Dark Matter - Dark Energy, International Linear Collider Physics, Theoretical Physics, Quark and Lepton Flavor Physics, Particle Physics [see PDG Review of Particle Physics below].

Lawrence Livermore pursues nuclear energy research as well as research in nanotechnologies and in a broad range of other focused and interdisciplinary areas. Also at the site: the journal Science & Technology.

The SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) is a digital library portal for researchers in astronomy and physics, operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) under a NASA grant. Integrated in its collections, ADS provides access and pointers to a wealth of external resources, including electronic articles available from publishers’ websites, astronomical object information, data catalogs and data sets hosted by external archives. We currently have links to over 13.3 million records maintained by our collaborators. This depth of information has enabled a number of publications (refereed, non-refereed) in fields such as bibliometrics and information science.

DATA.NASA.GOV is NASA's clearinghouse site for open-data provided to the public. Tens of thousands of datasets are available for you.
The majority of dataset pages on data.nasa.gov only hold metadata for each dataset. It is common for the actual data to be held on other NASA archive sites. Data.nasa.gov will have the metadata and links to the data as it exists in those many other locations.
Some datasets on data.nasa.gov are harvested from other NASA data archives and other datasets only exist on data.nasa.gov. A slideshow created for SpaceApps Hackathon participants explains the wider NASA data universe and has some suggestions for finding NASA data (click on the yellow star above).

PML establishes spectroscopic methods and standards for infrared, visible, ultraviolet, x-ray, and gamma-ray radiation; investigates the structure and dynamics of atoms, molecules, and biomolecules; develops the electrical, thermal, dimensional, mechanical, and physical metrology for measuring the properties of precision measurement devices and exploratory semiconductor, quantum electronic, nanoelectronic, bioelectronic, biooptical, optoelectronic, and quantum information devices and systems; and examines the thermophysical and interfacial properties of streams of flowing fluids, fluid mixtures, and solids.
It develops and disseminates national standards by means of calibrations, measurement quality assurance, standard reference materials, technology transfer, education/training, and a comprehensive weights and measurement program to promote uniformity and accuracy at the international, federal, state, and local levels.
It generates, evaluates, and compiles atomic, molecular, optical, ionizing radiation, electronic, and electromagnetic data in response to national needs; measures and improves accuracy of the fundamental physical constants; and develops and operates major radiation sources for measurement science and metrology.

The NRAO operates two state-of-the-art radio telescope facilities for use by the scientific community, regardless of institutional or national affiliation: (1) the international Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), and (2) the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA). Access to ALMA observing time by the North American astronomical community is enabled through the North American ALMA Science Center (NAASC).
The NRAO collaborates with the university astronomy community to develop new instrumentation and technology, and helps train the next generation of scientists through its student, co-op, postdoctoral, and Fellowship programs. A new data management system will soon improve every astronomer's access to NRAO data products for research and education.

NIST's Physical Measurement Laboratory provides measurements and standards nominally aimed at U.S. industry, but also useful to academic researchers. The PML has a number of divisions: from Quantum Physics to Biomolecular Physics. Also check the physics portal.

National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) Physical Reference Data has eight sections: 1. physical constants, 2. atomic spectroscopic data, 3. molecular spectroscopic data, 4. ionization data, 5. X-ray and gamma-ray data, 6. nuclear physics data, 7. condensed matter physics data, 8. other NIST data.

The NSR database is a bibliography of nuclear physics articles, indexed according to content and spanning more than 100 years of research. Over 80 journals are checked on a regular basis for articles to be included. (From the National Nuclear Data Center (NNDC))

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. Through our search tools and services, we ensure the Department's R&D information is publicly available and also useful to the DOE research community.

Particle Data Group (PDG), an international collaboration, reviews particle physics and related areas of astrophysics. PDG also compiles and analyzes data. The site includes tables, conservation laws, educational sites and tools, and reviews.

Includes physics news, jobs, a blog, products, symposia and other events, plus selected articles from the site's proprietary online PhysicsWorld. From IOP (Institute of Physics).

PhysLink.com includes physics and astronomy resources for education, research, and reference. Aimed more at undergraduates and physics newcomers, the site includes news from national laboratories, NASA, NIST; tables of physical constants; HEP databases; links to professional societies and institutes; and educational resources.

Since its founding in 1959 under the name Industrial Research, R&D Magazine – and now re-launched as R&D World – has served research scientists, engineers, and technical staff members at laboratories around the world.

Re3data is a global registry of research data repositories that covers research data repositories from different academic disciplines. It includes repositories that enable permanent storage of and access to data sets to researchers, funding bodies, publishers, and scholarly institutions. re3data promotes a culture of sharing, increased access and better visibility of research data. The registry has gone live in autumn 2012 and has been funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).

ResearchDataGov.org is a product of the federal statistical agencies and units, created in response to the Foundations of Evidence-based Policymaking Act of 2018. The site is the single portal for discovery of restricted data in the federal statistical system. The agencies have provided detailed descriptions of each data asset. Users can search for data by topic, agency, and keywords. Questions related to the data should be directed to the owning agency, using the contact information on the page that describes the data.

In 2008, the lab changed its name from the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center to SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory since it underwent a shift from particle physics to a broader, multi-program laboratory with research on X-ray science, chemistry, materials sciences, astrophysics and many others.

Hear the latest news, meet the people behind the science, and get the background information you need to gain fluency in the language of particle physics. Symmetry is a joint publication of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. Symmetry receives funding through the US Department of Energy.

WorldWideScience.org is a global science gateway—accelerating scientific discovery and progress through a multilateral partnership to enable federated searching of national and international scientific databases and portals.WorldWideScience.org is maintained by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Scientific and Technical Information, in partnership with the International Council for Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI).

AISES is a national nonprofit organization focused on substantially increasing the representation of Indigenous peoples of North America and the Pacific Islands in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) studies and careers.

AAS is the largest and most notable organization for professional astronomers in North America, and includes physicists, mathematicians, geologists, and other scientists interested in space sciences. The organization supports conferences, publishes journals, and provides educational opportunities to its members.

The mission of the AIP is to serve physics, astronomy, and related fields of science and technology by serving its Member Societies and their associates, individual scientists, educators, R&D leaders, and the general public with programs, services and publications.

APS is a not-for-profit membership organization of professionals in physics and related disciplines. Its stated mission is the advancement and diffusion of knowledge of physics. The society publishes more than a dozen scientific journals, including the prestigious Physical Review and Physical Review Letters, and organizes more than twenty science meetings each year. APS is a member society of the American Institute of Physics.

The mission of the National Society of Black Physicists is to promote the professional well-being of Black physicists and physics students within the international scientific community and within society at large. The society also seeks to raise the general knowledge and appreciation of physics in the Black community.

NSHP works to promote and support Hispanic and Latino physicists in the profession, and to encourage young people to join the profession. The organization provides a forum for the community and an opportunity to engage with the wider profession on issues of concern.

SASE is dedicated to the advancement of Asian heritage scientists and engineers in education and employment so that they can achieve their full career potential. In addition to professional development, SASE also encourages members to contribute to the enhancement of the communities in which they live.

An organization of the American Institute of Physics, SPS is specifically for undergraduate and graduate students of physics, and offers numerous programs, resources, and even awards for its members.