Physics and Nanotechnology - Subject Guide

The Internet provides a vast range of resources in the physical and energy sciences. Listed below are some examples of sites which have useful information that would be relevant to the different topics studied in this area. It is by no means an exhaustive list of the available resources.

• Australian Astronomical Observatory (AAO) - includes astronomical images and links to other sites
• Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)
• SciTech Connect - provides free and convenient access to full-text and bibliographic records of Department of Energy (DOE) research and development reports
• physicsworld.com - includes useful links to many other sites including institutes around the world, conference lists, job announcements, book reviews etc.
• The SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System - The Astrophysics Data System (ADS) is a NASA-funded project whose main resource is an Abstract Service, which includes four sets of abstracts: 1) astronomy and astrophysics 2) instrumentation 3) physics and geophysics and 4) Los Alamos preprint server
• Particle Data Group (PDG) - an international collaboration that reviews Particle Physics and related areas of Astrophysics, and compiles/analyses data on particle properties
• Physical Reference Data- a series of databases from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Physics Laboratory: includes Physical Constants
• Physics e-Prints - archive at the Cornell University Library
• PhysLink.com Physics and astronomy online education and reference - has a wide range of links, despite its "popular" appearance
• Scitation - provides current indexing and abstracting of major American physics journals
• SPIRES Help Database - includes high-energy physics related articles, including journal papers, preprints, e-prints, technical reports, conference papers and theses, received by the SLAC and/or DESY libraries since 1974
• Australian Nanotechnology Network (ANN)

Australian

• AusStats - Australian Bureau of Statistics
• Australian Government Statistics
• Australian Data Archive (ADA)
• Clib2001 - 2001 Census Community Profiles and Classification Counts
• The Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA)
• Monthly Statistical Bulletin (Parliamentary Library, Australia)
• State of the environment report : Western Australia 2007 Environmental Protection Authority

International

• A Dictionary of Statistics
• Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS - UNESCO) - a collection of sixteen science,technology and social sciences encyclopedias. To browse individual titles, from the search page select Table of Contents.
• EPA - Envirofacts Data Warehouse
• International Data Base (IDB)
• OECD iLibrary
• UNICEF Country Statistics
• United Nations - Environmental Statistics - Country Snapshots

Statistics in print

Australian

Australian Opinion Polls 1941-1990: an index

Checklist of Nineteenth Century Australian Colonial Statistical Sources : Censuses, Blue Books and Statistical Registers (Miller) (1983)

Historical Microfiche Series: Statistical Publications Since Federation 1901-1984 (ABS) (1994)

Historical Statistics of Australia: a Select List of Official Sources (Finlayson) (1970)

International Statistics

Statistical Yearbook (Unesco) 1974-

The Australian Government Documents Collection includes works published by Commonwealth and State Government departments, statutory authorities and parliamentary bodies.