Guide to Information Sources in the Physical Sciences (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781563087516)

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

Author: David Stern
ISBN-10: 1563087510
ISBN-13: 9781563087516
Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
Language: English
Published: 06/15/2000
Pages: 227
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.21lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.41w x 0.86d

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Scitech Book News 09/01/2000 pg. 37
Choice 12/01/2000 pg. 686
Booklist 12/01/2000 pg. 750
American Reference Bks Annual 01/01/2001 pg. 699
Rec Ref Bks for Small/Med Libr 01/01/2001 pg. 247