
Guide to Information Sources in the Physical Sciences
David Stern(Author)
Libraries Unlimited Inc (Publisher)
Published on 15. June 2000
Book
Hardback
227 pages
978-1-56308-751-6 (ISBN)
Description
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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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
549 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-56308-751-6 (9781563087516)
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DAVID STERN is Director of Science Libraries and Information Services at Yale University. He has worked as a general librarian, medical librarian, science librarian, administrator, and consultant, and he is widely published in the area of science librarianship.