Guide to Information Sources in the Physical Sciences

The explosion of information throughout the World Wide Web makes one somewhat perplexed that there is still demand for hard‐copy bibliographic sources such as this one. The author is also well aware of this and has responded by devoting extensive parts of the book to online resources in physics: newsgroups, gateways, discussion lists,e‐prints, one‐stop shopping, smart agents. Producing this information in book form must surely be analogous to the artisan stripping down a Formula One racing car to use the wheels to construct a chariot. Alternatively, it may be testimony to the enduring nature of information sources in book form....