Physics Today's Web Watch
February 98
http://physicsweb.org/
PhysicsWeb was launched in
December 1997 by the UK's Institute
of Physics. At present it offers ten services, including weekly news;
book reviews; job, conference and product listings; PEERS, the Physics
Encyclopaedia of E-mail Records (a searchable directory of physicists'
e-mail addresses); links to resources on the Web such as patents sites
and software archives; and a WebWatch section
(hmmm . . . ). Access
is unrestricted until April. After that, some features will be limited
to members of IOP, subscribers to Physics World and
individual
subscribers to PhysicsWeb itself.
http://www.aip.org/
American Institute of Physics. Lest
auld acquaintance be forgot,
the recently redesigned AIP Web site also carries job and conference
listings; physics news (including an archive of every Physics
News
Update back to issue number 1 in 1990); Science
Report Radio (two-minute
reports that may be listened to with RealAudio or viewed in text);
bulletins and newsletters on science
policy, physics education and
the history of physics; education statistics; on-line publications;
and much more. A lot of the site is
freely available, but some areas
require a subscription.
http://physics.umd.edu/rgroups/ripe/money/
Physicists on the
Money. This page displays 17 physicists on
banknotes that range in face value from 1 pound for an Isaac Newton
to 5 million dinars for a Nikolai Tesla. You have to wonder about
the exchange rates.
http://www.nsf.gov/home/cns/start.htm
Custom News is a
new service from the National Science Foundation.
After
signing up, you can set a profile that will customize a Web page to
display NSF news releases, bulletins and reports in the categories
of interest to you. You can also have e-mail sent to you either automatically
whenever a new item matches your profile or weekly in the form of
a summary of new documents.
