Physics Resources in support to Research and Innovation

This post focus is on Physics resources:

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AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY (APS) JOURNALS
INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS (IOP)

1. Physics: Spotlighting Exceptional Research (APS) NEW!!!!

Physicists are drowning in a flood of research papers in their own fields and coping with an even larger deluge in other areas of physics. The Physical Review journals alone published over 18,000 papers last year. How can an active researcher stay informed about the most important developments in physics?
Physics highlights exceptional papers from the Physical Review journals. To accomplish this, Physics features expert commentaries written by active researchers who are asked to explain the results to physicists in other subfields. These commissioned articles are edited for clarity and readability across fields and are accompanied by explanatory illustrations.

Physics features three kinds of articles:

* Viewpoints are essays of approximately 1000–1500 words that focus on a single Physical Review paper or PRL letter and put this work into broader context.

* Trends are concise review articles (3000–4000 words in length) that survey a particular area and look for interesting developments in that field.

* Synopses (200 words) are staff-written distillations of interesting and important papers each week.

In addition, APS intend to publish selected Letters to the Editor to allow readers a chance to comment on the commentaries and summaries.

Physics provides a much-needed guide to the best in physics, and we welcome your comments (physics@aps.org).

2. Focus Physical Review (APS): Selections from “Physical Review” and “Physical Review Letters” explained to students and researchers in all fields of Physics

3. Physics Central (APS): We invite you to visit our site every week to find out how physics is part of your world. We'll answer your questions on how things work and keep you informed with daily updates on physics in the news.

4. Virtual Journals in Science & Technology
* Virtual Journal of Applications of Superconductivity
The Virtual Journal of Applications of Superconductivity (VJAS) is a semi-monthly virtual journal presenting articles that have appeared in one of the participating broad-based source journals not specializing in superconductivity. Those interested in following applications of superconductivity should regularly go to the tables of contents of specialized superconductivity journals, which contain most of the published papers on applications of superconductivity.
* Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research
This semi-monthly virtual journal contains articles that have appeared in one of the participating source journals and that fall within a number of contemporary topical areas in biological physics research. Links to other useful Web resources on biological physics are also provided.
* Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology
This weekly virtual journal contains articles that have appeared in one of the participating source journals and that fall within a number of contemporary topical areas in the science and technology of nanometer-scale structures. Links to other useful Web resources on nanoscale systems are also provided.
* Virtual Journal of Quantum Information
This monthly virtual journal contains articles that have appeared in one of the participating source journals and that fall within a number of contemporary topical areas in quantum information, including quantum computing, cryptography, error correction, and theoretical and experimental investigations of entanglement.
* Virtual Journal of Ultrafast Science
This monthly virtual journal contains articles that have appeared in one of the participating source journals and that fall within a number of contemporary topical areas as they pertain to ultrafast phenomena. Links to other useful Web resources on ultrafast phenomena are also provided.

5. An Open Access Encyclopedia for Photonics and Laser Technology (access is available through UJ Library Catalogue)

This comprehensive open-access encyclopedia, explains the physical principles and common techniques in laser technology, while also covering major areas of fiber-optic technology and nonlinear optics, and addressing supplementary topics like ultrashort pulses, optical communications, general optics, optoelectronics, and quantum optics. Many references to selected scientific articles and textbooks aid further studies.