Evaluating Websites
Remember to always evaluate a website before using it for research purposes.
Some criteria for evaluating websites include:
- Accuracy
- Authority
- Coverage
- Currency
- Objectivity
- Purpose
- Support
If you are unsure about the reliability of a website you can always ask a librarian or your professor to render an opinion about a specific website or other resource as well.
Google Web Search
Physics Portals
Below are links to lists of web pages that provide resources for conducting research on Physics topics. Email the librarian listed to your right if you have suggestions for additions, or discover a dead link.
- Einstein Archives Online"The Einstein Archives Online Website provides the first online access to Albert Einstein’s scientific and non-scientific manuscripts held by the Albert Einstein Archives at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, constituting the material record of one of the most influential intellects in the modern era. It also enables access to the Einstein Archive Database, a comprehensive source of information on all items in the Albert Einstein Archives. "
- Energy Explained (US Energy Information Administration)"The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) collects, analyzes, and disseminates independent and impartial energy information to promote sound policymaking, efficient markets, and public understanding of energy and its interaction with the economy and the environment."
- Eric Weisstein's World of Physics"Eric Weisstein's World of Science contains budding encyclopedias of astronomy, scientific biography, chemistry, and physics."
- Physics Central : Learn How your World WorksResources for Physics provided by the American Physical Society
- physicsworld.com"...news, views and information for the global physics community from IOP Publishing"
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Baldwin Wallace University
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Berea, OH 44017-2027
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