Other Plasma Physics Resources

  • Department of Energy, Office of Scientific & Technical Information The DOE Office of Scientific & Technical Information (OSTI) offers a variety databases and scientific technical information research tools. Below is a list of a few of the tools available at the website or to the DOE community.

    • DOE Science Research Connection The DOE Science Research Connection (SRC) is limited to the DOE community and replaces the limited access Energy Citations Database (ECD). Offering over four million bibliographic records, SRC includes all of the information formerly found in the DOE restricted versions of the Energy Citations Database and Information Bridge, as well as other information restricted to the DOE community. In addition to combining databases, SRC offers enhanced search capability, result manipulation, and alert services

      This database is restricted to DOE employees and contractors and is available at the PPPL facilities only. Users are encouraged by the DOE to create a log in for further access to restricted information.

    • DOE Science Accelerator Allows simultaneous searching in ten different DOE databases including: Information Bridge, E-print Network, Science Conference Proceedings, DOE R&D Accomplishments, DOEpatents, Energy Citations Database, DOE R&D Project Summaries, Federal R&D Project Summaries, Energy Science and Technology Software Center, and EnergyFiles.

    • DOE databases can also be searched individually. Links to some relevant databases are provided below.

    • DOE Energy Citations Database The Energy Citations Database (ECD) provides free access to over 2.3 million science research citations with continued growth through regular updates. There are over 209,000 electronic documents, primarily from 1943 forward, available via the database. Citations and documents are made publicly available by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).

    • DOE Energy Files The DOE Energy Files, also known as the Energy Science and Technology Virtual Library, searches over 500 science and technology databases and Web sites with an emphasis on the physical sciences.

    • DOE Energy Science and Technology Software Center (ESTSC) Serves as a repository for and the source from which to purchase software funded by DOE. The center's inventory is contained in a searchable database to help locate software of interest.

    • DOE Information Bridge Currently, the Information Bridge has a growing collection of over 65,800 full-text documents produced and made available by Department of Energy National Laboratories and grantees from 1995 forward.

    • DOE OpenNet Contains recently declassified full-text documents about early nuclear weapon testing, human radiation experiments, and health and environmental safety issues.

    • DOE R&D Project Summaries Internet Web site contains current information on over 14,000 Department of Energy R&D projects currently ongoing within the DOE from 1995 forward.

  • NDS Atomic and Molecular Data Unit operates within the Nuclear Data Section of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, Austria. "The primary objective of the Atomic and Molecular Data Unit is to establish and maintain internationally recommended numerical databases on atomic and molecular collision and radiative processes, atomic and molecular structure characteristics, particle-solid surface interaction processes and physico-chemical and thermo-mechanical material properties for use in fusion energy research and other plasma science and technology applications."

  • NRL Plasma Formulary NRL/PU/6790-94-265 (2009 edition) The NRL (Naval Reserach Laboratory) Plasma Formulary has been the mini-Bible of plasma physicists for the past 25 years. It is an eclectic compilation of mathematical and scientific formulas, and contains physical parameters pertinent to a variety of plasma regimes, ranging from laboratory devices to astrophysical objects. The formulary and its components are available in Postscript, PDF, and print formats.

  • TOP CITED HIGH-ENERGY PHYSICS (HEP) ARTICLES In academic research, the number of citations of an article can provide a useful measure of the impact of that piece of work. For better or worse, this is often used in evaluating an individual's contribution to the field. The SPIRES database run by a collection of HEP institutions and managed by the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) and the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) has been recording the citations of high energy physics articles since the early seventies, and now contains the citation information on hundred of thousands of papers.