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E-prints on Web Sites

Coverage: provided by each unique Web site crawled (over 300,000 PDF documents)
Description: The E-prints on Webs Sites collection contains electronic scientific and technical information created by scientists and research engineers active in their respective fields. This collection is intended for use by other scientists, engineers, and students at advanced levels in basic and applied sciences. Subject categories are Biology and Medicine; Biotechnology; Chemistry; Computer Technologies and Information Sciences; Energy Storage, Conversion and Utilization; Engineering; Environmental Management and Restoration Technologies; Environmental Sciences and Ecology; Fission and Nuclear Technologies; Fossil Fuels; Geosciences; Materials Science; Mathematics; Physics; Plasma Physics and Fusion; Power Transmission, Distribution and Plants; and Renewable Energy.
Access: Browsable by subject area via the Subject Pathways; Searchable by subject and full text. Date searching is ignored.
Source: Various sources that have met the criteria for inclusion in the E-print Network

Databases

arXiv

ArXiv is an e-print service in the fields of physics, mathematics, non-linear science, computer science, and quantitative biology. Originally began by Paul Ginsparg at DOE's Los Alamos National Laboratory, arXiv is owned, operated and funded by Cornell University, a private not-for-profit educational institution. ArXiv is also partially funded by the National Science Foundation.

Physics

Astrophysics e-Print Archive *

Coverage: 1992 to present (over 53,000 documents)
Description: This e-print archive contains documents relating to astrophysics from April 1992 forward.
Access: Browsable by year; Searchable by year, author, title, and abstract
Source: ArXiv is owned, operated and funded by Cornell University, a private not-for-profit educational institution, and also partially funded by the National Science Foundation

CERN Document Server

Coverage: 1979 to present (over 630,000 records with 250,000 full text documents)
Description: The CERN Document Server provides a searchable Web interface to a database of preprints, photographs, books, reports and other types of documents kept by the CERN Library and various CERN Divisions and Experiments. As of May 2002, the database contained more than 550,000 total bibliographic records with more than 220,000 total full text documents. Over 260,000 preprints and over 150,000 published articles are available through the site. These documents are of interest to people working in particle physics and related areas.
Access: Browsable by collection; Searchable by collection, title, author, report number, and year
Source: CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research located in Geneva, Switzerland

Condensed Matter e-Print Archive *

Coverage: 1992 to present (over 54,000 documents)
Description: This e-print archive contains documents relating to condensed matter from April 1992 forward. This archive contains these subject classes: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks, Materials Science, Mesoscopic Systems and Quantum Hall Effect, Soft Condensed Matter, Statistical Mechanics, Strongly Correlated Electrons, and Superconductivity.
Access: Browsable by year and subject; Searchable by year, author, title, and abstract
Source: ArXiv is owned, operated and funded by Cornell University, a private not-for-profit educational institution, and also partially funded by the National Science Foundation

Cornell Nuclear Studies (CLEO) Preprints

Coverage: 1986 to present (over 300 documents)
Description: The CLEO collaboration is a team of over 150 high energy physicists from 25 universities studying the production and decay of beauty and charm quarks and tau leptons produced in the Cornell Electron Storage Ring. The CLEO Preprints collection is composed of preprints and contributed papers.
Access: Browsable by year; Searchable by author, title, and full text.
Source: F.R. Newman Laboratory for Elementary-Particle Physics (LEPP), a research laboratory of the Cornell University Department of Physics.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology e-Print Archive *

Coverage: 1992 to present (over 17,000 documents)
Description: This is a fully automated e-print archive for general relativity and quantum cosmology preprints starting from July 20, 1992.
Access: Browsable by year; Searchable by year, author, title, and abstract
Source: ArXiv is owned, operated and funded by Cornell University, a private not-for-profit educational institution, and also partially funded by the National Science Foundation

High Energy Physics (HEP) - Experiment e-Print Archive *

Coverage: 1994 to present (over 7,000 documents)
Description: This is a fully automated e-print archive for preprints in high energy experimental physics starting from April 15, 1994.
Access: Browsable by year; Searchable by year, author, title, and abstract
Source: ArXiv is owned, operated and funded by Cornell University, a private not-for-profit educational institution, and also partially funded by the National Science Foundation

High Energy Physics (HEP) - Lattice e-Print Archive *

Coverage: 1991 to present (over 8,000 documents)
Description: This is a fully automated archive for lattice field theory papers starting from December 1, 1991. The archive is for topics of research covered at the Lattice conferences: Lattice QCD (numerical and analytical), particle spectrum, finite temperature QCD, Weak interaction physics, QED, algorithms, spin systems, random surfaces/quantum gravity, special purpose computers, comparison with experiments, and other analytical developments.
Access: Browsable by year; Searchable by year, author, title, and abstract
Source: ArXiv is owned, operated and funded by Cornell University, a private not-for-profit educational institution, and also partially funded by the National Science Foundation

High Energy Physics (HEP) - Phenomenology e-Print Archive *

Coverage: 1992 to present (over 46,000 documents)
Description: This is a fully automated e-print archive for particle phenomenology preprints starting from March 7, 1992.
Access: Browsable by year; Searchable by year, author, title, and abstract
Source: ArXiv is owned, operated and funded by Cornell University, a private not-for-profit educational institution, and also partially funded by the National Science Foundation

High Energy Physics (HEP) - Theory e-Print Archive *

Coverage: 1991 to present (over 42,000 documents)
Description: This is a fully automated e-print archive for the high energy physics community.
Access: Browsable by year; Searchable by year, author, title, and abstract
Source: ArXiv is owned, operated and funded by Cornell University, a private not-for-profit educational institution, and also partially funded by the National Science Foundation

European Fusion Department Agreement - Joint European Torus (JET) Joint Undertaking

Coverage: 1993 to present
Description: Preprints, conference papers, and other reports of EFDA-JET.
Access: Searchable fields include title, author, keywords, reference number, year, abstract, and PDF text.
Source: JET Joint Undertaking was established in June 1978 to construct and operate the Joint European Torus, a European fusion research project in Oxfordshire, England. The European Fusion Development Agreement, which runs from 1999 until at least the end of 2004 and which could be extended, currently governs the torus' use and provides a framework for implementing European fusion research, and development, and design work.

KEK Information Service System (KISS)

Coverage: Search KEK publications and other preprints as stored in KEK library from 1972 (preprints may have been published as early as 1960).
Description: The server provides a convenient forum for exchange of research progress achieved at the KEK High Energy Accelerator Research Organization. Documents are made available in various formats including scanned. Some documents are available only in Japanese.
Access: Searchable by report number, title, author, institutional source, and year.
Source: KEK (Japanese National Laboratory for High Energy Physics) was founded in 1955 as a national institute for nuclear study. The organization seeks to promote research on particle and nuclear physics and material science using advanced accelerators and related facilities.

Mathematical Physics e-Print Archive *

Coverage: 1995 to present
Description: This is a fully automated e-print archive for the mathematical physics research community.
Access: Browsable by year; Searchable by year, author, title, and abstract
Source: ArXiv is owned, operated and funded by Cornell University, a private not-for-profit educational institution, and also partially funded by the National Science Foundation

Nuclear Experiment e-Print Archive *

Coverage: 1994 to present
Description: This is a fully automated e-print archive for the nuclear experiment community.
Access: Browsable by year; Searchable by year, author, title, and abstract
Source: ArXiv is owned, operated and funded by Cornell University, a private not-for-profit educational institution, and also partially funded by the National Science Foundation

Nuclear Theory e-Print Archive *

Coverage: 1992 to present
Description: This is a fully automated e-print archive for the nuclear theory community.
Access: Browsable by year; Searchable by year, author, title, and abstract
Source: ArXiv is owned, operated and funded by Cornell University, a private not-for-profit educational institution, and also partially funded by the National Science Foundation

Physics e-Print Archive *

Coverage: 1994 to present
Description: This is a fully automated e-print archive for several physics topics not covered elsewhere at http://www.arXiv.org/. Current subjects include Accelerator Physics; Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics; Atomic Physics; Atomic and Molecular Clusters; Biological Physics; Chemical Physics; Classical Physics; Computational Physics; Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability; Fluid Dynamics; General Physics; Geophysics; History of Physics; Instrumentation and Detectors; Medical Physics; Optics; Physics Education; Physics and Society; Plasma Physics; Popular Physics; and Space Physics.
Access: Browsable by year; Searchable by year, author, title, and abstract
Source: ArXiv is owned, operated and funded by Cornell University, a private not-for-profit educational institution, and also partially funded by the National Science Foundation

Quantum Physics e-Print Archive*

Coverage: 1994 to present
Description: This is a fully automated e-print archive for quantum physics community.
Access: Browsable by year; Searchable by year, author, title, and abstract
Source: ArXiv is owned, operated and funded by Cornell University, a private not-for-profit educational institution, and also partially funded by the National Science Foundation

Coverage: 1974 to present (over 500,000 entries which may be bibliographic records or full text)
Description: High energy physics related articles, including journal papers, preprints, e-prints, technical reports, conference papers and theses.
Access: Searchable fields include author, title, date, report number, citation, and keyword.
Source: Produced by the Stanford Linear Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC) Library, the SPIRES-HEP database allows the user to search more than 500,000 high energy physics related articles, including journal papers, preprints, e-prints, technical reports, conference papers and theses, comprehensively indexed by the SLAC and DESY libraries since 1974. Included, where available, are links to full text of the articles whether in the ArXiv databases or as technical reports.

University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) Department of Physics

Coverage: 1995 to present (over 300 documents)
Description: Published and unpublished papers in astrophysics, atmospheric physics, condensed matter physics, plasma physics, and theoretical physics.
Access: Searchable fields include author, title, and year of publication/submission.
Source: Department of Physics at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) in Manchester, UK.

Biology

Quantitative Biology e-Print Archive *

Coverage: 1992 to present (over 2,000 documents)
Description: The quantitative biology archive was introduced September 15, 2003 to serve researchers in mathematics, computer science, the physical sciences, and biology who are contributing toward making biology a quantitative science. Current subjects include Biomolecules; Cell Behavior; Genomics; Molecular Networks; Neurons and Cognition; Other; Populations and Evolution; Quantitative Methods; Subcellular Processes; and Tissues and Organs.
Access: Browsable by year and subject; Searchable by year, author, title, and abstract
Source: ArXiv.org is owned, operated and funded by Cornell University, a private not-for-profit educational institution, and also partially funded by the National Science Foundation

Computer Technologies & Information Sciences

The Computing Research Repository (CoRR) *

Coverage: 1993 to present (over 2,900 documents)
Description: The Computing Research Repository (CoRR) provides access to e-prints in areas including Architecture; Artificial Intelligence; Computation and Language; Computational Complexity; Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science; Computational Geometry; Computer Science and Game Theory; Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition; Computers and Society; Cryptography and Security; Data Structures and Algorithms; Databases; Digital Libraries; Discrete Mathematics; Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing; General Literature; Graphics; Human Computer Interaction; Information Retrieval; Learning; Logic in Computer Science; Mathematical Software; Multiagent Systems; Multimedia; Networking and Internet Architecture; Neural and Evolutionary Computing; Numerical Analysis; Operating Systems; Other; Performance; Programming Languages; Robotics; Software Engineering; Sound; and Symbolic Computation.
Access: Browsable by year and subject; Searchable by year, author, title, and abstract
Source: Sponsored by ACM, the arXiv.org e-Print archive, NCSTRL (Networked Computer Science Technical Reference Library), and AAAI; ArXiv is owned, operated and funded by Cornell University, a private not-for-profit educational institution, and also partially funded by the National Science Foundation

NECI ResearchIndex (formerly CiteSeer)

Coverage: 1990 to present (over 550,000 documents)
Description: ResearchIndex is a scientific literature digital library that aims to improve the dissemination and feedback of scientific literature, and to provide improvements in functionality, usability, availability, cost, comprehensiveness, efficiency, and timeliness. ResearchIndex provides algorithms, techniques, and software that can be used in other digital libraries. ResearchIndex indexes Postscript and PDF research articles on the Web. Its directory of subjects includes Agents, Applications, Architecture, Artificial Intelligence, Compression, Databases, Hardware, Human Computer Interaction, Information Retrieval, Machine Learning, Networking, Operating Systems, Programming, Security, Software Engineering, Theory, and World Wide Web.
Access: Browsable by subject, most accessed, and most cited; Searchable by document and citation
Source: NEC Research Institute in Princeton, NJ

Mathematics

CECM Preprints

Coverage: 1993 to present (over 100 documents)
Description: The CECM Preprint Catalog acts as a reference and access point for the preprints of the CECM community. The CECM is actively involved in many forms of publication, including as authors and editors of book series and journals, on-line proceedings, digital journals, preprints and articles, and leading edge interactive books. Research areas include Technology, Symbolic Computation, Complexity Issues And Computational Phenomena, Numerical Computation, Computational Classical Analysis, Computational Modern and Applied Analysis, Computational Number Theory, Scientific Computation, Advanced Collaborative Network Technologies, Digital Information Projects and Services, Visualization of Mathematics, and Philosophy of Visualization and Experimental Mathematics.
Access: Browsable by year; Searchable by keyword
Source: Centre for Experimental & Constructive Mathematics in the Department of Mathematics at Simon Fraser University located at SFU's Burnaby Campus in British Columbia, Canada

Chalmers University of Technology and Göteborg University, Archive of PrePrints

Coverage: 1996 to present (over 500 documents)
Description: This is a searchable collection of preprints authored by the faculty and students of the Göteborg University. Research information is available for Algebra (including algebraic geometry and number theory); Bio Mathematics; Combinatorics; Complex Analysis; Computational Partial Differential Equations; Harmonic Analysis and Partial Differential Equations; Optimization; Numerical Analysis; Kinetic Theory; Geometry and Analysis; and Wavelets.
Access: Browsable by year, doctoral dissertations, and licentiate papers; Searchable by title, author, preprint number, and year
Source: Department of Mathematics in Chambers University of Technology and Göteborg University located in Göteborg, Sweden

Hopf Algebraic Topology Archive

Coverage: 1993 to present (over 900 documents)
Description: The Hopf Algebraic Topology Archive is a preprint server for papers in algebraic topology intended for the direct personal academic use of the mathematical community. The site is maintained by Clarence Wilkerson. Downloads are accessible by both anonymous FTP and HTTP. The DVI files were contributed directly by the authors. The Purdue Department of Mathematics consists of professors who are actively involved in the latest developments of every major area of mathematics.
Access: Browsable by month and year; Searchable by author and title
Source: Mathematics Department at Purdue University in West Layfayette, IN

K-theory Preprint Archives

Coverage: 1993 to present (over 600 documents)
Description: This is a searchable collection of preprints submitted by the authors. K-theory is a branch of mathematics, which brings together ideas from algebraic geometry, linear algebra, and number theory. In general, there are two main types of K-theory: topological and algebraic. The collection is maintained by Daniel R. Grayson and Rick Jardine.
Access: Browsable by preprint number; Searchable by bibliography
Source: Department of Mathematics at the University of Illinois in Urbana, IL

Mathematics e-Print Archive *

Coverage: 1992 to present (over 32,000 documents)
Description: The math archive was introduced on December 1, 1997 with the purpose of facilitating growth to areas of mathematics not covered by the current archive structure. Authors must include a subject class header. Current subjects include Algebraic Geometry; Algebraic Topology; Analysis of PDEs; Category Theory; Classical Analysis and ODEs; Combinatorics; Commutative Algebra; Complex Variables; Differential Geometry; Dynamical Systems; Functional Analysis; General Mathematics; General Topology; Geometric Topology; Group Theory; History and Overview; K-Theory and Homology; Logic; Mathematical Physics; Metric Geometry; Number Theory; Numerical Analysis; Operator Algebras; Optimization and Control; Probability Theory; Quantum Algebra; Representation Theory; Rings and Algebras; Spectral Theory; and Symplectic Geometry.
Access: Browsable by year and subject; Searchable by year, author, title, and abstract
Source: ArXiv is owned, operated and funded by Cornell University, a private not-for-profit educational institution, and also partially funded by the National Science Foundation

Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences Preprints

Coverage: 1997 to present (over 1000 documents)
Description: This preprint server makes the preprints of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences available. The Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, founded in 1995, is concerned with mathematical challenges, which arise through theoretical questions in the natural sciences. The institute does research in Algebraic geometry and number theory, Arithmetic algebraic geometry, Automorphic forms, Algebraic groups and arithmetic subgroups, Representation theory, Singularities, Complex analysis, Algebraic topology, Differential topology, Differential geometry, and Mathematical physics. The MPI preprint series consists of papers written while at the Max Planck Institute.
Access: Browsable at http://www.mis.mpg.de/preprints/ by year, author, and keyword; Searchable at http://www.mpim-bonn.mpg.de/html/preprints/preprints.html by author, title, number, and year
Source: Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences located in Leipzig, Germany

Sonderforschungsbereich 288 (SFB 288) Differential Geometry and Quantum Physics

Coverage: 1992 to present (over 600 records with some full text)
Description: The Sfb 288 is a special research project funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, which is the central public funding organization for academic research in Germany. Its emphasis lies in promoting close cooperation between mathematicians and physicists, working on common problems in the fields of differential geometry and quantum physics. The Sfb is spread over 4 institutes of higher education located in Berlin, the Technische Universität Berlin being the speaker institution. The research at the Sfb falls within 5 main areas of interest including Differential Geometry and Classical Mechanics, Elliptical Operators in Geometry and Physics, Discretization in Geometry and Physics, Analysis of Quantum Mechanical Systems, and Geometry and Algebraic Quantum Field Theory.
Access: Browsable by number; Searchable at by author, title, number, and abstract
Source: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft which is the central public funding organization for academic research in Germany located in Berlin

Nonlinear Sciences e-Print Archive *

Coverage: 1991 to present
Description: This is a fully automated e-print archive for the nonlinear science community.
Access: Browsable by year; Searchable by year, author, title, and abstract
Source: ArXiv is owned, operated and funded by Cornell University, a private not-for-profit educational institution, and also partially funded by the National Science Foundation

* Indicates that this site is a part of http://www.arXiv.org/. This is a fully automated electronic archive and distribution server for research papers. Covered areas include Physics and Related Disciplines, Mathematics, Nonlinear Science and Computational Science. The archive is updated every weekday and is considered to be the first and the largest electronic preprint archive, housing over 200,000 papers and mirrored in 15 countries. All search options on the E-print Network are operational including the ability to search on author, title, full record, and data fields. You may search several preprint archives in parallel via the E-print Network.

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