General
A good (online) bookshop is http://www.amazon.com/ (Germany: http://www.amazon.de/).
Their service is excellent. Other advantages are that people can give reviews of the books - and they have a lot. And meanwhile it is possible to have a look into many of the books.
Courses, material from professors and experts, ...
Several experts, professors etc... offer material in the world wide web.
The MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) offer their courses free: http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm
Articles
The most important place for exchanging articles in physics is the server http://arxiv.org/.
For astrophysical information and more try the search engine: http://esoads.eso.org/abstract_service.html.
Another very interesting collection is offered by the German “Max-Planck-Institut”: http://www.livingreviews.org/
| Magazine | Description | Link |
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| American Physial Society | The APS publishes various, famuos journals, like the “Review Letters”. | APS Home : http://www.aps.org/ |
| The American Institute of Physics | The AIP publishes several journals, and of course as well do all its member societies. |
AIP Home : http://www.aip.org/ physicstoday : http://www.physicstoday.org/ |
| The American Association for the Advancement of Science |
“Triple A-S” is an international non-profit organization; loacated in Washington, founded 1884. AAAS is the publisher of the famous journal “Science”. |
AAAS Home : http://www.aaas.org/ Science: http://www.sciencemag.org/ |
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Scientific American Spektrum der Wissenschaft (in Germany) |
Famous, popular scientific journal. Authors are mostly researchers. |
Scientific American : http://www.sciam.com/ Spektrum der Wissenschaft : http://www.spektrum.de/ |
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Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (German Physical Society) |
The DPG publishes several journals (e.g. the “Physik-Journal”). |
http://www.physik-journal.de/ http://www.iop.org/EJ/journal/NJP |
| Facility | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|
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NSF National Science Foundation |
Federal agency, founded by the USA congress. USA, Arlington, 1950. |
NSF Home : http://www.nsf.gov/ |
And of course for information you can also check Wikipedia .