Free and Open Access Links: Physics

Information about physics specific online resources that are open access so available to all researchers and physics specific online resources that are freely available to researchers in developing and emerging countries.

ArXiv
Ground-breaking pre-print server in selected physics, computer science, maths and neuroscience disciplines. Contains over 500,000 articles submitted by members of the user community. Free access to all papers to all users.

CERN
Over 650,000 bibliographic records, including 320,000 fulltext documents, of interest to people working in particle physics and related areas. Covers preprints, articles, books, journals, photographs, and much more. There are separate portals available in French, Portuguese  and Spanish.

eJournals Delivery Service
The electronic Journals Delivery Service (eJDS) offers access to current scientific literature free of cost in the fields of Physics and Mathematics. Articles can be sent by email to scientists in institutions in the least developed or low income countries, who do not have access to sufficient bandwidth to download material from the Internet. An institution needs to apply by sending an application form and when approved, the institutional contact will be informed by e-mail how to proceed.

NASA Astrophysics Data System
The Astrophysics Data System (ADS) is a NASA-funded project that provides free access to over 300,000 free full-text articles in astronomy and astrophysics. Most of the major astronomical journals are included. In many cases articles published in the current year are not available through ADS. Articles are available in PDF, GIF, or other electronic formats.

PhysMath Central
See entry on the Mathematics & Statistics page.