Physics
Course in Information Retrieval
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Physics Course in Information Retrieval |
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CD-ROM
(Compact Disc - Read Only Memory)
It is one of the most modern carrier of information, enabling you to read text data, reproduce sound, picture and animations. Great disk capacity and durability of stored information make the CD-ROMs very useful for data archivization, documents creating and distribution of publications. The following information sources are stored on CD: encyclopaedias, dictionaries, bibliographies, books and periodicals.
Below we present CD-ROM data bases, which can be useful when searching for information within physics and astronomy. We give basic information about databases and instructions for users.
*** INSPEC - the leading English-language bibliographic information service providing access to the world’s scientific and technical literature in physics, electrical engineering, electronics, communications, control engineering, computers and computing, and information technology.
**KOSMOS - multimedia data base containing knowledge about the Universe in various forms: texts, films, animators, photographs, maps of the sky.
**SOURCES OF ENERGY - multimedia data base in English containing information in the form of texts, animated pictures, photographs and films about energy sources, theories of their origins, methods and places of their exploitations.
*ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF SCIENCE - multimedia encyclopaedia comprising entries from such fields of science like physics, chemistry and mathematics.
*THE NEW GROLIER MULTIMEDIA ENCYCLOPAEDIA - multimedia encyclopaedia comprising the entries from "Grolier’s Academic American Encyclopaedia".
* MULTIMEDIA ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF THE UNIVERSE - contains knowledge about the Universe, photographs of the sky, films, animations, three-dimensional models of starships, archival recordings and handbooks for observators.
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