Physics
Course in Information Retrieval

GENERAL SOURCES

Before starting searching for more detailed materials on given subject have a look into the general sources, specify your problems and view the results of researches to be sure that you will lead your futher searches in right direction.

On these pages you will find information about general sources available in the University Main Library and in the departmental libraries, which can be useful in searching for information concerning PHYSICS, ASTRONOMY and the SUN.

Encyclopaedias

Guide books

Physics Terminology Dictionaries

Bibliographies

Monographs

ENCYCLOPAEDIAS

Encyclopaedia is the most essential and general information source. Its name comes from the Greek "enkyklios paideia" which means general education. Encyclopaedia provides short definitions or factgraphic explanations (historical or current) on the subject of your interests. You have to remember that encyclopaedias are usually available in libraries only in reading rooms.

GENERAL ENCYCLOPAEDIAS
  1. *NOWA Powszechna Encyklopedia PWN, / pod red. Barbary Petrozolin-Skowrońskiej. Warszawa 1996 PWN, T. 1-5.

  2. *Wielka Encyklopedia Powszechna PWN, / pod red. Tadeusza Kotarbińskiego. Warszawa 1962, PWN, T. 1-13.

  3. *Nowy Leksykon PWN, / pod red. Barbary Petrozolin-Skowrońskiej. Warszawa 1998, PWN.

  4. **Encyclopaedia Britannica, London 1977, Blenton, T. 1-30.

  5. ***Brockhaus Enzyklopaedie, Mannheim 1995 Brockhaus. T. 1-30.

  6. ***Encyclopaedie Universalis, / ed. Mathias Muenter-Elfner. Paris 1994. T. 1-30.

All general encyclopaedias are located in the Main Reading Room of University Library.

SUBJECT ENCYCLOPAEDIAS
  1. *Aktualizacje encyklopedyczne: Suplement do Wielkiej Ilustrowanej Encyklopedii Powszechnej Wydawnictwa Gutenberga / red. Tadeusz Zgółka. T. 7, Fizyka-Chemia / pod red. Andrzeja Burewicza. Poznań, 1997.

    2. Location: the University Main Library. Call number: 722111.

  2. ***Encyclopedia of the Solar System / ed. Paul R.Weissman, Lucy-Ann McFadden, Torrence V. Johnson, New York 1999, Academic Press.
    Location: The Astronomical Centre Library in Piwnice. Call number: 16438.

  3. ***Le grand atlas de l’Astronomie: Encyclopaedia Universalis / pod red. Jean Claude Falque, Paris 1986.
    Location: The Astronomical Centre Library in Piwnice. Call number: 13999.

  4. **Encyklopedia fizyki współczesnej / pod red. Jacka Bańkowskiego, Warszawa 1972, PWN.
    Location: The Mathematical Reading Room. Call number: f-20.

  5. **Encyklopedia Astronomie / opr. Anton Hajduk i Jan Stohl, Bratislava 1987, Vydavatel’stvo Obzor.
    Location:. The Mathematical Reading Room Call number: a-70.

  6. **Encyklopedia fizyki współczesnej / pod red. Barbary Pierzchalskiej. Warszawa 1983, Wiedza Powszechna.
    7. Location: The Mathematical Reading Room. Call number: f-70.

  7. **Encyclopedia of Science / London 1994, Dorling Kindersley Multimedia. CD.
    Location: the Institute of Physics NCU.

  8. **Słownik fizyczny / J. Kuryłowicz, L. Jakubowski i in., Warszawa 1996 Wiedza Powszechna.
    Location: the University Main Library, Informatorium: A-161.

  9. **Encyclopaedic dictionary of physics, Oxford 1961, Pergamon Press. T. 1-8.
    Location: the Institute of Physics Library.NCU

See also: Systematic catalogue.

ENCYCLOPAEDIAS IN INTERNET

 

  1. ***WIEM - Wielka Internetowa Encyklopedia Multimedialna, Warszawa 1999, Wydawnictwo Fogra. The only Polish Internet encyclopaedia of free access. Above 65 thousands of entries , multimedia, current updating.
  2. ***Encyclopaedia Britannica, London 1999.

GUIDE BOOKS
  1. *Information Sources in Physics / ed. Dennis F. Shaw. London 1985, Butterworths.

    2. Location: Informatorium. Call number:: F-130.

  2. *Lusis Andy, Astronomy and astronautics: an enthusiast’s guide to books and periodicals. New York 1986, Facts on File Publications.
    Location: Informatorium. Call number:: F - 150

See also: Systematic catalogue.

Guide in Internet

DICTIONARIES OF TERMINOLOGY
PHYSICS - ASTRONOMY

They explain all terms on given branch of knowledge, they often shows also synonymous renderings and words related. They enable to organise knowledge, precise search subject or choose right keywords for further searching.
  1. **The Penguin dictionary of Physics, / ed. Valerie Illingworth, London 1991, Penguin Books, (Penguin Reference Books).
    Location: the University Main Library, Call number: 700607

  2. **SKIBICKI Wacław, Słownik terminów fizycznych. Polsko-angielsko-francusko-niemiecko-rosyjski. Warszawa 1961, PWN.
    Location: the Institute of Physics Library. Call number:: I.E.60, I.E.290; the University Main Library, Call number: f- 260.

  3. **DUKIEWICZ Zygfryd, FROISSART Ferdynand, ZIÓŁKOWSKI Witold, Słownik fizyczny, Gdańsk 1994, Tal.
    Location: the Institute of Physics Library.

  4. **Ilustrowany leksykon techniczny, / pod. red. Marii Gronkowskiej at all, Warszawa 1994, Wydawn. Naukowo-Techniczne.
    Location: Informatorium. Call number: A-190.

  5. **Illustrated Glossary for Solar and Solar-Terrestial Physics, / ed. A. Bruzek., C.J. Durrant, Boston 1977, D. Reidel Publishing Company.
    Location: the University Main Library, Call number: 027277.

  6. **Wszech¶wiat. Ilustrowane słowniki, Warszawa 1993, Arkady.

See also: Systematic catalogue.

BIBLIOGRAPHIES

***Przewodnik Bibliograficzny (PB), Urzędowy Wykaz Druków wydanych w Rzeczpospolitej Polskiej, Biblioteka Narodowa, Instytut Bibliograficzny, Warszawa, 1945 -.
The National Biliography comprices current descriptions of all publications published in Poland, which the National Library gets as the deposit copies. From 1985 available in electronic version on CD.
Location: Informatorium.
  1. ***Bibliografia Zawarto¶ci Czasopism (BZCZ) - Biblioteka Narodowa, Instytut Bibliograficzny, Warszawa 1947-.
    It records the materials from periodicals acquired by The National Library as the deposit copies. All scientific journals, from the newspapers only Rzeczpospolita i Gazeta Wyborcza. From 1996 year available also in electronic version on CD.
    Location: Informatorium.

See also: PERIODICALS

MONOGRAPHS

Monographs are the results of researches, usually very extensive, which try to give a full information on given subject. They are the compendiums of knowledge. Monographes often get also the subtitle - academic textbook, what indicates the group of receivers, what does not mean that other readers should not use them, but they should be aware of the academic standard of these publications.

Examples of monographs concerning the Sun:

  1. MERGENTALER Jan

    2. Słońce-Ziemia / Jan Mergentaler. - Wyd. 2. - Warszawa 1993, Wiedza Powszechna.
    Location: the University Main Library, Call number: 679956
  2. LEWIS John S.
    Physics and Chemistry of the Solar System / John S. Lewis, New York 1995, Academic Press.
    Location: The Astronomical Centre Library in Piwnice, Call number: 16168.

Other publications we recommend:

  1. CZYKIEL Walerian Szczepan

    2. Plamy na słońcu a klimat ziemi / Walerian Szczepan Czykiel, Lublin 1993.
    Location: the University Main Library, Call number: 679555
  2. PELTONIEMI Juha T.

    3. Non-standard neutrinos in the Sun and supernovae / Juha T. Peltoniemi, Helsinki 1991 SSF.
    Location: the University Main Library, Call number: 018607/132
  3. ESTALELLA Robert

    4. Słońce / aut. Robert Estalella, Warszawa, Wrocław 1993, Polskie Przedsiębiorstwo Wydawnictw Kartograficznych im. Eugeniusza Romera.
    Location: the University Main Library, Call number: 520752
  4. SŁOŃCE

    5. Słońce na stole: ksi±żka dla nauczycieli / Maria Lorek et al., Katowice 1995, Wydawn. Maria     Lorek.
    Location: the University Main Library, Call number: 741292, 695677.

  5. SOLAR

    6. Solar astrophysics, structure of neutron stars, gamma flashes: meeting of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences, Commission for Astrophysics, May 19, 1996 Cracow, Poland / red. t. Kazimierz Grotowski. - Cracow: PAU, 1997.
    Location: the University Main Library, Call number: 733685.

How to look for monographs in the catalogues of the NCU Main Library see Catalogues and OPAC.

ATTENTION!

The handbook about information sources gives the possibility to find, what tools you can use to get materials on given subject. The publications, prepared for the needs of this course, concerns physics, precisely the Sun and sun energy. The presented literature is not the complete list of the holdings of the Main Library and the deparmental and faculty libraries, but it is only a choice of some publications. Each publication is evaluated according to its usefullness in three categories: *** very good; ** good; * good enough. Detailed information about publications evaluating you will find: How to evaluate information sources.

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