Physics: U.S. National Laboratories

Argonne National Laboratory is operated by the University of Chicago for the U.S. Department of Energy. The site includes general science news and educational programs, and a searchable database of records of publications written by ANL researchers. They also have a good list of web resources in Physics & Materials Science.

The Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National laboratory performs work in advanced materials, life sciences, energy efficiency, detectors and accelerators. The Physics Division provides information on activities at the lab and links to other physics pages. The Reports Catalog contains citations for Lab-authored scientific and technical documents published since July 1989 and if the Library has the document in an electronic format, a link to the full text is included in the record. These include conference papers and proceedings, journals papers, and theses.

Operated for DOE by Brookhaven Science Associates, a partnership of the State University of New York at Stony Brook and the Battelle Memorial Institute. The Physics Department carries out research in experimental and theoretical high energy, nuclear and condensed matter physics.

Fermilab is a DOE lab for research exploring the fundamental nature of matter and energy. The site offers good online content, especially the Inquiring Minds and the For Physicists pages.

Operated by the University of California, Lawrence Livermore's mission is to apply science and technology in the national interest, with a focus on global security, global ecology, and bioscience. The Science & Technology Catalog is searchable by research area, linking directly to a page of resources.

A terrific source of online content with multilingual pages including the full-text of many documents on the history of the lab and the atomic bomb. The Research Library is also a great resource.

One of the major operating units of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). It's mission is to support United States industry by providing measurement services and research for electronic, optical, and radiation technologies. Page of links to Physical Reference Data, reference page on Constants, Units, and Uncertainty, Measurements & Calibrations , and Publications, with a searchable bibliography.

The Oak Ridge National Laboratory is a DOE laboratory managed by Lockheed Martin Energy Research Corporation. Their history page contains a link to a Historical Photo Gallery. The Comprehensive Publications and Presentations Registry (CPPR) contains the bibliographic information for ORNL reports from 1985. The full-text of many reports are available from the late 1990s onward.