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Library Collection Books ALEPH books-catalog from home-page (http://libi2.desy.de:8991) Conference proceedings Preprints, reports, thesis Journals incl. Science, Physics Today, … Daily international Newspapers
Electronic Resources arXiv.org For research articles Database of metadata for High Energy Physics search for articles http://inspirehep.net/ arXiv.org Preprint repository stores full-text Some search functionality Similar to INSPIRE for astrophysics http://adswww.harvard.edu/
INSPIRES History 1963: HEP index by DESY (book of publication references) 1974: SPIRES-HEP started @ SLAC in collaboration with DESY Mid 80’s: remote access of SPIRES via email more databases: CONF, EXP, INST, HEPnames, JOBS Fermilab joined Mar. 89: Information Management: a proposal -> WorldWideWeb Dec. 91: first web-server outside of Europe close collaboration with arXiv Nov. 2011: INSPIRE replaced SPIRES Apr. 2012: SPIRES front-end shut-off a http://inspirehep.net
INSPIRE Search HEP: 960 420 records (12.7.) ‘google-like’ search uses author, affiliations, title, abstract, keywords
Author Search INVENIO author:higgs SPIRES find author higgs fin a higgs, peter
Author profile Ongoing: cleanup of profiles author person
Subject Search and more citations title:higgs mass / fin t higgs mass fulltext:”higgs mass” available for arXiv articles and some journals snippets are shown 695__a:”higgs particle: mass” by marc-tag (695__a = keywords) fin fc e [e=hep-ex / e,l,p,t – n,x – a – c,b,i,o] ‘phrase search’ as part of the string “string seach” for complete string composit* with truncation logical combinations and, or, not, use of brackets find … dadd today - 7 topcite 233+ citedby recid 863300 refersto bb 1007.5048 http://inspirehep.net/help/search-tips http://inspirehep.net/help/search-guide
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Reference ‘Search’ arXiv:1106.2748 r:cern-ph-ep-2011-076 fin j Eur.Phys.J.,C71,1728 fin doi 10.1140/epjc/ s10052-011-1728-9 Detailed view: references, citations, abstract, plots, keywords, report-numbers, links, … and PDG link
Particle Data Group The bible of particle physics http://pdg.lbl.gov
Durham Reaction Database http://durpdg.dur.ac.uk/ Reactions, cross sections, …
Full-Text DOI is a lookup for a URL Get pdf via FATER http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-011-1728-9 -> http://www.springerlink.com/content/6w13x5j2g371j61l/?MUD=MP Open Access Get full-text for free: no need for subscription via the library Get pdf via FATER pdf form publisher did we buy it already? get fax from partner buy via DESY CC (login required) Get pdf from publisher (OA, subscription or CC required)
Collaboration / Experiment Collaboration: authors Experiment: data from this exp fin exp desy-hera-zeus and not cn zeus -> mainly proceedings, thesis
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