Spires syntax is mostly supported requires find find a richter, b and t quark and date 1984. The spires database was created in the late 1960s to catalogue the high energy physics preprints received by the slac library. This is an evolution of the extraordinarily successful, 40years old spires database. Spires hep literature database eiu viewswire new configurations. It is the successor of the stanford physics information retrieval system spires database, the main literature database for high energy physics since the 1970s. Hi all, i would like to request a translator for inspire. If you are associated with fermilab and have a fermilab services account. It combines the successful spires database content, curated at desy, fermilab and slac, with the invenio digital library technology developed at cern. I believe software is a form of literature, existing not.
Spireshep highenergy physics literature database is maintained stanford linear accelerator center slac since the late 1960s. Realizing the dream of a global digital library in. Inspire, powerful information visualization software developed by pacific northwest national laboratory, can give people the ability to see something different in the data they already have. Description of the amslns collaboration on the mit lns web site biographical sketch. Prola, spireshep, aip scitation by jacso, peter online. Highenergy physics literature database, from the library at the stanford linear accelerator center. The role of inspire in hep data preservation efforts. Spires is, as of 2012, being replaced by inspirehep, a modern system based on invenio software. In addition to scientific papers, inspirehep provides other information like citation metrics, 12 plots extracted from papers or internal experiment notes 14 and tools for users to improve metadata like crowdsourcing for author disambiguation.
Highenergy physics literature database spires hep this database of hep. Inspire is an innovative platform resulting from the efforts of cern, desy, fermilab and slac to combine the features and content of spires, one of the most popular hep information systems, with the free, opensource digital library software cds. Website1st web database spires software infrastructure dates from the 70s. Previously known as spires, it was the first website outside europe and the first database on the web. Our software is developed with an intuitive interface and a robust database that uses modern technology for efficiency, flexibility and scalability. There is an existing spires translator, which will soon become obsolete when spires is switched off. Inspirehep is an open access digital library for the field of high energy physics hep. Spireshep was born in 1974 and was based on spires dbms, using an ibm mainframe and command line interface.
The spires databases are managed by a dedicated group of people, many of whom are listed below from slac, desy, fnal, durham u. Aug 08, 2002 spires hep literature database spires hep database provides searching of more than 500,000 highenergy physics hep related articles, including journal papers, preprints, eprints, technical reports, conference papers and theses. Since decades, the spires 1 database of highenergy physics hep literature and r elated information, maintained by desy, f ermilab and slac, is serving as the dominant information resource for. Although indispensible to the hep community, its aging software. Inspirehep combines the spires hep database content with the open source digital library software invenio and the.
The nextgeneration high energy physics information system, inspire, is being built by combining the content from the successful spires database of bibliographic information with the cds invenio. In the early 1990s it became the first database on the web and the first website outside of europe. A tony thomasinspired guide to inspire conference osti. Physicists in hep rely mostly on searches in subject databases for identifying articles. It is the successor of the stanford physics information retrieval system spires database, the main literature database for high energy physics. Spire is a business management solution for small and midsized businesses. Professor gold is an elementary particle experimentalist. It is the successor of the stanford physics information retrieval system spires database, the main literature database. Spireshep facilitates access to the literature and reference tools of the field for. I have extensive experience with free and open source software, highlevel programming languages, and multicultural communication. The desyhepi keywords hepi are included in all records published papers, preprints, conference proceedings and books in the hep literature database called spires stanford public information retrieval system, maintained at the high energy physics. This database indexes over 700,000 documents including journal articles, technical reports, preprints, books, software, and other materials in the field of particle physics and related fields.
Comprehensively indexed by the stanford linear accelerator center slac and. Barton zwiebach full name barton zwiebach cantor, born october 4, 1954 is a string theorist and professor at the massachusetts institute of technology. Worldcat dissertations and theses worldcat dissertations and theses. The spireshep database has been run by the stanford linear accelerator. Mathscinet is a bibliographic database covering the worlds mathematical literature since. To adapt current tech nological advances to the work ow. Inspire supports the most popular spires syntax operators and free text. Several databases conf, exp, inst, hepnames and jobs followed and. Inspirehep blog page 9 news and updates from inspire. The database that over a decade earlier became the first website in north america still played a vital role in hep research but it ran on aging software making it slow for users and difficult to manage for developers. It is the successor to spires which will be switched off soon, the most popular literature and preprint database. Mar 30, 2020 spires hep search high energy physics literature database cern, desy, fermilab and slac have built the nextgeneration high energy physics hep information system, inspire, which empowers scientists with innovative tools for successful research at the dawn of an era of new discoveries. The inspirehep database formerly spireshep has been run by the stanford linear accelerator center slac and other collaborating physics institutions since the late 1960s as a database of particle physics literature. The spireshep database stores bibliographic information about the literature in the field of high energy physics.
Getting started physics research guide library guides at iowa. Spires hep literature database spires hep database provides searching of more than 500,000 highenergy physics hep related articles, including journal papers, preprints, eprints. The stanford physics information retrieval system spires is a database management. Spires added bibliographic value for users affiliations, references, citations. Materials date back to the mid1900s with full coverage from 1980. Spires started operating in 1974 and now receives more than one million searches per month. The database covers particle physics literature and information relevant to highenergy particle physicists. Inspirehep combines the spireshep database content with the open source digital library software invenio and the. Www virtual library, american indians index of native. In the 1980s, an email interface was added and in the early 1990s, the first us web server was established at slac to. In 2002, when travis joined the slac library, spires was starting to show its age. May 06, 2020 the spireshep database has been run by the stanford linear accelerator center slac since the late 1960s as a comprehensive database of particle physics literature and information relevant to highenergy particle physics.
A collection of online databases providing a portal to some of the. In recent years cern has developed a much more modern document management system known as cds invenio. Our apologies, but the page you attempted to visit is an internal fermilab web page and is not publicly accessible. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information. The core database, spireshep, now indexes over 400,000 research articles, with almost 50% linked to fulltext electronic versions this site now has over 15 000 search hits per day. There are a number of other databases indexing very useful information in. It is the successor of the stanford physics information retrieval system spires database, 1 the main literature database for high energy physics since the 1970s. Spires hep literature database was the first website in the united states, the first database to be served over the web, and was described as the killer app for the world wide web.
The first website in the united states was made for. It is based on the combination of spires content and features and the powerful invenio software developed at cern. In addition, it offers indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and a total of more than,200 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. Find out more about early web history involving spires and slac, and the early history of spireshep. How to search spires syntax is supported requires findfind a richter, b and t quark and date 1984 find j phys. Spires, the highenergy physics publications database, will soon be replaced by inspire, a new service that offers many improvements over what users can currently access. Close interaction with the user community and with arxiv, ads, hepdata, orcid, pdg and. The role of the spires database is to provide help in answering these questions by making it as easy as possible to discover previous work on the subject of interest. Inspire combines the successful spires database content, curated at desy, fermilab and slac, with the invenio digital library technology developed at cern. Pdf inspire the nextgeneration hep information system. Chemnetbase chemistry database online chemnetbase chemistry database. Inspire is the leading information platform for high energy physics hep literature which provides users with high quality, curated content covering the entire corpus of hep literature, authors, data, jobs, conferences, institutions and experiments.
He has worked in electronpositrion collider physics. Online particle physics information cern scientific information. This database motivated the creation of the first site in the united states for the worldwide web at slac. Spires is currently maintained by slac, desy, and fermilab.
Spires contains citations to particle physics literature. Getting started physics research guide library guides. It is based on the combination of spires content and features and the powerful invenio software. Since 1968 slac has been maintaining a database of hep documents called spires, and this has become one of the main tools used by anybody searching the hep literature. It is the successor of the stanford physics information retrieval system spires database, the main literature. The spires hep database has been run by the stanford linear accelerator center slac since the late 1960s as a comprehensive database of particle physics literature and information. Contact us slac stanford libraries spires hep the hep literature database contains more than 500, 000 highenergy physics related articles indexed by the slac and desy libraries since 1974. Inspirehep combines the spireshep database content with the open source digital library software invenio and the content of the cern document server. This project stores bibliographic information about the literature of the field of high. Accounting, inventory control and sales management modules. Citeseerx document details isaac councill, lee giles, pradeep teregowda. Inspire is run by a collaboration of cern, desy, fermilab, ihep, and slac, and interacts closely with hep. These papers include all of those with at least 100 citations by june 2004, but.
Physicists thriving with paperless publishing cern. These papers include all of those with at least 100 citations by june 2004, but other papers are added as well. Hep pucp papers in spires physics colloquia at pucp schedule and videos hep conferences in 2011 particle data group. Highenergy physics hep has a long tradition in pioneering infrastructures for scholarly communication, and four leading laboratories are now rollingout the nextgeneration digital library for the. While there, she was responsible for extending existing database management software at stanford to build the spires hep database, an ibm mainframe that stored the librarys reference. Synchrotron desy libraries have been comprehensively cataloguing the high energy particle physics hep literature online since 1974. Inspire hep is an open access digital library for the field of high energy physics hep. Apr 02, 2020 inspirehep is an open access digital library for the field of high energy physics hep. Cern, desy, fermilab and slac have built the nextgeneration high energy physics hep information system, inspire, which empowers scientists with innovative tools for successful research at the dawn of an era of new discoveries. This keyword indexing has been done exclusively using the socalled intellectual method in the scienti. Databases scholarly communication in high energy physics hep. Databases physics libguides at baldwin wallace university.
Stanford physics information retrieval system wikipedia. Jun 30, 2003 ebizsearch 2001, administered by the ebusiness research center at pennsylvania state university, based on citeseer software, autonomously creates citation indexes of ecommerce literature. Guidance on the query string syntax can be found in the elasticsearch documentation. Christian classics ethereal library library of congress. Spires started as a bibliographic database spireshep in 1974 hosted at. Sample paper searches in spires highenergy physics group. It has become a key resource for highenergy physicists in finding and understanding the scientific literature.
The stanford linear accelerator center slac and deutsches elektronen synchrotron desy libraries have been comprehensively cataloguing the high energy particle physics hep literature online since 1974. On september 17 the spires database will stop being maintained and users will be required to access inspire for uptodate information. Background information on the inspire website cern twiki. The spireshep database has been run by the stanford linear. Physicists thriving with paperless publishing nasaads. If you are associated with fermilab and have a fermilab services account, you can use a virtual private network vpn to access the fermilab network from off site. Inspire scholarly communication in high energy physics. Accounting, inventory control and sales management features.
Professor zwiebachs publications are available on the spires hep literature database. The topcited theory authors in the spireshep database. Physics databases by subject library guides at monash university. Since decades, the spires 1 database of highenergy physi cs hep literature and related information, maintained by desy, fermilab and slac, is serv ing as the dominant information resource for particle physicists 2. Index to hep literature for 35 years via terminal login via email via web 1st u. The spires hep database has been run by the stanford linear accelerator centerslac since the late 1960s. Professor ting received the nobel prize for the discovery. Although the main spires database, hep, is a database for literature both published and unpublished, physics as an endeavour involves people listed in the hepnames. This project stores bibliographic information about the literature of the field of high energy physics and is an example of academic databases and search engines. In 1991 it became the first web site in north america and now attracts around 50,000 searches per day. Spires script is a program written in the python programming language that accesses information on papers in the spires online high energy physics literature database.
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