== SPIRES High Energy Physics database (SPIRES-HEP) ==
The SPIRES High Energy Physics database (SPIRES-HEP),<ref>[{{cite web |url=http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires |title=SPIRES High Energy Physics database]}}</ref> installed at [[Stanford Linear Accelerator Center]] (SLAC) in the 1970s,<ref>[{{cite web |url=http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/find/hep/www?r=SLAC-PUB-7110 |title=The Virtual library in action: Collaborative international control of high-energy physics preprints |last=Kreitz, |first=P.A. et al.]}}</ref> became the first website in North America<ref name=firstWebsite>{{cite web |url=http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/cms/?pid=1000922 |title=Happy Webiversary! |last=Khirallah |first=Diane Rezendes |date=March 2012 |work=Symmetry: dimensions of particle physics |publisher=Fermilab/SLAC |access-date=23 November 2012}}</ref><ref>[https://{{cite web.archive.org/web/20110726005043/ |url=http://www.slac.stanford.edu/history/earlyweb/history.shtml |title=The Early World Wide Web at SLAC: Documentation of the Early Web at SLAC (1991-1994)] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726005043/http://www.slac.stanford.edu/history/earlyweb/history.shtml |archive-date=26 July 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref> and the first database accessible through the [[World Wide Web]] in 1991.<ref>[{{cite web |url=http://www.slac.stanford.edu/history/earlyweb/history.shtml |title=The Early World Wide Web at SLAC: Early Chronology and Documents<!-- Bot generated title -->]}}</ref> It has since expanded into a joint project of SLAC, [[Fermilab]], and [[DESY]], with mirrors hosted at those institutions as well as at the [[Institute for High Energy Physics]] (Russia), the [[University of Durham]] (UK), the [[Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics]] at [[Kyoto University]] (Japan), and
the [[Indonesian Institute of Sciences]] LIPI (Indonesia). 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]].
SPIRES is, as of 2012, being replaced by [[INSPIRE-HEP]], a modern system based on [[Invenio]] software. INSPIRE is run by a collaboration of the physics labs at [[CERN]], [[DESY]], [[Fermilab]] and [[SLAC]], and interacts closely with HEP publishers, [[arXiv.org]], [[NASA]]'s [[Astrophysics Data System]], [[Particle Data Group]], and other information resources.<ref>[{{cite web |url=http://projecthepinspire.net |title=INSPIRE Project Information]}}</ref>
