This guide highlights core print and electronic Library resources in the area of Physics and it links to relevant web resources. Use this guide as your starting point. For more resources and further help, come to the Science Library or Ask a Librarian.
AIP Publishing (American Institute of Physics)This link opens in a new windowAIP provides the global physical sciences community with a comprehensive collection of highly cited peer-reviewed scientific information coming from journals and conference proceedings.
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Date Coverage: 1999 to present
American Physical Society (APS) JournalsThis link opens in a new windowCollection of physical review journals published by the American Physical Society (APS), including Physical Review Letters, Reviews of Modern Physics, Physical Review A, Physical Review B, Physical Review C, Physical Review D, Physical Review E, Physical Review Special Topics, Physics.
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Date Coverage: All from v. 1
IOPscience JournalsThis link opens in a new windowOnline service and index for journal content published by the Institute of Physics. Contains more than 250,000 articles, from 1874 to the present day. Includes links to related articles, references and citations; latest and most popular article listings; and news delivered from IOP's community websites.
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Date Coverage: All from v.1
Selected Multidisciplinary Databases
ScienceDirectThis link opens in a new windowA multidisciplinary database that provides full-text access to hundreds of electronic journals, plus books and reference works, published by Elsevier and its subsidiaries. 754 of the journal titles are accessible from volume 1. Subjects covered include physical sciences, engineering, life sciences, health sciences, social sciences and humanities.
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Date Coverage: 1923 to present
ScopusThis link opens in a new windowScopus, launched in 2004, is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. Delivers a comprehensive overview of the world's research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Includes citation tracking tools.
Availability: Bibliographic citations
Date Coverage: 1823 to present
SpringerLinkThis link opens in a new windowAn integrated platform for books, journals, and other materials published by Springer. Includes more than 173,000 titles from every scientific discipline (computer science, medicine, public health, engineering, mathematics, life sciences, etc.) and many social sciences discipline (education, history, political sciences, psychology, etc.) 481 of the journal titles are accessible from volume one.
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Date Coverage: 1832 to present
Web of ScienceThis link opens in a new window10,000 of the highest impact journals and over 110,000 conference proceedings. ISI. 1900- Authoritative, multidisciplinary content covers over 10,000 of the highest impact journals worldwide, including open access journals and over 110,000 conference proceedings. ISI. 1900-present for citation and general searching.
Selected Open Access Databases
arXiv.orgThis link opens in a new windowCreated by Paul Ginsparg at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico and launched in 1991, arXiv.org is a fully automated electronic archive and distribution server for research papers. Areas covered include physics and related disciplines, mathematics, nonlinear sciences, computational linguistics, and neuroscience.
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Date Coverage: 1991 to present
SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data SystemThis link opens in a new windowThe Astrophysics Data System (ADS) is a NASA-funded project whose main resource is an abstract service, which draws abstracts from a variety of national and international scientific sources. ADS maintains three bibliographic databases covering astronomy and astrophysics, physics and geophysics, and the ArXiv e-prints.
Availability: Bibliographic citations
Date Coverage: 1975 to present
OSTI.gov (formerly SciTech Connect)This link opens in a new windowA portal to free, publicly-available R&D results including technical reports, bibliographic citations, journal articles, conference papers, books, patents, multimedia, software, and data information on science, technology, and engineering from the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI).
Availability: Full-text and bibliographic citations
Date Coverage: Varies