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Library Databases

• Compendex

  Bibliographic citations and abstracts for engineering and technical literature in a broad range of disciplines, dating back to 1980. Some full text.

• INSPEC

  Indexes a variety of print resources in engineering and technical disciplines since 1969. The primary emphasis is on electrical engineering, control engineering, and information technology. Some full text.

• Materials Research Database

  Allows simultaneous searching of several databases containing scholarly literature on a variety of engineered and structural materials. No full text.

• Scopus

  Scopus provides multidisciplinary indexing of the science and engineering literature. It is Elsevier's counterpart to ISI's Web of Science, providing the same core functionality but indexing a wider variety of journals and proceedings.

• Solid State and Superconductivity Abstracts

  Indexes over 3,000 print resources on solid state devices and superconducting materials. No full text.

Electronic Journals

Library Subscription Journals

• Advances in Physics
• American Journal of Physics
• Annual Review of Astronomy & Astrophysics
• Annual Review of Earth & Planetary Sciences
• Applied Physics A: Materials Science & Processing
• Applied Physics B: Lasers & Optics
• Applied Physics Letters
• Astronomy & Astrophysics
• Astronomy & Astrophysics Review
• Astrophysics
• Astrophysics & Space Science
• Atmospheric Environment -- Last 12 months only
• Atmospheric Research -- Last 12 months only
• Celestial Mechanics & Dynamical Astronomy
• Chemical Physics -- Last 12 months only
• Chemical Physics Letters -- Last 12 months only
• Classical and Quantum Gravity -- last 10 years not available
• Communications in Mathematical Physics
• Cosmic Research
• Czechoslovak Journal of Physics
• Doklady Physics
• Earth, Moon & Planets
• Electrochemical & Solid-State Letters
• European Biophysics Journal
• European Journal of Physics
• European Physical Journal A: Hadrons & Nuclei
• European Physical Journal B: Condensed Matter
• European Physical Journal C: Particles & Fields
• European Physical Journal D: Atomic, Molecular, & Optical Physics
• European Physical Journal E: Soft Matter
• Europhysics News
• Experimental Astronomy
• Few Body Systems
• Foundations of Physics
• Foundations of Physics Letters
• General Relativity & Gravitation
• High Temperature
• Infrared Physics & Technology -- Last 12 months only
• Interface Science
• International Journal of Infrared and Millimeter Waves
• International Journal of Theoretical Physics
• International Journal of Thermophysics
• Inverse Problems
• Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Parts I & II
• Journal of Applied Mechanics & Technical Physics
• Journal of Applied Physics
• Journal of Biological Physics
• Journal of Chemical Physics
• Journal of Engineering Physics & Thermophysics
• Journal of Low Temperature Physics
• Journal of Nanoparticle Research
• Journal of Physical Chemistry A
• Journal of Physical Chemistry B
• Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter
• Journal of Physics: Conference Series
• Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General
• Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
• Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics
• Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics
• Journal of Plasma Physics
• Journal of Sol-Gel Science & Technology
• Journal of Solar Energy Engineering
• Journal of Statistical Physics
• Journal of Superconductivity
• Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
• Journal of the American Chemical Society
• Journal of the Electrochemical Society
• Journal of the Physical Society of Japan
• Letters in Mathematical Physics
• MAGMA: Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology & Medicine
• Mathematical Physics, Analysis & Geometry
• Measurement Science and Technology -- last 10 years not available
• Meteorology & Atmospherics Physics
• Microfluidics & Nanofluidics
• Multibody System Dynamics
• Nano Letters
• Nature
• New Journal of Physics
• Nonlinear Dynamics
• Nonlinearity -- last 10 years not available
• Optical Review
• Optics & Laser Technology -- Last 12 months only
• Optics Communications -- Last 12 months only
• Physica E -- Last 12 months only
• Physica Scripta
• Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
• Physical Review A
• Physical Review B
• Physical Review C
• Physical Review D
• Physical Review E
• Physical Review Letters
• Physical Review Special Topics -- Accelerators & Beams
• Physics & Chemistry of Minerals
• Physics Education
• Physics in Perspective
• Physics Letters A -- Last 12 months only
• Physics Letters B -- Last 12 months only
• Physics of Fluids
• Physics of Plasmas
• Physics Teacher
• Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
• Progress in Quantum Electronics -- Last 12 months only
• Progress in Solid State Chemistry -- Last 12 months only
• Radiophysics & Quantum Electronics
• Reports on Progress in Physics
• Review of Scientific Instruments
• Reviews of Modern Physics
• Russian Physics Journal
• Science
• Solar Physics
• Solar System Research
• Solid State Ionics -- last 12 months only
• Space Science Reviews
• Superconductor Science and Technology -- last 10 years not available
• Theoretical & Computational Fluid Dynamics
• Theoretical & Mathematical Physics
• Thin Solid Films -- Last 12 months only
• Zeitschrift fur Angewandte Mathematik und Physik
• Zeitschrift fur Physik A: Hadrons & Nuclei
• Zeitschrift fur Physik B: Condensed Matter
• Zeitschrift fur Physik C: Particles & Fields
• Zeitschrift fur Physik D: Atoms, Molecules & Clusters

 Freely available archive, preprint, and abstract services

• arXiv e-Print archive
• Astrophysics Data System from Harvard University
• CERN Document Server
• Goddard DISC -- NASA's Earth Science research
• NASA Technical Report Server
• Physics Reviews (from the Institute of Physics)
• SPIN -- Searchable Physics Information Notices
• SPIRES High Energy Physics Database
• Wiley Interscience -- one-time registration required

Print Resources

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Professional Societies:

• American Association for the Advancement of Science
• American Institute of Physics
• American Physical Society
• Institute of Physics
• OpticsNet
• SPIE -- International Society for Optical Engineering

Web Resources

• AIP Style Manual

  Authoritative guidance on formatting and writing style in physics papers.

• EnergyPortal -- from the OSTI

  Department of Energy database of scientific articles. Contains citations and some full text.

• SPIRES HEP Job listings

  Searchable database of high energy physics jobs.

• Physical Review Focus

  Summaries of select articles from Physical Review and Physical Review Letters, written at an introductory level.

• PhysLINK

  Daily links to physics and astronomy news.

• PhysicsWeb

  "Physics news, jobs, and resources" from the Institute of Physics Publishing.

• Review of Particle Physics -- Particle Data Group

  A collection of the best current knowledge about particle physics. Updated every two years.

• NIST Physical Reference Data

  Online handbook from the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Contains an abundance of useful data.

• The Smithsonian/NASA Astrophysics Data System

  Extensive indexing of physics, astronomy, and astrophysics articles. Contains some full text.

Major laboratories online

• Berkley National Laboratory
• Thomas Jefferson Accelerator Laboratory
• NIST Physics Laboratory
• Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
• Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory

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Last Updated 12/10/2007