Physics
Recommended Databases
Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost )
Provides citations and abstracts to over 4,000 journals covering most academic areas of study including biological sciences, economics, communications, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts and literature, medical sciences, and women's studies. Approximately two-thirds of the articles are available as full text. Also contains images which can be accessed by clicking on the "image collections" icon.
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Applied Science & Technology Abstracts
Indexes and provides citations and abstracts to periodical articles covering engineering, math, physics, computer technology and other sciences.
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General Science Abstracts (Wilson Web)
Provides citations, abstracts, and selected full text from periodical articles in many science fields including biology, chemistry, environmental science, nutrition, genetics, math, health, physics, physiology and zoology.
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Access World News (NewsBank)
Selected full-text newspaper articles and newswires from the United States and abroad. Access World News is particularly strong in providing access to local, state, regional, and national news.
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ACM Digital Library Core
Consists of subscriptions to all Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) journals and magazines, both print and online, including an online archive from 1985 onward. It is possible to browse individual journals or to search the database by keyword. PLEASE NOTE: The library's subscription does NOT include SIG publications and proceedings.
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Biological & Agricultural Index (Wilson Web)
Indexes periodical articles in agricultural fields including agricultural research, chemicals, economics and engineering. Also covers biology, biochemistry, biotechnology, ecology, genetics, microbiology, physiology, zoology and other related fields.
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Biological Sciences Database (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts)
Provides citations with abstracts to research literature in biomedicine, zoology, ecology and some aspects of agriculture and veterinary science.
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Chemical Abstracts (SciFinder)
Covers CAplus databases from 1907 to present. Point-and-click interface facilitates searching chemical literature and patents. The database also provides access to key journals in the sciences and engineering. Apart from coverage in all areas of chemistry and chemical engineering, it includes chemical aspects in Agricultural Sciences, Biology and Life Sciences, Engineering, Food Sciences, Geological Sciences, Material Sciences, Medical Sciences, Physics and Polymer Sciences.
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Compendex
Comprehensive interdisciplinary engineering database. Provides citations and abstracts from periodicals, conference proceedings and other sources in many fields including mechanical, civil, chemical, computer and electrical engineering, as well as engineering management.
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Engineering Information Village
Engineering Village provides access to a variety of engineering-related databases using one interface. Through a series of pulldown menus and searchable fields, users can search using keywords, author, and subject and include additional date, document type and language fields. When entering Engineering Village Compendex is the pre-selected database. Other databases available include ENGnetBASE, United State Patent and Trademark Office, and Website Abstracts (websites evaluated based on research value, technical content and relevant information).
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General Science Abstracts (Wilson Web)
Provides citations, abstracts, and selected full text from periodical articles in many science fields including biology, chemistry, environmental science, nutrition, genetics, math, health, physics, physiology and zoology.
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JSTOR
A full text, full image archive of over 120 journals. Coverage of journals generally begins with their first volume and is updated to within three years of the current issue. Allows keyword searching of the full text of all articles, as well as browsing of particular journal issues. Subject strengths are African-American studies, anthropology, Asian studies, ecology, economics/finance, general science, history, literature, math/statistics, philosophy, political science, population/demography, and sociology.
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PubMed
Provides access to MEDLINE and OLDMEDLINE, the National Library of Medicine's databases of bibliographic citations and abstracts for the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, health care systems and preclinical sciences. Also provides access and links to the integrated molecular biology databases maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology Information
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ScienceDirect (Elsevier)
Offered as a pilot project, access is provided to the full text of over 600 titles published by Elsevier. Coverage is primarily in the chemical, biological, and health sciences, but journals from the social sciences are also included. A green page icon next to the journal title indicates full text availability.
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Reference Tools
International Critical Tables of Numerical Data, Physics, Chemistry and Technology
Featuring physical, thermodynamic, mechanical, and other key properties, it is a major reference source used by those involved in chemistry, physics and engineering. Select tables are interactive and all of the content is full-text searchable.
Smithsonian Physical Tables
Originally published by Smithsonian Institute Press, this reference source comprises tables of common physical and chemical data. It is of general interest to scientists and engineers, and of particular interest to those involved with physics in the larger sense.
