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All Physics Databases
To view all physics databases, please go to A-Z Databases on the library's website.
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- Web of Science This link opens in a new windowCumulates five databases:
Arts and Humanities Citation Index
Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Science
Emerging Sources Citation Index
Science Citation Index Expanded
Social Sciences Citation Index
In addition to traditional author, title and keyword searches, the citation databases offer access to articles' cited references (from authors' bibliographies). You may take a known, relevant paper and find other, more recent papers that cite it. - Scitation This link opens in a new windowOnline access to articles from leading physical sciences publications including journals, conference proceedings, standards, and blogs published by American Institute of Physics (AIP) Publishing and its partners. Hosts Physics Today, AIP’s flagship magazine. Articles are tagged with controlled subject terms, allowing easy discovery of related content. Offers article-level metrics to measure article impact over time.
- IEEE Xplore This link opens in a new windowAccess to nearly one-third of the world's current literature in electrical engineering, electronics and computer science. Full text IEEE and IET Journal, Magazine,
Transaction, Conference Proceedings articles and Active (not Draft) IEEE Standards. Includes full text access to the backfile of IEEE publications dating to 1872. - PubMed This link opens in a new windowFree (non-subscription) access to the National Library of Medicine's MEDLINE and PreMEDLINE. MEDLINE encompasses information from Index Medicus, Index to Dental Literature, and International Nursing Index, as well as other sources of coverage in the areas of allied health, biological and physical sciences, humanities and information science as they relate to medicine and health care, communication disorders, population biology, and reproductive biology.
- INSPIREThe community-based and user-driven successor to the SPIRES database of High Energy Physics information. Developed by CERN, DESY, FNAL, and SLAC.
CERN - European Organization for Nuclear Research
DESY - Deutsches Elektronen-Synchroton
FNAL - Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
SLAC - Stanford Linear Accelerator Center - SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)Provides access to a digital library of journal articles, conference proceedings, research data, and books for astronomy and astrophysics.
What Is a Database?
The Library databases listed here are collections of journal articles searchable by author, title, keywords, subject indexing terms, and sometimes every word in the articles. They may contain or link to the full text of the articles, or they may only contain abstracts of the articles.
TIP: Many times a keyword search will give sufficient results. If not, look at a few relevant article titles, abstracts, and keywords or descriptors. They often suggest other good words to use in your search. Also look for "Find more like this" options in the database (although not all databases offer this).
