Physics

DATABASES / INDEXES

INSPEC (Engineering Village 2) 1968+
This database indexes scientific and technical journals and conference proceedings in the subject areas of physics, electrical engineering, and computing.

Web of Science 1978+

Offering an electronic version of Science Citation Index, this database covers articles in all areas of the sciences. Its most unique feature is the ability to search for cited references in journal articles.
Compendex (Engineering Village 2) 1884+
Ei CompendexWeb is the internet version of Engineering Index. This database covers more than 5,000 journals, conferences, and reports in all areas of the field of engineering.
Scitation - American Institute of Physics'
Searchable Online Journal Publishing Service
The Scitation database provides the most current indexing and abstracting of major American and Russian physics and astronomy journals. It contains the abstracts of more than 80 scientific journals published by the American Institute of Physics and its Member Societies.

Science.gov
Gateway to selected science information and research and development results by U.S. Government agencies.

Energy Citations Database 1948+
Contains publicly available bibliographic records from 1948 through the present for energy and energy-related scientific and technical information from the Department of Energy (DOE).

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ELECTRONIC JOURNALS *(full text)*

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PHYSICS INTERNET GUIDES

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PHYSICS REFERENCE TOOLS


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PHYSICS PREPRINT GUIDES

CERN Document Server CERN Document Server
A searchable database of over 550,000 bibliographic records, including 220,000 fulltext documents, of interest to those working in particle physics and related areas. Also covers preprints, articles, books, journals, and photographs.

ArXiv.org e-Print archive
Started in 1995, this site provides a fully automated electronic archive and distribution server for research papers. Covered areas include physics and related disciplines, mathematics, nonlinear sciences, computational linguistics, and neuroscience.

SPIRES High Energy Physics Literature Database 1974+
Search more than 500,000 high-energy physics related articles, including journal papers, preprints, e-prints, technical reports, conference papers and theses, comprehensively indexed by the SLAC ( Stanford Linear Accelerator Center) libraries.

PhilSci-Archive
Sponsored by the Philosophy of Science Association, and by the University of Pittsburgh's Center for Philosophy of Science, reprints posted on this archive are restricted to those in philosophy of science or related material of interest to philosophers of science.

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