Physics Subject Guide

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Indexes

    General

Wilson Web OmniFile
A multidisciplinary database providing abstracts and some full-text. Use SearchPlus to limit to a specific Subject Area or to filter results for peer-reviewed journals only.

Academic Search Complete
A multidisciplinary database of peer-reviewed academic journals, offering indexing, abstracting and some full-text. Also includes image collections of people, places, historical photos, and more.

Britannica Online
Full-text of the Encyclopedia Britannica including photos, drawings, flags, biographies, and geographical articles. Also includes the Merriam-Webster Dictionary.

For more general sources in the Sciences...

NOTE: To locate Periodicals in Abell Library, search using the "Periodical Title" field in the online catalog. Check the record(s) to determine Location.

E-Sources

    Journals

American Institute of Physics Journals - Scitation
Search by Authors, Keywords, and more to retrieve citations and abstracts. For titles we subscribe to, full-text access is provided. However, until you click on a link and it successfully opens, you won't be able to tell the ones we pay for. To check on this you can look up a title in our catalog.

American Physical Society's PROLA
PROLA stands for Physical Reviews Online Archive and it covers from the beginning of a journal until a year or so from the current period. Full-text access is available. For our current subscriptions to American Physical Society journals, please go to our catalog and look for the journal by name. For those we have available online, there will be a link.

Annual Reviews
Search by Authors, Keywords, and more to retrieve citations and abstracts. For titles we subscribe to, full-text access is provided.

AAPG Datapages Datapages provides access to publications of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists Foundation (AAPG). Access the AAPG Bulletin, AAPG Special Volumes, Gulf Coast Group (USA), Journal of Petroleum Geology, to name a few. Browse AAPG books, and browse AAPG Explorer. This online subscription is provided to the students and faculty of Austin College through the AAPG Foundation Digital Products Fund, by an endowment established by Robert J. and Elizabeth Lee Dean Ardell (1974).

JSTOR is an archive of scholarly journals, including many math and science journals. Current issues are not available through JSTOR; its role is an archive, with new holdings added each year.

ScienceDirect
ScienceDirect has evolved from a web database of Elsevier Science journals to one of the world's largest providers of scientific, technical and medical (STM) literature.

SpringerLink Journals provides electronic access to the complete contents of a vast and growing collection of SpringerLink journals in subjects including physics (formerly Kluwer Journals).

Wiley Journals covers Physics and Engineering with access to full-text articles.

    Books

netLibrary collection of full-text electronic books (ebooks) includes a wide variety of subject content from both popular and scholarly texts. Users can search across the entire eBook collection for authors, titles, or keywords, and they can search within books for keywords and phrases. Users may read or browse through ebooks for an unlimited amount of time. A title may be unavailable temporarily when all NetLibrary copies are in use by other patrons.

You are allowed to print one page at a time using your Web browser's print function or the print function on the Adobe Acrobat toolbar. Printing the entire eContent item violates copyright laws and precautions are taken to protect those copyright laws.

About the Catalog

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Search for books, journal titles, and other resources in our online catalog.

Some subject headings used for this discipline are listed below. For additional headings, refer to the Library of Congress Subject Headings volumes located behind the Reference Desk.

• Optics
• Quantum theory
• Relativity (Physics)
• Thermodynamics

 

Internet Sites

• AstroWeb: Astronomy/Astrophysics on the Internet a collection of pointers to astronomy-related information available on the Internet.

• Astrophysics Data System (ADS) - Web Access, 1975 - present. (NASA)
  The Astrophysics Data System (ADS) is a NASA-funded project which maintains four bibliographic databases containing more than 3.3 million records: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation, Physics and Geophysics, and preprints in Astronomy.

• Center for Responsible Nanotechnology "is a non-profit research and advocacy think tank concerned with the major societal and environmental implications of advanced nanotechnology."

• National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoirs have been published since 1877, and are "brief biographies of deceased National Academy of Sciences members, written by those who knew them or their work". They provide "a personal and scholarly view of the lives and work of America's most distinguished scientists and a biographical history of science in the United States.

• Science.gov is a search engine for government science information and research results

• Scitopia a free federated, vertical search portal for the physical sciences created in partnership with 15 of the world's leading science and technology societies.

• World Wide Web Virtual Library: Physics

About the Department

Physics Department

    Citing Sources

Select from a variety of Style Manuals; check with your professor to determine which one you should use.