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Resources for Physics


Reference Sources

  • Basic tables in physics - Ref QC61 .R6
  • CRC handbook of chemistry and physics - Ref QD65 .H3 2003-2004
  • Dictionary of material science and high energy physics - Ref QC772 .D57 2001
  • Dictionary of pure and applied physics - Ref QC5 .D485 2001
  • Encyclopedia of physics - Ref QC5 .E545 2005
  • The Facts on File dictionary of atomic and nuclear physics - Ref QC72 .F33 2003
  •  Oxford dictionary of physics - Ref QC5 .C56 2000
  • Q is for quantum: an encyclopedia of particle physics - Ref QC793.2 .G747 1998

Databases/Journal Articles

Science Direct
This site provides full-text access to 174 journals, and indexes many more. Science Direct covers Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, Chemistry, Earth Sciences, and more. (To get full-text articles when searching in this database, you must choose Search, then Journals, and then choose Source: Subscribed Journals. Please see a librarian for clarification.)

Applied Science and Technology Abstracts (ASTA)
Provides information on management, careers and employment, and financial trends in the scientific and technological fields.

Electronic Collections Online (ECO)
An OCLC collection of scholarly journals, including thousands of full text publications.

Expanded Academic ASAP (InfoTrac)
Indexes approximately 3,500 journals and magazines and the New York Times and includes full text of a large portion of the citations.  2,100 of the publications are peer-reviewed journals.

GenSciAbs
General science literature from the US and Europe.  The publications indexed here are less technical and are aimed at non-scientists.

ProQuest Science Module
This database indexes hundreds of science journals, many of which are available in full text.

Internet Resources

American Institute of Physics
Website of the Institute, including links to virtual journals & job and industry listings.

College Physics for Students of Biology and Chemistry
A complete physics text with problems covering undergraduate physics.

MetaPhys
"A meta search engine which serves as a unified query interface to the databases of a various publishers with relevance in physics." Includes searches of the Los Alamos e-Print archive as well as APS Preprints (American Physical Society).

Physics World 
Physics news, jobs and resources.

PhysLINK: The Ultimate Physics Resource
"A comprehensive physics and astronomy online education, research and reference web site." Site is organized according to different sources of information, including reference, societies, journals and magazines, history, news, and etc., all in the field of physics.

Science.gov
The U.S. Federal Government is the world's largest producer of information. This site makes government-produced science information easier to find through organized topic headings.

 

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Martin Kuustik

Martin Kuustik
Graduation: 2010
Major: Business Administration
From: Saku Harju, Estonia
Interests: Greek Life, Cultural Awareness

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