Physics
Research Guide
LOCATING BOOKS - access to catalog
Library of Congress Numbers: Tier 5
Physics QC 1-999
LOCATING ARTICLES
Science Direct
Science Direct not only covers the sciences, such as biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, chemistry, computer science, environmental science, physics, psychology, and mathematics; it also covers the social sciences, arts and humanities, and business, management and accounting. In addition to its journal collection of over 2,000 titles, Science Direct includes reference works, handbooks, and book series. The collections contain 4 million articles prior to 1995, and 2.75 million articles from after 1994.
Scientific American Archive (EBSCO)
Scientific American is known for its understandable, authoritative reporting on every field of science. The Archive contains the entire editorial content of Scientific American from January 1993 through to the present---updated monthly. The issues are presented as PDFs.
INTERNET RESOURCES
American Institute of Physics
http://www.aip.org/
This professional organization collaborates with government-funded projects to support science teachers, students, and physics undergrads. It also supplies authoritative science news and up-to-date information on federal science policy and funding. Scitation provides access to more than one million documents from scholarly journals, magazines, conference proceedings, and other special publications from prestigious scientific societies and technical publishers.
Mathematics e-Print Archive - Cornell University (arXiv)
http://arxiv.org/
arXiv is an e-print service in the fields of physics, mathematics, non-linear science, computer science, and quantitative biology. The scholary work available from this database conforms to Cornell University academic standards. arXiv is owned, operated and funded by Cornell University, and partially funded by the National Science Foundation.
Institute of Physics
http://www.iop.org/
The Institute of Physics is an international professional organization that supports students and educators with various resources. The website provides access to over fifty journals.
WEB GATEWAYS
External Physics Resources: Physics and Astronomy
http://www.pa.uky.edu/external.html
This University of Kentucky portal provides many links to resources including Science Magazine, Physics News, The Science Foundation, and other web sites dealing with physics, astrophysics, and astronomy.
Physlink
http://physlink.com/
PhysLink.com is a comprehensive physics and astronomy online education, research and reference web site. It is also a meeting place for professionals and students.
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
American Institute of Physics
http://www.aip.org/
The AIP's mission is to serve physics, astronomy, and related fields of science and technology by serving its Member Societies and their associates, individual scientists, educators, R&D leaders, and the general public with programs, services and publications.
Institute of Physics
http://www.iop.org/
The Institute of Physics is an international professional organization that supports students and educators with various resources.
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