Physics

This guide will help you find resources for your research and assignments

Physics Periodicals

Feel like browsing? Click on the journal titles below. These are located on the 2nd floor of the library.

Want to see a list of all the physics periodicals to which we have access? Do a subject search in the CatPac for physics periodicals or astronomy periodicals.

Astronomy
Medical Physics
Sky and Telescope
Physics: An Open Access Journal
a peer-reviewed open-access journal

Physics Databases

Databases enable you to find articles, electronic books, reports, images, and more.

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Academic Search Complete (EBSCO)
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In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and a total of more than 13,200 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format.
JSTOR
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Provides high-quality full-text journal articles relating to nearly every field of scholarly study. This database specializes in historical content, with some articles dating back to the late 1800s. In most cases, the most recent one to five years are not available in full-text.
ArXiv
An archive of preprints in physics and related disciplines. Note that the content on the ArXiv is not necessarily peer-reviewed.
HighWire Press
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Hosts and disseminates content to the widest possible audience by partnering with independent scholarly publishers, societies, associations, and university presses to facilitate the digital dissemination of more than 1500 journals, reference works, books, and proceedings. Over 2,000,000 current, free, full-text articles are available.
Directory of Open Access Journals
Offers high-quality, full-text content from a wide variety of disciplines. For the most part, extremely recent publications are available.
MEDLINE with Full-Text (EBSCO)
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Provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. It is the world's most comprehensive source of full-text for medical journals, providing full-text for a third of the database back to 1965. Indexing is available back to 1949.
Science
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The world's leading journal of original scientific research, global news, and commentary. Indexing is available back to 1880, with full-text available from 1997 to the present.
Environment Complete (EBSCO)
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Offers deep coverage in applicable areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more, dating back to 1888. The database contains full-text articles for the majority of journals and books indexed.
GreenFILE (EBSCO)
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Offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly government and general-interest titles includes content on the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments, and what can be done at each level to minimize these effects. Indexing dates back to 1913, and full-text access dates back to 1990.
Military & Government Collection (EBSCO)
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Offers current events coverage relevant to the government and all branches of the military. This includes full-text coverage from 1934 to the present.