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Library Databases

• Compendex

  Bibliographic citations and abstracts for engineering and technical literature in a broad range of disciplines, dating back to 1884. No full text.

• Materials Research Database

  Allows simultaneous searching of several databases containing scholarly literature on a variety of engineered and structural materials. No full text.

• Scopus

  Scopus provides multidisciplinary indexing of the science and engineering literature. It is Elsevier's counterpart to ISI's Web of Science, providing the same core functionality but indexing a wider variety of journals and proceedings.

Print Resources

• Dictionary of Physics
  REF QC5 .C43 1999
• The Physics Handbook : Fundamentals and Key Equations
  REF QC61 .P65 2007
• Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics
  REF QB14 .E534 2001
• Encyclopedia of Condensed Matter Physics
  REF QC173.454 .B37 2005
• Encyclopedia of Mathematical Physics
  REF QC20 .E63 2006

Professional Societies:

• American Association for the Advancement of Science
• American Institute of Physics
• American Physical Society
• Institute of Physics
• OpticsNet
• SPIE -- International Society for Optical Engineering

Select Journals

• Journal of Physics B
• Physical Review A
• Physical Review Letters
• Journal of Chemical Physics

Web Resources

• AIP Style Manual

  Authoritative guidance on formatting and writing style in physics papers.

• EnergyPortal-- from the OSTI

  Department of Energy database of scientific articles. Contains citations and some full text.

• SPIRES HEP Job listings

  Searchable database of high energy physics jobs.

• Physical Review Focus

  Summaries of select articles from Physical Review and Physical Review Letters, written at an introductory level.

• PhysLINK

  Daily links to physics and astronomy news.

• PhysicsWeb

  "Physics news, jobs, and resources" from the Institute of Physics Publishing.

• Review of Particle Physics-- Particle Data Group

  A collection of the best current knowledge about particle physics. Updated every two years.

• NIST Physical Reference Data

  Online handbook from the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Contains an abundance of useful data.

• The Smithsonian/NASA Astrophysics Data System

  Extensive indexing of physics, astronomy, and astrophysics articles. Contains some full text.

Major laboratories online

• Berkley National Laboratory
• Thomas Jefferson Accelerator Laboratory
• NIST Physics Laboratory
• Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
• Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory

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Last Updated 06/24/2010