Reinert-Alumni Library: Physics Research Guide

Curtis Brundy
Subject Librarian
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Physics Research Guide

Library Catalog (CLIC): The "Creighton Libraries Information Catalog" of books and other materials. Includes more than 35,000 e-books from the ebrary Academic Collection.
http://clic.creighton.edu/
WorldCat: Search for books and other materials in thousands of libraries worldwide.

Academic Search Premier: Articles from thousands of magazines and journals in many different subjects, including physics (1970s-present).
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Energy Citations Database: Articles from energy and energy-related journals, plus other publications provided by the U.S. Department of Energy (1943-present).
http://www.osti.gov/energycitations/
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Google Scholar (beta): Articles and other scholarly materials on the open web. From off campus, enter Google Scholar through the library website to see Creighton linkouts.
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IngentaConnect: Articles from thousands of magazines and journals (years vary by source). From off campus, enter IngentaConnect through the library website to see Creighton linkouts.
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IOPscience *: Articles from dozens of journals in physics and related fields provided by the Institute of Physics (years vary by source).
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Physical Review Online Archive (PROLA) *: Archive of the Physical Review series and other journals from the American Physical Society (1893-present).
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ScienceDirect *: Articles from several thousand journals, including many in physics and related fields (years vary by source).
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Web of Science *: Articles from thousands of journals, including physics. Use Web of Science to find articles that cite a certain author's work (1977-present).
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ArXive.org: "Open access to 500,856 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology and Statistics" maintained by Cornell.
http://www.arxiv.org/
NASA Astrophysics Data System: "Digital Library for Physics, Astrophysics, and Instrumentation" funded by NASA and maintained by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
http://adswww.harvard.edu/
SPIRES: High-energy physics literature database indexed by Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and Deutsch Elektronen-Synchrotron libraries since 1974. http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/hep/

AccessScience: Online version of the 20-volume McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, including scientific biographies, definitions, citations, and news.
CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics: Classic reference handbook for chemistry and physics, containing comprehensive tabular data.
Reference Collection QD 65 H3 (annual)
Encyclopedia of Applied Physics: Scholarly entries with glossaries, cited references and extensive diagrams, in 23 volumes with updates. Sponsored by the American Institute of Physics.
Reference Collection QC 5 E543 1991
Encyclopedia of Spectroscopy and Spectrometry: Three volume set from Academic Press.
Reference Collection QC 450.3 2000
Gale Virtual Reference Library: Physics: Includes: Building Blocks of Matter: Supp to MacMillan Enc of Physics; Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography; and the Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics.
Handbook of Space Astronomy and Astrophysics: Data handbook from Cambridge University Press, with links to web resources.
http://adswww.harvard.edu/books/hsaa/
Macmillan Encyclopedia of Physics: Scholarly entries from "Aberration" to Zeeman Effect," in four volumes with a 2003 supplement.
Reference Collection QC 5 M15 1996
Oxford Reference Online: Physical Sciences and Mathematics: Dictionary definitions and biographies in physics, astronomy, chemistry, math, statistics, and weights and measures.

Nobel Laureates in Physics 1901-Present: Biographical information about award winners with a description of their discovery, provided by the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Library.
http://www.slac.stanford.edu/library/nobel/
NIST Physical Reference Data: Physical constants, atomic and molecular spectroscopy, ionization, X-rays and gamma-rays, radiation dosimetry, nuclear physics, condensed matter.
http://physics.nist.gov/PhysRefData/contents.html
PhysicsWeb: Physics news and jobs from the Institute of Physics, plus many useful links to reference and educational sites behind the "Resources" tab.
http://physicsweb.org/
Physics Zone: Resource for high school and introductory college students, with lessons and reviews organized by topic.
http://www.sciencejoywagon.com/physicszone/
PhysLink: Appealing collection of reference sources, directories, teaching, and employment information.
http://www.physlink.com/

American Association of Physics Teachers: http://www.aapt.org/
American Institute of Physics: http://www.aip.org/
American Physical Society: http://www.aps.org/
CERN (European Center for Nuclear Research): http://user.web.cern.ch/user/cern.html
Institute of Physics: http://www.iop.org/
Los Alamos National Laboratory: http://www.lanl.gov/worldview/
National Institute of Standards and Technology: http://www.nist.gov/