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Physics

Subject Databases
E-Text
Websites

Research Library Liaison - Erica Lopez

Email: z_lopezer@titan.sfasu.edu
Phone: (936) 468-6270
Office: 202j

General Databases

Academic Search Complete (Ebsco) is a multidisciplinary index giving access to articles in over 8000 journals with many available in full text.

Expanded Academic ASAP (Gale Cengage Learning) is a general database with indexing for journal, magazine and newspaper articles, with many of the articles available full text.

Google Scholar provides a search of scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources, including theses, books, abstracts and articles.

Wilson Select Plus (FirstSearch) is a general database that contains full text articles from popular and scholarly journals and magazines.

 

Subject Databases

American Chemical Society Web Editions (ACS Web Edition and Archive) provides online full-text access to all the ACS journal and magazine publications (presently, about 36), with coverage from volume 1 to current for each.

DIScovering Science provides comprehensive coverage of scientific disciplines including Physical Sciences, Medicine, Technology, Information Sciences and Mathematics.

Science & Technology Collection (Ebsco) provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,700 publications of which over 800 leading full text journals cover relevant aspects of the scientific and technical community. Topics include astrophysics, biology, chemistry, computer technology, geology, physics, archaeology, and materials science.

SciFinder is an access point to several Chemical Abstracts databases providing chemical literature from over 10,000 journals, 1907-present; organic and inorganic substance information (CAS registry); patents; structure diagrams; and more. New users start here.

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E-Text

NetLibrary is a collection of electronic books (eBooks) especially selected to meet the needs of the university curriculum.

Online Books: Physics

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Websites

DIRECTORY

PhysicsWeb - Physics News, Jobs and Resources
Comprehensive annotated index to on-line physics resources.

INTERNET SITES

Emilio Serve Visual Archive
A collection of about 2000 photographic images of some 800 mostly 20th century American physicists and astronomers.

A Glossary
of frequently misused or misunderstood Physics terms and concepts.

Laws List
A mini-dictionary of physics and astronomy laws, rules, principles, effects, paradoxes, limits, constants, experiments, and thought-experiments (in physics).

NIST Physical Reference Data
Includes elemental data (including periodic table), physical constants, atomic& molecular spectroscopic data, x-ray & gamma ray data, ionization data and radiation.

Women in Physics
Contains information of more than 50 women who made original and important contributions in physics in the first 75 years of the 20th century.

Martindale's "The Reference Desk". Calculators On-Line Center. (Physics & Astrophysics)
An extensive site providing calculators for various tasks: Units , Conversions, Integrals, several calculators using Java and JavaBean applets, etc.

Nobel Prize Internet Archive
Learn about the Nobel Prize Laureates.

PhysNet
Physics related free-access journals.

Resources of Scholarly Societies - Physics
A directory of physics scholarly societies, with each society site providing links to its own resources and links to other recommended related sites.

WebElements Periodic Table
A Periodic Table of the Elements, with detailed data and information linked to each element. There are separate access capabilities for professionals and students.

Physics and Astronomy Web Resources

Los Alamos Lab e-Print Archive
This "archive is based upon activities supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation with the Los Alamos National Laboratory, and by the US Department of Energy."

 

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