LibGuides: Physics: Find Sources (i.e., journal articles)

Databases and Journals

Astrophysics Data System
The ADS maintains three bibliographic databases containing more than 13 million records covering publications in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Physics, and the arXiv e-prints.

Web of Science
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Provides access to Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Science Citation Index and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. It covers over 10000 journals. Tools include Times Cited and Cited References.

Coverage: 1986-present

INSPIRE - High Energy Physics
INSPIRE provides author disambiguation for profiles and search; detailed record pages; searchable arXiv text; figure/captions searching; LHC experimental notes; and excellent content. Its front page includes a long list of search operators so you can get granular from the get-go. It predominantly serves high-energy physics, with some coverage of overlap areas.

APS Journals
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Provides physics research journals, including Physical Review Letters, Reviews of Modern Physics, and the Physical Review series. The Physical Review Online Archive provides access to articles in these journals all the way back to the founding of The Physical Review in 1893.

Coverage: 1893-present
AIP Journals
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Consists of physics journals from The American Institute of Physics (AIP) and its member societies including the American Vacuum Society, the Acoustical Society of America, and the American Association of Physics Teachers.

Gale Science In Context
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Provides contextual information on hundreds of today's most significant science topics. The collection includes millions of full-text articles that includes national and global publications as well as 200+ experiments, projects, and top reference content.

Science In Context showcases how scientific disciplines relate to real-world issues ranging from bacteria to obesity and weather.
Engineering Village
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Coverage from 1969 to present. Compendex includes 5,000 journals; Inspec contains 3,500 journals and 1,500 conference proceedings.
Wiley Online Library
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Wiley Online Library includes scholarly publications in science, engineering, medicine, and social sciences with access to over 6 million articles from over 1500 journals, over 20,000 online books, and hundreds of reference works, laboratory protocols and databases.

Academic Search Complete
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Provides over 20,000 indexed and abstracted journals including 6,600 full-text journals and magazines, nearly 6,000 peer-reviewed journals. PDF content dating back to 1887.

To see which titles are available in full-text, as well as the names of all titles indexed and abstracted, check the EBSCOhost Database Coverage List and Title List by Subject . Updated daily.
Sage Premier Collection
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Sage Premier Collection provides access to over 1,000 Sage journal titles in the social sciences, humanities, medicine, engineering, and physical and life sciences.

AIP Journals
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Consists of physics journals from The American Institute of Physics (AIP) and its member societies including the American Vacuum Society, the Acoustical Society of America, and the American Association of Physics Teachers.
APS Journals
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Provides physics research journals, including Physical Review Letters, Reviews of Modern Physics, and the Physical Review series. The Physical Review Online Archive provides access to articles in these journals all the way back to the founding of The Physical Review in 1893.

Coverage: 1893-present

ACS Central
ACS Central Science publishes the most compelling, important primary reports on research in chemistry and in allied fields, wherein chemical approaches play a key role.
PLOS
Features seven open access journals: PLOS ONE, PLOS BIOLOGY, PLOS MEDICINE, PLOS COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY, PLOS GENETICS, PLOS NEGLECTED TROPICAL DISEASES, AND PLOS PATHOGENS
ACS Omega
ACS Omega is an open-access global publication for scientific articles that describe new findings in chemistry and interfacing areas of science, without any perceived evaluation of immediate impact.
Quantum
Quantum is an open-access peer-reviewed journal for quantum science and related fields.
Elsevier's Open Access Physics Journals
Heliyon, Nuclear Physics - Section B, Photoacoustics, Physics in Medicine, Physics Letters B, Reviews in Physics, SoftwareX
Frontiers
Frontiers is an open access publisher with many open access journals including Physics and Astronomy and Space Sciences.

Online Resources

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Clange (IPCC)
The IPCC provides regular assessments of the scientific basis of climate change, its impacts and future risks, and options for adaptation and mitigation.The website includes assessment reports, methodology reports, and other technical papers.
Energy Information Administration (EIA)
This government website allows users to search by topic or geography.
Nasa Global Climate Change
This website's mission is to provide the public with accurate and timely news about Earth's climate change. Includes an array of resources - including visuals and data.
National Oceanic and Atmosperic Administration
This website hosts a variety of information about areas such as climate, weather, fisheries, research, and sanctuaries.
United Nations Environment Programme
The UNEP website includes reports, publications, and statistics organized by subject.
California Climate Change Panel
This site provides information about California's Global Warming Solutions Act and more.

Contribution of 20th Century Women to Physics
This archive presented contains the contributions of women to the physics field before 1976.
Einstein Archives Online
This archive includes access to both the scientific and non-scientific manuscripts of Albert Einstein.
NASA History Seriers E-Books
A list of e-books from NASA concerning the history of space flight and science. Downloadable in PDF format.
National Academics Press: Space and Aeronautics
Policy documents related to astronomy and space science. Archives go quite far back and are a good starting point for looking at history of funding initiatives.
Niels Bohr Library & Archives

Interactions
Interactions is an international collaboration of physics scientists. This website acts as a central resource for particle physics.

Google Dataset Search
The Dataset Search by Google allows you to search datasets available online, including those from NASA, NOAA, and Harvard's Dataverse.
Research Guide on Google Dataset Search

Data-Planet
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Provides access to the Data-Planet repository of standardized and structured statistical data. Users can search and browse 25 billion data points in over 4.3 billion datasets sourced from over 75 authoritative government and private sources.
The database allows users to manipulate datasets, compare multiple indicators, chart trends over time and spatially represent data without requiring additional software programs. Multiple export options are provided. LibGuides: http://data-planet.libguides.com

There are over 250 LibGuides on a variety of states, countries, and content.
Statista Pro
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Statista is a statistics portal that provides statistics and data on over 1 million statistics and facts from more than 10,000 different sources including agriculture, advertising, health, hospitality, consumer goods, and much more. The content is geared towards business and marketing statistical needs, with a focus on current statistics.

ScienceCinema
ScienceCinema is provided by the U.S. Department of Energy and has conference recordings, promotional videos, research recordings, interviews, and other materials.

Interlibrary Loan

If you find a great article or book that CSULA Library does not have access to online or in print, then use Interlibrary Loan (ILL) to request a copy of your article or book for free from another library. You will need to register the first time you use Interlibrary Loan.

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