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Databases and Journals

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
Peer-reviewed articles on physics and related topics. Includes all American Physical Society Journals.
Scopus
Peer-reviewed articles, reviews, books, and conference proceedings in various disciplines of science, including physical and life sciences.
Astrophysics Data System
A NASA-funded project that includes peer-reviewed and pre-print articles in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation, Physics and Geophysics, and all arXiv e-prints.

Science in Context
Provides contextual information on hundreds of today's most significant science topics. The collection includes millions of peer-reviewed and non-scholarly articles, as well as 200+ experiments, video, audio, projects, and encyclopedia articles.
Wiley Online Library
Scholarly articles and reference works on wide range of disciplines including health, physical sciences, social sciences, the humanities, and more.

Academic Search Complete
A great starting place for any research topic. Includes a wealth of peer-reviewed and non-scholarly articles on a wide range of topics and disciplinary areas.
Sage Premier Collection
Peer-reviewed articles in the social sciences, humanities, medicine, engineering, and physical and life sciences.

APS Journals
Peer-reviewed articles on physics and related topics. Includes all American Physical Society Journals.

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
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
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.
Frontiers
Frontiers is an open access publisher with several chemistry journals. Examples include Chemistry and Materials journals.

CSU+ Interlibrary Loan

If you can't find an article or book through the library, then you can use CSU+ in OneSearch to request a copy of your article or book for free from another library. No registration is required, only your MyCalStateLA username and password.

You can view additional FAQ on the CSU+ Interlibrary Loan page.

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 The Library & Archives serves both as a repository and a clearinghouse for information in the history of physics, astronomy, geophysics and allied fields. In-house holdings include an outstanding collection of textbooks, monographs, biographies, and related publications, dating mostly from ca. 1850–1950; over 30,000 photographs and other images; ca. 1,000 oral histories with many of the outstanding figures in the fields that they cover; and archival records of the American Institute of Physics (AIP) and its Member Societies along with other archival records and personal papers of select scientists.

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

Sage Data
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
Statistics and data platform that focuses on the economic, business, and marketing fields. The sources for the statistics come from a wide range of fields, including energy and the environment, advertising, health, hospitality, consumer goods, and many more.

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

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