Research Guides: Physics & Astronomy: Databases

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This research guide offers some of the key databases, book catalogs, journals, and more for the broad disciplines of physics and astronomy. To read the latest published research, check out BrowZine for your favorite journals. To get started searching for primary or secondary research, check out the some of databases listed below such as Web of Science, L ibrary Search, and Google Scholar. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact your the librarians.

Article Databases

Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Unified search of Arts & Humanities, Science, and Social Sciences Citation Indexes. Indexes and abstracts more than 10,000 major scholarly journals. Provides the number of times cited and links to those articles, as well as full bibliographies. Mobile: new interface optimized for mobile users.
SciFinder-n This link opens in a new window
Provides access to Chemical Abstract Service (CAS) databases including CAPlus, CAS Registry, and CASREACT. Register to use here: https://stmarys-ca.libanswers.com/faq/268887
Library Search This link opens in a new window
Library Search is an easy but powerful way to access nearly all of our information resources (including our book holdings, Web of Science, Project Muse and more) from a single search box. Mobile-friendly; devices are automatically detected.
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
This scholarly collection offers full-text coverage of information in many areas of academic study, such as: anthropology, area studies, astronomy, biology, chemistry, civil engineering, ethnic & multicultural studies, food science & technology, general science, geography, geology, law, mathematics, music, physics, psychology, religion & theology, women's studies, zoology and many other fields.

Preprint & E-print Databases

ArXiv.org e-print Archive This link opens in a new window
Hosted at Cornell University, the arXiv.org e-print service includes phyics, astronomy, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, and statistics papers. [Note: Materials on this site are not necessarily peer-reviewed.]

INSPIRE
Database of particle physics papers. Run by a collaboration of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), the German Electron Synchrotron (DESY), the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC). INSPIRE interacts closely with high-energy phsyics (HEP) publishers, arXiv.org, the NASA Astrophyiscs Data System (NASA-ADS), Particle Data Group (PDG), Durham High Energy Physics Database (HEPData) and other information resources.
CERN Document Server
Particle physics articles, preprints, books and proceedings papers.
Mathematical Physics Preprint Archive (mp_arc)
An electronic archive for research papers in mathematical physics and related areas, hosted at the University of Texas.

Publisher Databases

PROLA (Physical Review Online Archive) This link opens in a new window
Contains nearly complete electronic copies of Physical Review journals from their initial volumes until three years ago
Springer Link This link opens in a new window
Online service providing full text access to journals and ebooks in science and technology; biological, agricultural and environmental sciences; medicine; business and economics; law; and humanities and social sciences. Citations, abstracts and tables of contents may be searched
Wiley Online Library This link opens in a new window
Full text articles back to 1997 from 80% of the 300 periodicals published by Wiley and its associated publishers. Fields covered include the sciences--mathematics, chemistry, physics, computer science--and also business and psychology
Cambridge Journals This link opens in a new window
Currently publishes over 250 peer-reviewed academic journals for the global market. Containing the latest research from a broad sweep of subject areas, Cambridge journals are accessible worldwide in print and online.
Annual Reviews This link opens in a new window
Provides cross-searchable access to annual summaries of research in the biomedical sciences, physical sciences, and social sciences. For most titles, full text access is available back to 1996, with searchable abstracts online before that date.
Nature.com: Nature Journals Online This link opens in a new window
Provides access to publications from the Nature Publishing Group in different subject areas, including biotechnology, cancer, chemistry, clinical medicine, dentistry, developmental biology, drug discovery, earth sciences, evolution & ecology, genetics, immunology, materials science, medicine, microbiology, molecular cell biology, neuroscience, pharmacology, and physics.
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
Research database indexing articles in more than 2000 peer-reviewed journals in science, technology, medicine and social sciences.

Dissertations Database

Dissertations and Theses This link opens in a new window
Includes citations for dissertations ranging from 1861 to those accepted last semester; those published from 1980 forward include 350-word abstracts. Includes full text online for dissertations issued 1997-to the present. Citations for master's theses from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts. Titles represent authors from North America and Europe, with over a million titles in full text.

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