All Physics Fields

• American Institute of Physics Journals
  Provides access to the journals of the American Institute of Physics.
• IOPScience
  A collection of Institute of Physics (IOP) journals covering both applied and pure physics.
• Web of Science Core Collection
  A large multidisciplinary database useful for finding scientific literature and analyzing citations.
• Scopus
  A large multidisciplinary database useful for finding scientific literature and analyzing citations.
• Google Scholar
  A broad search for academic sources, which can include free sources not available in other databases.
• arXiv
  An open access (free) archive for physics, mathematics, computer science, and more. Note that this is a preprint server, so many articles are uploaded before peer review or publishing.
• Scholars Portal Journals
  Provides access to a large number of articles from major academic publishers covering all fields.
• ScienceDirect Journals
  Provides access to Elsevier journals in the physical sciences, engineering, life sciences, health sciences and social sciences.

Astrophysics

• Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
  Abstracts in astronomy and physics, provided by NASA’s Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.

BioPhysics

• BioMed Central
  Biomedical research publications.
• Royal Society of Chemistry Journals Collection
  45 peer-reviewed journals that cover the core chemical sciences including related fields such as biology, biophysics, energy and environment, engineering, materials, medicine and physics.

Computational Physics

• ACM Digital Library
  All articles and other documents published by the Association for Computing Machinery.
• Inspec
  A bibliographic database covering physics, electrical engineering and electronics, computers and control engineering, and information technology.

Engineering Physics

• EI Engineering Village
• IEEE Xplore Digital Library
• Inspec
  A bibliographic database covering the fields of physics, electrical engineering and electronics, computers and control engineering and information technology.

GeoPhysics

• GeoRef
  Citations and abstracts to journal articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports, and theses in the geosciences.

High-Energy and Nuclear Physics

• INSPIRE-HEP
  A key search engine for high energy physics literature.
• International Nuclear Information System (INIS)
  Scientific and technical literature published on the peaceful applications of nuclear science and technology.
• OSTI.GOV (US Department of Energy)
• SCOAP3 Repository
  High-energy journals that have been converted to open access.

Medical Physics

• PubMed
  A database from the US National Center for Biotechnology Information, useful when researching topics in medical physics.

Particle Physics

• CERN Document Server
  Bibliographic database from the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) containing information about full-text preprints, articles, books, journals, and photographs on particle physics and related areas.

Print collection

Print physics books are found in the call number range QC1-QC999, while astronomy books can be found from QB1-QB991. The Library Services Desk personnel can help you locate them on the shelf.

Ebook collections

Ebooks can be found through Omni on the Library's home page.

Also try searching or browsing in the following ebook collections:

• Springer eBooks
• Ebook Central
• IOP eBooks
• SPIE eBooks
• Knovel Library
• Google Books

Other ebook collections can be found on the databases-by-type page.

Not successful?

Not finding the book that you want?  Suggest that we purchase it, order a copy from another library through Interlibrary Loan, or contact the specialist for Physics.