Subject Guide: Physics
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Find Articles and Reviews:
- Use a Journal Index to find articles on a given topic.
- HELP: How do I search for articles?
Web Resources:
- A select list of resources available on the Web.
Citation Guides:
- Use these guides (APA Citation Style Guide, Other guides) to learn how to cite the materials you find and create a bibliography.
Web Resources:
e-journals, preprints and PROLA
PROLA
The server was launched in 1998, with an archive of online copy of Physical Review from 1985 through 1996. Starting in January 2001, it was expanded to include all APS journal content back to 1893. For the year 2002, 1998 material has been migrated. In 2003, 1999 will be migrated and so forth. Reviews of Modern Physics is now part of PROLA as well. The complete archive consists of all of Physical Review back to 1893, all of Physical Review Letters back to 1958, and all of Reviews of Modern Physics back to 1929.
Google Scholar
Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.
Physics.org
The best physics resources, all in one place. "There is too much physics information on the web" - not a complaint you would expect to hear from the Institute of Physics but one that is made by many school students, teachers and anyone else with an interest in physics.
This simple statement provided the motivation for the Institute of Physics to launch this new web site, described as "a cybercopia of knowledge" by The Guardian newspaper.
Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI)
Discover and use the scientific and technical information resources of the Department of Energy's Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) in broad disciplines such as physics, chemistry, materials, biology, engineering, energy efficiency, and other related subject areas. Resources include tools for cross searching bibliographic citations, full-text technical reports, preprints, and journals citations residing in multiple databases and Web sites.
Reviews of modern physics
Fulltext version
New Journal of Physics
Publishing outstanding research articles from across the whole breath of physics
Welcome to the SLAC-SPIRES Information Retrieval System - High Energy Physics
Astrophysics Data System run by NASA
Provides free access to abstracts, and in some cases particularly for older articles complete text. One stop search with powerful search features for physics, astronomy, and astrophysics.
Los Alamos National Laboratory Physics Preprint Server
This month's papers full text version of articles appearing in IOPP journals. Text is available for 30 days only.
Physics Societies
American Physical Society
The American Physical Society (APS), founded in l899, is the oldest and largest society of professional physicists in the United States. The objective of the APS is the advancement and diffusion of the knowledge of physics.
Canadian Association of Physicists
We are concerned for the development of pure and applied science in Canada, and for the ultimate use of our achievements.
American Institute of Physics
The American Institute of Physics (AIP) is a not-for-profit membership corporation chartered in New York State in 1931 for the purpose of promoting the advancement and diffusion of the knowledge of physics and its application to human welfare.
American Nuclear Society
The American Nuclear Society is a not-for-profit, international, scientific and educational organization. It was established by a group of individuals who recognized the need to unify the professional activities within the diverse fields of nuclear science and technology. December 11, 1954, marks the Society's historic beginning at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C. ANS has since developed a multifarious membership composed of approximately 11,000 engineers, scientists, administrators, and educators representing 1,600 plus corporations, educational institutions, and government agencies. It is governed by four officers and a board of directors elected by the membership.
Purpose: The core purpose of ANS is to promote the awareness and understanding of the application of nuclear science and technology.
Vision: ANS will be the recognized credible advocate for advancing and promoting nuclear science and technology.
Optical Society of America
The Optical Society of America is your inside track to the optics and photonics community and your link to an international network of more than 12,000 optical scientists, engineers, and technicians in some 50 countries.
Institute of Physics
The Institute of Physics is an international learned society and professional body for the advancement and dissemination of physics, pure and applied, and promotion of physics education, working through activities to support, progress and present physics research, education and understanding to other scientists, decision-makers and the public activities to identify and meet the needs of physicists in all sectors of employment, and to award recognised qualifications in physics publishing to disseminate knowledge and to generate a financial surplus used to further the Institute's mission.
Data Resources and Handbooks
Data Analysis BriefBook by R.K. Bock and W. Krischer, CERN (Accelerator Physics)
Encyclopedic format covering statistics, computing, analysis and related fields. Designed for experimental physicists dealing with data analysis.
The Parallax Project
In March 2001 the Digital Research Library (DRL) at the University Library System commenced the Parallax Project by gathering and preparing the Publications of the Allegheny Observatory of the University of Pittsburgh for digitization and display on the Web. The DRL scanned the 10 volumes, created two sets of facsimile reprints to replace the originals, and entered selective star data into a database to enable searching by a variety of access points.
The digital version of the Publications can be searched or browsed. The pages of the Publications have been converted into scanned images for viewing so that the online material will replicate the original layout and format of the published material.
With recommendations by the Allegheny Observatory, the Digital Research Library extracted specific star information from the volumes to facilitate search and retrieval. During the first stage of this process, staff recorded the following information for each star (if known):
Allegheny Observatory number/Star name/Right ascension/Declination/B.D. number/Parallax value/Parallax error
Henry Draper number
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Physical constants, units, conversion f actors, atomic and molecular spectroscopic data, X-ray and gamma ray data and condensed matter physics data
Online at BECMatters! brings together information for the Bose-Einstein condensation and matter wave community, including relevant news items, conference information and listings and links to essential web sites. This, together with a single point of access to IOPP's journal articles in this area, is intended to help those involved in this fast-moving and interdisciplinary research area to find the information they need, quickly and easily.
Gazetteer of planetary nomenclature
Provides contermporary, searchabe database of names used in our planetary system
Teaching Resources
Physics 3751 Energy Production and Transfer Power Point presentation - clues of where to find "stuff".
Catalog of the scientific community in the 16th and 17th centuries - the Galileo Project: the Galileo Project is a hypertext source of information on the life and work of Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) and the science of his time. The project is supported by the Office of the Vice President of Computing of Rice University. The initial stages were made possible by a grant from the Council on Library Resources to Fondren Library.