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Primary Physics Journal Article Databases
PROLA is The American Physical Society's Physical Review Online Archive. The majority of the collection consists of scanned images of the printed journals available as either GIF images or as PDF files. The complete archive consists of all of Physical Review back to 1893, all of Physical Review Letters back to 1958, Physical Review Special Topics from 1998 to present, and all of Reviews of Modern Physics back to 1929.
The SPIN database (Searchable Physics Information Notices) produced by the American Institute of Physics provides the most current indexing and abstracting of more than 100 major physics, astronomy, and engineering journals and conference proceedings. It provides access to over 1 million abstracts and is updated daily. Approximately 50,000 new records are added annually.
Additional Databases
The CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics provides data needed by chemists, physicists, and engineers. It contains physical constants and formulas, properties of elements and organic and inorganic compounds, and other chemical data.
Science Citation Index(Web of Science) provides cover-to-cover indexing in journals from a full range of disciplines, from 1999 to the present. Made up of Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index, each index is a true cited reference index, with citation counts and the ability to trace research forward or backward in time. When full-text access is available, links provide access.
Wilson General Science Full Text is a database that indexes articles from 1989, abstracts articles from
1993, and additionally provides the full text of selected periodicals from 1995 to the present. Periodical coverage
includes popular science magazines as well as professional journals in the sciences.
Access is for a single user only. If someone else is logged in, please try again later. Please be sure
to log out when finished.
Wilson OmniFile Full Text, Mega edition includes indexing and full-text articles from Wilson General
Science Full Text and two other science oriented databases, Applied Science & Technology Full Text and Biological
& Agricultural Index. Select Applied Science & Technology or Biology & Agriculture from the selection box labeled
Subject Area on the main search page.
Project Muse is a collection of over 100 full-text journals, with 13 journals in the subject areas of
general science, philosophy and science, medicine and health, and mathematics.
ScienceDirect is the world's largest scientific, technical and medical database, with over 59 million
citation abstracts. ScienceDirect also provides full-text access to over 200 journals in various science
disciplines.
ReferenceUniverse is a meta-search engine for many of the library's reference books, both online and print. Unlike the library catalog which searches only limited information like book title and author, ReferenceUniverse searches the complete index of each reference book. Searches return a hit for every relevant index entry, as well as the title and call number for every reference book containing a hit.
Endnote is a Web-based bibliography and database manager that allows users to create their own personal database by importing references from text files or online databases. They can use these references in writing their papers and automatically format the paper and the bibliography in seconds.
