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Physics

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Sites with Links Reference Works and Texts

Philosophy and History eJournals and other Periodicals

Sites with Links

• The Institute of Physics - The website for physics and physicists
• IPL -- Science and Technology -- Physics
• NIST Virtual Library - (National Institute of Standards and Technology) - Research by Subject - Physics
• Physics and Astronomy Resources - (Louisiana State University)
• Physics Links List - Learning, career, society and online journal links - (Boston University)
• PhysicsWeb - News, links, forum and more - Global perspective

Reference Works and Texts

• American Institute of Physics - Directory of member organizations, jobs, journal contents, etc.
• CRC Handbook of Chemistry & Physics Online - Provides the content of the 90th Edition, 2009-2010, of the CRC Handbook of Chemistry & Physics. Use the Table of Contents to explore the sections of the handbook.
• Global Warming - (US EPA)
• The NASA Astrophysics Data System - Find abstracts for articles in Astrophysics, Planetary Sciences, Solar Physics, Instrumentation, Physics and Geophysics - (hosted by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics )
• NIST Physical Reference Data - (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
• Physics 2000 - Interactive journey through twentieth century physics - (Univ. of Colorado, Boulder)
• Resources of Scholarly Societies - Physics - (University of Waterloo)

Philosophy and History

• Center for the History of Physics - (American Institute of Physics)
• Contributions of 20th Century Women to Physics - Archive of data on 86 twentieth century women who have made original and important contributions to physics prior to 1976 - (UCLA)
• Net Advance of Physics: History of Physics - History / Philosophy Links
• Physics Time-Line - Selected physics events, 585 - present - (Weburbia)

eJournals and Other Periodicals

• American Institute of Physics Publications - Includes Computering in Science and Engineering, The Industrial Physicist, Physics Today, and various newsletters
• The American Journal of Physics - American Association of Physics Teachers
• Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics
• arXiv - (Cornell University) - E-print service for physics, astronomy, mathematics, non-linear science, computer science, and quantitative biology
  • arXiv arXiv French mirror site.
• Astronomy Now - Britain's best-selling astronomy magazine
• Biophysical Journal - (The Biophysical Society)
• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) - This directory covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. The full text of articles are freely available. The goal is to cover all subjects and languages. There are currently over 1000 journals in the directory.
• Institute of Physics (IOP)
  All articles abstracted, full text availability is noted.
  • New Journal of Physics 1 (1998/1999) - present. Full text.
  • Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General 8 (1975) - present. Full text since 1999.
    • Continues: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical, Nuclear and General 6 (1973) - 7 (1974)
    • Continues: Journal of Physics A: General Physics 2 (1969) - 5 (1972)
  • Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 21 (1988) - present. Full text since 1991.
    • Continues: Journal of Physics B: Atomic and Molecular Physics 3 (1970) - 20 (1987)
  • Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 1 (1989) - present. Full text since 1991.
    • Continues: Journal of Physics C: Solid State Physics 3 (1970) - 21 (1988)
    • Continues: Journal of Physics F: Metal Physics 2 (1972) - 14 (1988)
  • Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 1 (1968) - present. Full text since 1991.
  • Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics 15 (1989) - present. Full text since 1991.
    • Continues: Journal of Physics G: Nuclear Physics 1 (1975) - 14 (1988)
  • Classical and Quantum Gravity 1 (1984) - present. Full text since 1991.
  • Combustion Theory and Modelling 1 (1997) - present. Full text.
  • Distributed Systems Engineering 1 (1994) - 5 (1999). Full text.
  • European Journal of Physics 1 (1980) - present. Full text since 1991.
  • High Performance Polymers 3(1991) - present. Full text.
  • Inverse Problems 1 (1985) - present. Full text since 1991.
  • Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering 1 (1991) - present. Full text.
  • Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics 1 (1999) - present. Full text.
    • Continues: Journal of Optics 11 (1980) - 29 (1998). Full text since 1991.
    • Continues: Pure and Applied Optics: Journal of the European Optical Society Part A 1 (1992) - 7 (1998). Full text.
  • Journal of Optics B: Quantum and Semiclassical Optics 1 (1999) - present. Full text.
    • Continues: Quantum and Semiclassical Optics: Journal of the European Optical Society Part B 7(1995) - 10(1998). Full text.
    • Continues: Quantum Optics: Journal of the European Optical Society Part B 1 (1989) - 6 (1994). Full text since 1991.
  • Journal of Radiological Protection 8 (1988) - present. Full text since 1991.
    • Continues: Journal of the Society for Radiological Protection 1 (1981) - 7 (1987)
  • Journal of Turbulence 1 (2000) - present. Online only. Full text.
  • Measurement Science and Technology 1 (1990) - present. Full text since 1991.
    • Continues: Journal of Physics E: Scientific Instruments 4 (1971) - 22 (1989)
  • Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering 1 (1993) - present. Full text.
  • Nanotechnology 1 (1990) - present. Full text since 1991.
  • Network: Computation in Neural Systems 1 (1990) - present. Full text since 1991.
  • Nonlinearity 1 (1988) - present. Full text since 1991.
  • Physics Education 26 (1991) - present. Full text.
  • Physics in Medicine and Biology 25 - (1980) - present. Full text since 1991.
  • Physiological Measurement 14 (1993) - present. Full text.
    • Continues: Clinical Physics and Physiological Measurement 1 (1980) - 13 (1992). Full text 1991 - 1992.
  • Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 26 (1984) - present. Full text since 1991.
    • Continues: Plasma Physics 22 (1980) - 25 (1983)
  • Plasma Sources Science and Technology 1 (1992) - present. Full text.
  • Public Understanding of Science 1 (1992) - present. Full text.
  • Reports on Progress in Physics 36 (1973) - present. Full text since 1991.
  • Semiconductor Science and Technology 1 (1986) - present. Full text since 1991.
  • Smart Materials and Structures 1 (1992) - present. Full text.
  • Superconductor Science and Technology 1 (1989) - present. Full text since 1991.
  • Waves in Random Media 1 (1991) - present. Full text.
• Nature Materials
• Physical Sciences and Engineering Collection (ScienceDirect College Edition) - Includes Full Text access to peer reviewed journals in Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Computer Science, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Energy, Engineering, Materials Science, Mathematics, Physics and Astronomy.
• Physics News - Breaking news and links to other online newsletters - (Brown University)
• Sky & Telescope - (Sky Publishing) astronomy news and resources for free, and for fee access to magazine of the same name
• University of Chicago Press
  Check the Journal Holdings List to verify which titles the library subscribes to. Select titles are linked below:
  • Astronomical Journal - 115 (1998) - present
  • The Astrophysical Journal - 471 (1996) - present. Includes letters and supplements.

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Last Revised: MS - 6/22/2010