Sub sections:
Physics
- Key databases
- Worth a look
- Encyclopedias and dictionaries
- High impact journals
- Physics Preprints
- Web sites and Internet resources
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Key databases
IOP (Institute of Physics) Selected Full Text
UNE's access to the IOP collection includes the Journal of Physics D, Applied Physics, Classical and Quantum Gravity, and Physics Education.
Includes full text access to 11 titles.
ProQuest Full Text
ProQuest has 8,000 magazines and newspapers, 30,000 theses and 4,500 market reports in full text. Other content includes Hoover’s Company Records and 25,000 working papers from the Social Science Research Network (SSRN).
SpringerLink Full Text
Peer-reviewed journals in astronomy, chemistry, computer science, economics, engineering, environmental sciences, geosciences, life sciences, mathematics, medicine and physics.
Wiley InterScience Full Text
Search current journals in a wide range of disciplines. | Discover Wiley InterScience (PDF)
WorldSciNet Full Text
Journal website of scientific research papers covering computer science, engineering, mathematics, medical and life sciences, among others.
Worth a look
ANSTI: Australian Nuclear Science & Technology Information 
Bibliographic index of Australian scientific and technical literature covering nuclear science research and development. 
SciFinder Scholar
SciFinder Scholar connects users to the Chemical Abstracts database produced by Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS). In addition to research in pure chemistry, the database covers literature in the following areas: Agricultural Science, Biology and Life Sciences, Engineering Sciences, Food Sciences, General Chemistry, Geological Sciences, Material Sciences, Medical Sciences and Physics and Polymer Science. For further information, see the SciFinder Scholar page.
Web of Knowledge
Search Web of Science, Current Contents Connect, CAB Abstracts and Journal Citation Reports.
Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Dictionary of physics
CRC Handbook of chemistry and physics: a ready-reference book of chemical and physical data R540.212/C911/2008
Space: the Cambridge encyclopedia of space R629.4/R991s
High impact journals
These journals have been selected using Journal Citation Reports (JCR), a resource tool for journal evaluation. According to JCR, these journals have a high impact on the scientific literature when compared with other journals in the field.
Advanced Functional Materials
Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Nature Materials
Nature Physics
Physical Review Letters
Reports on Progress in Physics
Physics preprints
Electronic archives for research papers.
ArXiv.org Open access to 508,550 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology and Statistics.
eprintweb Based on the ArXiv.org database from Cornell University.
Mathematical Physics Preprint Archive Electronic archive for research papers in Mathematical Physics and related areas maintained by the University of Texas.
CERN Document Server Over 900,000 bibliographic records related to particle physics and related areas.
Web sites & Internet resources
American Institute of PhysicsAstroWeb: Astronomy resources on the Internet
Australian Institute of Physics
Center for History of Physics
HyperPhysics A broad-ranging interactive physics exploration environment.
Internet Physicist
The laws list - rules, principles and laws in physics and astronomy.
National Science Digital Library - NSDL is a US-based online library for education and research in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics.
Physics World
Physics symbols - video clips explaining some of the most commonly used physics and astronomy symbols
Physics Yahoo directory.
SPIE An international society advancing light-based research.