Physics

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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 15 titles.

ProQuest Full Text
ProQuest includes academic and non-academic content in a wide range of fields, from arts, literature, and social science to business, science, technology, and medicine.

Scopus
Scopus provides citations and abstracts for over17,000 academic journals, with many links to full-text. Scopus also provides citation counts and other bibliographical information.

SpringerLink Full Text
Peer-reviewed journals in astronomy, chemistry, computer science, economics, engineering, environmental sciences, geosciences, life sciences, mathematics, medicine and physics.

Wiley Online Library Full Text
Search current journals in a wide range of disciplines.
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Web of Knowledge
Search Web of Science, Current Contents Connect, CAB Abstracts and Journal Citation Reports.

Web of Science Training

WorldSciNet Full Text
Journal website of scientific research papers covering computer science, engineering, mathematics, medical and life sciences, among others.

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ANSTI Australian flag
The Australian Nuclear Science & Technology Information database indexes 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). The database includes scientific literature relevant to agricultural science, biology and the life sciences, engineering, food science, chemistry, geology, material sciences, medical science, physics and polymer science.

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

Physics preprints

Electronic archives for research papers.

ArXiv.org Started in 1995, this site provides a fully automated electronic archive and distribution server for research papers. Covered areas include physics and related disciplines, mathematics, nonlinear sciences, computational linguistics, and neuroscience.
CERN Document Server A searchable database of over 550,000 bibliographic records, including 220,000 fulltext documents, of interest to those working in particle physics and related areas. Also covers preprints, articles, books, journals, and photographs.
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.
Phil-Sci Archive - Sponsored by the Philosophy of Science Association, and by the University of Pittsburgh's Center for Philosophy of Science, reprints posted on this archive are restricted to those in philosophy of science or related material of interest to philosophers of science.
SPIRES - high-energy physics literature database.
Search more than 500,000 high-energy physics related articles, including journal papers, preprints, e-prints, technical reports, conference papers and theses.