Library Guides: Physics Research Guide: Getting Started

Introduction

The following are information resources on the World Wide Web that are available to physicists and students of physics. Some of the following may only be immediately available to the students and faculty of Iowa State University. The web addresses have been included so that non-ISU researchers can get in touch with the publishers of the material.

Other online bibliographies of interest to physicists:

Index and Abstract Databases

Primary Physics Databases

ArXiv.org
Open access to article pre-prints in physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics.
CERN Document Server
This database indexes over 700,000 documents including journal articles, technical reports, preprints, books, software, and other materials in the field of particle physics and related fields. Materials date back to the mid-1900s with full coverage from 1980. Some of the material is available in full-text.
From Conseil Europen pour la Recherche Nuclaire (CERN)
Energy Citations Database - OSTI
Includes scientific and technical research results in disciplines of interest to the US Department of Energy such as chemistry, physics, materials, environmental science, geology, engineering, mathematics, climatology, oceanography, and computer science.
Nuclear Science References
Nuclear Science References indexes nuclear physics articles containing defined nuclear structures or reaction data. The database contains references to about 175,000 journal articles published since 1910. Currently about eighty journals are being covered.From the Brookhaven National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy
AIP Publishing
Scitation is the electronic journal publishing platform of the AIP. It includes a database of citations to AIP publications (journals, conference proceedings, and standards) and links to the actual articles (which are available to subscribers). It also includes the references to all articles included in the database and links to the online versions of those publications. It covers all areas of physics and related sciences.
About 600,000 articles are included in AIP Publishing. Also linked to AIP Publishing is the SPIN (Searchable Physics Information Notices) database. In addition to AIP publications, it indexes materials from societies associated with the AIP. AIP Publishing and SPIN can be searched simultaneously.
High-Energy Physics Literature Database
This database of High-Energy Physics research is based primarily on pre-prints but also links to the final journal article citation and full text when available.

Digital Repository and Physics Commons

Iowa State University is a member of the Digital Commons Network - the collection of institutions making use of the bepress Digital Repository platform. This resource provides a way for anybody to easily find Open Access materials (papers, articles, theses, etc.) that all member institutions have provided.

ISU Works in Physics
The subsection of the ISU Digital Repository for Physics materials.
Physics Commons
The section of the bepress Digital Commons Network dedicated to Physics. All of the ISU material will be here as well, but along with works by scholars in many different institutions.

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