Article Databases back to top
Use these databases to search for articles via keyword, subject, or author. Links to the electronic version of the article are often available. For articles on reserve for a class, see Eres (Electronic Reserves).
ArXiv E-prints archive from Cornell (previously LANL).
INSPEC via OVID [UC only]
Covers 1969-present. This is the best choice for comprehensive coverage of journal articles and conference papers in physics, electrical engineering, and computer science.
Web Of Science (Science Citation Index) [UC Only]
1975-present. This is an index to scientific journal articles that also allows you to search for citations to a particular article. You look up the reference to a work that you know about to find more recent journal articles that have cited it. Cited reference searching is a unique way to trace ideas and subjects from past research into the present day. Searchable by author, keyword, and cited reference. Unfortunately this database does not cover conference literature. Because there are a limited number of ports available, please be sure to logoff when you are finished so that your connection can be made available to someone else.
Expanded Academic ASAP from Infotrac/Gale [UC Only]
1980-present. Citations to articles from selected scholarly, scientific and general interest journals, and popular magazines in all subject areas. Many citations include links to the full-text of an article. Good place to start for general multidisciplinary searches or for more popular articles.
SPIN Web [UC or AIP individual members only]
Users have the choice to "Search SPIN" "Browse SPIN" or view "Advance Abstracts" for accepted papers at top of screen. This physics research service is from American Institute of Physics and provides a database of over 80 major American and Russian physics and astronomy journals dating back to 1975. About 45,000 new records are added annually. This service is also available to individual members of AIP societies (APS, OSA, etc.).
NTIS Search for government/technical reports.
Complete list of Science & Engineering Databases available to UCSC users.
High Energy Physics:
HEPDOC. High-energy physics related documents received at CERN, DESY, KEK, and SLAC.
Fermilab High-energy physics pre-prints, theses and proposals.
SLAC-SPIRES Information Retrieval System Search over 400,000 high-energy physics related articles received by the SLAC and/or DESY libraries since 1974.
Electronic Journals back to top
Connecting to Online Resources from Home Using Sluglink (the UCSC Library Proxy Server)
How To Determine if UCSC Owns A Particular Journal
How To Use UC-eLinks
List of Electronic Full Text Journals
Search by words in the journal title to find journals which are available in full-text electronic format to UCSC users.
Books/Encyclopedias, online & print back to top
- CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics online
Encyclopedia of Physical Science & Technology, 2002 print only
Springer Tracts in Modern Physics online
AIP Conference Proceedings online
Landolt-Bornstein: General Scientific Information and Tools online
Encyclopedia of Optical Engineering online
Dissertations
- Digital Dissertations
- This database (produced by UMI) includes citations for materials ranging from the first US dissertation, accepted in 1861, to those accepted as recently as last semester; those published from 1980 forward also include 350-word abstracts, written by the author. Citations for master's theses from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts. Free 24-page PDF previews available since 1996. When available (usually from 1997-present), online versions of complete UC dissertations are free, but a credit card is needed for PDF access to works from other institutions.
Societies/Associations back to top
Acoustical Society of America
- American Institute of Physics
American Physical Society
Centre for Quantum Computation (Oxford University)
European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)
European Physical Society (EPS)
Institute of Physics
International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE)
International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP)
Optical Society of America
Scholarly Societies in Physics from the University of Waterloo
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC)
Keeping Current back to top
- Ovid Alerts Tutorial: AutoAlert enables you to create a search to be run automatically in Biosis Previews, Current Contents, Ei Compendex*Plus and Inspec with new database records sent to your email. [pdf 244kb]
Career Information/Jobs back to top
- Chronicle of Higher Education - Career Network
- Jobs in academia plus career guidance. For the most current job listings, users must be Chronicle subscribers, however, the previous weeks' listings are viewable by anyone.
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- SciJobs.Org
- Indexes a range of related science jobs. Can search by region, employer type, and degree required. Includes university, nonprofit, and industrial employers.
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- Occupational Outlook Handbook
- Published every two years by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. This is a standard career guidance source that offers general job descriptions, starting salaries, and job outlook for a wide range of professions.
Grants and Scholarships back to top
- Community of Science Funding Opportunities
- Search for research funding opportunities from sources that include private and government sources such as the NSF, NIH, USDA. Search by keyword, deadline, funding amounts, geographic area, and more. E-mail funding alert available.
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- Foundation Center
- Web site for the primary national clearinghouse on grant-making by private, charitable, community, and corporate foundations. Find foundations by state, or ranked by assets, and total giving.
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- National Science Foundation Grants Information
- The NSF is the independent U.S. government agency responsible for promoting science & engineering.
Writing Aids back to top
see also style guides
- Books about technical writing available at the Science & Engineering Library
- Here is a list (from CRUZCAT) of recent books on technical writing (i.e., how to write lab reports and scientific articles) that you can checkout at the Science Library. Check the list to see what's available.
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- Copyright Management Center (Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis)
- This website provides access to a wide variety of clearly written resources about copyright in general and its importance to higher education, including a variety of other pages dealing with the subject of copyright.
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- EndNote
- EndNote (available for purchase at an academic discount at the UCSC Bay Tree Bookstore) is a database manager that allows you to create your own personal library to store and manage references to documents. It works with Word and WordPerfect, and with other common word processors, to insert citations into papers and to format bibliographies in any of hundreds of styles. EndNote can import search results from many bibliographic files, such as the California Digital Library databases (MELVYL catalog, Medline, Current Contents, etc.), and Web of Science.
Style Guides back to top
Online: A Reference Guide to Using Online Resources
- By Andrew Harnack and Eugene Kepplinger, the authors of the book by the same name. You won't find the entire book here, but several chapters on specific citation styles are available online, including one from the Council of Biology Editors (CBE).
Teaching Resources back to top
- Instruction/Classes/Workshops at the UCSC Science & Engineering Library
- Find out how the library can help you and your students become more efficient researchers.
A Faculty Guide to Cyber-Plagiarism from the University of Alberta Libraries. Many great resources, including pro-active materials such as handouts and lecture notes for discussing plagiarism with students.
- NetTrail
- This is a great place to start. A fun, interactive library tutorial that will prepare your students to explore and do research at UCSC and beyond.
- The
Physics Librarian
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Christy
Caldwell
is the Physics Librarian at UCSC. She can help you with:
- Suggestions for physics books or journals for the library to purchase
- Questions or comments about the books or journals in the library
- Questions or concerns about library policies
- Library instruction in your classes, ranging from basic computer searching to the use of specialized resources in physics
- Citation searches online, or provide a refresher on how to use the California Digital Library Databases, MELVYL or CRUZCAT
Christy can be reached at caldwell@ucsc.edu, phone 459-1287 or mail Christy Caldwell, Science & Engineering Library. |
