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.
INSPEC Backfiles [UC only]
1898-1968. Access to over 70 years of international scientific and technical literature in physics, electrical engineering, electronics, computing and control engineering. Corresponds to three print resources: Science Abstracts (1898-1902) and its successors Physics (Section A), Electrical and Electronic Engineering (Section B), and Computer Science (Section C). The backfile covers original and translated articles, dissertations, conferences, papers and proceedings, books, book chapters, reports and patents published in Europe and America. Figures and tables are included.
Web Of Science (Science Citation Index) [UC Only]
1900-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.
Academic Search Complete[UC Only]
1949-present. A searchable database with citations and abstracts for journal articles covering all academic disciplines. Full text is available for more than 50% of the articles in this database.
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
How To Determine if UCSC Owns A Particular Journal
How To Use UC-eLinks
List of Electronic Full Text Journals
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)
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.
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- 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.
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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.
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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. |
