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Physics Subject Guide

Top Article Databases
  • arXiv.org
    Open access to 546,172 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics
  • Astrophysics Data Systems (NASA ADS)
    ADS contains abstracts and citations for materials in astronomy and astrophysics, instrumentation, physics and geophysics, Los Alamos preprints, and many archives.
  • MathSciNet
    Searchable database of citations for articles in 'Mathematical Reviews' from the American Mathematical Society. Covers mathematics, statistics, engineering, and the physical sciences. Full-text links to many original articles from the American Mathematical Society.  Tutorials are available at http://www.mathscinet.info/index.html
    Covers: 1940 - present
  • SPIE Digital Library
    Includes approx. 90,000 full-text papers from SPIE Journals and Proceedings published since 1998. It also includes citations and abstracts for most SPIE papers published since 1995.
    SPIE Digital Library alternate
  • Web of Science / Web of Knowledge
    Multidisciplinary index to scholarly and authoritative articles. Provides access to all three parts of the Citation Index: Arts and Humanities, Social Science and Science. Search by subject, author, journal title. Cited Reference Search finds articles that cite an author or article that you specify.
    Covers: 1900 - present.
Other Article Databases
  • Google Scholar
    Large multidisciplinary search engine with results ranking and previews. Google Scholar indexes scholarly literature including journal articles. *Note:  free public access available at http://scholar.google.com/
  • IEEE Xplore
    Full-text access to IEEE transactions, journals, magazines and conference proceedings published since 1988 and all current IEEE standards.
  • INSPEC
    Index of citations for articles and conference papers on physics, electrical engineering, computers, and information technology. Contains abstracts.
    Covers: 1969 - present
  • International Nuclear Information System (INIS Database)
    Database of citations to journal articles and grey literature with scientific and technical information on peaceful uses of atomic energy.
  • Optics InfoBase
    Searchable full-text of 10 full-text optics research journals.
    Coverage: Varies depending on journal title.
  • SPIRES
    Database of over 400,000 high-energy physics related articles received by the SLAC and/or DESY libraries.
    Covers: 1974 - present

Katie Fortney

Scholarly Communications Officer
Librarian for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Biomolecular Engineering, Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, and Physics

Phone: 831-502-7505
email: kfortney@ucsc.edu