Click here to connect to APS Journals.

The American Physical Society (APS) is a professional organization of physicists. See the APS homepage for information on the many roles it plays. One important function it has is to publish a collection of journals, many of which are highly influential. The Trent library subscribes to those journals online, through this service.

The APS journals can be divided into three groups:

1. The journal Reviews of Modern Physics publishes review articles, which tend to be fairly long (50-100 pages) and make a more or less complete presentation of the current status of a particular research area.
2. The journal Physical Review Letters publishes short articles (4 pages) from all fields of physics which are thought to be important to their own field and to be of interest to those in other fields.
3. The journals Physical Review A, B, C, D, E publish articles of intermediate length (10-30 pages) which are important to their own field. The letters A through E correspond to specific areas of physics, and ST stands for special topics. Click on each and the subject is listed in the heading.

PROLA is the Physical Review Online Archive.

APS Journals provides access to the most recent information available through all APS journals, including those in PROLA and Physical Review Focus, an online index, society news and events, and articles scheduled for upcoming issues.

Note that Canadian physicists have their own professional organization, the Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP). The CAP website has a lot of useful information. The one publication of the CAP is the journal Physics in Canada.

A stable url (or persistent link) is a link that connects a user to a particular item in a database or on the web. This database uses the doi system to create a stable link.

To link to a particular article, look for the line that says:
To link to full-text access for this article, visit this link: http://dx.doi.org/####.###.

To ensure off-campus access, include the proxy prefix:
http://web2.trentu.ca:2048/login?url=

Example: http://web2.trentu.ca:2048/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jbbm.2007.04.008

Since this database also contains links to you can use the "Save Citation" data to create a link to the article.