Finding Resources in Physics

Books

To find general books in the Bata Library, use TOPCAT. A general keyword search for "physics" finds over 3,000 items and is not a very helpful search. Use more specific search terms, such as:

Nanotechnology
Soft condensed matter
Quantum optics
Superconductivity
Astrophysics
Critical phenomena
Energy-band theory
Mass spectrometry

When you find one item of use on your topic, use the subject headings to help you find more.

Articles

For Physics, some of the important resources are available online free of charge, including the LANL and NASA databases. Important resources to which the Trent Library subscribes are the AIP (American Institute of Physics) and APS (American Physical Society) e-journals and the Science Citation Index Expanded (part of Web of Knowledge).

Science Citation Index Expanded is a multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the sciences. It fully indexes 5,900 major journals across 150 scientific disciplines. The Science Citation Index Expanded includes all cited references captured from indexed articles. Web of Knowledge is a unique indexing system that allows cited reference searching. If you're not familiar with this type of searching, see our webpage on Cited Reference Searching - Web of Knowledge.

All these resources listed with the indexes below, with links to descriptions of the resource.

Other Resources

The CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics is available online and in print in the Library. The list of websites below provides links to useful scholary cites that can be used in your research. A list of helpful reference books in the Bata Library is found at the end of this page.

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Title	Access	Description	Coverage
Academic OneFile a general index with many full text articles	Trent	description	C & FT
Academic Search Elite (EBSCOhost) a general index with many full-text articles	Trent	description	C & FT
AIP Journals (American Institute of Physics)	Trent	description	FT
Annual Reviews e-journals in Biomedical, Physical, or Social Sciences	Trent	description	FT
APS Journals (American Physical Society) e-journals	Trent	description	FT
E-Journals @ Scholars Portal Search	Trent	description	FT
HighWire Press e-journals in Science, Technology, and Medicine	Trent	description	some FT
Institute of Physics (IOP) e-journals	Trent	description	FT
Los Alamos E-Print (LANL) Archive	WWW	description	FT
Meterological and geoastrophysical abstracts [Ref.] QC851 .A62 to 1999	in library		C
The NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) Abstract Service	WWW	description	C
PROLA (Physical Review Online Archive) e-journals	Trent	description	FT
Scholars Portal Search (search several databases at once)	Trent	description	FT
Science Citation Index Expanded from Web of Science	Trent	description	C
Scirus science-specific Internet search engine	WWW		some FT
Other Online Resources
CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics	Trent	description	Reference
SpringerLink - Physics and Astronomy - access all online Physics content from Springer (articles & books)	Trent	description	Reference

 ACRL Internet Resources : Physics

An annotated list of key resources on the internet, from the Association of College & Research Libraries News (March 2000).

 AIP Center for History of Physics

A history of modern physics and allied fields, from the American Institute of Physic's Center for History.

 APS (American Physical Society)

Homepage of the American Physical Society, a professional organization of physicists. They also publish the APS Journals, to which we subscribe.

 Canadian Association of Physicists

Professional and educational information within specialized subject divisions.

 Computer Animations of Physical Processes

Offers animations and visualizations (with theoretical explanations), under the headings of waves, optics, mechanics, and thermodynamics. There are also useful links, free samples and educational programmes for downloading.

DOE Information Bridge

Free access to full-text and bibliographic records of Department of Energy (DOE) research and development reports (1995 onwards) in physics, chemistry, materials, biology, environmental sciences, energy technologies, engineering, computer and information science, renewable energy, and other topics.

E-print Network

Search for electronic e-prints including manuscripts that have not yet been published, scholarly papers, technical communications, or similar documents relaying research results among peer groups in science and technology (from the U.S. Department of Energy).Also includes a gateway to over 12,000 Web sites and databases worldwide, containing e-prints in basic and applied sciences, primarily in physics

Energy Citations database (DOE) (1948 to the present)

Energy Citations provides access to bibliographic records for energy and energy-related scientific and technical information from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and its predecessor agencies. It includes citations to report literature, conference papers, journal articles, books, dissertations, and patents.

Expanding Universe

A classified search tool for astronomy sites.(from the Toronto Public Library)

Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics (KITP)

KITP is associated with the University of California in Santa Barbara. It employs a number of faculty and postdoctoral researchers. A key role it plays is hosting extended workshops (several months) on focused topics of current interest. As part of these workshops, many researchers--both theorists and experimentalists--come to the centre to work together. Many talks are presented, and these talks are available online.

Los Alamos E-Print Archive

An electronic archive for research papers in Physics.

 The NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

The Astrophysics Data System (ADS) is a NASA-funded project which maintains four bibliographic databases containing more than 2.4 million records: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation, Physics and Geophysics, and preprints in Astronomy.

Physics and Astronomy Journals Online

Trent's Physics Department's links to the home pages of Physics Today, American Journal of Physics, Astrophysical Journal, and more topical journals.

PhysicsWeb

Includes physics-related news, jobs, events and limited access to the latest issue of Physics World. The Web Links page contains links to physics sites around the world.

Science's Next Wave

A weekly online publication published by SCIENCE magazine and the American Association for the Advancement of Science that covers: Job Market News, Career Transitions, Career and Job-Hunting News, Family and Career Issues, Women in Science and Science's Big Debates.

The Virtual Library : Physics

Links to sites under such headings as astrophysics, energy, high energy physics, nuclear physics, particle physics, etc.

 WWW Astronomy Sites

Trent's Physics Department's links to the Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute, NASA, and more astronomy websites.

 WWW Physics Sites

Trent's Physics Department's links to the Science.ca, the American Institute of Physics, and other sites.

E-Books
	Credo Reference An online collection of 100 reference books (description)
	CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics (description)
	SpringerLink Reference Books for Physics (description)
General Reference Books
	Basic tables in physics  QC 61 .R6 REF
	Concise dictionary of physics  QC 5 .C56 1990 REF
	CRC handbook of chemistry and physics  QD 65 .H3 2001/2002 REF
	Dictionary of named effects and laws in chemistry, physics, and mathematics  QD 5 .B32 1980 REF
	Dictionary of scientific units : including dimensionless numbers and scales  QC 82 . J4 1992 REF
	Elsevier's dictionary of general physics in six languages : English/American, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch and German  QC 5 .E46 REF
	Encyclopedia of atmospheric sciences and astrogeology QC 854 .F34 REF
	Encyclopedia of spectroscopy  QC 450.3 .P47 1995 REF
	Global earth physics : a handbook of physical constants  QC 808.8 .G56 1995 REF
	Handbook of physics QC  61 .H372002
	International dictionary of physics and electronics  QC 5 .I5 1961 REF
	McGraw-Hill encyclopedia of physics  QC 5 .M425 1983 REF
	MacMillan encyclopedia of physics  QC 5 .M45 1996 REF
	The magnitudes of physics  QC 20.85 .G67 1996 REF
	Physics handbook : elementary constants and units, tables, formulae and diagrams and mathematical formulae   QC 61 .N83 1982 REF
	Tables of physical and chemical constants and mathematical functions  QC 61 .K3 1985 REF
Subject Specific Reference Books : Astronomy

	Dictionary of astronomy, space, and atmospheric phenomena  QB 14 .T83 REF
	Encyclopedia of astronomy and astrophysics  QB 14 .E534 2001 REF
	Encyclopedia of atmospheric science & astrogeology  QC 854 .F34 REF
	Encyclopedia of the solar system  QB 501 .E53 2007 REF
	Facts on file dictionary of astronomy  QB 14 .I42 1985 REF
	Glossary of astronomy and astrophysics  QB 14 .H69 REF
	International encyclopedia of astronomy  QB 14 .I58 1987 REF
	Planets  QB 601.9 .H46 1992 REF
Bibliographies : Physics

	Energy information guide  Z 5853 .P83 W38 REF
Bibliographies : Astronomy
	Selected bibliography on Native American astronomy  Z 5151 .C65 REF