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Resources by Subject - Physics and Astronomy

For a list of all databases see Alphabetical List of Databases/Indexes.
For large, multi-disciplinary indexes see General Databases/Indexes.

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Related Branch Library:Physics Library
Related Academic Department:Department of Physics and Astronomy
Contact Your Librarian: Leo Clougherty


Databases / Indexes

Blackwell Synergy Restricted Resource - UI Access Only

Inspec Restricted Resource - UI Access Only
Inspec includes bibliographic citations and indexed abstracts from publications in the fields of physics, electrical and electronic engineering, communications, computer science, control engineering, information technology, manufacturing and mechanical engineering, operations research, material science, oceanography, engineering mathematics, nuclear engineering, environmental science, geophysics, nanotechnology, biomedical technology and biophysics

Inspec Archive 1898-1968 Restricted Resource - UI Access Only
Access to over 70 years of international scientific and technical literature in physics, electrical engineering, electronics, computing and control engineering.

IOP Electronic Journals Restricted Resource - UI Access Only

ISI Web of Knowledge Restricted Resource - UI Access Only
A citation database that includes the Web of Science (Science Citation Index, 1900-present, the Social Science Citation Index, 1956-present, and the Arts and Humanities Citation Index, 1975-present) and Journal Citation Reports (JCR).

SpringerLink Restricted Resource - UI Access Only
Electronic versions of the Springer journals in chemical sciences, computer science, economics, engineering, environmental sciences, geosciences, life sciences, mathematics, medicine, and physics. Includes former Kluwer Academic Publishers.



Journal Collections

Annual Reviews Restricted Resource - UI Access Only

Blackwell Synergy Restricted Resource - UI Access Only

Elsevier ScienceDirect Restricted Resource - UI Access Only
Full text collection of over 1,000,000 articles from 1995 to present covers a variety of subject areas and disciplines, including biochemistry, biological sciences, business, chemistry, earth sciences, economics, engineering, mathematics and computer science, neurosciences, physics and social sciences.

IOP Electronic Journals Restricted Resource - UI Access Only

SpringerLink Restricted Resource - UI Access Only
Electronic versions of the Springer journals in chemical sciences, computer science, economics, engineering, environmental sciences, geosciences, life sciences, mathematics, medicine, and physics. Includes former Kluwer Academic Publishers.



Preprints

arXiv.org
Collection of electronic pre-prints in various sciences. The archive is based upon activities supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation under agreement with the Los Alamos National Laboratory, and by the U.S. Department of Energy.

Astronomical Observatory of Trieste
Triste, Italy. Publications of the Astronomical Observatory of Trieste and of the Department of Astronomy of the University of Trieste.

Cern European Laboratory for Particle Physics

Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique
Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France.

European Southern Observatory
Munich, Germany. Observatory information, publications, preprints, etc.

Fermilab Documents
Bataiva, Illinois.

Fermilab Information Resources Department
Batavia, Illinois.

Max-Planck-Institut fur Physik Preprint Server
Munich, Germany.

National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center
Electronic preprints and publications.

Stanford Public Retrieval System
Preprints and searchable databases.



Standards

American National Standards Institute



Other Resources

American Astronomical Society
General Society meeting information and electronic materials.

Anglo-Australian Telescope
Coouabarabran, Australia.

The Association of Science-Technology Centers

Astronomical Society of the Pacific
ASP information, activities, and publications.

AstroWeb
Astronomy/Astrophysics on the Internet.

Bradford Technology Limited Publishing
Stars and galaxies interactive multimedia program.

Center for Earth and Planetary Studies, Image Collections
Images from U.S. crewed spaceflights

CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics Restricted Resource - UI Access Only

David Dunlap Observatory
Database of Stellar Information.

Earth and Sky Radio Series

European Space Agency
Noordwijk, Netherlands. Agency press releases and publications.

GalaxSee Curriculum Resources

Goddard Space Flight Center

IAU Circulars

Icarus
Searchable database of solar system studies journal.

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Membership and chapter information.

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Kennedy Space Center

Lunar and Planetary Institute
The Lunar and Planetary Institute is a focus for academic participation in studies of the current state, evolution, and formation of the solar system.

Mars Pathfinder Mission

Minor Planet Electronic Circulars

NASA Astrophysics Data System Home Page
Contains links to searchable abstract databases, online journals, etc.

NASA SCAN -Selected Current Aerospace Notices
Current awareness bibliographies.

NASA Shuttle Web

National Aeronatuics and Space Administration
Directory of NASA branches and divisions.

National Air and Space Museum

National Institute of Standards and Technology
Information on NIST programs and descriptions of research.

National Optical Astronomy Observatory

National Radio Astronomy Observatory

National Space Science Data Center
Information about astronomical data products.

National Space Society

Naval Research Laboratory
Interactive browser for Clementine Lunar Imagery

Physics World Buyer's Guide Restricted Resource - UI Access Only
Available online as part of PhysicsWeb.

Royal Greenwich Observatory
Observatory Information.

The SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System
The Astrophysics Data System (ADS) is a NASA-funded project whose main resource is an abstract service, which draws abstracts from a variety of national and international scientific sources. The abstracts are divided into four sets: astronomy and astrophysics, instrumentation, physics and geophysics, and the ArXiv Preprints archive.

SETI Institute
Mountain View, CA.

Space Telescope Science Institute
Institute information, programs and Hubble images.

SPIRES HEP Literature Database
The HEP literature database contains more than 500,000 high-energy physics related articles indexed by the SLAC and DESY libraries since 1974.

Strasbourg Astronomical Data Center
Astronomy Internet resources and catalogs.

Students for the Exploration and Development of Space

University of Iowa Astronomy Group Hot Links
Listing of online AA journals, databases, and useful sites.

WebStars: Astrophysics in Cyberspace
This list of astronomical resource sites is intended as a resource for users who have a general interest in astronomical topics.

The World Wide Web Virtual Library: Engineering
Subject guides to WWW sources.