Physics Research Resources

Oberlin College Department of Physics & Astronomy

Journal Article Databases

INSPEC 1969 - present: physics, astronomy, engineering, computer science. INSPEC Archive 1898-1968

Science Citation Index (ISI Web of Knowledge) 1980-

SPIRES: High Energy Physics database from SLAC (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center)

More databases (OhioLINK list for physics)

Contributions of 20th Century Women to Physics searchable database with images mounted at UCLA.
Einstein Archives Online digitized manuscripts and database of 43,000+ archival items
E-Print Network - U.S. Dept. of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information. Provides one-stop browse/search access to more than 16,100 Web sites containing e-prints, full text searching of over 524,000 e-print documents indexed from Web sites, deep Web searching across 39 major databases containing close to 20 million pages of searchable full text, and links to more than 2,300 professional scientific societies.

Scitation including the SPIN database from the American Institute of Physics and its member societies.

Reference Sources

Access Science: Online Encyclopedia of Science & Technology (McGraw Hill)
also in print: Q 121 .M3
AIP Physics Desk Reference QC61 .P49
Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics Handbook QC 173 .A827
CRC Handbook of Chemistry & Physics QD 65 .H3
Elemental Data Index, including atomic spectra, ionization data, X-ray and gamma-ray data, nuclear physics data and much more. (NIST Physics Laboratory database)
Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Physics QC 5 .E52
Encyclopedia of Acoustics QC 221.5 .E53
Encyclopedia of Physical Science & Technology Q123 .E497
E n cyclopedia of Physics Demonstrations 600 physics demonstrations on video
Graduate Schools in Physics, Astronomy and Related Fields
Handbook of Physics QC 21 .H33
Macmillan Encyclopedia of Physics QC 5 .M15
Oxford Reference Online: Physical Sciences and Mathematics
Twentieth Century Physics QC 7 .T84

Online Journals and Preprints

American Journal of Physics full-text online from 1975 to present
American Physical Society Journals includes all Physical Review volumes, current and archive (PROLA)
American Institute of Physics Online Journals
CERN Document Server
High Energy Physics (HEP) Preprints Stanford Linear Accelerator Center SPIRES database
Institute of Physics Electronic Journals project from IOP
Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP)
New Journal of Physics (NJP)
Physical Review Online Archive (PROLA - APS)
Physics Education an international journal, to support secondary school teachers and those involved with courses up to introductory undergraduate level
Scitation journals in physics, engineering, computers, and technology from 20+ publishers; the re-launch of the Online Journal Publishing Service (OJPS), a "leader in online sci-tech publishing and journal hosting since 1996".

Other online journals to which the library subscribes are all fully cataloged on OBIS; choose periodical title search for quickest access.
The Electronic Journal Finder is another useful guide to online journals accessible from Oberlin, through publishers' agreements with various database providers.

Web Guides

PhysicsCentral (American Physics Society)
Physics World.com Institute of Physics, London
Intute: Science, Engineering and Technology

Associations and Organizations

American Institute of Physics
American Physical Society
Fermilab Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Institute of Physics