Library Class and Subject Guides: Physics and Astronomy: Articles

Search for Articles

The following databases and webpages provide access to scholarly journal articles and citation in Physics and Astronomy.

AccessScience
access science
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Reference material covering all major scientific disciplines.
APS Prola This link opens in a new window
Provides citations, abstracts, and full text to articles published in American Physical Society journals.
arXiv This link opens in a new window
Started in August 1991, arXiv.org (formerly xxx.lanl.gov) is a highly-automated electronic archive and distribution server for research articles. Covered areas include physics, mathematics, computer science, nonlinear sciences, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, and statistics. arXiv is maintained and operated by the Cornell University Library with guidance from the arXiv Scientific Advisory Board and the arXiv Member Advisory Board, and with the help of numerous subject moderators.
GeoScienceWorld
geo science world
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"Includes peer-reviewed articles from over 50 high impact journals covering a broad range of geoscience areas."
Science and ScienceNOW
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Provides full text articles from Science. Each issue becomes available same day it is published. Browse or search for articles. Also provides access to ScienceNOW, a daily news service comprised of 3-5 "stories covering new developments in research, policy, funding, exploration, and technology." Archives for ScienceNOW date back to January 1996.
ScienceDirect
science direct elsevier
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Provides citations, abstracts, and selected full text to articles covering a broad range of disciplines, including agriculture, biology and genetics, arts and humanities, biochemistry, business, chemical engineering, chemistry, computer science, earth and planetary sciences, economics, environmental science, mathematics, medicine and dentistry, physics and astronomy, social sciences, and veterinary science and medicine.
SciFinderⁿ This link opens in a new window
Provides citations and abstracts to patents and journal articles about chemistry as well as information about substances, regulated chemicals, chemical reactions, and chemical suppliers. There is additional information required to access this resource.

CERN Document Server
Over 900,000 bibliographic records, including 360,000 fulltext documents, of interest to people working in particle physics and related areas. Covers preprints, articles, books, journals, photographs, and much more. The documents originate from a variety of institutes all over the world. The collection, currently available, starts in 1979 and it has a full coverage of the arXiv.org e-Print archive since its beginning in 1991."
U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information
Includes abstracts that often link to the full-text. Sponsored by the Department of Energy. Network includes access to DOE's Information Bridge, a searchable collection of full-text gray literature documents.

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