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
Reference material covering all major scientific disciplines.
APS Prola
Provides citations, abstracts, and full text to articles published in American Physical Society journals.
arXiv
arXiv is a free distribution service and an open-access archive for 2,298,096 scholarly articles in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics.
GeoScienceWorld
Includes peer-reviewed articles from over 50 high impact journals covering a broad range of geoscience areas.
Science and ScienceNOW
Scientific news, commentary, and research journals, Science and ScienceNOW, contribute to the discussion of important issues related to the advancement of science.
ScienceDirect
Covers a broad range of disciplines such as agriculture, biology & genetics, arts & humanities, biochemistry, business, chemical engineering, chemistry, computer science, earth & planetary sciences, economics, environmental science, mathematics, medicine & dentistry, physics & astronomy, social sciences, and veterinary science & medicine.
SciFinder-n
Provides citations and abstracts to patents and journal articles about chemistry as well as information about substances, regulated chemicals, chemical reactions, and chemical suppliers.
To get started with SciFinderN:
All new users must register at the New User Registration Link and must use their @mnsu.edu email address.

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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