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Reference Resources

Knovel Academic Collection
Engineering decision-support solution enabling students to solve problems faster. Its powerful search and interactive analytical tools help students find answers to technical questions through best practice insights, validated equations, and materials and property data from various providers.
Engineering Village
Engineering Village is a search interface for Compendex, Inspec, Chemical Business NewsBase (CBNB), and Knovel databases. It provides access to articles from scientific journals and conference proceedings, access to electronic books through Knovel database, offers support for varying engineering research initiatives, and helps discover engineering-related jobs.
Encyclopedia of Astronomy & Astrophysics
Over 2,750 specially commissioned, peer-reviewed and continually updated articles.
CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics
Full online access to the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. Includes chemical information and data reference tables.

Encyclopedia of Applied Physics
Key subject areas covered include: optics, laser physics, solid state and semiconductor physics, atom and nuclear physics, geophysics, and biophysics.
NIST Physical Reference Data
The databases include data on fundamental physical constants, atomic and molecular spectroscopy, ionization cross sections, absorption of x-rays and gamma rays, radiation dosimetry, half-life measurements, atomic weights, and condensed matter physics.
World of Physics
Eric Weisstein's World of Science from Wolfram contains encyclopedias of astronomy, scientific biography, chemistry, and physics.

Finding articles

For scholarly articles, see the following databases.

arXiv.org
Open access to research papers in physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics. Consists of electronic preprints (known as e-prints) approved for publication after moderation.
Web of Science
Search scholarly literature in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Web of Science is a terrific place to begin for research in the sciences. Also includes citation analysis tools.
IOPscience extra
Provides full text access to the Institute of Physics Journals.
ScienceDirect Journals
ScienceDirect is a search platform which provides access to research in the areas of physics and astronomy.
American Institute of Physics (AIP) Publications
Full-text online versions of AIP journals published by the American Institute of Physics
Inspec
Available through Engineering Village. Containing over 17 million records, Inspec is one of the most definitive abstract and indexing databases for subject specific and interdisciplinary research in the fields of engineering, physics and computer science.
IEEE Xplore
Provides access to more than four-million full text documents from some of the world's most highly cited publications in electrical engineering, biomedical engineering, computer science and electronics.
Engineering Village
Engineering Village is a search interface for Compendex, Inspec, Chemical Business NewsBase (CBNB), and Knovel databases. It provides access to articles from scientific journals and conference proceedings, access to electronic books through Knovel database, offers support for varying engineering research initiatives, and helps discover engineering-related jobs.
SpringerLINK Journals
Full-text online versions of hundreds of journals published by the Springer-Verlag. Each journal includes mission and subject coverage details.
ScienceDirect Journals
ScienceDirect is a search platform which provides access to more than 1500 full-text journals in a wide range of subject areas.

INSPIRE - High-Energy Physics Database
INSPIRE combines the successful SPIRES database content, curated at DESY, Fermilab and SLAC, with the Invenio digital library technology developed at CERN.
SPIE Digital Library
The SPIE Digital Library provides access to full text journals and information resources in the areas of photonics and optics from SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics.
ADS - Astrophysics Data System
Digital library of journal articles, conference proceedings, research data, and books for astronomy and astrophysics.

Repositories

Arxiv - Policy: all languages. Fields: Physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, and statistics.

CERN Document Server. English. Field: particle physics.

InterNano. For "resources about the advances in applications, devices, metrology, and materials that will facilitate the commercial development and/or marketable application of nanotechnology." From the National Nanomanufacturing Network.

Magnetic Resonance Online Texts. From Stanislav Sykora.

Nano Archive. From the ICPCNanoNet project.

Vixra - Policy: English. Fields: Physics, mathematics, computational science, biology, chemistry, humanities, academics.

E-books for Coding, IT and Teaching Aspects of Physics

Safari: O’Reilly’s Learning Platform for Higher Education
The O’Reilly for Higher Education digital platform includes more than 38,000 book titles and more than 30,000 hours of video. Topics range from programming to IT networking to project management to graphic design to business strategy. The content includes code snippets, certification preparation materials, practice exercises, training videos, and much more. Users can search thousands of books simultaneously online. There are also proven learning paths, case studies, interactive tutorials and audio books.
Skillport from Skillsoft Books
Skillport®is a web-based Learning Management System (LMS) that provides access to content covering IT & digital skills, business and finance, and leadership development applied to various disciplines. Content types include: articles, eBooks and audiobooks, book summaries, case studies, certification materials, electronic handbooks and how-to books, instructional videos, and live events.
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