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Top databases for articles and journals
- Web of science Multidisciplinary index of the sciences that fully indexes 5,900 major journals across 150 scientific disciplines including astronomy, astrophysics, computer applications and cybernetics, electronics, engineering, materials science, and physics.
- IOPscience Online service and index for journal content published by the Institute of Physics. Contains articles from 1874 to the present day. Includes links to related articles, references and citations as well as latest and most popular article listings.
- Inspec Indexes and abstracts scientific/technical journals and conference proceedings in electrical engineering, electronics, physics, control engineering, information technology, and communications. Defaults to search Compendex simultaneously. Coverage 1898-
- ScienceDirect Contains full-text articles from over 1700 journals published by Elsevier. Although the content is multi-disciplinary, the primary focus is science, engineering and medicine. Table of contents information is available for publication years before 1997.
- Google scholar beta Indexes full text of scholarly literature across disciplines. Coverage includes publicly accessible Web documents and documents from partnering publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities, and other scholarly institutions.
- Scitation + SPIN Scitation + SPIN (Searchable Physics Information Notices) includes bibliographic records, abstracts and links for articles from major physical science journals, magazines, and conference proceedings published by the American Institute of Physics, its member societies, and other affiliated organizations. Includes some full-text.
Preprint Servers
- arXiv.org Formerly xxx.lanl.gov, this is an electronic archive and distribution server for research articles. Coverage includes physics, mathematics, computer science, nonlinear sciences, quantitative biology, and statistics.
- SPIRES-HEP This high-energy physics (HEP) literature database harvests papers of interest to HEP from various sources and add citation data, keywords, and classifications.
Other useful databases
- Compendex Covers literature in the fields of chemical and process engineering; computers and data processing; applied physics;and electronics and communications, civil, mechanical and materials engineering. Defaults to search Inspec simultaneously.
- Applied science & tech index Indexes international English-language periodicals in the applied sciences and technology. Areas covered include engineering, chemistry, mathematics, physics, computer technology, data processing and energy-related disciplines.
- Dissertations & theses: full text Doctoral dissertations from 1861 to present and Masters theses from 1920s to present for over 1,000 colleges and universities. Full text available for most dissertations produced since 1997.
- MathSciNet Contains reviews, abstracts and bibliographic information for much of the mathematical sciences literature. Most are classified according to the Mathematics Subject Classification.
- SciFinder scholar
Provides access to the electronic version of Chemical Abstracts. Includes citations and abstracts for journal articles and other materials in the areas of technology and science. - SAO/NASA astrophysics data system Digital library portal for researchers in astronomy and physics, operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory that maintains 3 bibliographic databases: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Physics, and arXiv e-prints.
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