Contents:

• Find books
• Find background information
• Find articles & essays
• Tracing citations
• Key scholarly websites

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Wellesley College Library catalog
In addition to books, you will also find journals, videos, and more.

Interlibrary Loan (ILL)
Wellesley College faculty, students, and staff may use Interlibrary Loan and or other Document Delivery services to
borrow or obtain copies of materials not found in Wellesley's collection.

Other nearby library catalogs
Links to other nearby libraries.

WorldCat
OCLC catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide.

National Academies Press
At the National Academy Press web site, you can search over 3,000 full-text books online for specific subject terms, in order to locate relevant chapters or book titles. Coverage includes subjects like physical sciences, materials science/engineering, environmental issues, and more.

Floor Map of the Science Library

AccessScience
Access to all the articles, fully illustrated, from the latest edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, Research Updates from the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks, thousands of illustrations, and the latest Science News® headlines, biographies, 110,000+ definitions from The McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, and more.

CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. 86th ed., 2004-2005. Annual compilation of physical constants, properties of common inorganic and organic compounds, and lots more.

CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. Science Reference QD65 .H3. Annual compilation of physical constants, properties of common inorganic and organic compounds, and lots more.

Dictionary of Physics. Sci Ref QC5 D5 1996

Encyclopedia of Energy
The Encyclopedia of Energy covers all aspects of energy, including a wealth of areas throughout the natural, social, and engineering sciences.

Handbook of Physical Quantities. SCI Ref q QC61 H36 1997

Oxford Reference Online
Oxford Reference Online contains over 100 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press.

Physics Handbook: Fundamentals and Key Equations. SCI Ref qQC61 P65 1998

The Physics Quick Reference Guide. SCI Ref QC61 C65 1996

Q is for Quantum: An Encyclopedia of Particle Physics. SCI Ref QC793.2 G747 1998

Scientific Unit Conversion. SCI Ref QC94 C295 1998

The following databases provide either full-text articles or citations (information about when and where the article was published).
Once you have a citation for an article, use the Find It! @ Wellesley link from each citation to search one or more electronic journal sources through the Wellesley College Library Catalog. Use the name of the journal as the title. If Wellesley does not own the article, you can request it via Interlibrary Loan (ILL).

Academic Search Premier
The world’s largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,650 serials, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles.

Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
The Astrophysics Data System (ADS) is a NASA-funded project which maintains three bibliographic databases containing more than 4.8 million records: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Physics, and ArXiv e-prints.

Google Scholar
Use Google Scholar to find scholarly literature available across the web, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research.

INSPEC - Contains citations, with abstracts, to the worldwide literature in physics, electronics and electrical engineering, computers and control, and information technology. Computerized searches available by appointment with a librarian. Email Neil Nero or Irene Laursen to make an appointment.

MathSciNet
MathSciNet is a comprehensive database covering the world's mathematical literature since 1940. MathSciNet also indexes several journals relevant to Physics.For searching help go to to the University of California at Santa Barbara's MathSciNet Guide.

Science Direct
Electronic journal articles from more than 1,000 journals in the physical, life, social, and behavioral sciences, published by Elsevier and affiliated publishers. Coverage is from 1995 onward.

SciFinder Scholar [Internet Site]

• Best for finding chemical journal articles, book chapters, patents, conference proceedings, technical reports, and chemical doctoral dissertations as well as articles currently being indexed, book reviews, and biographical information.
• Campus Use Only. Use at Science Library workstations PC6 or PC17; License limits use to the Wellesley College community.
• 'Get Related' feature offers the ability to research a specific work or author by tracing them forward to newer works which have cited the original work or author.
• Take the short online tutorial. Then reserve time on "Scholar" itself at the Science Library Reference Desk reservation clipboard for SciFinder Scholar.
• Links to other subscribed electronic resources (including some full-text journals).
• Please email Irene Laursen if you would like help as you learn to search Scholar.
  

SPIN Web
SPIN Web is Scitation's (Scitation is the online home of more than 100 journals from AIP, APS, ASCE, ASME, SPIE, and a host of other prestigious science and engineering societies.) own easy-to-use physics research environment and home to the online version of the SPIN (Searchable Physics Information Notices) database. SPIN provides the most current indexing and abstracting of more than 100 major physics, astronomy, and engineering journals and conference proceedings. It provides access to over 1.6 million abstracts and is updated daily.

SPIRES HEP Literature Database
Search more than 500,000 high-energy physics related articles, including journal papers, preprints, e-prints, technical reports, conference papers and theses, comprehensively indexed by the SLAC and DESY libraries since 1974.

TechXtra
TechXtra is a free service which cross-searches around twenty databases in engineering, mathematics and computing.

Web of Science
Web of Science at Wellesley consists of the Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Humanities Citation Index. Web of Science is very useful in performing interdisciplinary subject searches and citation searches.

Wilson Web databases
The Wilson Web databases include several databases that cover relevant aspects on Physics. Coverage is from early 1980's for citations and abstracts. Full-text available for some items, from early to mid-1990's onward. For all available coverage, select:

• Applied Science & Technology Abstracts
• General Sciences Full Text
• OmniFile Full Text Mega Edition

Individual Electronic Full-Text Journals and Other Sources

Astrophysical Journal Series full-text articles.

The European Physics Society provides a list of full-text journals.

JACOW - Proceedings from the Asian, European and American Particle Accelerator Conferences, ICALEPCS and LINAC conferences.

Journal of High Energy Physics - A peer-reviewed free online journal.

Other databases may be useful for you, depending on your specific topic and approach. The Databases A-Z page lists all of the electronic resources and what subjects and time span they cover.

Use the Science Citation Index Expanded (1900-present) in Web of Science

Key scholarly websites

General

Acronyms of High-Energy Physics - From Fermilab, a list of acronyms of (and links to) high-energy physics Laboratories and Accelerators and Detectors and Experiments and Other institutions throughout the world.

Contributions of 20th Century Women to Physics

Einstein Archives Online - Access more than 40,000 records of Einstein and Einstein-related documents held by the Albert Einstein Archives at the Hebrew University. Includes Einstein’s scientific and non-scientific writings, his professional and personal correspondence, notebooks, travel diaries, personal documents, etc.

Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove of Physics

HISTORY OF PHYSICS - From Norman Redington's Net Advance of Physics at MIT

NET ADVANCE OF PHYSICS - Review Articles and Tutorials in an Encyclopedic Format

NIST Physical Reference Data - National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) site maintained by the Physics Laboratory operating unit. A searchable resource containing physical constants, spectroscopy data, and other data.

Physics and Astronomy Fun

Physicsweb - IOP) Physics news, jobs, resources.

Tools

Fundamental Physical Constants: NIST
Integral Tables
Periodic table
Physics Astronomy Classification Scheme - PACS (from APS)
Unit Converter

Tutorials

Department of Physics at the University of Guelph
Learn Physics Today is a good online tutorial developed by a faculty member in Peru.
Physics 2000 is an interactive introduction to modern physics developed by University of Colorado.

Laboratories

The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) has numerous research projects and accomplishments, one being the first WWW client.

From Fermilab, links to high-energy physics Laboratories and Accelerators and Detectors and Experiments and Other institutions throughout the world.

Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) has a virtual visitor center.

Professional Societies

American Institute of Physics (AIP)
American Physical Society (APS)
European Physical Society (EPS)
Institute of Physics (IOP)
International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP)
Scholarly Societies List - Physics (Univ. of Waterloo)

Graduate/Career Opportunities

American Physical Society (APS) Outreach to women and minorities
American Physical Society (APS) Careers/Employment Information

Wellesley College Library • WCIS • Neil Nero • last modified: July 14, 2008