Best Databases for Physics
All Physics Databases
- Academic Search CompleteLarge general database of articles from scholarly journals and a few newspapers covering a wide range of topics. Millions of full-text articles, many with images.
- arXiv (e-prints in physics)Open access to nearly 500,000 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology and Statistics.
- Digital Dissertations1861-present
Full text (PDF for download) of most dissertations accepted from 1997 on, some earlier works and some master's theses. Also lists dissertations and theses accepted from 1861 on in the US and at some international universities. - Editions de PhysiqueFull-text of physics journals published by Editions de Physique, including some titles on optics and materials science.
- IEEE XploreIEEE Xplore offers electronic access to 106 IEEE journals and magazines and over 345 IEEE-sponsored conference proceedings.
- INSPEC1969-present
Scientific and technical journals and conference proceedings electrical engineering, electronics, physics, control engineering, information technology, communications, computers, computing, and manufacturing and production engineering. - Institute of Physics (IOP)The Institute of Physics provides full-text searching of their entire electronic journals archive back to 1874.
- ScienceDirectFull text of articles from journals published by Elsevier Science.
- ScitationPhysics and engineering journals from the American Institute of Physics (AIP) and other publishers.
- Solid State and Superconductivity AbstractsSearch for publications of all kinds on all aspects of theory, production, and application of solid state materials and devices along with high- and low-temperature superconductivity technology.
- Web of Science/Web of Knowledge1970-present
Includes Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index (1981-present), and Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1981-present) which can be searched together or separately.
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