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Applied Science & Technology Abstracts
Indexing from these 560 scientific and technical journals covers 1983-present with abstracts from 1993 to the present. Access to this database is being provided by funding from the BRIN grant (via USD).
PROLA
PROLA is The American Physical Society's Physical Review Online Archive covering APS publications from 1893-2002. Current subscriptions to Physical Review Letters, Reviews of Modern Physics and Physical Review A are searchable using the PROLA search engine.
Access Science
The complete text of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, Access Science also includes special areas just for students, including ideas for topics for research papers, etc.
Wiley InterScience
Features over 1,000 journals, major reference works, online books, and Current Protocols laboratory manuals published by Wiley. Full-text is available for 30+ journal titles that are paid for primarily by funding from the BRIN grant (via USD).

**NEW** Science Magazine 1997 to the present. Use JSTOR (see below) for archive for 1880 through 2001.

JSTOR

Includes general science core journals starting from Volume 1. Focusing on backfiles rather than current information, the journals included in JSTOR all have a "moving wall" for the more recent issues, which means that the content for the most recent 3-5 years of the titles is not available.

Nature A collection of current journals from the Nature Publishing Group are provided by grant funding (BRIN) and the complete listing is found on the Biology subject page.

arXiv Open access to 441,715 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology and Statistics provided by the Cornell University Library.

General Resources

Academic Search Premier
The world’s largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,600 scholarly publications, including full text for more than 3,500 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975.

Encyclopedias and Dictionaries via Netlibrary

 
Internet Resources
 
The APS website provides news, public policy, biographical and career information, as well as links to physics-related publications.
 
The Institute of Physics website to answer physics questions, make information available about the physical universe, and provide career prospects. Registration is required, but it is free to users.
 
The source for news, jobs, and resources in the field of physics.
 
An online textbook for undergraduate physics students. Examples and problems to help students understand basic concepts.
 
A listing of links to astronomy and astrophysics information on the web.
 

 

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