Resource Guide:
Physics

The following websites are librarian-evaluated to provide trustworthy information for your topic. They include digitized collections connected to your topic.

• Los Alamos XXX Preprint Archive
• Mathematical Physics Preprint Server
• Science
• Physics Central
• Physics World
• American Institute of Physics
• European Physical Society
• Institute of Physics
• Physics and Astronomy Departments Worldwide Directory

Subject headings are selected terms to represent a topic. Searching subject headings in the library catalog will bring the most complete list of results. Below are some example subject headings. More subject headings can be located in the red books at the reference desk.

• Physics
• Astrophysics
• Dynamics
• Electricity
• Electrons
• Force and Energy
• General Relativity
• Magnetism
• Mechanics
• Nuclear Physics
• Optics
• Quantum Theory
• Thermodynamics
• Radioactivity

The following databases are specifically useful for your topic. You can search them individually on the databases page.

• ArXiv
• Astrophysics Data System
• Computers & Applied Sciences Complete
• Credo Reference
• Encyclopedia Britannica
• JSTOR
• MasterFILE Premier
• Medline
• OAISter
• PubChem

The following journals supply articles to the library’s databases. You can see if a specific journal supplies articles to our databases by searching the journal title on the library journal page.

• Physics (American Physical Society)
• Physics and Chemistry of Liquids
• Physics Essays
• Physics in Perspective
• Physics of Atomic Nuclei
• Physics of Fluids
• Physics of Plasmas
• Physics of the Solid State
• Physics Procedia
• Physics Research International
• Physics Today
• Physics Week

Below are some selected materials in the library with their shelving locations. Browsing in the listed areas of the library will help you find more materials for your topic.