Physics Resource Guide: Library Databases: Articles

Provides access to a wide variety of journals and periodicals, covering all academic disciplines, including Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Quantum Physics and Field Theory, Solid State Physics, and Thermal Physics. Many articles are available in full-text.

SpringerLink is a collection of more than 1,000 high-quality, peer-reviewed journals covering scientific, technical and medical journal literature, and it includes all journal formerly hosted by Kluwer Online. Physics, astronomy, and mathematical and computational physics are all well represented in SpringerLink.

Cambridge Journals Online provides electronic access to over 200 journals published by Cambridge
University Press. Approximately one dozen titles relate to the physical sciences, such as the Journal of Fluid Mechanics and Laser and Particle Beams.

Indexes and provides full-text access to over 250 scholarly journals, often with an extensive backfile (for example, the journal Science is covered back to 1880). Publications relevant to physics include the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences 1934-1990. Note that there is generally three to five years between the last issue available in JSTOR and the most recently published issue of a journal.

ScienceDirect, from Elsevier, contains high-quality peer-reviewed journal literature in all areas of the sciences, including physics and astronomy.

Another wide-ranging periodical database, Expanded Academic indexes and includes some full-text of journals covering topics in the physical sciences. Searches may be limited to peer-reviewed publications.

Produced by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Science is a leading journal of original scientific research and news. Full text coverage is from January 1997 to the present, including the current issue. Full text for the issues 07/03/1880 - 12/20/2002 are available through the JSTOR database.

The ACM Digital Library is a vast collection of citations and full-text from ACM journal and newsletter articles and conference proceedings. The ACM Portal is published by the Association for Computing Machinery. Although this is not a collection of physics journals, many current topics in physics may be found here since almost all contemporary research in physics involves high level computing.

Indexing and some full-text of over 350 physical, biological, social and medical sciences journals published by Stanford University's High Wire Press. Includes citation searching, and covers areas such as Classical Physics, Condensed-Matter Physics, Nuclear Physics, Particle Physics, and Quantum Physics.

This is a basic database, which includes both reference book and periodical content. All areas of the sciences are covered, and it provides a simple way to get started with science topics.