Starting Points: Physics & Astronomy

Research Guide: Physics & Astronomy
Finding Background Info [help]
Tip: use these sources for quick overviews, to develop vocabulary for searching and/or for more sources
	Oxford Reference Online Database - access to over 140 online reference books
	CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics -- full text handbook covering biochemistry, chemistry and physics not included in ENGnetBASE
	Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics -- contains full-text literature reviews of topics in the field (including waves, wind, fluid dynamics, etc.)
	Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science -- contains full-text literature reviews of topics in the field (including quarks, string theory, linear colliders, etc.)
	... more reference resources ...
Finding Articles [help]
	Biological Abstracts -- a complete collection of bibliographic references covering life science and biomedical research literature published from more than 4,000 journals internationally. This database contains more than 10 million archival records from as far back as 1969, with more than 370,000 citations added each year
	Engineering Village -- access to Compendex, ENGnetBASE and US Patent Office.
	Science Citation Index -- Researchers can search citation data (from the footnotes of each article), taking a known, relevant paper or work and finding other, more recent papers that cite it.
	ScienceDirect College Edition - Health & Life Sciences Journal Collection -- access to peer-reviewed health and life sciences journal articles
		Databases available only in Rockwell Hall, Room 201:
		Cambridge Structural Database -- "is a database of crystallographic, chemical and bibliographic information for organic molecules and metal-organic compounds"
		SciFinder Scholar --- web version of Chemical Abstracts
	... more databases listed here ...
Finding Books [help]
	Library Catalog -- search by subject, keyword, author or title!
Web Resources
	American Association of Physics Teachers -- (AAPT) National organization supporting physics education. Publishes American Journal of Physics and The Physics Teacher and sponsors The Physical Sciences Resources Center
	PER Central (provided by the American Association of Physics Teachers) -- A collection of information & resources for physics education research. Included are articles, research groups, curriculum materials and more!
	The Physics Teacher -- publishes papers on the teaching of physics, and on topics such as contemporary physics, applied physics, and the history of physics—all aimed at the introductory-level teacher
	American Institute of Physics -- (AIP) Purpose of organization: to promote "the advancement and diffusion of the knowledge of physics and its application to human welfare." Sponsors Sigma Pi Sigma Honor Society; publishes Physics Today and other physics journals
	American Astronomical Society -- The major organization of professional astronomers in North America. Publishes The Astronomical Journal and The Astrophysical Journal. Includes a link to ADS: The NASA Astrophysics Data System
	... more web resources ...

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