Physics Databases

* database contains partial or complete full-image and/or full-text coverage of journal articles

INSPEC 1969-
Covers the fields of physics, electronics, computing, control engineering, and information technology with indexing from 3,500 technical and scientific journals and 1,500 conference proceedings. The database is updated weekly.

Institute of Physics Journals* years vary
Full-text access to many journals published currently by the Institute of Physics. Also includes an electronic archive to all IOP journals published between 1874-1992.

Physical Review Online Archives (PROLA)
The American Physical Society's Physical Review Online Archive. Includes all APS full-text content from1893 to 1997. In 2002, 1998 will be migrated and so forth.

Compendex 1970-
A comprehensive interdisciplinary engineering database that indexes 5,000 engineering journals and conference materials. The database is updated weekly.

Engineering Village 2 1969-
An information service for engineers offering access to the combined Compendex and INSPEC databases.

IEEE Xplore* 1988-
IEEE Xplore provides full-text access to IEEE and IEE transactions, journals, magazines, and conference proceedings published since 1988 and all current IEEE Standards.

MathSciNet 1940-
MathSciNet is a the web based version of Mathematical Reviews which provides timely reviews or summaries of articles and books that contain new contributions to mathematical research. Produced by the American Mathematical Society.

Related Science Databases

ACM Digital Library* years vary
Digital archive of articles from the journals, magazines, transactions, and conference proceedings published by the Association for Computing Machinery since its founding in 1947.

Annual Reviews 1996-
Annual Reviews provides researchers, professors, and scientific professionals with a definitive academic resource in 29 scientific disciplines.

Computer Database* Gale/InfoTrac 1980-
Computer-related product introductions, news and reviews in areas such as hardware, software, electronics, engineering, communications and the application of technology.

Knovel Library
An electronic library of authoritative Sci-tech reference books.

Materials Science: a SAGE Full-text Collection* SAGE
Full-text of 15 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, some journals going back 10 years. Database covers such subjects as: high performance polymers; molecular modeling characterization and evaluation of polymers, polymeric drugs and drug design; polymeric functionalization; natural polymer modification; enzyme modeling by polymers; membranes for biological use ; liposome stabilization and cell modeling.

Proceedings First FirstSearch 1993-
Citations of every congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received at the British Library.

ScienceDirect* Elsevier 1997-
Access to the Elsevier Science journal collection which consists of over 15,000 journals including approximate 735 titles in full-text. Subjects include Biochemistry, Biological Sciences, Business & Management Science, Chemistry, Clinical Medicine, Earth Sciences, Economics, Engineering & Technology, Environmental Science, Materials Science, Mathematics & Computer Science, Microbiology & Immunology, Neurosciences, Pharmacology & Toxicology, Physics, and Social Sciences.

Scopus Elsevier 1966-
Scopus is an abstracting database that covers the following fields: chemistry, biology, physics, mathematics, engineering, life and health sciences, social sciences, psychology, economics, and environmental sciences. Scopus provides access to over 26 million abstracts (going back to 1966) and 10 years of reference back files.

SpringerLink 1997-
Access to the complete contents of more than 500 journals, covering a wide array of subjects, including science, technology, medicine, humanities, and economics.

Wiley Interscience Journals*
Access to scholarly journal literature in the fields of Business, Chemistry, Computer Science, Geography, Education, Engineering, Law, Life and Medical Sciences, Mathematics, Physics, and Psychology.

Selected General Databases

Academic OneFile*
Contains peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources in the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995.

Academic Search Premier* EBSCOhost years vary-
Provides full text for more than 3,430 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. This database is updated on a daily basis.

CQ Researcher CQ Press 1923-
Explores controversial issues in the news with objectivity and balance. Topics range from social and teen issues to environment, health, education and science and technology. Each report contains charts, graphs and sidebar articles -- plus a pro-con feature, a chronology, lengthy bibliographies and a list of contacts.

Dissertations and Theses Proquest 1861-
Indexes the complete range of academic subjects appearing in dissertations accepted at accredited institutions. Abstracting of dissertations begins with 1980 and abstracting of theses begins with 1988.

WilsonWeb OmniFile Full Text Mega* H.W. Wilson 1982-
Contains indexing, abstracting, and full-text for everything that was in Education Index, General Science Index, Humanities Index, Readers' Guide, Social Sciences Index, and Wilson Business Index. In addition, the Mega edition contains Index to Legal Periodicals Full Text.