Subject Guide: Physics & Astronomy

The Library's Subject Guides help you find resources that are specialized for certain areas of study. There are many other resources available which provide generalized information--not specific to one topic or area. To see more of these general resources, see the Subject Guide: General page.

Online Resources

Databases provide information about journal, magazine and newspaper articles.

• Physical Review Online Archive (PROLA)
  
• The SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System
• Academic Search Complete
• AccessScience
• Compendex
• INSPEC
• Inspec Archive 1898-1968
• Web of Science - Science Citation Index
• Scientific American Archive Online
• General Science Abstracts
• Encyclopedia of Physics Demonstrations

Reference Books

Simulation of a detection of the Higgs boson in the CMS (Compact Muon Solenoid) experiment. COPYRIGHT CERN. http://doc.cern.ch//archive/electronic/cern/ others/PHO/photo-cms/gen/gen-2007-003.pdf

Reference books provide background information on people, terms and concepts.

• American Institute of Physics Handbook  QC61 .A5 (Physics Library)
• CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics  QD65 .H3
• Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics  QB 14 .E53 2001
• Encyclopedia of Physics  QC5 .R596 2004
• McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology
• Q is for Quantum  QC793.2 .G747 1998
• Electronic Book Center - Physics has many useful reference books. You can browse or search the collection.

Web Resources

Here are a few web sites we think you might find useful:

• American Institute of Physics
• American Physical Society
• arXiv.org e-Print archive
• CERN: the European Laboratory for Particle Physics
• Encyclopedia Astronautica
• Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
• Fundamental Physical Constants from NIST
• Gazetteer of Planetary nomenclature
• The Institute of Physics
• NASA Planetary Science Research Discoveries
• National Oceanographic Data Center - from NOAA
• National Science Foundation: Division of Astronomy
• National Science Foundation: Division of Physics
• Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• Optical Society of America
• Physics Central
• Professor Stephen W. Hawking's Web Pages
• Solar System Simulator - from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• The Elegant Universe - check out this wonderful miniseries from NOVA

Online Journals

Here are a few of the journals available via the web in this field:

• Nature
• Science 1997-present (access through the publisher Web site)
• Science 1880-2004 (access through JSTOR)
• Electronic Journal Center: Physics and Astronomy Journals
• Astronomy and Astrophysics (A&A)
• Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
• New Journal of Physics - NJP is available without charge to readers and is funded by article charges from authors of published papers.
• The Physics Teacher Online
• To determine whether we have a journal available online, please search the CONSORT catalog or use the Electronic Journal Finder.