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Last update: Nov 19th, 2009 URL: http://guides.swem.wm.edu/physics  Print Guide  RSS Updates

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Open Access Databases

Though you do not need a W&M account to search these databases, in some cases you will need an account to view the full article.

  • CERN Document Server  
    Of interest to people working in particle physics and related areas. Covers preprints, articles, books, journals, photographs, and much more.
  • SPIRES  
    The SPIRES-HEP database has been run by the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center(SLAC) since the late 1960's as a database of particle physics literature.
  • Nuclear Science References (NSR)  
    The NSR database is a bibliography of nuclear physics articles, indexed according to content and spanning nearly 100 years of research. Over 80 journals are checked on a regular basis for articles to be included.
  • Information Bridge  
    The Information Bridge: DOE Scientific and Technical Information provides free public access to over 200,000 full-text documents and bibliographic citations of Department of Energy (DOE) research report literature.
  • Energy Citations Database  
    Provides free access to science research from 1943 forward. Citations and documents are made publicly available by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). Chemistry, physics, materials, environmental science, geology, engineering, mathematics, etc.
 
 

Databases and Indexes

Users of Swem Library have electronic access to over 300 journals and magazines of interest to physicists (see the list of physical science journal subject headings).

Databases aggregate information from many journals, and may include information on articles that are not available electronically or through Swem's website. If you cannot access a journal electronically through a database, try using the Catalog to find it. if Swem doesn't have the journal, you may request it through InterLibrary Loan.

These databases are available through Swem to the William and Mary community.

  • Web of Science  
    Database of citations from thousands of scholarly journals in all areas of research. Some links to full-text; limited to articles published since 1994.
  • PROLA  
    Online archive with full-text access to Physical Review Letters, Reviews of Modern Physics, and Physical Review A–E. Also contains all APS journal articles published from 1893.
  • ScienceDirect  
    Searches Elsevier journals and provides electronic access to full-text from 1995-date.
  • SpringerLink  
    Searches 1,200 peer-reviewed journals published by Springer-Verlag, with some full-text access.
  • Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA)  
      
    GEOREF, Life sciences, environmental and aquatic sciences, computer sciences, materials sciences and engineering, aerospace; also includes a few social sciences databases, such as Sociological Abstracts, ERIC, and Linguistics and Language Behavior.
  • More Physical Sciences Databases  
    Swem's list of databases of use to physical scientists
 

Pre-Print Databases

Pre-Prints are articles that have not completely gone through peer review. In some cases, the articles will complete the review and be published in a journal. In other cases, they will not - sometimes for good reason. It is important to thorougly evaluate any pre-print article you find to be of interest.

Each of these databases may be accessed without a W&M account.

  • arXiv.org  
    Cornell University's preprint database.
  • CERN Document Server  
    Of interest to people working in particle physics and related areas. Covers preprints, articles, books, journals, photographs, and much more.
  • SPIRES  
    The SPIRES-HEP database has been run by the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center(SLAC) since the late 1960's as a database of particle physics literature.
 

Subject Guide

Profile ImageKaren Berquist
Contact Info:
Geology Library Office
233 McGlothlin-Street Hall
757 221-2094
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Subjects:
Geology, Chemistry, Physics

 

Can't Find It?

Swem doesn't have the item? - Complete an Inter-Library Loan request. Note that first-time users have to register to use this service.

It's in Off-Site Storage (SOSS)? - On the purple bar at the top of the search window, click the "Find and Request" link, then "Swem Off-Site Storage." The form will automatically be completed with the information from the last item you viewed.

Questions? contact Karen Berquist or the Swem Reference Desk. They're happy to help out.

 
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