Databases by Subject - Physics

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Database Title	Description	Coverage	Some Full Text	Restricted to...^†
Academic OneFile	Search full-text articles on physical science, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and more. Full Text Titles Included	1980-	Y
ArticleFirst	Citations from 15,000+ journals on all topics. Titles Indexed \| Search Tips	1990-	N
Blackwell Synergy	Search Blackwell Synergy for access to more than 770 full text journals on many topics areas: science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and humanities. Titles Included \| Search Help	1879-	Y
CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics	85th edition, includes data on properties of inorganic and organic compounds, values for fundamental physical constants, and tables needed by chemists, physicists, and engineers.	Current	Y
Engineering Village	Abstracts from Compendex and INSPEC databases, with links to full text articles, patents, standards and handbooks in scientific, applied science, technical and engineering disciplines.Search Tips	1969+	Y
Google Scholar	Google search for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports on all topic areas. Use to find articles from academic publishers, professional societies, prepublication repositories and universities.	Varies	Y	For best results, use Proxy
HighWire Press	From Stanford University, includes Web versions of 700+ journals in biological, physical, medical, and social sciences. Titles Included \| Search Tips	Varies	Y
Institute of Physics Journals	Search major physics journals. Titles WPI subscribes to historic archive.	1874-	Y
NASA Astrophysics Data System	Includes abstracts on astronomy and astrophysics, instrumentation physics and geophysics. Titles Included \| Search Tips	1975-	Y
Physical Review Online Archive (PROLA)	Indexes all American Physical Society journals. Titles Included \| Search Tips	1893 - 2000	Y
ScienceDirect	Full text access to Elsevier Science scholarly journals. Search Tips \| Tutorial	Varies	Y
SpringerLink	Access to a variety of scholarly science journals published by Springer. Titles Included	Varies	Y
Scitation	Search abstracts of several journals from American Institute of Physics (AIP) and American Physical Society (APS). Search Tips	1957-	Y
SPIE Digital Library	Search the Optics and Electro-Optics (OEO) Segment of the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE) Digital Library. Titles Included	1990+	Y
Wiley Interscience	Search journals published by Wiley. WPI subscribes to many titles in various topic areas. Titles \| Search Tips	1946-	Y
Web of Knowledge - Web of Science	Interface to Arts &Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index, plus ability to perform cross database searches (outside of ISI products) and login to your Web of Science account for cited reference alerts and customization. Tutorial \| Cited Reference Tutorial	1980-	N

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