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These databases will help you find journal, magazine, and newspaper articles, books, book chapters, statistics, and more. If you are not sure of your topic, start with Academic Search Complete.
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Start your search with this interdisciplinary database of journals and magazines with full text available for many. Other Interdisciplinary Databases may also be useful. Specific subject databases are below. Use the drop-down menu above to select other databases by title.

AAPT Abstract Database (American Association of Physics Teachers)
Searchable database of abstracts and citations for articles in the American Journal of Physics and The Physics Teacher.

ADS Astrophysics Data System Article Server
Provides access to full text scanned astrophysical journals, including Astronomy & Astrophysics and Meteoritics & Planetary Sciences, from which articles may be viewed. To find articles, specify volume number and page or plate number. Articles can also be accessed through separate table of contents and abstract services.

American Physical Society Abstracts and Tables of Contents
Abstracts for items from Physical Review A-E, Physical Review Letters, and Reviews of Modern Physics, and tables of contents.

CERN Preprint Server (European Laboratory for Particle Physics )
Searchable preprints (full text) related to science and engineering including high energy physics, general relativity, and computational and experimental physics.

e-Print Archive (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Searchable index and abstracts to high-energy physics papers and full-text preprints.

Eric's Treasure Trove of Physics
Searchable encyclopedia of physics.

High Energy Physics (HEP) Database (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center)
Searchable index to more than 345,000 high-energy physics-related journal articles, and other materials.

Learn Physics Today
An online textbook and tutorial for introductory physics including lessons on mechanics, light and electricity.

Mathematical Physics Preprint Archive (Dept. of Mathematics, Univ. of Texas at Austin)
Searchable collection of research papers in mathematical physics, from 1991-present with full text.

NASA Astrophysics Data System
Includes astronomy and astrophysics, instrumentation, and physics and geophysics. Each set can be searched by author, object name (astronomy only), title, or abstract text words. Includes scanned images of over 40,000 journal articles from major astronomical journals.

Nuclear Sciences References W3 Retrieval System
Searchable database maintained by the National Nuclear Data Center containing bibliographic citations and keyword abstracts for publications in low and intermediate energy nuclear physics research from 1910 to the present.

PhysDoc: Physics Documents in Europe (Univ. Oldenburg)
Links to collections of preprints, technical reports, annual reports, and similar publications from European universities and laboratories. Full text is available for many.

Physical Reference Data
Search for thermodynamic data for over 5,000 chemical compounds and on ion-energetics data for over 10,000 chemical compounds, NIST's Chemistry WebBook is available for searching. Can be searched by name, chemical formula, or CAS (Chemical Abstracts Service) registry number. Information is given on on enthalpy of formation, heat capacity, entropy, ionization, etc.

Sparknotes
Concepts in physics explained: vectors, kinematics, dynamics, dynamics, gravitation, thermodynamics, magnetic forces and fields, work and power, optics, linear momentum, special relativity, rotational motion, oscillations

SPIRES Abstracts (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center)
Search for recent high-energy physics e-prints from the Los Alamos archives.

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