Henry Buhl Library: Physics: Find Research Articles

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Science Citation Index (Web of Science) This link opens in a new window
Part of Web of Knowledge/Web of Science. Daily updates make it a good source for recent information. Gives the number of times each article has been cited. Use Journal Citation Reports (JCR) to find impact factors for journals in science, social sciences, and technology.
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
Access to peer-reviewed journals in the fields of biology, chemistry, earth sciences, engineering, medicine, nursing, physics, and more.
Engineering Village (Ei Compendex) This link opens in a new window
Ei Compendex is the broadest and most complete engineering literature database available in the world. Great for applied physics research.
Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
Covers a wide range of subject matter in both popular and scholarly periodicals.
Academic Search Complete is a comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 4,600 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,500 journals and nearly 10,000 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. This scholarly collection offers unmatched full text coverage of information in many areas of academic study including: animal science, anthropology, area studies, astronomy, biology, chemistry, civil engineering, electrical engineering, ethnic & multicultural studies, food science & technology, general science, geography, geology, law, materials science, mathematics, mechanical engineering, music, pharmaceutical sciences, physics, psychology, religion & theology, veterinary science, women's studies, zoology, and many other fields. Academic Search Complete offers critical information from many sources unique to this massive collection. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for 1,000 journals.

Biology &/or Chemistry Databases

Medline with Full-Text This link opens in a new window
Provides authoritative medical information from 1400+ full-text journals to support research in medicine, nursing, dentistry, and more.
CAS SciFinder-n This link opens in a new window
CAS SciFinder-n is the latest scientific information solution from CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society. **AVAILABLE ONLY FOR CHEMISTRY AND BIOCHEM MAJORS AS WELL AS OTHER DESIGNATED MAJORS. YOU MUST OBTAIN A USERNAME & PASSWORD FROM YOUR PROFESSOR.
**AVAILABLE ONLY FOR CHEMISTRY AND BIOCHEM MAJORS AS WELL AS OTHER DESIGNATED MAJORS. YOU MUST OBTAIN A USERNAME & PASSWORD FROM YOUR PROFESSOR.
Cambridge Structural Database This link opens in a new window
Online access to the Cambridge Structural Database, a repository of small-molecule organic and metal-organic crystal structure data.

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