Physics Information
Library Databases Penrose Library Homepage - http://www.penlib.du.edu
Peak - The library Catalog - http://peak.du.edu/
Prospector - The Colorado Unified Catalog - http://prospector.coalliance.org
INSPEC
The leading English-language bibliographic information service providing access to the world's scientific and technical literature in physics, electrical engineering, electronics, communications, control engineering, computers and computing, and information technology. Also does an excellent job of indexing the chemical, environmental and atmospheric science literature. (Available at Terminal #10, 1989-Present)
SPIN Web
SPIN Web is a physics research environment providing a set of comprehensive resources for performing research, the most important of which is the ability to search across more than 80 scientific journals indexed in the SPIN Database. Search results are displayed as a list of article titles that are hyperlinked to the article abstract and full-text delivery options. 1975-Present.
PROLA - Physical Review Online Archive
The server was launched in 1998, with an archive of online copy of Physical Review from 1985 through 1996. Starting in January 2001, it is being expanded to include all APS journal content back to 1893. We also have begun a year-by-year migration of recent material into PROLA. For the year 2001, 1997 material has been migrated. In 2002, 1998 will be migrated and so forth. Reviews of Modern Physics is now part of PROLA as well. The complete archive will consist of all of Physical Review back to 1893, all of Physical Review Letters back to 1958, and all of Reviews of Modern Physics back to 1929.
SciFinder Scholar
(Info available at http://www.cas.org/SCIFINDER/SCHOLAR/index.html)
The largest chemical substance database, CAS Registry, with more than 21 million substances. Has the world's most comprehensive database of chemical literature and patents -- The CAplus database. 1967-Present, updated daily. This is not just a chemistry database; it has over 4.4 Million references to the physics literature. See this for more info - http://www.cas.org/SCIFINDER/SCHOLAR/scholphysics.pdf. The software is available on Terminals 1, 2, 10, and 14. It is also on several terminals in the Olin Computer Lab. See this webpage - http://silas.penlib.du.edu/sfs/ - if you want to download the 21 Mb software.
Science Citation Index
Provides access to current bibliographic information and cited references. The Science Citation Index covers approximately 3,500 of the world's leading scholarly journals in more than 150 disciplines. (Available at Terminal #10, 1996-Present)
Applied Science & Technology Index
http://newfirstsearch.oclc.org/dbname=AppSciTechInd;autho=100236807;done=referer;fsip
Over 600 journals and magazines core to physical science research are indexed. 1983-Present.
Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
http://www.csa.com/htbin/dbsel.cgi?username=csa12&access=csa1212
Provides access to more than 40 scientific databases, such as Ceramic Abstracts, Conference Papers Index, Electronics and Communications Abstracts, Engineered Materials Abstracts, and more.
Free Internet Databases
The UnCover Database
The Ingenta UnCover database has current article information taken from well over 18,000 multidisciplinary journals. Contains brief descriptive information for over 11,500,000 articles which have appeared since Fall 1988.
Global Change Master Directory
NASA's Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) is a comprehensive directory of descriptions of data sets of relevance to global change research. The GCMD database includes descriptions of data sets covering climate change, the biosphere, hydrosphere & oceans, geology, geography, and human dimensions of global change.
NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) Abstract Service
http://adswww.harvard.edu/ads_abstracts.html
Provides access to the Astronomy and Astrophysics/Planetary Sciences/Solar Physics Abstract Service (719,449 abstracts), and the Physics and Geophysics Abstract Service (1,079,814 abstracts)
Scientific Databases in Atomic and Molecular Physics - NIST
http://www.nist.gov/srd/phys.htm
The Standard Reference Data Program has worked together with the world-famous NIST Atomic Physics Program to produce the most comprehensive set of reliable atomic data available anywhere. The NIST collection of atomic energy levels, transition probabilities, and collision data is widely used by groups for characterizing and modeling all types of gaseous systems, including plasmas, planetary atmospheres, and astrophysical media, and for health physics applications. Databases and publications make these data easy to find and easy to use. The physics online databases have grown into an extensive listing. The NIST Chemistry WebBook now contains electronic and vibrational spectra for over 3000 compounds.
SPIE Proceedings Database
http://spie.org/app/Publications/
SPIE is your link to the world's largest collection of optics, photonics and imaging research literature. View Tables of Contents for over 4,000 volumes and 150,000 journal and proceedings abstracts in SPIE's publications database.
LANL Physics ePrint Server
Physics, mathematics and computer science pre-print articles. Many manuscripts published by most physics publishers start their journeys as preprints. The E-print archives are revolutionizing the circulation of preprints, and are making the dissemination of information quicker and more efficient in many major subfields of physics. 1991-Present.
Physics Web
One of the best repositories for links to informations souces in physics.
Materials Properties Locator Database
http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/sel/materials/search.htm
Use this database to find out which reference books contain properties data (mechanical, physical, electrical, thermal, etc.) for particular types of materials. Abstracts, properties and materials covered, and call numbers are provided (May not be exactly correct for Penrose).
ThermoDex : An Index of Selected Thermodynamic Data Handbooks
http://thermodex.lib.utexas.edu/
This database contains records for printed handbooks and compilations of thermodynamic and thermophysical data for chemical compounds and other substances. You can enter both a type of compound and a property, and ThermoDex will return a list of handbooks that might contain this data.
Organizations
American Institute of Physics - http://www.aip.org/
Institute of Physics - http://www.iop.org/
American Physical Society - http://www.aps.org/
Physics Astronomy & Math Division of SLA - Resources in Physics - http://www.sla.org/division/dpam/phys.html
Reference Books (This is just a very small sample.) CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. 2000. 81st Edition
Ref QD65 .H3Dictionary of Physics, edited by Alan Isaacs, Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000, 4th ed.
Ref QC5 .C56 2000Dictionary of Pure and Applied Physics, edited by Dipak Basu, Boca Raton : CRC Press, c2001.
Ref QC5 .D485 2001Encyclopedia of Applied Physics, edited by George L. Trigg, New York, NY : VCH Publishers, c1991-
Ref QC5.E543 1991 V.1-23 + supplementsEncyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, edited by Paul Murdin, Bristol ; Philadelphia : Institute of Physics Pub. ; London ; New York : Nature Pub. Group, 2001.
Ref QB14 .E534 2001 V.1-4McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology. 1997.
Ref Q121.M3 1997 V.1-20
Last Updated: January 27, 2003 - 9:20:34 AMJoe Kraus
Science Librarian
Penrose Library
University of Denver
2150 E. Evans Ave.
Denver, CO 80208
(303) 871-4586
jokraus@du.edu