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Physics Journals
Below is a sample of some of the physics journals that are available through the library. For the complete list, perform a SUBJECT search in URI Libraries Search (using the Advanced Search option) for PHYSICS PERIODICALS, changing the drop-down box "Format" box to "Journals". List of Physics Journals
Articles & Databases
Please note: These databases require that you log in with your URI credentials.
- EZproxy InformationThis page provides details on logging in to URI-subscribed databases, journals, and more.
- CiteSeerX Scientific Literature Digital Library This link opens in a new window
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- What's included? Full-text index of computer science research articles. Allows for citation searching and linking.
- What else should I know? Offered by the NEC Laboratories America and Penn State’s School of Information Sciences and Technology.
- OSTI.GOV This link opens in a new window
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- What’s included? Indexes Department of Energy (DOE) sponsored scientific and technical reports. It provides access to all the information previously available in SciTech Connect, DOE Information Bridge, and Energy Citations Database. Replaces the print publication Energy Research Abstracts. Updated weekly.
- What dates are covered? 1995 - Present.
- Energy Citations Database This link opens in a new window
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- What’s included? Developed by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), this database indexes and provides abstracts for technical reports in energy-related disciplines. Includes links to full text when available.
- What dates are covered? 1948 - Present.
- GeoRef (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
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- What’s included? Provides access to the geoscience, geochemistry, and geophysics literature of the world, with citations and abstracts to journal articles, books, maps, government reports, conference papers, and theses and dissertations.
- What dates are covered? Covers North America from 1669 to the present and the rest of the world from 1933 to the present.
- GeoRef In Process (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
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- What’s included? Contains unedited records that are in the process of being indexed prior to their integration in the main GeoRef database. Some of the records originate from older, non-English language literature while other, more current records are not yet complete.
- Inspec (Engineering Village) This link opens in a new window
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- What’s included? Abstracts and indexing to the world’s scientific and technical literature. Provides coverage from over 3,400 journals, 2,000 conference proceedings as well as numerous books, dissertations and reports in the subject areas of physics, electrical engineering, electronics, communications, control engineering, computing, information technology, manufacturing, and production, mechanical engineering, and more.
- What dates are covered? 1898 - Present.
- What else should I know? This database is produced by the IET.
- NASA Technical Report Service This link opens in a new window
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- What’s included? Index and digitized database of reports produced by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), NASA’s predecessor. Continues with citations and documents created or sponsored by NASA. Also includes the NIX Collection, citations and links to the images, photos, movies, and videos from the discontinued NASA Image eXchange (NIX).
- What dates are covered? 1917 - Present.
- NASA Astrophysics Data System ADS Abstract Service This link opens in a new window
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- What’s included? Abstracts of journal articles, conference proceedings, NASA reports, and many PhD dissertations in the areas of astronomy and astrophysics, instrumentation, and physics and geophysics. Some full text available. Updated daily.
- What dates are covered? 1975 - Present.
- National Centers for Environmental Information This link opens in a new window
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- What’s included? Comprehensive source of current and historic oceanic, atmospheric, and geophysical data.
- National Technical Information Service (NTIS) This link opens in a new window
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- What’s included? A title keyword index to over 750,000 NTIS reports, datafiles, CD-ROMs, and audiovisual materials.
- What dates are covered? 1990 - Present.
- NTRS: NASA Technical Reports Server This link opens in a new window
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- What’s included? NASA-produced literature and indexes selected aerospace-related reports from other government agencies.
- What dates are covered? 1958 - Present.
- ScienceDirect (Elsevier) This link opens in a new window
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- What’s included? A collection of journals from the publisher Elsevier and its affiliates. Journals may be browsed or searched by keyword. Access to the full content of articles from selected journals is available to URI users. Availability is indicated by a green icon. Other articles may be requested via Interlibrary Loan.
- What dates are covered? 1995 - Present.
- SciTech Premium Collection (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
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- What’s included? Citations to, abstracts, and full text of scholarly research and technical literature in disciplines related to natural sciences and technology. Content covered includes scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications, and more.
- What dates are covered? 1946 - Present.
- What else should I know? Comprises the sub-databases: Advanced Technologies & Aerospace Database; Advanced Technologies & Aerospace Index; AGRICOLA; Agricultural Science Database; Aquatic Science & Fisheries Abstracts; Biological Science Database; Biological Science Index; Computer Science Database; Earth, Atmospheric & Aquatic Science Database; Engineering Database, Engineering Index; Environmental Science Database; Environmental Science Index; Materials Science Database; Materials Science Index; Meteorological & Geoastrophysical Abstracts; Oceanic Abstracts; Science Database.
- Scopus (Elsevier) This link opens in a new window
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- What’s included? Multidisciplinary abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature with tools to track, analyze, and visualize article and literature use. Includes journal articles, books, book series, conference papers, and more. Alternative to Web of Science. Indexes close to 35,000 titles.
- Web of Science Core Collection (Clarivate) This link opens in a new window
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- What's included? Access to Science Citation Index (1900-present), Social Sciences Citation Index (1900-present), Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975-present), Emerging Sources Citation Index (2005-present), Conference Proceedings Citation Index (1900-present), and Book Citation Index (2005-present). Contains citations to articles from over 10,000 of the most prestigious, high impact research journals in the world.
- What else should I know? Searching by cited reference allows the user to uncover the research that influenced an author’s work or to navigate forward in time to discover a paper’s impact on current research.
