Indexes and abstracts will help you find research papers by author, title and subject in Physics and Astronomy. For journal titles, conference proceedings volumes, and books, the Dartmouth Library Catalog should be searched to determine if Dartmouth owns the journal, proceeding, or book. To search the catalog see: http://libcat.dartmouth.edu.
A web-based index and abstracting service for all areas of astronomy, astrophysics, geophysics and related instrumentation from 1975 to present. ADS is really three different databases, Astronomy, Instrumentation, and Physics and Astrophysics. Publications indexed includes journals, books, conference proceedings, and the publications of astronomical observatories, in all languages.
Subject coverage includes: Astronomy, Astrophysics, Lunar and Planetary Exploration, Solar Physics, Space Radiation, Instrumentation, Spacecraft, Geophysics, Optics, and Plasma Physics.
Provides worldwide coverage of approximately 4,500 journals and selected government reports and books. Subjects covered include: civil, energy, environmental, geological, and biological engineering; electrical, electronics, and control engineering; chemical, mining, metals, and fuel engineering; mechanical, automotive, nuclear, and aerospace engineering; and computers, robotics, and industrial robots. In addition to journal literature, over 480,000 records of significant published proceedings of engineering and technical conferences are included.
COMPENDEX covers 1970 to the present and indexes book reviews, books and monographs, conferences, symposia, meetings, journal articles, technical reports.
A subject, title, and author guide to virtually every American dissertation accepted at an accredited institution since 1861. Selected Masters theses have been included since 1962. In addition, since 1988, the database includes citations for dissertations from 50 British universities that have been collected by and filmed at The British Document Supply Centre. Beginning with DAIC Volume 49, Number 2 (Spring 1988), citations and abstracts from Section C, Worldwide Dissertations (formerly European Dissertations), have been included.
A bibliographic database that cites articles of at least one column in length for more than 135 English-language periodicals published in the United States and Great Britain. Coverage includes publications from popular science magazines to professional science journals. This file begins with the May 1984 issue of General Science Index and is updated monthly. Abstracts are provided for citations added to the database since 3/93.
Subject areas covered are physics, electrical engineering, electronics, computing and computer theory, artificial intelligence, hardware and software, control technology, and information technology. Approximately 4,000 journals and 2,000 conference proceedings are indexed. Years covered are 1898-present. Access to INSPEC is through ISI's Web of Knowledge platform.
Therefore, you can cross search INSPEC, Web of Science and some key free resources like the arXiv.org and MEDLINE
A free online service providing you with access to the very best Web resources for education and research, evaluated and selected by a network of subject specialists. It covers the physical sciences, engineering, computing, geography, mathematics and environmental science.
This collection of bibliographic databases, available through Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, includes the following, which can be searched individually or together:
A web based index containing bibliographic citations and evaluative reviews and abstracts of the research literature in mathematics. It is the electronic equivalent to Mathematical Reviews covering the years 1940 to the present. Review texts and abstracts are available from 1940-present.
The NTIS: National Technical Information Service database consists of summaries of U.S. government-sponsored research, development, and engineering, plus analyses prepared by federal agencies, their contractors, or grantees. NTIS also provides access to the results of government-sponsored research and development from countries outside the U.S. Organizations that currently contribute to the NTIS database include: laboratories administered by the United Kingdom Department of Industry; the German Federal Ministry of Research and Technology (BMFT); the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS).
NTIS covers 1964 to the present and indexes bibliographies, conferences, symposia, meetings, government documents, journal articles, microforms, patents, reports, standards, theses and dissertations, translations.
SPINWeb database (Searchable Physics Information Notices) provides the most current indexing and abstracting of major American and Russian physics and astronomy journals. SPINWeb contains the abstracts of over 80 scientific journals published by the American Institute of Physics and its Member Societies since 1975, as well as selected articles from other scientific journals.
Covers 5,300 journals in the basic and applied sciences, including physics, medicine, engineering, mathematics and computer science. Years covered are 1900-present. Updated weekly.
Search features include: cited reference searching, current awareness searching, keyword searching across all files, related records linking, interdisciplinary searching, and number of times a paper was cited. Searching "This week's update" or "Latest 2 weeks" or "Latest 4 weeks" or "All years" or "Year selected" are possible date limits.
The Isotopes Project compiles, evaluates, and disseminates nuclear structure and radioactive decay data for basic and applied research. The Project is responsible for evaluating nuclear structure data for 43 mass chains, most of them in the region of A=167-194, and has provided a leadership role in the evaluation of high-spin and decay data. These evaluations, after being incorporated into the Evaluated Nuclear Structure Data File (ENSDF), are published in Nuclear Data Sheets, Academic Press. The group also evaluates nuclei far-from-stability in collaboration with the Atomic Mass Data Center (Orsay) , neutron capture gamma-ray data with the Institute of Isotope and Surface Chemistry (Budapest), and spontaneous fission data with the GANDS collaboration (LBNL,LLNL,INEL,Vanderbilt,UCB).
Data available: Table of Isotopes, Isotope Explorer (nuclear structure and decay data), Nuclear Science Reference Search (by author, nuclide, reaction, keyword, and other data types), Table of Superdeformed Nuclear Bands and Fission Isomers (Nilsson Diagrams), Nuclear Astrophysics (stellar nucleosynthesis reaction and decay rates), Thermal Neutron Capture (Capture gamma-ray data and thermal neutron cross sections), Fission (Fission yields, spontaneous fission and 235U(n,f) prompt gamma-ray data), Atomic Masses, Table of Radioactive Isotopes (alpha, beta, and gamma-ray decay).
Knovel.com provides searchable numerical data handbooks in all areas of materials science, engineering and physics. Over 300 handbooks and data sets are included. Some of the tables and graphs are interactive, and all the material can be downloaded.
Funded by the U.S. Department of Energy to provide information services in the fields of low and medium energy nuclear physics to users in the United States and Canada. In particular, the Center can provide information on neutron, charged-particle, and photonuclear reactions, nuclear structure, and decay data. Access to the databases is currently available without cost 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
What's available: Experimental reaction data CSISRS (EXFOR); Experimental heavy ion reaction data RHID; Experimental unevaluated nuclear structure and decay data XUNDL; Evaluated nuclear structure and decay data ENSDF & NUDAT; Evaluated nuclear data for applications ENDF (contains the ENDF/B-VI, BROND, CENDL, JEF, and JENDL libraries); Photon Attenuation and Scattering - XRAY; MIRD (radionuclide decay and dose data); QCALC (Reaction Q-values, threshold energies, decay Q-values); Masses (Audi-Wapstra atomic mass evaluation); IRDF (International Reactor Dosimetry File); PHYSCO (physics analysis codes); POLSCAT (polarized xray scattering program)
The PDG is an international collaboration that reviews Particle Physics and related areas of Astrophysics, and compiles/analyzes data on particle properties.
The mission of the Space Physics Data Facility (SPDF) is to enhance the scientific return from NASA programs in Space Physics including the disciplines of: Solar Physics; Cosmic and Heliospheric Physics; Magnetospheric Physics; and Ionospheric, Thermospheric and Mesospheric Physics. The SPDF will lead in the definition, development, and operations of data systems and services for space physics research, promote collaborative efforts in the collection and utilization of space physics data and models, and respond to the research needs of the space physics community.
Citation Managers and Style Guides
RefWorks is a web-based bibliographic management program that allows users to create their own personal database of bibliographic references by importing references from online databases. RefWorks makes it easy to search, sort, and use these references in writing papers and then to automatically format the paper and the bibliography. Refworks provides import formats for many science databases, including INSPEC, ISI's Web of Science, and the Materials Science files from CSA.
EndNote is a bibliographic management database that can be used in several ways to help you organize and track citations to the literature. You can download search results from databases such as the online catalog, INSPEC, ISI's Web of Science, the Materials Sciences files from CSA, and General Science Index directly into EndNote. EndNote provides a searchable index to the articles by author, keyword, date, etc., and can be used to produce a bibliography, formatted according to preselected styles, when combined with a word processing program like Microsoft Word.
Kresge Library will offer workshops on RefWorks upon demand.
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