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Quantum Teleportation Diagram from AccessScience article by Anton Zeilinger, "Quantum teleportation", in AccessScience@McGraw-Hill, http://www.accessscience.com, DOI 10.1036/1097-8542.YB011320, last modified: January 31, 2001.
See also the original article in Nature by D. Bouwmeester et al., Experimental quantum teleportation, Nature, 390:575-579, 1997
Dartmouth College Library Research Resources
| CONTENTS: CHOOSING RESOURCES RESEARCH RESOURCES: Reference Materials FINDING SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES: INDEXES & ABSTRACTS JOURNALS SUBJECT HEADINGS EVALUATING, CITING & MANAGING SOURCES LIBRARY LOCATIONS, MAPS, HOURS GETTING MATERIALS ACCESSING RESOURCES FROM OFF CAMPUS HELP |
Purpose of this guide: This guide provides a starting point for locating scholarly, scientific information in Physics, with an emphasis on resources in Quantum Mechanics. It will help you find journal articles by using Indexes and show you the best subject headings to use in the Catalog and in Indexes to journal articles. It will also help you find definitions and data. It includes links to resources for evaluating, citing and managing sources, as well as links to obtain additional assistance in the research and writing process. Feel free to contact Kresge librarians with any questions you have about finding information and using the libraries. |
Some key points:
• Print and digital books, journal titles, government documents, maps, videos, and other materials available through all the Dartmouth College libraries can be found by using the Dartmouth Library Catalog. Search by author, journal or book title, subject headings or keyword; the Library Catalog will give you the call numbers and locations of the print items, and the URLs for the digital materials. Although you can locate some journal titles by abbreviation in the Catalog, these are not consistently available, so a full journal title search works best. For help with abbreviations, see the section on Journals in this guide.
• HOWEVER magazine, journal and newspaper articles are NOT listed by author, title or subject in the Catalog. Use Article Indexes to identify individual articles and preprints by author, title and topic within journals, magazines and newspapers.
• Use this guide to get started in learning more about physics. You should also use the Dartmouth Digital Library to locate information about all the libraries at Dartmouth, and library services like document delivery. The eResources section of the Digital Library contains a subset of electronic resources including: Research Guides, Article Indexes, Databases, Electronic Journals, and e-Books. The eResources subject folder for Physics contains links to a wide range of electronic indexes to articles, databases, journals and subject guides in all areas of Physics.
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—-> Subject areas covered —-> Dates covered (many online or Web indexes and databases go back to the mid-80's; consult the print version for materials before the online index began; find print index by title in the online catalog or consult a librarian) —-> Types of material within the source indexed. Does the index include conference paper abstracts, editorials, book reviews, corrections, and other matter outside of the full research reports or articles in the material indexed? —-> Numbers of source publications indexed-this gives you an indication of how much you may have to limit a search due to large retrievals. —-> Language-English only or many languages? You may need to limit a search to English-language-only materials in databases that contain foreign language material such as INSPEC. —-> Are there special searching features that you might need such as cited reference searching, citation links, limits to review articles? —-> Are you searching full-text in the database or reference information only? Are there links to full-text? |
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AIP Physics Desk Reference Constants, tables of data, definitions and overviews of subjects make this a useful book to use when researching a topic. |
Kresge Ref. |
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Dictionary of Scientific Biography Classic work that combines summaries of key concepts in science with biographical information about the people who developed these; includes excellent bibliographies of works about and by the scientists. |
Kresge Ref. |
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Searchable compilation of many data sources in engineering, physics and chemistry such as handbooks and tables; tables can be downloaded and data manipulated as needed. |
Knovel.com |
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Scientific American science desk reference Anything you want to know in science! |
Kresge Ref. |
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McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology |
Kresge Ref. Q121 .M3 |
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Applied Science Abstracts 1983-present Part of Wilson Web |
Indexes 390 technical and engineering journals; covered journals in physics include: American Journal of Physics, Physics Today, Applied Physics Letters, and Reviews of Modern Physics |
| General Science Abstracts Part of WilsonWeb |
Indexes popular science magazines as well as the most prestigious multidisciplinary professional science journals. Covers about 135 journals including: Nature, Science, Scientific American, American Scientist and New Scientist; covers all the sciences. |
| GoogleScholarBETA The Google search engine indexing the more scholarly material for which the basic descriptive information is freely available, such as title, author and abstract. |
Many publishers are making the basic information about author, title and publication freely available for scholarly material, so Google can index this kind of material. Generally, the coverage of the material in Google is less consistent, less thorough, and less reliable than the coverage in the other indexes, so it's not a place to go for either very current or very in-depth research, but could be a place to start to see what topics are appearing in what journals. Then you could follow-up with more focused indexes. The Dartmouth College Library is providing Google with links to our full-text journal materials, so you can go from a Google Scholar BETA citation to the full-text. |
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INSPEC 1898-present Access to INSPEC is through ISI's Web of Knowledge platform. |
The most comprehensive index to the worldwide physics scientific literature, including conference papers, books, and technical reports as well as journal articles. Covers a few popular titles such as Physics World, as well as original research materials. You can limit a search to general overview and review articles. INSPEC offers some unique searching features such as numerical range searching to focus a search on for example studies done under particular conditions, and a chemical name search to make a search for a material system more precise. |
| This collection of preprints in Physics is the first place many experienced researchers go to keep up-to-date with newly reported research in their field. The service allows authorized users to post papers BEFORE the papers are published through the peer review process. Frequently the papers are published later, sometimes with revisions from the version posted here. Always cite the published version if there is one; if not, use the letter/number assigned to the paper in arXiv. | |
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Science-specific web search engine. |
Although not exactly an index, it is included here because it covers web based materials as long as they are scientific, and includes important government, education and commercial sites. It also includes ScienceDirect citations, citations from New Scientist, many preprint servers and the US Patent and Trademark office materials. |
| Spires-Hep | The High-Energy Physics Literature Database, produced by the Standford Linear Accelerator Center Library, includes published papers, preprints, videos, conference papers and other kinds of material on high energy physics. References include links to data from the research described in the paper regardless of the site where that data resides. The HEP (High Energy Physics) search system includes how many times the article was cited within SPIRES HEP, and a very useful summary analysis of the search results. |
| Web of Science 1900- present |
Science Citation Index offers the unique Cited Reference Searching which allows you to go search forward in time based who has cited a paper. Indexes the major journals in physics such as Physical Review Letters but no conference proceedings or books. Most material in WoS is peer reviewed. |
| JOURNALS - selected listing |
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Remember to use the Indexes and Abstracts section of this guide to locate articles within any of these journals.. You can locate print and online physics journals available to Dartmouth students and faculty by title in the online catalog by doing the subject search Physics periodicals All Physics electronic journals subscribed to at Dartmouth by title are listed here. Following are the major collections of physics journals by publisher; these provide searching across all titles provided by the publisher: IOP or Institute of Physics journals include Classical and Quantum Gravity. PROLA or Physical Review Online Archive is the location of current and back issues of all of the Physical Review journals, among which are the most important specialist journal series in physics. See individual journal sites for papers accepted but not yet published. Key titles include Physical Review A, B and D. ScienceDirect from Elsevier lists many journals in the Physics and Astronomy section and provides a search engine for the article titles, authors and full text. Selected individual journal titles: American Journal of Physics -excellent journal for the educated layperson or physics student with a focus on those teaching and learning about all aspects of physics; Kresge; online since 1999 Physical Review Focus- This site offers short explanations for the non-specialist of the material presented in selected Physical Review articles, written by science writers. Physics Today 1948-present in Kresge in print, and online with a 3 month embargo at Academic Search Premier Physics World 1988-present in Kresge in print, and some articles are online at:http://physicsworld.com/cws/home |
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Heisenberg uncertainty principle Neutrinos Quantum Theory (this is used instead of Quantum Mechanics) |
Searching by subject is more specific, keyword searching is broader. A combined subject and keyword search is possible (use keyword access and "s:" for the heading). To find books that provide introductory material in quantum theory: Keyword search: introduction and s: quantum theory To locate materials that discuss the superposition principle and apply that idea to quantum teleportation, using two different forms of the word "teleport": Superposition and (teleport or teleportation) |
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EVALUATING, CITING, & MANAGING SOURCES
Here are a couple of useful guides for evaluating resources, digital and print:: "Testing the Surf: Criteria for Evaluating Internet sources."; This 1997 article provides a time-tested list of criteria that you should apply in considering using any information resource. Critical Evaluation of Resources, a guide from the UC Berkeley Library that covers issues like determining bias and objectivity in a source.
Sources Their Use and Acknowledgment (Dartmouth College)
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 searches from databases such as the online catalog, INSPEC, General Science Index and Web of Science directly into EndNote. EndNote provides an index to the articles by author, keyword, date, etc.., and can be used to produce a bibliography when combined with a word processing program like WORD. Kresge Library will offer workshops on EndNote and RefWorks upon demand. See Choosing a Reference Manager for help in what program to use. More information about reference management programs is on the Managing your References page.
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LIBRARY LOCATIONS, MAPS, HOURS
Borrow Direct: Delivers books from the combined library catalogs of Brown, Columbia, Cornell, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton, and Yale within 4 business days.
Please fill out the DartDoc Form for documents that are in Storage or that are not in the Dartmouth Library system (Interlibrary Loan requests). See the Document Delivery webpage for more details on these services.
You can also use the Request Selected Item feature of the Library Catalog to request books or articles from Storage.
ACCESSING RESOURCES FROM OFF CAMPUS
Most library resources require that you be on campus so that the Dartmouth IP address is recognized. However, you can access resources from off campus by setting up your computer connection in several ways. This page describes many of the ways you can set up your computer so you can use library resources when you are not on campus.
Accessing Resources from Off-Campus
HELP
Contact a Kresge Librarian:
Jane Quigley, Physical Sciences Librarian, 6-3564
Ann Perbohner, Physical Sciences Librarian, 6-3845
Email an online request to Kresge Library Reference.
Guide compiled by Barbara DeFelice for: PHYS42 Summer 2005
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