LibraryGuides: Physics: Databases

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Research tools that help you find articles in journals, magazines, or newspapers, or other information sources like books, videos, and maps.
Some focus on a kind of source (like newspaper articles); most of ours focus on scholarly research in a specific academic field.

(Ruth Szpunar at DePauw University)

inSPIRE
A High-Energy Physics Literature Database. INSPIRE combines the successful SPIRES database content with the Invenio digital library technology developed at CERN.

PubMed.gov
Indexes biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites. From off campus, enter PubMed via the library website for Creighton linkouts.

SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System
The SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) is a Digital Library portal for researchers in Astronomy and Physics. The ADS maintains three bibliographic databases containing more than 10.0 million records: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Physics, and arXiv e-prints.
SCOAP³
The Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics is an open access intiative starting January 2014.
arXiv
Open archive for electronic pre-prints in physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance and statistics.

Science
Journal articles and news from various fields of science.
Energy Citations Database
Articles from energy and energy-related journals, plus other publications provided by the U.S. Department of Energy (1943-present).
http://www.osti.gov/energycitations/

Physical Review Online Archive (PROLA)
Archive of the Physical Review series and other journals from the American Physical Society (1893-present).
ScienceDirect
Search through journals, books, reference works, and images for the physical sciences, engineering, life sciences, health sciences, social sciences and humanities.
Academic Search Premier
This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 3,100 journals, including active full text for nearly 2,750 peer-reviewed journals.
Google Scholar
A simple way to search scholarly materials on the open web. From off-campus, enter Google Scholar via the library website to access the full-text through Creighton University Libraries. You can also navigate to the menu at the top left > Settings > Library links > add Creighton University.