Physics Research Guide

Article Databases

Subject Specific:

INSPEC This link opens in a new window
Index of citations for articles and conference papers on physics, electrical engineering, computer engineering, and information technology. Contains abstracts.
SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data Systems (ADS) This link opens in a new window
Contains abstracts and citations for materials in astronomy and astrophysics, instrumentation, physics and geophysics, Los Alamos preprints, and many archives. From Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, under a NASA grant.
International Nuclear Information System (INIS) Collection This link opens in a new window
Database of citations and abstracts to journal articles and grey literature with scientific and technical information on peaceful uses of atomic energy. From the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
INSPIRE HEP (High-Energy Physics Literature Database) This link opens in a new window
Database of high-energy-physics-related articles, conferences and reports received by the CERN, DESY, Fermilab, and SLAC libraries.

Publisher Specific:
These are limited to one or two publishers. Be mindful of what you may be missing!

IEEE Xplore Digital Library This link opens in a new window
Full-text access to IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) transactions, journals, magazines and conference proceedings published since 1988 and all current IEEE standards
SPIE Digital Library This link opens in a new window
Ebooks, journal and conference articles in optics, photonics, and imaging published by SPIE.
Optics InfoBase This link opens in a new window
Journals and conference papers published by the Optical Society of America.

Multidisciplinary:

Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Multidisciplinary database of scholarly articles. Searches citation indexes in Arts and Humanities, Social Science, and Science. Includes "cited by" feature and allows sorting by citation count.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Database covering many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, and online repositories. Sign into your library account to see items to which we subscribe.
UC Library Search This link opens in a new window
This searches across all 10 UC Library collections and beyond. Sign in using your CruzID Gold in order to find: books, e-books, articles, journals, films, maps, and more.

Preprints

arXiv.org
Open access to over one million e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics.
eScholarship from the California Digital Library
Open Access database of working papers, pre-publication scholarship, and electronic texts by researchers in UC research units, centers, and academic departments.

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Get It at UC

Displays in databases that only describe the sources (these usually only include citations and abstracts). Use it to find links to the full item or request it through interlibrary loan.

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