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(More Info)	AccessScience: McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology
The McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, presented via the Access Science website, is the most trusted and authoritative general science encyclopedia. It contains thousands of articles, 2,000 biographies, current bibliographies, and 110,000 science-related definitions. Read the full annotation

(More Info)	American Physical Society
The APS web site provides access to relevant knowledge for physics research. Read the full annotation

(More Info)	Applied Science & Technology Abstracts
ASTA covers the applied and practical aspects of the sciences. It provides coverage of nearly 750 journals and contains more than 1,300,000 records. Read the full annotation

(More Info)	arXiv.org e-Print archive
arXiv is an e-print service in the fields of physics, mathematics, non-linear science, computer science, and quantitative biology. Read the full annotation

(More Info)	Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
The Astrophysics Data System (ADS) is a NASA-funded project which maintains four bibliographic databases containing more than 4.4 million records: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation, Physics and Geophysics, and preprints in Astronomy. Read the full annotation

(More Info)	AstroWeb: Astronomy/Astrophysics on the Internet
AstroWeb is a portal for astronomy-related information available on the Internet. The database is maintained by the AstroWeb Consortium, involving 9 individuals at 7 institutions. Read the full annotation

(More Info)	Blackwell Synergy
Blackwell Synergy is a database of 750 electronic journals published by Blackwell Publishing. Read the full annotation

(More Info)	Calvin College Observatory: Extended Astronomy Links
An extensive and well-organized list of links related to astronomy. Read the full annotation

(More Info)	E-Print Network
The E-Print Network is a vast, integrated network of electronic scientific and technical information created by scientists and research engineers active in their respective fields, intended for use by other scientists, engineers, and students at advanced levels. Read the full annotation

(More Info)	Ejournal Locator (SFX)
The Hekman Library ejournal locator provides title and subject access to all the electronic journals subscribed to by the Hekman Library. Read the full annotation

Energy Citations Database

(More Info)	General Science Abstracts
GSA indexes articles from 190+ journals and magazines published in the U.S. and Great Britain. It covers all areas of science very generally including: astronomy, biology, computers, earth sciences, medicine and health, and physics. Read the full annotation

(More Info)	High-Energy Physics Literature Database
The HEP Literature Database is an index of approximately 500,000 journal papers, preprints, e-prints, technical reports, conference papers and theses. HEP is managed by the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and powered by their SPIRES database platform. Read the full annotation

(More Info)	INFOMINE: Physical Sciences, Engineering, Computing & Math
INFOMINE is a virtual library of Internet resources relevant to faculty, students, and research staff at the college and university level. Read the full annotation

(More Info)	Institute of Physics Journal Database
The IoP Journal Database indexes and presents full text articles for nearly sixty electronic journals related to physics and astronomy extending from 1874 to the current. Read the full annotation

(More Info)	Institute of Physics Online Services
Provides a list of "Information Portals" for physics research. Read the full annotation

(More Info)	National Technical Information Service (NTIS)
The United States Department of Commerce National Technical Information Service (NTIS) serves as the largest central resource for government-funded scientific, technical, engineering, and business related information available today. Included are citations more than 3 million publications in more than 350 subject areas. Read the full annotation

(More Info)	Optics InfoBase
This small but focused database provides citations dealing with the scientific application of optics. Read the full annotation

(More Info)	Physical Review Online Archives (PROLA)
PROLA is the online version of Physical Review, Physical Review Letters and Reviews of Modern Physics. This database goes back to 1893 and contains nearly 325,000 electronic articles. Read the full annotation

(More Info)	Physics.Org
A major information portal for physics maintained by the Institute of Physics staff. Read the full annotation

Science Citation Index Expanded

Science Direct

(More Info)	Science.gov
Science.gov is a search engine for government science information and research results. Currently in its fourth generation, Science.gov provides search of more than 50 million pages of science information with just one query, and is a gateway to over 1,800 scientific Web sites. Read the full annotation

(More Info)	Scientific Commons
The major aim of Scientific Commons is to develop the world's largest communication medium for scientific knowledge products which is freely accessible to the public. A key challenge of the project is to support the rapidly growing number of archives that admit the free distribution and access to scientific knowledge. Read the full annotation

(More Info)	Scirus: for scientific information only
Scirus is the most comprehensive science-specific search engine on the Internet. Driven by the latest search engine technology, Scirus searches over 250 million science-specific Web pages Read the full annotation

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