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Research Databases
(Consult this list for interdisciplinary databases)
ACM Digital Library - Association for Computing Machinery
The ACM Digital Library is the full-text repository of papers from publications that have been published, co-published, or co-marketed by ACM and other publishers.
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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.
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ArticleFirst
ArticleFirst is an index of content from the pages of more than 16,000 journals in the social sciences, sciences, and humanities. Updated daily, this database is an excellent source for current information.
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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.
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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.
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Energy Citations Database
The Energy Citations Database contains bibliographic records for energy-related reports, conference papers, journal articles, books, dissertations,
and patents from the Department of Energy and its predecessor agencies, the Energy Research and Development Administration and the Atomic Energy
Commission. Subjects covered include: chemistry, physics, materials, environmental science, geology,
engineering, mathematics, climatology, oceanography, computer science
and related disciplines.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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MathSciNet
MathSciNet is a carefully
maintained and easily searchable database of reviews, abstracts and
bibliographic information for much of the mathematical sciences
literature extending back to 1864. MathSciNet contains
over 2 million items and over 700,000 direct links to original
articles. Over 80,000 new
items
are added each year, most of them classified according to the
Mathematics Subject Classification.
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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.
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NASA Technical Reports Server
The NASA Technical Reports Server provides access to NASA's current and historical technical literature. NTRS searches three major collections: NACA (1915-1958), NASA (1958-present), and NASA Image eXchange (NIX) (1900-present). Search results include: conference papers, images, journal articles, photos, meeting papers, movies, patents, research reports, and technical videos.
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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.
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Optics InfoBase
This small but focused database provides citations dealing with the scientific application of optics.
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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.
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Science Direct
Science Direct is the search engine for journals published by Elsevier, the world's largest publisher of science, technical, and medical (STM) journals. It is an excellent search engine for locating the finest scholarly and peer-reviewed ATM journals.
The Hekman Library subscribes to only a small number of citations found in this database. Interlibrary loan must be used to retrieve articles. Many of the features and services offered in this database are functional only for subscribers of Science Direct. The Hekman Library does not subscribe, so Calvin users access the site as guests.
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Reference Materials
Access Science
McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology (the web site is called Access Science) is the most trusted and authoritative general science encyclopedia. It contains thousands of articles, 2,000 biographies, current bibliographies, and 110,000 definitions.
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CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics - QD65 .H3
A ready-reference handbook of the most frequently used data in science, including the periodic table of elements, basic constants and units, and geophysical data.
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Encyclopedia of Chemical Physics and Physical Chemistry - QD451 .E6 2001
This three-volume encyclopedia covers the closely related fields of chemical physics and physical chemistry.
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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.
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Twentieth Century Physics - QC7 .T84 1995
Twentieth Century Physics is a major historical study of the scientific and cultural development of physics in the twentieth century.
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Web Sources
American Physical Society
The APS web site provides access to relevant knowledge for physics research.
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EnergyFiles
EnergyFiles searches more than five hundred databases and Web sites containing information and resources pertaining to science and technology of interest to the Department of Energy, with an emphasis on the physical sciences.
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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.
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Institute of Physics Online Services
Provides a list of "Information Portals" for physics research.
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Physics.Org
A major information portal for physics maintained by the Institute of Physics staff.
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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.
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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
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Periodicals
ejournal locator (SFX)
The Hekman Library ejournal locator provides title and subject access to all the electronic journals subscribed to by the Hekman Library.
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Institute of Physics EJournals
The Hekman Library currently subscribes to all Institute of Physics EJournals.
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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.
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