Physics and Astronomy

For recent information, journal articles are often the best sources. Looking through individual journals in the hope of finding relevant material is time-consuming. It is better to use the databases to find articles on your topic.

Journal Articles:

Summon (Library homepage) provides access to the UQ Library collection of print and online books, journals, theses, newspapers, conference proceedings and more.

arXiv

ArXiv is an archive and distribution server for research papers in the areas of physics and related disciplines, mathematics, nonlinear sciences, computational linguistics, and neuroscience.

ADS (Astrophysics Data System) abstract service

A NASA-funded project whose main resource is an abstract service, which includes four sets of abstracts. They include abstracts from all major journals, many minor journals, conference proceedings, NASA reports, and many PhD theses. Each dataset can be searched by author, object name (astronomy only), title, or abstract text words.

Inspec

Provides access to the world's scientific literature in electrical engineering, electronics, physics, control engineering, information technology, communications, computers, computing, and manufacturing and production engineering.

inSPIRE

High energy physics literature database

Scopus

Scopus is a multidisciplinary abstract and citation database of research literature and quality web sources. Subject coverage includes chemistry, physics, mathematics, engineering, life and health sciences, psychology, economics, social sciences, and biological and agricultural sciences.

Web of Science (via the Web of Knowledge)

Provides access to current and retrospective multidisciplinary information from high impact research journals. Web of Science also provides a unique search method, cited reference searching.

Journals

Journals:

IOP (Institute of Physics)

Full text access (with maths and graphics) to journal titles subscribed to by UQ Library

AIP (American Institute of Physics) journals online

Specialised Resources

Specialised Resources:

Lecture notes in physics online

Web site providing access to full text versions of titles in the Springer series Lecture notes in physics

SpringerMaterials

SpringerMaterials is based on the Landolt-Börnstein New Series, a data collection covering all areas of physical sciences and engineering. The database is expanded and updated on a quarterly basis and offers advanced search & navigation functionalities.

Tables, Formulas

Tables, Formulas:

For some topics in physics, you'll need to consult specialised information resources such as the ones below.

Dictionary of units

Provides a summary of most of the units of measurement to be found in use around the world today (and a few of historical interest), together with the appropriate conversion factors needed to change them into a 'standard' unit of the S I.

The NIST Reference on Constants, Units, and Uncertainty

This site prepared by the Fundamental Constants Data Center of the NIST Physics Laboratory, provides data on constants and related precision measurements

Physics and astronomy classification scheme (PACS)

An internationally adopted, hierarchical subject classification scheme, designed by the American Institute of Physics (AIP) to classify and categorize the literature of physics and astronomy.

Smithsonian physical tables

Tables of physical data