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Physics (Legacy)

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Welcome to the Physics Subject Guide.

Each of the tabs above is a page ofresources, and tips, on finding a particular sort of physicsinformation. Some resources are broad-based, but others focus onparticular types of engineering. Once you're in the right tab for thesort of information you're looking for, take a look at the discriptionsof the different options so you can find the right resource for yourparticular topic. If you have any problems drop me a line atbilljac@miami.edu and I'll try to help you out.


Bill Jacobs

Science and Engineering Librarian

Subject Specialist

James Sobczak

Collection Description

This guide presents selected print and electronic resources in physicsand astronomy available through the University of Miami Libraries andopen access websites.  Please contact Physics and Astronomy LibrarianBill Jacobs for more information about these resources or to make anappointment for in-depth research assistance. For general inquiries andassistance, call or visit the Information and Research Assistance Deskon the first floor of the Otto G. Richter Library (305-284-4722). Youcan also email a reference librarian through our Ask A Librarian service.

Catalogs
 
UM Libraries Website
Use this link to perform Author, Keyword, or Title searches.
Advanced UM Libraries Catalog Search
Use this link to perform more complex searches, including multiple keywords and subjects, language and type of material (book, DVD, etc).
General Resources

This guide focuses on items available electronically, but much more isavailable on paper in Richter Library. If you can't find what youneed here, please take a look in the library catalog for much more ofour holdings.

Access Science
The McGraw-Hill encyclopedia of science and technology on the web. Encyclopedia entries are supported by updates and news on the topic. Also includes biographies, study guides and suggested essay topics.
The Hutchinson pocket dictionary of physics
It can help with the jargon but you're on your own with your professor's accent.
dictionary of scientists
Brief entries on notable scientists
Mathematical Tools for Physics
Subject Specialist

James Sobczak

  • SPIRES
    A depository of e-prints in high energy physics hosted at Stanford. Weak search and navigation but comprehensive full-text holdings.
  • ArXiv
    Another e-print depository that covers a broader range of physics than SPIRES as well as math and computer science.
  • Web of Science Citation Indexes
    Web of Science, published by Thomson Reuters, is a multi-disciplinary database that provides integrated access to over 8,000 key research journals indexed in: Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Science Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index. There are two main ways to search the database: --- select General Search to search for articles by subject term, author name, journal title, or author affiliation --- select Cited Reference Search to search for articles that cite an author or article that you specify. Web of Knowledge features citation searching, email alerts, links to the full text of many items.
  • SCOPUS
    Covering the life, physical, health, and social sciences, Scopus is a large abstract and citation database of research literature and web sources. Scopus covers:  Over 15,000 peer-reviewed titles from more than 4,000 international publishers, including coverage of:  500 Open Access journals, 700 Conference Proceedings, 600 Trade Publications, 125 Book Series. More than 60% of titles are from countries other than the US Abstracts go back to 1966. References go back to 1996. 80% of content is indexed with controlled vocabularies. 100% coverage of Medline, including unique Medline journals. 28 million abstract records. 245 million references added to all abstracts. Scopus also covers 250 million quality web sources, including 13 million patents. Web sources are searched via Scirus, and include author homepages, university sites and resources such as the preprint servers CogPrints and ArXiv.org, and OAI compliant resources.
  • SPIE Digital Library
    SPIE Digital Library includes resource on optics and photonics, providing access to more than 260,000 technical papers from SPIE Journals and Conference Proceedings from 1990 to the present. More than 17,000 new research papers are added annually.
  • IEEE Xplore
    A full text collection of IEEE and IEEE-associated journals and conference proceedings.
  • International Nuclear Information System Database (INIS)
    The INIS Database contains over 3 million bibliographic records and almost 200,000 full-text nonconventional documents, consisting of scientific and technical reports and other non copyrighted information. International Nuclear Information System Database includes scientific and technical literature on a range of subjects from nuclear engineering, safeguards and non-proliferation to applications in agriculture, health and industry.
Subject Specialist

James Sobczak

  • Science Conference Proceedings
    This portal from the DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information lets you search databases of proceedings and papers from a host of authoritative sites--professional societies and national labs in the physical sciences and technology, largely.
  • Conference Proceedings Citation Index- Science
    Indexes current and retrospective bibliographic data on science conferences. Contains links to Web of Science source records so items may be included in word and citation searches. Data indexed: conference titles, sponsors, locations, dates  article titles, authors, author addresses  publisher names and addresses  series titles, book titles, ISSN and ISBN numbers.
  • AIP conference proceedings
    We've recently switched to all-electronic for AIP's conference proceedings so look here for the latest information.
  • SPIE Digital Library
    SPIE Digital Library includes resource on optics and photonics, providing access to more than 260,000 technical papers from SPIE Journals and Conference Proceedings from 1990 to the present. More than 17,000 new research papers are added annually.
  • IEEE conferences
    We have full text access to the surprisingly large collection of conferences associated with IEEE. Even if you don't think IEEE is involved, if it was about electronics it's worth a look here.

Physics conference proceedings can be difficult to obtain. There is no one strong central database where they are indexed and if you do find a description of an interesting paper, not a lot is available in full text. If the paper of interest isn't available on-line, please check the library's paper holdings as we still get a fair bit in that format. If we don't have it, please place an interlibrary loan request and we will try to get it for you.

Subject Specialist

James Sobczak

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