Databases

• Applied Sciences & Technology Full Text Acoustics, aeronautics, neural networks, nuclear engineering, communication and information technology, geology, chemistry, waste management, mathematics, chemistry, space science.
• Engineering Specialties Engineering, including electronic, communication, materials, and mechanical.
• Institute of Physics (IOP) Journals Allows you to find citations and abstracts from ALL IOP journals; but click on the link called Journal subscriptions at your site to see a list of IOP journals with available full text.
• Materials Science Materials research and mechanical engineering.
• Solid State and Superconductivity Abstracts All aspects of theory, production, and application of solid state materials and devices.

Databases in Related Disciplines

• American Mathematical Society Journals
• Electronics and Communications Abstracts
• ENGnetBase
• MathSciNet

For a complete listing of databases provided by UMW Libraries, please see Databases A-Z.

selected resources in simpson library

• A-Z of Physicists REFB QC15 .L45 2003
• AIP Physics Desk Reference REFB QC61 .P49 2003
• Astronomy Encyclopedia REFB QB14 .A875 2002
• Cambridge Handbook of Physics Formulas REFB QC61 .W67 2000
• Dictionary of Material Science and High Energy Physics
  REFB QC772 .D57 2001
• Dictionary of Physics REFB QC5 .D538 2004
• Dictionary of Pure and Applied Physics REFB QC5 .D485 2001
• Encyclopedia of Physics QC5 .E545 2005
• Encyclopedia of Scientific Units, Weights and Measures
  QC94 .C295 2003
• Facts on File Dictionary of Atomic and Nuclear Physics REFB QC772 .F33 2003

online reference works (umw/viva SUBSCRIPTION)

• CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics online version of the 89th edition.
• Knovel K-Essentials Includes International Critical Tables, Knovel Critical Tables, Smithsonian Physical Tables, Large-Scale Adsorption and Chromatography, 10 others.
• Oxford Dictionary of Physics

Websites

directories

• American Physics Society
• Librarians' Internet Index--Physics
• PhysicsWeb
• Science.gov Physics

physics and astronomy news

• American Physics Society
• Physlink

learning Physics

• Cosmic Evolution
• Einstein Light "presents the complex ideas of Einstein's theory of relativity clearly and simply"
• Physical Review Focus "Selections from Physical Review and Physical Review Letters explained for students and researchers in all fields of physics."
• Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
• Physics Applets

physics and astronomy data

• Aladdin Database Server
• National Nuclear Data Center Databases
• NIST Physical Reference Data
• Smithsonian/NASA Astrophysics Data System

Researching Physics

• arXiv.org e-Print archive
• Efunda
• Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
• Laws List " Laws, rules, principles, effects, paradoxes, limits, constants, experiments, & thought-experiments in physics"
• Online Particle Physics Information
• OSTI E-Print Network

Astronomy web resources

• AstroWeb
• Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy
• NASA Scientific and Technical Information
• NASA Solar System Simulator
• SkyServer
• USGS Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature
• Views of the Solar System

Astronomy images

• Aladin Sky Atlas
• Lunar Prospector
• NASA Image Exchange (NIX)