Physics: Major Indexes and Databases
Academic OneFile
1980 - current. Interdisciplinary index covering over 10,000 scholarly and popular journals and magazines. Most references include full-text or links to full-text. Contains all of Expanded Academic Index ASAP. Coverage of scientific journals is limited. This is a subscription resource; for off-campus access, enter your Middlebury username and password when prompted.
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Catalog of US Government Publications
A finding tool for publications of the federal government. Includes descriptive records for historical and current publications and provides direct links to those that are available online.
CrossRef Search Pilot
An experimental search engine that uses Google to index the contents of scholarly articles from by 45 leading journal publishers. For a list of participating publishers, see crossref.org.
INSPEC
Indexes physics, electronics and computer science literature, 1969-current. Access via the Classroom Instruction Program.
NASA Astrophysics Data System
The Astrophysics Data System (ADS) is a NASA-funded project that maintains four bibliographic databases containing more than 4.2 million records: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation, Physics and Geophysics, and preprints in Astronomy. The main body of data in the ADS consists of bibliographic records and full-text scans of much of the astronomical literature. In addition to its databases, the ADS provides access and pointers to a wealth of external resources, including electronic articles, data catalogs and archives.
OSTI
Selective coverage, as far back as 1948. The US Department of Energy's Office of Scientific & Technical Information (OSTI) provides several databases in the fields of biology, chemistry, physics, and energy. You can search for citations in government-funded energy research from 1948, for full-text research reports from 1995, for article citations in scientific journals, and in full-text preprint servers hosting unpublished papers.
Web of Science (Science Citation Index)
1985-current. Together, the Science Citation Index and the Social Sciences Citation Index cover several thousand scholarly journals worldwide. The Science Citation Index segment covers core science and technology research journals. Special features include cited article searching and discovery of related articles through common terms. This is a subscription resource; for off-campus access, enter your Middlebury username and password when prompted. (For references to articles published 1974-1989, use SciSearch via Dialog on Library computers; ask the Science Librarian for assistance.)
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