This guide will help you find the best library databases, search tools, and reference sources relevant to the Physics Department. Use the pages in this guide to find:
Databases containing scholarly articles about Physics.
Resources for finding eBooks and print books.
Places to search for news and background information about Physics-related topics.
Resources to help you cite your sources using the proper format.
Not Sure Where to Start?
These are the most widely-used research databases in Physics
The Astrophysics Data System (ADS) is a NASA-funded project which maintains four bibliographic databases containing more than 3.6 million records: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation, Physics and Geophysics, and preprints in Astronomy.
Scopus is an abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality web sources with tools to track, analyze and visualize research. Its content falls most heavily in the physical and life sciences, but it also covers social sciences and humanities literature. Look for the "Full Text Options" to check to see if access through the library is possible.
-Contains more than 47 million records, 70% with abstracts, more than 19,500 titles from 5,000 publishers worldwide. 70% of content is pulled from international sources. Includes MEDLINE.
-Records since 1996 include searchable cited references.
-Shortcut: go/scopus (on campus) or http://go.middlebury.edu/scopus (off campus).
