Olin Library Research Guides: Physics: Databases

General Databases

While not specific to the sciences, these databases can be good starting points for research papers. They represent a wide variety of material and can assist with everything from giving a general introduction to a topic to providing scholarly, peer-reviewed articles. They can also be good sources for non major courses.

Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new window
Full text for more than 4,500 journals. Contains scholarly and non-scholarly literature in a wide range of disciplines.

Center for Research Libraries
The Center for Research Libraries acquires and preserves newspapers, journals, documents, archives, and other traditional and digital resources from a global network of sources.

JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Offers full-text access to articles from leading journals in several fields in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences.
ProQuest Research Library This link opens in a new window
Articles from scholarly journals, popular magazines and newspapers, in many different subject areas.

Physics Databases

These databases are specific to physics or at least to the sciences in general. Here you will find popular articles as well as scholarly, peer-reviewed publications on a wide range of topics in physics and other scientific disciplines.

arXiv.org
This is an open access repository of articles that have not yet been published but are forthcoming in the physics literature. In physics especially, up to the minute research is important to keep track of. arXiv.org is one of the best places to go for the absolute most recent research in the field.
Asterank
Asterank is an public asteroid database containing information about more than 600,000 asteroids. (Very cool to look at, even if you're not doing any astronomy research!)

GreenFILE This link opens in a new window
Covers articles examining human impact on the environment. with indexing, abstracts, and some Open Access full text.
IOPscience This link opens in a new window
Institute of Physics Science (IOPscience) provides full-text access to many of the leading scientific journals in all aspects of physics. The Institute of Physics (IOP) is a leading learned society whose goal is to promote the advancement and dissemination of knowledge of and education in the science of physics, pure and applied, for the benefit of the public and the members of the Institute.
Public Library of Science (PLoS) This link opens in a new window
PKP is a multi-university initiative developing (free) open source software and conducting research to improve the quality and reach of scholarly publishing
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
SciFinder This link opens in a new window
SciFinder is a research discovery application that provides integrated access to the world's most comprehensive and authoritative source of references, substances and reactions in chemistry and related sciences.
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Provides access to citation indexes for sciences, the arts and humanities, and MEDLINE from 1950 to the present. Also includes Journal Citation Reports (see box below) to assess journal rankings and impact factor.

Use the link below the first time you use SciFinder; it will take you through the steps for creating an account. NOTE: When asked for your email address, you must use your ROLLINS email. Registration and use of SciFinder Scholar through the Rollins College account is restricted to current faculty/staff/students of Rollins. If you have any problems or questions, please contact me at dprosser@rollins.edu.

SciFinder Registration (First Time Users)

First time users of SciFinder Scholar must create an account using this link.