Physics Research Guide

This is a general research guide for the undergraduate and graduate courses in OSU's Physics program. You'll find suggestions for locating books, articles, topical overviews, research tools, and factual information. If further assistance is needed, please contact the the subject librarian for Phyiscs: Uta Hussong (737-7278), Uta.Hussong@oregonstate.edu.

 

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Associations
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Finding Books in Online Catalogs

The OSU online catalog, is a listing of materials owned by OSU Libraries. It can be used to find books related to physics.

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Finding Articles in Journals

• Academic Search Premiere -- Library web (1990-present).
  Indexes about 1250 publications including general interest and scientific magazines and some newspapers as well as many research journals. Abstracts included and many articles are full-text. The Valley Library subscribes to most of the magazines and journals indexed in this database. Useful for finding information on current issues in the news media.
• Applied Science & Technology Abstracts -- Abstracts & Index: 1983-present
  Index to journal articles from over 400 research journals covering aeronautics; chemistry; computer technology; engineering; environment; food science; geology; mathematics; metallurgy; minerology; oceanography; petroleum/gas; physics; plastics; textiles; transportation; etc.
• Computer & Electrical Engineering and Physics Abstracts Databases (INSPEC) -- Abstracts and index: 1969-present
  INSPEC includes citations and abstracts for research articles in physics, computer science and electrical engineering. It corresponds to the following print indexes: Physics Abstracts; Computer & Control Abstracts; and Electrical & Electronics Abstracts.
• National Technical Information Service (NTIS) -- Abstracts and index: 1983-present
  Government sponsored research reports and technical papers from all areas of physical, life and applied science.
• PapersFirst/ProceedingsFirst -- Index only: 1993-present
  Index to conferences and the papers presented at them. Use PapersFirst to search by author or paper title. Use ProceedingsFirst to search by subject or conference name.
• ArticleFirst -- Index only: 1990-present
  Indexes articles from over 12,500 journals in all fields. Use ArticleFirst to search by author, title and keyword. Also contains table of contents and holdings information for the ArticleFirst journals; search by journal name, journal subject or year.
• Dissertation Abstracts -- Abstracts and index: 1861-present
  Index to doctoral dissertations and masters theses in all academic disciplines completed at U.S. institutions. Abstracts only since 1980.
• Science Citation Index -- Index only: 1987-present
  CD Network - Use limited to campus network. - Index of cited articles from over 5000 scientific journals in all areas of science. Search by cited author, original author, title keywords or journal name.
• WorldCat
  Index to over 30 million records cataloged by most North American and European libraries. Materials indexed include books, journals, conferences, films, videos, recordings, musical scores, computer software, maps and manuscripts. Materials date back to the 11th century.

Electronic journals

• OSU's Electronic Journal list for Physical Sciences
• AIP Center for History of Physics Newsletter
  Reports on work in the history of physics carried out at the American Institute of Physics and elsewhere. 1994-present
• The Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP)
  A refereed journal written, run and distributed by electronic means; sponsored by CERN. 1997-present
• Living Reviews in Relativity 1998 - Present
• Physics Today
  Available to OSU community through subscription to Academic Search Premiere. 1992-present.

Preprints

• xxx.lanl.gov E-Print Archive
  Searchable archive of physics preprints
• Physics Preprints, Abstracts, Reports
  Links to various physics preprint sites and other Internet resources by subject
• Fermilab Publications Office List of Publications
  Fermilab monthly list of preprints
• Mathematical Physics Preprint Archive

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Reference Sources

Associations

• American Institute of Physics (AIP)
• American Physical Society (APS)
• Institute of Physics (IOP)
• European Physical Society (EPS)

People

• Plasma Physicists
  Searchable index of 500+ atomic and plasma physicists
• Nobel Laureates in Physics 1901-1999
  Brief biographical information and description of discovery; maintained by the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC)

Laboratories

• Center for Particle Astrophysics
• European Lab for Particle Physics (CERN)
• Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FERMILAB)
• Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL)
• Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) P-24 Plasma Physics Group
• NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
• National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Physics Laboratory
• Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC)
• Centre for Quantum Computation
  Research center at Oxford University

Handbooks & directories

• CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics Valley Reference QD65 .C5
• Landolt-Bornstein Physikalischchemische Tabellen (Numerical data and functional relationships in Science and Technology) Valley QC61 .L2
  Tables of data and physical propetries of compounds.
• The Physics Quick Reference Guide Valley Reference QC61 .C65 1996
• Powder Diffraction File CD - available at the Valley Library Reference Desk, library use only
• Encyclopedia of Modern Physics Valley Reference QC5 .E544 1990
• McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Physics Valley Reference QC5 .M425 1993

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Other Useful Internet Sites

• Guides to Physics Information Sources on the Internet
  • Online Particle Physics Information - Annotated, organized site of online resources; maintained by the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC)
    http://www.slac.stanford.edu/library/pdg/hepinfo.html
  • Particle Physics - Electronic information service covering the fields of experimental and theoretical particle physics (including cosmology); maintained by Eagle Intermedia Publishing Ltd.
    http://www.eagle.co.uk/ppj/home.html
  • Particle-Surface Resources on the Internet - Page is maintained by Dr. Mark H. Shapiro at the Department of Physics, California State University, Fullerton.
    http://chaos.fullerton.edu/mhslinks.html
  • Physics Resources - Site maintained by Brown University; divided into WWW, Gopher and FTP sites
    http://www.het.brown.edu/physics/index.html
  • PhysicsWorld - Institute of Physics site offers breaking news, in-depth analysis and feature stories, and the latest jobs. Includes careers and professional development sections, and an easy-to-use search facility. (formerly physcisweb.org)
    http://physicsworld.com/
  • RESOURCES IN PHYSICS - Compiled by the Physics-Astronomy-Mathematics (PAM) Division of the Special Libraries Association
    http://pantheon.yale.edu/~dstern/phys.html
  • Resources in Physics - University of Minnesota site with links to physics-related Internet resources
    http://sciweb.lib.umn.edu/subject/physics.html
  • WWW Virtual Library: Beam Physics - Links to resources in Beam Physics and Accelerator Technology; maintained by the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
    http://home.earthlink.net/~whittum/vl/
  • WWW Virtual Library: Nuclear Physics - Links to resources in Nuclear Physics
    http://www.rarf.riken.go.jp/rarf/np/nplab.html
  • WWW Virtual Library: Physics - Overview of physics-related web sites; includes link to virtual libraries of specialties and related subjects
    http://www.vlib.org/Physics.html
  • Physics Departments and Documents Worldwide - A searchable site of physics departments, document sources, and general information, teaching material, etc. around the world with lists by continent/country
    http://physnet.physik.uni-oldenburg.de/PhysNet/physnet.html
• Physics-related Reference Resources
  • American Physical Society - An interactive timeline marking the major achievements in physics between 1896 and 1997.
  • Atomic Spectral Line Broadening Bibliographic Database - NIST bibliographic database on atomic spectral line broadening
    http://physics.nist.gov/PhysRefData/Linebr/html/reffrm0.html
  • Connecting Research in Physics Education with Teacher Education - Edited by Andree Tiberghien, E. Leonard Jossem, and Jorge Barojas, this book was published by the International Commission on Physics Education
    http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~jossem/ICPE/TOC.html
  • Decay data search - The Lund/LBNL Nuclear Data Search
    http://nucleardata.nuclear.lu.se/Database/toi
  • Engineering, Scientific Unit Converter - Conversion tables for various measurements, from acceleration to volume, by Legacy Systems
    http://www.webcom.com/legacysy/convert2/convert2.html
  • Fermilab Information Resources Library
    http://fnalpubs.fnal.gov/
  • Interactive Textbook for PFP 96 - Experimental textbook for interdisciplinary course in chemistry, mathematics, and physics
    http://dept.physics.upenn.edu/courses/gladney/mathphys/Contents.html
  • Internet Resources in Physics
  • The Isotopes Project Home Page - The Isotopes Project at the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory compiles, evaluates, and disseminates nuclear structure and radioactive decay data for basic and applied research
    http://isotopes.lbl.gov/isotopes/
  • Learn Physics Today! - Online physics tutorial developed by students for Think Quest
    http://library.advanced.org/10796/
  • Living Encyclopedia of Physics - Experimental online encyclopedia of physics (part of TIPTOP site)
    http://physicsweb.org/TIPTOP/LEP
  • Martindale's "The Reference Desk": The Virtual Physics Center - Links to physics resources, including courses and tutorials.
  • Periodic Table of the Elements - Los Alamos National Laboratory site with data on the elements, including history, properties, sources, uses, isotopes and costs
    http://CST.lanl.gov/CST/imagemap/periodic/periodic.html
  • Physical Reference Data - NIST site - physical constants and other data
    http://physics.nist.gov/PhysRefData/contents.html
  • Physics 2000 - An interactive journey through modern physics at the University of Colorado, Boulder
    http://www.Colorado.EDU/physics/2000/
  • The PhysLINK.com - Your Guide to Physics on the Web - Guide to physics resources created by Anton Skorucak
    http://www.physlink.com/index.cfm
  • Quantum Mechanics - Information-rich resource on quantum mechanics and physical chemistry from the University of California, San Diego
    http://www-wilson.ucsd.edu/education/qm/qm.html
  • Q-value calculator - NuBase is a compilation of ground and isomeric state properties for all known nuclides.
    http://nucleardata.nuclear.lu.se/database/masses
  • Stopping-Power and Range Tables for Electrons, Protons, and Helium Ions - Three NIST web databases, ESTAR, PSTAR and ASTAR, which calculate stopping-power and range tables for electrons, protons, or helium ions
    http://physics.nist.gov/PhysRefData/Star/Text/contents.html
  • Table of New Nuclear Moments (Preprint) - Nicholas Stone has completed a revision of the Table of Nuclear Moments by P. Raghavan (Atomic Data Nuclear Data Tables 42, 189 (1989)) and has asked the National Nuclear Data Center to make it available on the World Wide Web for comments.
    http://www.nndc.bnl.gov/nndc/stone_moments/moments.html
  • XCOM: Photon Cross Sections Database - A NIST web database is provided which can be used to calculate photon cross sections for scattering, photoelectric absorption and pair production, as well as total attenuation coefficients, in any element, compound or mixture, at energies from 1 keV to 100 GeV.
    http://physics.nist.gov/PhysRefData/Xcom/Text/XCOM.html
  • Virtual Laboratory - University of Oregon site with a series of experiments targeted at physics classes for non-majors; requires Netscape 2.0 supporting frames and Java
    http://jersey.uoregon.edu/vlab/

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