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| PEAK |
http://peak.du.edu
Library catalog of the University of Denver.
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| Prospector |
http://prospector.coalliance.org
This is a joint catalog of many academic and public institutions in Colorado...
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| Library Databases |
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SPIN Web (Searchable Physics Information Notices)
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Abstracts from over 100 major physics and astronomy journals. Contains over 1.5 million research records. One can also access the full text of many of these journals because we have subscriptions. You can also search the SPIN database and the Scitation database at the same time.
University of Denver Community
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Selected Full Text
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Web of Science
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The Web of Science provides multidisciplinary literature coverage – including cited references – in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. Search backward and forward in time with cited reference searching, analyze results, search over 100 years of back files, and link to the full text. Data from 9,300 journals
Provides access to Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and the Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Over 13 million records are in the database.
Click here for a list of journals covered in the Science Citation Index.
Click here for a list of journals covered in the Social Sciences Citation Index
Click here for a list of journals covered in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
University of Denver Community
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Scitopia
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The federated vertical search portal scitopia.org was created through the imagination and collaboration of over 20 leading science and technology societies and patent organizations. "Scitopia.org searches the entire electronic libraries of the leading voices in major science and technology disciplines and provides relevant results, without the noise of other Internet search engines." You can get to the full-text of most of the articles if you are on campus.
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Meteorological & Geoastrophysical Abstracts
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This database contains records drawn from the World's literature on meteorology, climatology, atmospheric chemistry and physics, astrophysics, hydrology, glaciology, physical oceanography and environmental sciences. Summaries from over 600 journal titles, as well as conference proceedings, books, technical reports and other monographs, are included. MGA is produced by the American Meteorological Society and is published by CSA.
University of Denver Community
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Physics and Geophysics Abstract Service
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Contains bibliographic information from several sources, including NASA's Scientific and Technical Information group (STI), journal publishers, SIMBAD, NED, and table of contents. Provides access to over 1,200,000 records.
Publicly Available
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Abstracts
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Access Science (McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology)
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AccessScience provides the finest collection of science reference materials—online and fully searchable. This provides access to all the articles, fully illustrated, from the latest edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, research Updates from the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks, thousands of illustrations, and the latest Science News headlines, biographies, and more.
University of Denver Community
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AIP Conference Proceedings
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The American Institute of Physics Conference Proceedings report findings presented at many of the most important scientific meetings around the world. They are valuable as topical status reports providing quick access to information before it appears in the traditional journal literature. Penrose purchases some of these books, or they can be retrieved through Prospector. Many of the papers can be downloaded through Academic Search Premier.
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INSPEC
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INSPEC is a leading bibliographic information database covering the fields of physics, electronics, computing, control engineering and information technology with more than seven million records taken from 3,500 technical and scientific journals and 1,500 conference proceedings. Contact Joe Kraus, 303-871-4586 or jokraus@du.edu for an appointment to search the database.
University of Denver Community
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SciFinder Scholar Web [Chemical Abstracts]
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Provides the most accurate and comprehensive chemical and related scientific information. It contains more than 22,000,000 records. One can access information such as: references from journals and patents, substance data, chemical reactions, and more. They have recently included cited references that link to older abstracts. Download the software here.
University of Denver Community
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| Freely Available Web Sites |
| This provides links to a whole bunch of freely available Web sites. |
Google Scholar
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Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.
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| Physics Web |
http://physicsweb.org/
One of the best repositories for links to informations souces in physics. Published by the British "Institute of Physics".
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| Physics Central |
http://www.physicscentral.com/
The American Physical Society represents some 42,000 physicists, and most of their work centers on scientific meetings and publications - the primary ways that physicists communicate with each other. With Physics Central, they communicate the excitement and importance of physics to everyone.
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e-Print Archive
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Physics, astronomy, mathematics and computer science pre-print articles.
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| Materials Properties Locator Database |
http://thermodex.lib.utexas.edu/
This database contains records for printed handbooks and compilations of thermodynamic and thermophysical data for chemical compounds and other substances. You can enter both a type of compound and a property, and ThermoDex will return a list of handbooks that might contain this data.
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| NIST WebBook |
http://webbook.nist.gov/
Thermochemical data for over 5000 organic and small inorganic compounds. Reaction thermochemistry data for over 8000 reactions. IR spectra for over 7500 compounds. Mass spectra for over 10,000 compounds. UV/Vis spectra for over 400 compounds. Electronic and vibrational spectra for over 3000 compounds. Constants of diatomic molecules (spectroscopic data) for over 600 compounds. Ion energetics data for over 14,000 compounds. Thermophysical property data for 16 fluids.
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| NIST Data Gateway |
http://srdata.nist.gov/gateway/
Provides easy access to NIST scientific and technical data. These data cover a broad range of substances and properties from many different scientific disciplines. The Gateway includes links to selected free online NIST databases as well as to information on NIST databases available for purchase.
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SPIE Proceedings Database
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SPIE -- The International Society for Optical Engineering, provides a database that abstracts articles published in their conference proceedings. We have some of these proceedings papers in our stacks. It is recommend to search their database for papers, not volume titles.
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| Reference Materials |
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Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics
See PEAK Catalog
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Reference
QB14 .E534 2001
4 volumes.
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Dictionary of Pure and Applied Physics
See PEAK Catalog
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QC5 .D485 2001
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Encyclopedia of Applied Physics
See PEAK Catalog
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QC5.E543 1991
23 Volumes plus 2 update volumes. Index for volumes 1-19.
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Guide to information sources in the physical sciences
See PEAK Catalog
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QC5.35 .S74 2000
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Encyclopedia of Mathematical Physics
See PEAK Catalog
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QC20 .E63 2006
5 volumes.
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Cambridge Handbook of Physics Formulas
See PEAK Catalog
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QC61 .W67 2000
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Springer Handbook of Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
See PEAK Catalog
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QC173 .S67 2006
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Encyclopedic Dictionary of Condensed Matter Physics
See PEAK Catalog
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QC176.A3 E5913 2004
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Dictionary of Material Science and High Energy Physics
See PEAK Catalog
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QC772 .D57 2001
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