LibGuides: Physics and Astrophysics: Finding Books & Articles

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IOPscience This link opens in a new window
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Online access to all journal content hosted by IOP (Institute of Physics) Publishing. Includes more than 60 titles in science and engineering. Coverage: 1874-present.
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Scitation Index This link opens in a new window
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Citations and abstracts to over two million journal and magazine articles in physics, chemistry, geosciences, engineering, acoustics, and more. Also indexes conference proceedings, ebooks, standards, patents, and databases. Includes SPIN content- citations and abstracts of journals and proceedings from scientific societies in physics and astronomy.
MathSciNet This link opens in a new window
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Abstracts from journals, conference proceedings and proceedings papers, books or chapters, advanced-level textbooks, and published dissertations in mathematics and related fields. Coverage: 1940-present.
SciTech Premium Collection This link opens in a new window
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Databases in the SciTech Premium Collection include: Agricultural & Enviornmental Science Database (1946-Present), Biological Science Database (1946-Present), and Earth, Atmospheric & Aquatic Science Database (1950-Present), Medline (1946-Present), Materials Science & Engineering Database (1965-Present), and Advanced Technologies & Aerospace Database (1962-Present). Terms of Use
Scopus This link opens in a new window
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Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. Terms of Use
IEEE Xplore Digital Library This link opens in a new window IEEE All-Society Periodicals Package (ASPP) provides access to the IEEE core collection of engineering, electronics, and computer science periodicals. Including 174 IEEE online society-sponsored journals, transactions, and magazines; peer-reviewed publications, concentrating on theoretical and experimental papers; quality magazines focusing on practical applications in research, design, and specification; backfiles to 2005; and INSPEC abstract/citation and bibliographic records. Terms of Use IEEE can be accessed from off campus with your mobile device. The instructions on how to do this can be found at http://libraries.wichita.edu/remoteaccess.
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IEEE now has an IEEE Xplore Image Search App for iPads. It contains over 1 million images from IEEE journals which can be browsed or searched then saved or emailed. Authorized users can access full text articles and download them to their iPad. The free download is available in the App store: http://bit.ly/1c60lFH
IEEE - MIT Press eBooks LIbrary This link opens in a new window eBooks content in computer science and engineering in the IEEE Xplore digital library. Providing access to more than 450 titles, including cutting-edge titles focusing on scientific and technological innovations; including computer science, artificial intelligence, information theory, computer programming, information technology, and electrical engineering. Terms of Use
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IEEE can be accessed from off campus with your mobile device. The instructions on how to do this can be found at http://libresources.wichita.edu/remoteaccess.
IEEE-Wiley eBooks Library This link opens in a new window eBooks in cutting-edge technologies and includes practical handbooks, introductory and advanced texts, reference works, and professional books. Subjects covered include: bioengineering; communication, networking & broadcasting; computing & processing; general topics for engineers; geoscience; signal processing & analysis; and robotics. Terms of Use
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IEEE can be accessed from off campus with your mobile device. The instructions on how to do this can be found at http://libresources.wichita.edu/remoteaccess.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
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Online access to core scholarly journals in business, education, health, arts & humanities, life sciences, literature, physical sciences, and social sciences. Coverage begins with the first issue of each journal.
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Includes: Arts & Sciences 1-15, Business 2-4, & Life Sciences
SpringerLink This link opens in a new window
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Full-text access to journals and ebooks published by Springer. Includes titles in business, education, engineering, humanities, medicine, psychology, biological and physical sciences.
Also includes the 2011 Handbook Collection & 2011 Encyclopedia Collection.
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Applied Science & Technology Abstracts This link opens in a new window
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Contains indexing and abstracts for nearly 800 core English-language, scientific and technical publications back to 1983. Content includes coverage of a wide variety of applied science specialties—acoustics to aeronautics, neural networks to nuclear and civil engineering, computers and informatics and much more.
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HeinOnline: Air and Space Law This link opens in a new window HeinOnline's Air and Space Law database brings together documents on private-sector pioneers with government funded programs to create 29 unique subjects, that track technological advancements, reforms and new frontiers in aerospace history. Topics covered include: airline deregulation; air traffic control modernization; airline safety concerns in a post-9/11 world; drones; satellites and their essential function in modern life; the Space Shuttle Program, including investigation of the Columbia and Challenger disasters; the growing problem of space debris; and the increasing amount of private, commercial companies and their stake in space. Collection is organized by outerspace and suborbital space to support researchers concerned with celestial bodies and earthbound air travel.

SciX: Science Explorer online database
The Science Explorer (SciX) is a digital library portal for researchers in astronomy, earth science, heliophysics, physics, and planetary science. The four bibliographic collections maintained by SciX cover astronomy (including astrophysics, heliophysics, and planetary science), physics, earth science, and general science. Over all the system contains over 20 million records covering refereed publications plus all arXiv, ESS Open Archive, and EarthArXiv preprints.
INSPIRE HEP: High-Energy Physics Literature Database
arXiv.org e-Print archive
Open access to 601,910 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics.

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