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Scholarly Journals

APS Journals (American Physical Society) This link opens in a new window
Content includes physics scholarship published in journals including Physical Review A-E, Physical Review Letters, Physical Review Applied, and Physical Review Materials, along with a number of Open Access journals published by APS.
Annual Reviews This link opens in a new window
Reviews of research performed in the biomedical, physical, and social sciences. See the "More..." link below for subjects available in Full Text. In addition, many other titles include full text from 1996 – 2008, with citations provided from 1945 – present.
Subjects with Full Text:
Anthropology
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Biomedical Engineering (Open Access)
Cancer Biology (Open Access)
Clinical Psychology
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Ecology Evolution and Systematics
Entomology
Environment and Resources (Open Access)
Genomics and Human Genetics (Open Access)
Medicine
Nuclear and Particle Science (Open Access)
Nutrition
Pathology : Mechanisms of Disease
Physiology
Political Science
Psychology
Public Health (Open Access)
Sociology
Virology (Open Access)
Science Online This link opens in a new window
Science has been at the center of important scientific discovery since its founding in 1880—with seed money from Thomas Edison. Today, Science continues to publish the very best in research across the sciences, with articles that consistently rank among the most cited in the world.
SciFinder-n This link opens in a new window
Includes Chemical Abstracts, as well as CASREACT, CAS REGISTRY, CHEMCATS, and CHEMLIST databases. Covers organic and inorganic chemistry, biochemistry, applied and physical chemistry, biology, medicine, engineering, material science, agricultural science and more. Accessing via the web requires creation of an individual user account (see "SciFinder-n Registration" link).

Physics and General Trade Journals

Scientific American Online Archive This link opens in a new window
Full text: Jan 1993 - present. Also available in print in Preus Library 1966-present: T1 .S5

American Journal of Physics
Articles on the educational and cultural aspects of physics. Online 1930-present. Print edition 1990-present QC1 .A5. Closed stacks 1941-1989.
Astronomy
Full-text: 1984-present. Print 2003-present, QB1 .A87, 3rd floor.
Contemporary Physics
Authoritative journal with commissioned reviews. Full-text: 1959-present.

Physical Review A This link opens in a new window
Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics. Full text for some articles.
Physical Review B This link opens in a new window
Condensed Matter & Materials Physics. Full text for some articles.
Physical Review C This link opens in a new window
Nuclear Physics. Full text for some articles.
Physical Review D This link opens in a new window
Particles, Fields, Gravitation & Cosmology. Full text for some articles.
Physical Review E This link opens in a new window
Statistical, Linear & Soft Matter Physics. Full text for some articles.

Physics Today
Published by the American Institute of Physics, this journal provides feature stores, news and analysis of technological advances and research in physics and other science fields.
Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
Technical journal with refereed research, invited reviews, conference & dissertation summaries. 1889-present.

Proceedings

Nuclear and Particle Physics Proceedings
Proceedings of major conferences on nuclear and high energy physics, 2015-present.

General Article Databases

Academic Search Elite (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
An excellent starting point for research across a broad stretch of academic subjects with thousands of full-text journals and abstracted and indexed journals. This database is sourced with PDF images for the great majority of journals; many of these PDFs are native (searchable) or scanned-in-color.
Replaced Academic OneFile in 2022.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
A full-text collection of over 3,400 major scholarly journals and over 100,000 scholarly monographs. The digitized archive includes the first issue published for each journal (some are from 1665 to the present); but excludes the most recent 2 to 5 years for most journals.