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Reference Books
These titles are essential resources for the study of Physics and Astronomy. Items with REF preceding the call number will be found in Reference on the 1st floor of the Library.
Print Indexes
Use to find older citations or historic information.
Science abstracts. Series A, Physics abstracts (Q1.S3 Ser.A)
1966-1991; 1992-2002; Index 1986-2002 in Room 407 (ask at circulation desk)
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Use research databases to find journal articles. Start with those listed below but also check out the list of databases by title or topic, such as Physics.
IOP Journals (Full Text) The Institute of Physics journals. See the list of journals available here.
Scitation (American Institute of Physics, formerly OJPS) (instructions)
Access the full text to articles, citations and abstracts in over 80 journals in physics and astronomy. Also search SPIN database for over 1 million abstracts, some back to 1975
Compendex (instructions)
Good source for articles, from thousands of journals, conference proceedings, reports, etc., on physics and engineering.
Applied Science & Technology (instructions)
More than 600 periodicals for engineering, mathematics, physics, and computer technology.
General Science Abstracts (instructions)
More than 100 journals and magazines from the U.S. and Great Britain, covering such subjects astronomy, earth sciences,and much more.
MathSciNet (instructions)
Over 55 years of Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications. Produced by the American Mathematical Society. Coverage: 1940 to date. Full-text of reviews (1980 to date) accessible in PostScript and DVI formats.
Proceedings First (instructions)
An index of conference publications. Includes citations of every congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received at The British Library.
Preprints (Preprints Research Guide)
ArXiv: LANL High Energy Physics Preprints
ArXiv is an e-print service in the fields of physics, mathematics, non-linear science, computer science and quantitative biology.
CERN Preprint Server
"Over 650,000 bibliographic records, including 320,000 full text documents, of interest to people working in particle physics and related areas. Covers preprints, articles, books, journals, photographs, and much more."
SPIRES High Energy Physics
"Search more than 500,000 high energy physics related articles, including journal papers, preprints, e-prints, technical reports, conference papers and theses, since 1974."SPRES HEP is a joint project of Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), DESY & FNAL and the worldwide HEP community.
NASA Astrophysics Data System (http://adswww.harvard.edu/)
"The Astrophysics Data System (ADS) is a NASA-funded project which maintains four bibliographic databases containing more than 3.9 million records: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation, Physics and Geophysics, and preprints in Astronomy."
Some Good Websites:
Astronomy
NASA(http://www.nasa.gov/)
Website for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Find information about missions, new events, astronomy, geoscienceand much more.
Also try NASA Image eXchange (NIX)"NIX is a web-based search engine for searching one or more of NASA's online multimedia collections."
Also try Webstars: Astrophysics in Cyberspace from NASA's High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center (HEASARC)
Also try Chronology of Lunar and Planetary Exploration
United States Naval Observatory (USNO)Eclipse Portal 
"This web site has been designed to provide information on the global and local visibility of solar and lunar eclipses," from 1501-2100.
Also try Eclipses of the Sun and Moon from the USNO Astronomical Applications with recent and upcoming eclipses.
Space Telescope Science Institute (http://www.stsci.edu/)
Find information about the science initiatives, catalogs and surveys and more.
Views of the Solar System (http://www.solarviews.com/ss.html)
"Views of the Solar System presents a vivid multimedia adventure unfolding the splendor of the Sun, planets, moons, comets, asteroids, and more. Discover the latest scientific information, or study the history of space exploration, rocketry, early astronauts, space missions, spacecraft through a vast archive of photographs, scientific facts, text, graphics and video."
AstroWeb: Astronomy/Astrophysics on the Internet (http://www.cv.nrao.edu/fits/www/astronomy.html)
"A collection of pointers to astronomy-related information available on the Internet." Includes over 3000 sources.
The Astronomy Net (http://www.astronomy.net/)
Find images and constellations and try the AstroGuide, listings of astronomy associations, clubs, consultants, forums, manufactures and more.
The Nine Planets: A multimedia Tour of the Solar System(http://www.nineplanets.org/)
"An overview of the history, mythology, and current scientific knowledge of each of the planets and moons in our solar system. Each page has text and images, some have sounds and movies, most provide references to additional related information."
Journey through the Galaxy (http://home.cwru.edu/~sjr16/advanced/index.html)
Use this website to explore "our solar system, stars, extra-solar planets, the theories about the past and future of the universe, and human exploration of space."
California & Carnegie Planet Search (http://exoplanets.org/)
Find information including an almanac of planets, planet research, key science projects and publications from this cooperative effort between California academic institutions and observatories.
Planetary Data System (http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/)
"The PDS archives and distributes scientific data from NASA planetary missions, astronomical observations, and laboratory measurements. The PDS is sponsored by NASA's Office of Space Science."
Center for Earth and Planetary Studies (http://www.nasm.si.edu/ceps/)
"The CEPS is a scientific research unit within the Collections and Research Development of the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institute. CEPS preforms original research and outreach activities on topics covering planetary science, terrestrial geophysics, and the remote sensing of environmental change."
Planetary Science Research Discoveries (http://www.psrd.hawaii.edu/)
"Planetary Science Research Discoveries (PSRD) is an educational site sharing the latest research on meteorites, planets, and other solar system bodies being made by NASA-sponsored scientists."
Interactive Astronomy Pages (http://www.obliquity.com/astro/)
Find out about blue moons, eclipses, the phases of the moon, latitude and longitude and more.
Canadian Astronomy Data Centre (CADC) (http://cadcwww.dao.nrc.ca/)
Find out what is going on in Canadian astronomy including archives for a number of telescopes, and other catalogues.
Stephen Hawking's Universe (http://www.wnet.org/archive/hawking/html/home.html)
Website to accompany the PBS series Stephen Hawking's Universe.
The Galileo Project (http://es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo/)
"The Galileo Project is a hypertext source of information on the life and work of Galileo Galileo(1564-1642) and the science of his time."
Surveys
Digital Sky Survey (http://archive.stsci.edu/dss/index.html)
DSS "includes the digitized photographic plates from the Palomer and UK Schmidt Sky surveys."
Sloan Digital Sky Survey (http://www.sdss.org/)
"The survey will map in detail one-quarter of the entire sky, determining the positions and absolute brightness of more than 100 million celestial objects."
Physics
How Things Work
http://howthingswork.virginia.edu/
Explaining the Physics of Everyday Life
NIST Physics Laboratory, Physical Reference Data (http://physics.nist.gov/PhysRefData/)
Find information on physical constants, atomic spectroscopy data, elemental data index, molecular spectroscopic data, atomic and molecular data, x-ray and gamma-ray data, radiation dosimetry data, nuclear physics data, condensed matter physics data and more.
Physics Web (http://www.physicsweb.org/)
Website from the Institute of Physics with news, jobs, resources, productsand more.
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (http://www.slac.stanford.edu/)
Website of SLAC with information about high energy physics, research, and more.
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (http://www.fnal.gov/)
National Laboratory of the Department of Energy whose mission statement is, "Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory advanced the understanding of the fundamental nature of matter and energy by providing leadership and resources for qualified researchers to conduct basic research at the frontiers of high energy physics and related disciplines."
College Physics for Students of Biology and Chemistry (http://www.rwc.uc.edu/koehler/biophys/text.html )
A hypertext book which includes problem sets, a table of contents, and an index.
Online Particle Physics Information (http://www.slac.stanford.edu/library/pdg/)
List of websites related to particle physicssuch as conferences, directories, e-prints, journals, education, and more.
General Relativity Around the World (http://www.astro.auth.gr/Science-Subjects/Gravity/Gravity_Links1.html)
List of links about relativity including links to servers, physics, astrophysics and astronomy, and supercomputing.
Particle-Surface Resources on the Internet(http://chaos.fullerton.edu/mhslinks.html)
List of almost 200 links Dr. Mark Shapiro a professor at CSU, Fullerton.
Einstein Archives Online (http://www.alberteinstein.info/)
A collection of digitized images of Albert Einstein's original manuscripts and notes, both scientific and non-scientific. There are over 3,000 images.
Fundamental Physical Constants (http://www.chemie.fu-berlin.de/chemistry/general/constants_en.html)
List of physical constants.
How Things Work (http://Landau1.phys.Virginia.EDU/Education/Teaching/HowThingsWork/)
Website accompanying a book of the same name, "explaining the physics of everyday life." Includes questions and answers about every day physics questions.
Laws, Rules, Principles, Effects, Paradoxes, Limits, Constants, Experiments, and Thought-Experiments in Physics (http://www.alcyone.com/max/physics/laws/)
Laws, rules, etc. listed alphabetically and produced by a computer scientist from California.
Physics News (http://www.het.brown.edu/news/index.html)
Brief list of Physics News sites including Physics News Update and NASA Hot Topics.
PhysLINK (http://www.physlink.com/)
"PhysLink.com is a comprehensive physics and astronomy online education, research and reference web site."
Frequently Cited Journals
This is a brief list of journals in Physics and Astronomy.
Use databases to search for specific articles on your topic.
| Journal name | Location of print | Location of Electronic Full Text |
|---|---|---|
| Journal of Applied Physics | QC 1 J83 (1937 to 2003) | American Institute of Physics (1968 to present) |
| Applied Physics Letters | QC 1 A74 (1962 to 2003) | American Institute of Physics (1968 to present) |
| Advanced Functional Materials | Wiley Interscience (2001 to present) | |
| Materials Science and Engineering. R, Reports: a Review Journal | ScienceDirect (1995 to present) | |
| Progress in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy | Science Direct (1995 to present) | |
| Journal of Chemical Physics | QD 1 J94 (1933 to 1992) | American Institute of Physics (1968 to present) |
| Physical Review. A. | QC 1 P41 (1990 to 2003) | American Physical Society (1998 to present) |
| Advances in Physics | QC 1 A36 (1952 to present) | Academic Search Elite (1985 to present) |
| Reviews of Modern Physics | QC 1 R4 (1930-2003) | American Physical Society (1998 to present) |
| Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science | Annual Reviews (1998 to present) | |
| Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics |
Annual Reviews (1998 to present) |
Note: Current year located on Lower Level and older holdings may be in storage or microfilm. Check Coast, Journals for exact location of the year you are interested in.
Professional Societies
American Astronomical Society (http://www.aas.org/)
American Association of Variable Star Observers (http://www.aavso.org/)
International Astronomical Union (http://www.iau.org/)
American Institute of Physics (http://www.aip.org/)
Institute of Physics (http://www.iop.org/)
Canadian Astronomical Society (http://www.casca.ca/)
Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (http://www.rasc.ca/)
Related CSULB Academic Webpages
Physics and Astronomy (http://www.csulb.edu/depts/physics/)
Mathematics and Statistics (http://www.csulb.edu/depts/math/)
Science Education (http://www.cnsm.csulb.edu/depts/scied/)
Student Access to Science (http://www.cnsm.csulb.edu/centers/sas/)
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University Library, California State University, Long Beach
