Extensive site on top science news of the day. Articles are from academic and industry sources going back 10 years. Helpful citations for the story and each story links to the original source.
Science News online features daily news, blogs, feature stories, reviews and more in all disciplines of science.
Encyclopedias
Science Encyclopedia Physics by Nancy Harris
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ISBN: 1606940171
Publication Date: 2007-08-01
Take An In-Depth Look At Physics In This Science Encyclopedia.
AccessScience @ McGraw-Hill
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Provides full-text access to articles, dictionary terms, biographies, research updates and links to related websites in all areas of science and technology. Covers 2000-present.
Literature Reviews
Physics Reports
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Physics Reports is a peer-reviewed scientific journal, a review section of Physics Letters that has been published by Elsevier since 1971. The journal publishes reviews on all aspects of physics. These reports aim to make their main points intelligible to non-specialists.
Contact science librarian for access to full articles in this journal.
Physical Review Letters
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Sister journal to Physical Review, Physical Review Letters publishes shorter articles of broader interest.
Physical Review
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Physical Review is an American peer-reviewed scientific journal established in 1893 by Edward Nichols. Part A publishes original research as well as scientific and literature reviews on general physics.
Reviews of Modern Physics
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Reviews of Modern Physics (RMP), a part of the Physical Review journals since 1929, serves students and established researchers in physics and related fields. RMP brings the broad fundamental physics literature in established topical areas together and places it within the context of current trends in research and applications.
Preprint archive for scholarly research in physics and related disciplines.
Web of Science
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Find multidisciplinary scholarly articles (sciences, social sciences, and humanities). Citation searching also allows search for highly cited articles and books.
A NASA-funded project that provides abstracts and/or citations to journals in fields that includes: astronomy, astrophysics, containing 524,304 abstracts, instrumentation, physics, geophysics, and the Los Alamos preprint server. Some full-text.
Professional Associations
Only major physics professional organizations are listed below. You can find a listing of smaller societies for subdisciplines of physics on the AIP website.
APS works on behalf of the physics community to improve physics education, inform the public and policy leaders about the importance and excitement of physics, increase the diversity of the field, and reach out to physicists around the world.
A scientific society with international members numbering 50,000, working together to advance physics education, research and application. Its outreach to policymakers includes promoting public awareness and understanding of the value of physics.