LibGuides: Physics: Find articles

Use one (or more!) of the below resources to locate scholarly articles in Physics and Astronomy.

Have questions about your search? Connect with your Physics librarian, Kirstin Duffin (contact information in the left-hand column of this page).

Scopus This link opens in a new window
Includes citations with some full-text articles across science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Search for "cited by" references to find more current articles, as well as author and affiliation profiles.
Applied Science and Technology Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Citations in applied science fields, including materials science and electrical engineering.

ADS (Astrophysics Data System) This link opens in a new window
Includes citations with some full-text articles in astronomy, astrophysics, physics & geophysics. Includes arXiv e-prints. Note: E-prints may not be peer-reviewed.
AIP Publishing This link opens in a new window
Includes citations with some full-text articles in all areas of the physical sciences, from the American Institute of Physics (AIP Publishing) and its publishing partners.
APS Journal Search This link opens in a new window
American Physical Society journals, with some full-text articles.
arXiv.org This link opens in a new window
Free distribution service and an open-access archive for scholarly articles in physics, electrical engineering, and other STEM disciplines. Materials on this site are not peer-reviewed by arXiv.
ComPADRE This link opens in a new window
Collections and resources for physics and astronomy education, from the American Association of Physics Teachers.

Gale in Context: Science – Electrical Engineering
Academic journal articles, magazine articles, reference works, and more.
Gale in Context: Science – Physics & Astronomy
Browse by topic for academic journal articles, magazine articles, reference works, and more.

IEEE Xplore This link opens in a new window
Books, conferences, journals, magazines, and standards. For full-text materials, limit search results page to show Subscribed Content or Open Access Only. From IEEE (Eye triple E) the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, with content on computer science, electrical engineering and electronics, and allied fields.
INSPIRE This link opens in a new window
Scholarly information in high energy physics. Run in collaboration by CERN, DESY, Fermilab, IHEP, IN2P3, and SLAC.

Optica Publishing Group
The largest collection of peer-reviewed optics and photonics content. Search Open Access journals for freely available full-text articles.

SIMBAD Astronomical Database This link opens in a new window
Provides basic data, cross-identifications and bibliography for astronomical objects outside the solar system. SIMBAD can be queried by object name, coordinates and various criteria. Lists of objects and scripts can be submitted.

SpringerLink (Physics & Astronomy)
Articles, conference papers, and book chapters published by Springer in the fields of physics and astronomy.
SpringerLink (Engineering)
Articles, conference papers, and book chapters published by Springer in the field of engineering. Option to limit by subdiscipline of electrical engineering.

Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new window
Includes full-text articles with broad subject coverage.
CAS SciFinder-n This link opens in a new window
*Access to this database requires one-time user registration* Search chemical references and substances. Includes search by structure, substance, and reaction.
MathSciNet This link opens in a new window
Abstracts, reviews, and citations for mathematics books, articles, and conference proceedings. Includes mathematical applications in physics, astronomy, and engineering.
MathSciNet/EBSCO This link opens in a new window
Abstracts, reviews, and citations for mathematics books, articles, and conference proceedings. Includes mathematical applications in physics, astronomy, and engineering. May be cross-searched with EBSCOhost databases on technology and education topics.

View a complete listing of physics databases available from EIU's Booth Library.