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Databases (to find articles)
ProQuest Research Library
Provider: ProQuest
An interdisciplinary database which has much full-text. Always a good place to start. Covers 1971-present.
NASA astrophysics data system
A NASA-funded project that provides abstracts and/or citations to journals in fields that includes: astronomy, astrophysics, instrumentation, physics, geophysics, and the Los Alamos preprint server.
Web of science
Provider: ISI
This multidisciplinary database can be searched by subject, author, and journal title. Articles that CITE a known author or work can also be searched. Cited reference searching helps identify more recent articles on the same topic.
Reference Resources (to find definitions, data & overview information)
AccessScience @ McGraw-Hill
Full-text access to 7100+ articles, 115,000 dictionary terms, over 2000 biographies of leading scientists, and hundreds of Research Updates in all areas of science and technology updated daily.
CRC handbook of chemistry and physics
Publisher: [Boca Raton] : CRC Press.
The 88th (2007-2008) edition of this handbook offers online data and tables for chemistry, physics and engineering. Records include articles, bibliographies, editorials and reviews. Also available in print at Cornell Ref QD65 .C4.
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Physics Internet Resources
Maintained by American Physical Society (APS), A clearinghouse and directory of web sites on the subject of physics. Provides links to online journals, reference & education web sites, professional societies, etc.
Google Directory: Physics
A good site to go to for pre-selected web sites on all aspects of Physics from Academia to Women in Physics.
Astronomical catalogues, 1951-1975