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Dictionary of Earth Sciences

Available online "Oxford's fully up-to-date Dictionary of Earth Sciences is authoritative and wide-ranging with coverage of topics including climatology, economic geology, geochemistry, oceanography, palaeontology, petrology, and volcanology.There are entries on planetary science, remote sensing, statistics, and sequence stratigraphy, wind strength scales, material, temporal, and chronostratigraphic units, geologic, lunar, and Martian time scales. This is an essential reference for all Earth Science, geology, geography, meteorology, and related disciplines." Go there...

Dictionary of Physics

Available online "This dictionary contains over 3,700 clear and concise entries, covering all commonly encountered physics terms and concepts, including terms relating to astronomy, astrophysics, and physical chemistry. The fifth edition has been fully updated and includes entries on topics such as dark energy, decoherence, and quantum computing. The dictionary also features in-depth analyses of key topics, biographies of important scientists, and chronologies of major discoveries." Go there...

Dictionary of Scientists

Available online "From Archimedes and Copernicus to Stephen Hawking and Stephen Jay Gould, this is the most authoritative and up-to-date biographical dictionary of scientists currently available. Spanning over 2,500 years, it covers all areas of science, from physics and astronomy to medicine and ecology, including key figures in the fields of mathematics and technology. Offering clear explanations of the science itself as well as its historical significance, the dictionary includes coverage of all Nobel Laureates in physics, chemistry, physiology, and medicine." Go there...

Dictionary of Weights, Measures, and Units

Available online "This comprehensive dictionary provides clear definitions of all the units, prefixes, and styling of the Système International (SI), as well as industry-specific and traditional terms currently in use." Go there...

Penguin Dictionary of Physics

Available online. "This newly updated dictionary provides clear and concise definitions of some 4,500 terms and concepts, drawn from every area of physics. Ranging from optics and acoustics to mechanics and electronics, including quantum theory and relativity, it forms the ideal reference guide to a fast-evolving subject, and will prove invaluable to students and teachers, scientists and doctors, as well as technicians and technologists." Go there...

Physics Handbooks in Cowles Library

Here are some handbooks on physics held by Cowles Library. Books are generally listed in the order the library has received the books with the most recent first. Go there...

Science, Technology and Society

Available online "Science, Technology, and Society contains over 130 A to Z signed articles written by major scholars and experts from academic and scientific institutions and institutes worldwide. It emphasizes an interdisciplinary and international coverage of the functions and effects of science and technology in society and culture. Each article is accompanied by a selected bibliography." Go there...

WorldCat - OCLC

WorldCat is a catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide. If you are unable to find something in the Cowles Library collection using the I-LINK catalog, this is an excellent place to continue your search. Use the Interlibrary Loan link on this page to obtain materials from other collections. Go there...

1- Science Databases

All available science databases at Cowles. Go there...

Academic Search Complete

This database for journal articles offers full text for over 5,300 journals in a variety of academic disciplines. There over 380 physics related journals indexed with full text for slightly over half of the journals. Go there...

Britannica Online

Fully searchable version of the encyclopedia with thousands of articles and illustrations. Go there...

CREDO Reference

CREDO Reference contains a variety of reference sources in subjects ranging from Art to History to Law to Technology and almost everything in between.

At a loss for a paper topic? Search the Concept Map for ideas. Go there...

IOP (Institute of Physics) Electronic Journals

Search for articles from the full run of more than 60 IOP (Institute of Physics) titles, some going back to 1873. Go there...

Scopus

Scopus indexs over 14,000 peer-reviewed journals in the scientific, technical, medical, and social science literature (from over 4,000 international publishers). It is possible to search physics journals only or expand to all other fields. Abstracts go back to 1966. References go back to 1996. A unique feature of this databaae is the "Cited By" feature, which offers the ability to determine (and track) the number of times a particular article/author has been cited and by whom. Go there...

Current Physics Journals in Cowles Library

This is a list of current physics journals that are available in Cowles Library. The list indicates which databases will have online full text available for each journal. Go there...

Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics

Full-text of the journal. Go there...

Physics Journals

All available Physics journals by category Go there...

Contributions of 20th Century Women to Physics

“An archive presenting and documenting some important and original contributions made before 1976 by 20th century women.” Go there...

Cosmic Evolution

"From Big Bang to Human Kind." An interdisciplinary, multimedia look at change and development in the universe from the Wright Center for Science Education. Go there...

E-Print Network

From the U.S. Office of Scientific and Technical Information, is "a vast, integrated network of electronic scientific and technical information created by scientists and research engineers active in their respective fields, intended for use by other scientists, engineers, and students at advanced levels." As well as access to over 28,500 Web sites and databases related to physics and DOE related disciplines. Go there...

Encyclopedia of Laser Physics and Technology

"This comprehensive open-access encyclopedia, authored by Dr. Rüdiger Paschotta and provided by RP Photonics Consulting GmbH, explains the terms and principles of laser physics and technology. It also has a lot of content from other topics such as general optics and optoelectronics, nonlinear optics, quantum optics, fiber optics, ultrashort pulses, and optical communications." Go there...

Energy Citations Database (ECD)

"ECD includes scientific and technical research results in disciplines of interest to DOE such as chemistry, physics, materials, environmental science, geology, engineering, mathematics, climatology, oceanography, computer science and related disciplines. It includes bibliographic citations to report literature, conference papers, journal articles, books, dissertations, and patents." Go there...

High Energy Physics Virtual Phonebook

"This is a list of links to phonebooks and directories of High Energy Physics personnel around the world. These are listed by institution. Browse our Listings by Experiment to find a researcher with a particular collaboration." Go there...

Intute: Science, Engineering and Technology

A database of web resources for education and research in a variety of scientific disciplines Go there...

NanoScienceWorks.org

"NanoScienceWorks.org serves the nano community as a gateway to the news, journals, books, and articles that support and drive nano research and development. We invite you to explore these resources, view our slidecasts, and join our networking database of nano-involved people and institutions from around the world." Go there...

National Institute of Standards and Technology Physics Laboratory

Find links to physical reference data, constants and measurements and check out the official U.S. time. The site includes links to NIST conferences and news. Go there...

PhysicsWeb: Physics news, jobs and resources

Produced by the Institute of Physics, this is a great source for job listings, conference information and news on all topics of physics. A resource page links to exercises, reference materials, organizations as well as physics humor. Go there...

PhysNet

Physics departments and documents Go there...

ScienceHack

YouTube + Science = ScienceHack. A database of scientist approved videos. Go there...

The Discovery of Global Warming

"A hypertext history of how scientists came to (partly) understand what people are doing to cause climate change." Go there...

The Physics Hypertextbook

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