Physics Databases

Full-text access to 65 international journals covering physics, mathematics, and engineering.
Coverage: 1874 - current

Full-text archive of publications of the American Physical Society, including Physical Review, Physical Review Letters, and Reviews of Modern Physics.
Coverage: varies by journal, oldest dated from 1916

The complete archive consists of all of Physical Review back to 1893, all of Physical Review Letters back to 1958, and all of Reviews of Modern Physics back to 1929. The majority of the collection consists of scanned images of the printed journals available as either GIF images or as PDF files. Portions of the 1995 and 1996 content and all content thereafter, however, consist of PDF files that are produced directly as part of our paper printing process.

Scientific, medical and technical information online from over 1,200 full-text, peer-reviewed journals along with hundreds of book series, handbooks and reference works.
Coverage: 1995 - current

ScienceDirect contains over 25% of the world's science, technology and medicine full text and bibliographic information. Apart from online eBooks, Reference Works, Handbooks and Book Series ScienceDirect offers a rich journal collection of over 2,000 titles containing around 8 million full-text articles. In addition, the Backfiles program offers the ability to search a historical archive of over 6.75 million articles back to Volume 1, Issue 1. The collections contain 4 million articles prior to 1995, and 2.75 million articles from after 1994.

Full-text access to 35 prestigious journals published by the American Chemical Society in addition to its weekly newsmagazine.
Coverage: 1879 - currrent

American Chemical Society (ACS) Publications provides searchable access to over 130 years of original research in chemistry, including more than 750,000 articles contained in 3 million plus pages of chemistry findings, dating back to the introduction of the Journal of the American Chemical Society in 1879.

Authoritative, analytic reviews in 32 focused disciplines within the Biomedical, Physical, and Social Sciences.
Coverage: 1996 - current

Annual Reviews synthesizes the vast amount of primary research literature and identifying the principal contributions in 32 focused disciplines within the Biomedical, Physical, and Social Sciences. Editorial committees comprised of distinguished scholars in the discipline critically review, synthesize, and filter the vast amount of primary research in specific disciplines. Each AR article is written by authors who are recognized experts in the field. Each article is its own search engine, providing a gateway to the essential primary research literature referenced within each topic. These AR publications are among the highest cited publications by impact factor according to the Institute for Scientific Information® (ISI).

Free access to over two million science research citations and over 140,000 electronic documents.
Coverage: citations from 1948 - current; documents, primarily from 1994 - current

The ECD includes scientific and technical research results in disciplines of interest to the U.S. Department of Energy (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.

SciFinder Scholar consists of the complete Chemical Abstracts Service database from 1907- and the complete Medline database, from 1950. Click on the link above for usage instructions.

Full text access to 8 journals covering physics, engineering, vacuum science and medical devices.
Coverage: varies (earliest date 1933) - current

Search the UMass Lowell Library catalog for books, journals and non-print materials.

Full-text scientific, technical, medical content from journals, books, reference works, databases, laboratory manuals and The Cochrane Library.
Coverage: 1997 - current

Wiley InterScience is a leading international resource for quality content promoting discovery across the spectrum of scientific, technical, medical and professional endeavors with content from journals, books, reference works, databases, laboratory manuals and The Cochrane Library, which is the world's best-known resource for evidence-based medicine. More than half of Wiley's journals on Wiley InterScience are digitized back to Volume 1, Issue 1 as part of the development of the journal backfile initiative. When the initiative is completed in 2007, it will be one of the largest archives of its kind with content dating back to 1799 and over 1.5 million articles of scientific and scholarly research.

Full-text access to over 700 handbooks and references from CRC press, provide all fields of engineering with access to essential formulas, updated codes, and late-breaking developments that are shaping the field.

Provides wide coverage of data on properties of inorganic and organic compounds, now in its 88th Ed.
Coverage: 88TH Edition, 2007-2008

Combines over 1,100 essential reference books and databases in the areas of Chemistry and the Life Sciences; Materials; and Engineering.
Coverage: 1996 - current

Knovel Library content covers 18 industrially important Subject Areas from more than 30 Sci-Tech publishers and professional societies including, McGraw Hill, John Wiley, Elsevier, Springer, Industrial Press, American Institute of Chemical Engineers and American Society of Mechanical Engineers. This data is enhanced with time-saving analytical tools to help analyze and manipulate the data equations and plot graphs, capture values from existing graphs and perform 'what if' experiments on the data.

Complete, full-text access to more than 4,100 ebooks covering all major subject areas, including over 280 titles related to Psychology.
Coverage: Publication dates 1963 - 2006

NetLibrary eBook titles are searchable by using up to four criteria including title, author, keyword, ISBN, or publisher plus limiting by publication year and language. Individual titles can then be read online in the Online Reader, browsed by table or contents, or keyword searched. Up to four books can be held in the Reader simultaneously. Books cannot be read offline, downloaded, or "checked out." The Reader is cleared at the end of each session. By creating a free account, access is available from anywhere using your personal login and titles can then be saved to your Favorites list.

Guidance on best resources for Physics research chosen and categorized by a UML subject specialist reference librarian.