Controlled Vocabularies and Thesauri
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Physics Subject HeadingsUse Physics Subject Headings (PhySH), to find controlled vocabulary terms to use in your searches.
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Unified Astronomy ThesaurusThe Unified Astronomy Thesaurus (UAT) is an open, interoperable and community-supported thesaurus which unifies the existing divergent and isolated Astronomy & Astrophysics thesauri into a single high-quality, freely-available open thesaurus formalizing astronomical concepts and their inter-relationships.
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Medical Subject HeadingsMeSH (Medical Subject Headings) is the NLM controlled vocabulary thesaurus used for indexing articles for PubMed and can be useful when researching medical physics topics.
Databases for Physics
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Web of Science This link opens in a new windowCoverage: 1900 - current. Peer-reviewed, scholarly, and empirical articles. Citation-based searching in all disciplines.
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ScienceDirect This link opens in a new windowCoverage: varies. Full-text articles online from Elsevier and Academic Press journals. Summary information about articles from all other Elsevier titles and some other publishers. Coverage includes all science areas and many social sciences and humanities areas.
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ECS Digital Library This link opens in a new windowJournals, books, and other collections published by The Electrochemical Society
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Physical Review Online Archive (PROLA) This link opens in a new windowCoverage: 1893 - most recent 3 years. PROLA is the Physical Review Online Archive, which includes the full-text of articles from Physical Review Letters, Reviews of Modern Physics, and the Physical Review series from their inception up to the most recent 3 years.
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MathSciNet This link opens in a new windowCoverage: early 1800s - current. Reviews, abstracts and bibliographic information for much of the mathematical sciences literature. Originally based on Mathematical Reviews (MR).
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Browzine: AstronomyA visual representation of astronomy journals in Tutt Library's collection.
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Browzine: PhysicsA visual representation of astronomy journals in Tutt Library's collection.
Other Physics Databases
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History of Science, Technology and Medicine This link opens in a new windowAn international bibliography for the history of science, technology and medicine, reflecting the influence of these fields on society and culture from prehistory to the present. Includes journal articles, conference proceedings, books, book reviews and dissertations.
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Annual Reviews This link opens in a new windowCritical reviews of current research in the biomedical, physical, and social sciences
