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- Academic OneFile
- Source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles on a variety of subjects, including the physical sciences
and technology. Integrated with Web of Science for access to cited references.
- Search Academic OneFile
- GeoRef
- GeoRef database covers the geology of North America from 1785 to the present
and the geology of the rest of the world from 1933 to the present. The database
includes references to all publications of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
and covers masters' theses and doctoral dissertations from U.S. and Canadian
universities.
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- Illustrata: Natural Sciences
- This is an interdisciplinary database of searchable tables, figures, graphs, charts, and
other illustrations from the scholarly research and technical literature in the natural
sciences.
- Search Illustrata: Natural Sciences
- MathSciNet
- The MathSciNet database contains signed reviews and bibliographic data from the first issue of Mathematical Reviews (a reviewing journal of international mathematics literature) in January 1940 to the present. Journals, conference proceedings, and books of mathematics research are covered.
- Search MathSciNet
- Science Direct
- A full text collection of over 1.5 million articles covering a wide variety of subject areas and disciplines from 1995 to the present, ScienceDirect offers access to the Elsevier Science journal collection (over 1,200 titles), along with journals from a host of prestigious societies and STM publishers.
- Search Science Direct
- Web of Science
- This database is the equivalent of Science Citation Index Expanded and covers the period from 2000-present.
- Search Web of Science (ISI)
- WorldCat
- Catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide; contains more than 62 million records.
- Search WorldCat
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Selected Web Sites
- American Physical Society
- The APS advances the knowledge of physics by representing more than 40,000 members in the arena of national, international, and governmental affairs; publishing the world's most prestigious and widely-read physics research journals; and developing and implementing effective programs in physics education and outreach.
- http://www.aps.org/
- AstroWeb
- A collection of pointers to astronomy-related information available on the Internet.
- http://www.cv.nrao.edu/fits/www/astronomy.html
- Galaxy: Physics
- Galaxy is the original searchable Internet directory. Our mission is to provide contextually relevant information by integrating state-of-the-art technology with the human touch.
- http://www.galaxy.com/cgi-bin/dirlist?node=23728
- Physics Central
- Maintained by the American Physical Society to communicate the excitement and importance of physics to everyone.
- http://www.physicscentral.com/
- PhysicsWeb
- Physics news, jobs and resources.
- http://physicsweb.org/
- Resources in Physics
- Provides links to physics resources organized around the following areas: people, professional societies, institutions, reference, eprints, and pathfinders.
- http://pantheon.yale.edu/~dstern/phys.html
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ETSU Departmental Web Sites
- Department of Physics, Astronomy, and Geology
- Offers a wealth of information on the courses offered, the faculty and their research, summer opportunities, job and career opportunities, the observatory, planetarium, and the Gray fossil site.
- http://www.etsu.edu/physics/
- Division of Geology
- Information on the degrees offers, the faculty and staff, and the projects at the Gray Fossil Site and Saltville, VA.
- http://www.etsu.edu/physics/geology/
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Selected Bibliography
- CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics.
- Cleveland, Ohio: CRC Press, c2004. 85nd edition.
- SHERROD Reference Desk (No Loan) QD65 .H32
- Dictionary of named effects and laws in chemistry, physics, and mathematics.
- Ballentyne, D. W. G.
- New York: Chapman and Hall, 1980.
- ETSU C. C. SHERROD Reference Room (No Loan) QD5 .B32 1980.
- Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics.
- Bristol: Philadelphia: Institute of Physics Publishing ; London : Nature Publishing Group, c2001.
- ETSU C. C. SHERROD Reference Room (No Loan) QB14 .E54 2001.
- Encyclopedia of physics.
- New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., c1985.
- SHERROD Reference Room (No Loan) QC5 .E546 1985
- Handbook of surface and interface analysis methods for problem-solving.
- New York: Marcel Dekker, c1998.
- E-books from NetLibrary
- http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=12136
- Industrial Research Service's Conversion Factors and Tables.
- Zimmerman, O. T.
- Dover, N.H.: Industrial Research Service, 1961.
- SHERROD Reference Room (No Loan) QC61 .Z5 1961.
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