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This guide was designed to help identify resources on Physics Resources and related topics in the FAU Boca Raton Library. The electronic resources are available from the FAU Libraries home page by following the links entitled Indexes/ Databases or Articles. Some of these resources have full-text articles available online. To access these resources from off campus, use the EZ Proxy link and log in using your 14-digit Owl Card number. For further assistance, please contact the Reference Desk by telephone (561-297-3785) or send e-mail lyref@fau.edu.

The following is a partial listing of subject headings that can be used to locate publications on physics related subjects using the FAU Libraries Catalog.

ASTROPHYSICS ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS BIOPHYSICS CATALYSIS

COSMOLOGY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY DYNAMICS FIELD THEORY PHYSICS

GEOPHYSICS MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS MECHANICS ANALYTICAL NUCLEAR PHYSICS
OPTICS QUANTUM THEORY RELATIVITY PHYSICS SOLID STATE PHYSICS

ELECTRONIC DATABASES

American Institute of Physics Journals
Links to full-text of recent AIP journals to which Florida Atlantic University subscribes.

American Physical Society Journals
Links to full-text of recent APS journals to which Florida Atlantic University subscribes.

Current Contents Connect
A weekly service that includes seven content databases covering approximately 6,600 unique journals in the areas of science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture. Current 12 months.

Dissertation Abstracts - ProQuest.
Covers every doctoral dissertation completed in the U.S. at accredited institutions for the last 150 years. Includes some master's theses and foreign language dissertations. Coverage from 1861.

Elsevier Science Direct
A searchable database that provides full-text of approximately 650 traditional research journals in the disciplines of science, technology, and medicine.

GeoRef - Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
The American Geological Institute's database containing more than 2.1 million records covering North America since 1785 and other areas of the world since 1933.

Ingenta
A multidisciplinary database that offers citations and abstracts; full-text to subscribed journals, and pay-per-view access to unsubscribed journals.

INSPEC
Worldwide coverage of published works in physics, electrical engineering and electronics, computing, and information technology. Covers scientific and technical journals and conference proceedings and includes some books, reports, and dissertations. Coverage from 1969 to date.

Institute of Physics
Searchable database that provides citations and abstracts; also full text to IOP journals to which Florida Atlantic University subscribes.

MathSciNet
A comprehensive database covering the world's mathematical literature of the past 61 years. It covers mathematics and its applications in statistics, computer science, operations research, econometrics, engineering, physics, biology and other related areas.

Science Citation Index Expanded - Web of Science
Multi disciplinary database covering the journal literature of the sciences. Provides citations and author abstracts from 5300 major journals. 1992 to date.

Solid State and Superconductivity Abstracts - CSA
Presents global coverage on all aspects of solid state and superconductivity technology

SELECTED WEB SITES

arXive.org e-Print archive <http://xxx.lanl.gov/>
A collection of pre-print websites compiled by Los Alamos National Laboratory

Center for History of Physics <http://www.aip.org/history/>
A mission to preserve and make known the history of modern physics and allied fields including astronomy, geophysics, optics, and the like.

Fundamental Physical Constants
<http://www.chemie.fu-berlin.de/chemistry/general/constants_en.html>
A website that provides CODATA internationally recommended values of the fundamental physical constants.

Handbook of Space Astronomy and Astrophysics <http://ads.harvard.edu/books/hsaa/>
A reference book in space and astronomy. Several chapters have links to related WWW resources containing extensive tabulations, images, interactive programs, etc..

Laws List <http://www.alcyone.com/max/physics/laws>
A list of various laws, rules, principles, effects, paradoxes, limits, constants, experiments, & thought-experiments in physics.

Martindale's "The Reference Desk": physics center <http://www-sci.lib.uci.edu/HSG/GradPhysics.html>

NIST: Electron Interactions with Plasma Processing Gases <http://www.eeel.nist.gov/817/817g/refdata/>
Presents electron-collision cross section data and electron transport coefficients
for gases used in the manufacturing of semiconductor devices.

NIST: Physical Reference Data <http://physics.nist.gov/PhysRefData/contents.html/>
Provides information on physical constants, nuclear physics data, atomic and molecular spectroscopic data, x-ray and gamma-ray data. It also provides an elemental data index using a graphical representation of the periodic table of elements.

Physics2000 <http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/index.pl>
Welcome to Physics 2000, an interactive journey through modern physics! Have fun learning visually and conceptually about 20th Century science and high-tech devices.

Physicsweb <http://physicsweb.org/>

Resources in Physics <http://www.sla.org/division/dpam/>
A megasite from the Special Libraries Association which provides links to people, professional associations, institutions, pathfinders and more.

INDEXES AND ABSTRACTS

REF Z5153 .A862 Astronomy and Astrophysics Abstracts. 1977 to 1989.

REF QD1 .A51 Chemical Abstracts. 1907 to 1997.

DOC E1.17: Energy Research Abstracts. 1990 to date.

REF Z5851.E52 Engineering Index. 1950 to 1992.

DOC C51.9/3 Government Reports Announcements and Index. 1975 to date.

REF QC1 .S25 Science Abstracts. Section A. Physics Abstracts. 1903 to 1996.

REF Z7401.S365 Science Citation Index. 1945 to 1995.

GUIDES TO THE LITERATURE

QD999 .4 Crystallographic Book List.
H.D. Megaw, ed.. 1965.

REF Z7141.S74 Guide to Information Sources in the Physical Sciences.
D. Stern. 2000.

REF Q224.3.U6A43 Guide to U.S. Government Scientific and Technical Resources.
R. Aluri and J.S. Robinson. 1983.

REF Z699.5.S3L34 How to Find Information in Science and Technology.
J. Lambert and P.A. Lambert. 1986.

REF Z7141.I54 Information Sources in Physics. 3rd ed.
D.F. Shaw, ed. 1994.

REF Z7401.C48 Scientific and Technical Information Sources. 2nd ed.
C. Chen. 1987.

REF QC5.3.A76 The Search for Data in the Physical and Chemical Sciences.
L.R. Arny. 1984.

GC5.45.U73 Use of Physics Literature.
H. Cobians, ed. 1975.

REF Q224M68 Using Science and Technology Information Sources.
E. Mount and B. Kovacs. 1991.

DICTIONARIES

REF QC39.D5 Comparisons of Distance, Size, Area, Volume, Mass Weight, Density, Energy, Temperature, Time, Speed and Number Throughout the Universe.
1980.

REF QB14 .M56 Concise Dictionary of Astronomy.
J. Mitton. 1991.

REF QC82. C4 A Dictionary for Unit Conversions.
Y. Chiu. 1975.

REF QC 772 .D57 Dictionary of Material Science and High Energy Physics.
D. Basu. 2001.

REF Q123. B3 A Dictionary of Named Effects and Laws in Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics. 3rd ed. D.W.G. Ballentyne and D.R. Lovett. 1970.

REF QC5.D6 Dictionary of Physics and Mathematics, Abbreviations, Signs and Symbols.
R. Mehra, ed. 1965.

REF Q123.E46 Dictionary of the Physical Sciences: Terms, Formula, Data.
C. Emiliani. 1987.

REF QC5 .D485 Dictionary of Pure and Applied Physics.
D. Basu, ed. 2001.

REF QC5.E52 Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Physics. v. 1-9.
J. Thewlis, ed.. 1962-64.
SHELVED IN GENERAL LIBRARY COLLECTION

REF QE5 .L29 The Facts on File Dictionary of Geology and Geophysics.
E.H. Immergut, ed. 1987.

REF QC320 .G57 Glossary of Terms in Heat Transfer, Fluid Fow, and Related Topics: English, Russian,German, French and Japanese.
W. Begell, ed. 1983.

REF QC783 .K9 The Illustrated Dictionary of Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos.
D. Kapitaniak and S.R. Bishop. 1999.

REF QC61 .M22 McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Physics. 2nd ed.
S.P. Parker, ed. 1997.

REF QC61 .M23 McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Physics and Mathematics.
D.N. Lapedus, ed. 1978.

REF Q123 .m34 McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific Terms.
S.P. Parker, ed. 1989.

REF QC61. M34 Quantifications in Science: the VNR Dictionary of Engineering Units and Measures.
M.G. Melaragno. 1991.

REF QC451 .M6 Technical Dictionary of Spectroscopy and Spectral Analysis.
H. Moritz and T. Torok, eds. 1971.

ENCYCLOPEDIAS

REF QC176 .A3C66 Concise Encyclopedia of Solid State Physics.
R.G. Lerner and S.L. Trigg, eds. 1983.

REF QC221.5 .B53 Encyclopedia of Acoustics.
M.J. Crocker, ed. 1997.

REF TA1509 .E53 Encyclopedia of Lasers and Optical Technology.
R.A. Meyers, ed. 1991.

REF Q123 .E497 Encyclopedia of Physical Science and Technlogy.
R.A. Meyers, ed. 1987.

REF QC5 .E546 Encyclopedia of Physics. 3rd ed.
R.M. Besancon, ed. 1985.

REF QC5 .E545 Encyclopedia of Physics.
R.G. Lerner and G.L. Trigg, eds. 1981.

REF QC450.3 .P47 Encyclopedia of Spectroscopy.
H. Perkampus. 1995.

REF QC450.3 .P5 Encyclopedia of Spectroscopy and Spectometry.
J.C. Lindon, G.E. Tranter, J.L Holmes. 2000.

QC21 .H3 Handbuch Der Physik-Encyclopedia of Physics.
S. Flugge, ed.. 1956.

REF QC5 .M15 Macmillian Encyclopedia of Physics.
J.S. Rigden, ed. 1996.

REF QE11 .S38 Sciences of the Earth: An Encyclopedia of People, Events, and Phenomena.
G.A. Good, ed. 1998.

HANDBOOKS AND MANUALS

REF QC61 .A5 American Institute of Physics Handbook. 3rd ed.
1972.

DOC D 213.8 Astronomical Almanac for the Year...
1980 to date.

REF QC61 .W67 The Cambridge Handbook of Physics Formulas.
G. Woan. 2000.

REF QD65 .C74 Composite Index for CRC Handbooks. 3rd ed.
1991.

REF QD65 .GH3 CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics.
LATEST EDITION LOCATED IN RESERVE.

REF QA401 .M492 Fundamental Formulas of Physics.
D.H. Menzel. 1960.
SHELVED IN GENERAL LIBRARY COLLECTION

REF QC320.4 .H36 Handbook of Heat Transfer.
W.M. Rohsenow, J.P. Hartnett, and Y.I. Cho, eds. 1998.

REF QA47 .A34 Handbook of Mathematical Functions, with Formulas, Graphs, and Mathematical Tables.
M. Abramowitz and I.A. Stegun, eds.. 1965.

QC61 .T85 Handbook of Physical Calculations: Definitions, Formulas, Technical Applications, Physical Tables, Conversion Tables, Graphs, Dictionary of Physical Terms.
J.J. Tuma. 1976.

REF Q199 .C58 Handbook of Physical Constants.
S.P. Clark, Jr.,ed. 1966.

REF QC21 .C7 Handbook of Physics.
E.U. Condon and H. Odishaw, eds. 1958.

REF QC311.3 .R3713 Handbook of Thermodynamic Tables and Charts.
K Raznjevic. 1976.

REF Q199 .N32 International Critical Tables of Numerical Data, Physics, Chemistry and Technology. 1st ed.
E.W. Washburn, ed. 1929-1933.

REF QC61. L332 Landolt-Bornstein Zahlenwerte und Funktionen aus Naturrwissenschften und Technik Neue Serie. Numerical Data and Functional Relationships in Science and Technology. New Series.
K.H. Hellwege, ed. 1926-1974.

REF Q121 .M13 McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science and Technology.
1962-

REF QC783 .K9 Nuclear Tables.
W. Kunz and J. Schintlmeister. 1967.

REF QC20.7 .M3T87 Spherical Tensor Operators: Tables of Matrix Elements and Symmetries.
J.A. Tuszynski. 1990.

REF QC61 .K3 Tables of Physical and Chemical Constants and Some Mathematical Functions. 14th ed.
1995.

REF QC453 .S813 Tables of Spectral Lines of Neutral and Ionized Atoms.
A.R. Striganov and N.S.Sventitskii. 1968.

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	American Institute of Physics Journals Links to full-text of recent AIP journals to which Florida Atlantic University subscribes.
	American Physical Society Journals Links to full-text of recent APS journals to which Florida Atlantic University subscribes.
	Current Contents Connect A weekly service that includes seven content databases covering approximately 6,600 unique journals in the areas of science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture. Current 12 months.
	Dissertation Abstracts - ProQuest. Covers every doctoral dissertation completed in the U.S. at accredited institutions for the last 150 years. Includes some master's theses and foreign language dissertations. Coverage from 1861.
	Elsevier Science Direct A searchable database that provides full-text of approximately 650 traditional research journals in the disciplines of science, technology, and medicine.
	GeoRef - Cambridge Scientific Abstracts The American Geological Institute's database containing more than 2.1 million records covering North America since 1785 and other areas of the world since 1933.
	Ingenta A multidisciplinary database that offers citations and abstracts; full-text to subscribed journals, and pay-per-view access to unsubscribed journals.
	INSPEC Worldwide coverage of published works in physics, electrical engineering and electronics, computing, and information technology. Covers scientific and technical journals and conference proceedings and includes some books, reports, and dissertations. Coverage from 1969 to date.
	Institute of Physics Searchable database that provides citations and abstracts; also full text to IOP journals to which Florida Atlantic University subscribes.
	MathSciNet A comprehensive database covering the world's mathematical literature of the past 61 years. It covers mathematics and its applications in statistics, computer science, operations research, econometrics, engineering, physics, biology and other related areas.
	Science Citation Index Expanded - Web of Science Multi disciplinary database covering the journal literature of the sciences. Provides citations and author abstracts from 5300 major journals. 1992 to date.
	Solid State and Superconductivity Abstracts - CSA Presents global coverage on all aspects of solid state and superconductivity technology

	arXive.org e-Print archive <http://xxx.lanl.gov/> A collection of pre-print websites compiled by Los Alamos National Laboratory
	Center for History of Physics <http://www.aip.org/history/> A mission to preserve and make known the history of modern physics and allied fields including astronomy, geophysics, optics, and the like.
	Fundamental Physical Constants <http://www.chemie.fu-berlin.de/chemistry/general/constants_en.html> A website that provides CODATA internationally recommended values of the fundamental physical constants.
	Handbook of Space Astronomy and Astrophysics <http://ads.harvard.edu/books/hsaa/> A reference book in space and astronomy. Several chapters have links to related WWW resources containing extensive tabulations, images, interactive programs, etc..
	Laws List <http://www.alcyone.com/max/physics/laws> A list of various laws, rules, principles, effects, paradoxes, limits, constants, experiments, & thought-experiments in physics.
	Martindale's "The Reference Desk": physics center <http://www-sci.lib.uci.edu/HSG/GradPhysics.html>
	NIST: Electron Interactions with Plasma Processing Gases <http://www.eeel.nist.gov/817/817g/refdata/> Presents electron-collision cross section data and electron transport coefficients for gases used in the manufacturing of semiconductor devices.
	NIST: Physical Reference Data <http://physics.nist.gov/PhysRefData/contents.html/> Provides information on physical constants, nuclear physics data, atomic and molecular spectroscopic data, x-ray and gamma-ray data. It also provides an elemental data index using a graphical representation of the periodic table of elements.
	Physics2000 <http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/index.pl> Welcome to Physics 2000, an interactive journey through modern physics! Have fun learning visually and conceptually about 20th Century science and high-tech devices.
	Physicsweb <http://physicsweb.org/>
	Resources in Physics <http://www.sla.org/division/dpam/> A megasite from the Special Libraries Association which provides links to people, professional associations, institutions, pathfinders and more.

ASTROPHYSICS	ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS	BIOPHYSICS	CATALYSIS
COSMOLOGY	CRYSTALLOGRAPHY	DYNAMICS	FIELD THEORY PHYSICS
GEOPHYSICS	MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS	MECHANICS ANALYTICAL	NUCLEAR PHYSICS
OPTICS	QUANTUM THEORY	RELATIVITY PHYSICS	SOLID STATE PHYSICS

REF Z5153 .A862	Astronomy and Astrophysics Abstracts. 1977 to 1989.
REF QD1 .A51	Chemical Abstracts. 1907 to 1997.
DOC E1.17:	Energy Research Abstracts. 1990 to date.
REF Z5851.E52	Engineering Index. 1950 to 1992.
DOC C51.9/3	Government Reports Announcements and Index. 1975 to date.
REF QC1 .S25	Science Abstracts. Section A. Physics Abstracts. 1903 to 1996.
REF Z7401.S365	Science Citation Index. 1945 to 1995.

QD999 .4	Crystallographic Book List. H.D. Megaw, ed.. 1965.
REF Z7141.S74	Guide to Information Sources in the Physical Sciences. D. Stern. 2000.
REF Q224.3.U6A43	Guide to U.S. Government Scientific and Technical Resources. R. Aluri and J.S. Robinson. 1983.
REF Z699.5.S3L34	How to Find Information in Science and Technology. J. Lambert and P.A. Lambert. 1986.
REF Z7141.I54	Information Sources in Physics. 3rd ed. D.F. Shaw, ed. 1994.
REF Z7401.C48	Scientific and Technical Information Sources. 2nd ed. C. Chen. 1987.
REF QC5.3.A76	The Search for Data in the Physical and Chemical Sciences. L.R. Arny. 1984.
GC5.45.U73	Use of Physics Literature. H. Cobians, ed. 1975.
REF Q224M68	Using Science and Technology Information Sources. E. Mount and B. Kovacs. 1991.

REF QC39.D5	Comparisons of Distance, Size, Area, Volume, Mass Weight, Density, Energy, Temperature, Time, Speed and Number Throughout the Universe. 1980.
REF QB14 .M56	Concise Dictionary of Astronomy. J. Mitton. 1991.
REF QC82. C4	A Dictionary for Unit Conversions. Y. Chiu. 1975.
REF QC 772 .D57	Dictionary of Material Science and High Energy Physics. D. Basu. 2001.
REF Q123. B3	A Dictionary of Named Effects and Laws in Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics. 3rd ed. D.W.G. Ballentyne and D.R. Lovett. 1970.
REF QC5.D6	Dictionary of Physics and Mathematics, Abbreviations, Signs and Symbols. R. Mehra, ed. 1965.
REF Q123.E46	Dictionary of the Physical Sciences: Terms, Formula, Data. C. Emiliani. 1987.
REF QC5 .D485	Dictionary of Pure and Applied Physics. D. Basu, ed. 2001.
REF QC5.E52	Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Physics. v. 1-9. J. Thewlis, ed.. 1962-64. SHELVED IN GENERAL LIBRARY COLLECTION
REF QE5 .L29	The Facts on File Dictionary of Geology and Geophysics. E.H. Immergut, ed. 1987.
REF QC320 .G57	Glossary of Terms in Heat Transfer, Fluid Fow, and Related Topics: English, Russian,German, French and Japanese. W. Begell, ed. 1983.
REF QC783 .K9	The Illustrated Dictionary of Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos. D. Kapitaniak and S.R. Bishop. 1999.
REF QC61 .M22	McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Physics. 2nd ed. S.P. Parker, ed. 1997.
REF QC61 .M23	McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Physics and Mathematics. D.N. Lapedus, ed. 1978.
REF Q123 .m34	McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific Terms. S.P. Parker, ed. 1989.
REF QC61. M34	Quantifications in Science: the VNR Dictionary of Engineering Units and Measures. M.G. Melaragno. 1991.
REF QC451 .M6	Technical Dictionary of Spectroscopy and Spectral Analysis. H. Moritz and T. Torok, eds. 1971.

REF QC176 .A3C66	Concise Encyclopedia of Solid State Physics. R.G. Lerner and S.L. Trigg, eds. 1983.
REF QC221.5 .B53	Encyclopedia of Acoustics. M.J. Crocker, ed. 1997.
REF TA1509 .E53	Encyclopedia of Lasers and Optical Technology. R.A. Meyers, ed. 1991.
REF Q123 .E497	Encyclopedia of Physical Science and Technlogy. R.A. Meyers, ed. 1987.
REF QC5 .E546	Encyclopedia of Physics. 3rd ed. R.M. Besancon, ed. 1985.
REF QC5 .E545	Encyclopedia of Physics. R.G. Lerner and G.L. Trigg, eds. 1981.
REF QC450.3 .P47	Encyclopedia of Spectroscopy. H. Perkampus. 1995.
REF QC450.3 .P5	Encyclopedia of Spectroscopy and Spectometry. J.C. Lindon, G.E. Tranter, J.L Holmes. 2000.
QC21 .H3	Handbuch Der Physik-Encyclopedia of Physics. S. Flugge, ed.. 1956.
REF QC5 .M15	Macmillian Encyclopedia of Physics. J.S. Rigden, ed. 1996.
REF QE11 .S38	Sciences of the Earth: An Encyclopedia of People, Events, and Phenomena. G.A. Good, ed. 1998.

REF QC61 .A5	American Institute of Physics Handbook. 3rd ed. 1972.
DOC D 213.8	Astronomical Almanac for the Year... 1980 to date.
REF QC61 .W67	The Cambridge Handbook of Physics Formulas. G. Woan. 2000.
REF QD65 .C74	Composite Index for CRC Handbooks. 3rd ed. 1991.
REF QD65 .GH3	CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. LATEST EDITION LOCATED IN RESERVE.
REF QA401 .M492	Fundamental Formulas of Physics. D.H. Menzel. 1960. SHELVED IN GENERAL LIBRARY COLLECTION
REF QC320.4 .H36	Handbook of Heat Transfer. W.M. Rohsenow, J.P. Hartnett, and Y.I. Cho, eds. 1998.
REF QA47 .A34	Handbook of Mathematical Functions, with Formulas, Graphs, and Mathematical Tables. M. Abramowitz and I.A. Stegun, eds.. 1965.
QC61 .T85	Handbook of Physical Calculations: Definitions, Formulas, Technical Applications, Physical Tables, Conversion Tables, Graphs, Dictionary of Physical Terms. J.J. Tuma. 1976.
REF Q199 .C58	Handbook of Physical Constants. S.P. Clark, Jr.,ed. 1966.
REF QC21 .C7	Handbook of Physics. E.U. Condon and H. Odishaw, eds. 1958.
REF QC311.3 .R3713	Handbook of Thermodynamic Tables and Charts. K Raznjevic. 1976.
REF Q199 .N32	International Critical Tables of Numerical Data, Physics, Chemistry and Technology. 1st ed. E.W. Washburn, ed. 1929-1933.
REF QC61. L332	Landolt-Bornstein Zahlenwerte und Funktionen aus Naturrwissenschften und Technik Neue Serie. Numerical Data and Functional Relationships in Science and Technology. New Series. K.H. Hellwege, ed. 1926-1974.
REF Q121 .M13	McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science and Technology. 1962-
REF QC783 .K9	Nuclear Tables. W. Kunz and J. Schintlmeister. 1967.
REF QC20.7 .M3T87	Spherical Tensor Operators: Tables of Matrix Elements and Symmetries. J.A. Tuszynski. 1990.
REF QC61 .K3	Tables of Physical and Chemical Constants and Some Mathematical Functions. 14th ed. 1995.
REF QC453 .S813	Tables of Spectral Lines of Neutral and Ionized Atoms. A.R. Striganov and N.S.Sventitskii. 1968.