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Click here for a complete list of databases offered by Mansfield Library (http://www.lib.umt.edu).

Suggested databases:

• Academic Search Premier - Multidisciplinary, full-text database.


• arXiv E-Print Service - Open e-print archive with over 100000 articles in physics, 10000 in mathematics, and 1000 in computer science..


• Astronomy and Astrophysics Abstracts, 1969-2000 (520 X A859)


• Astrophysics Data System - ADS Digital Library portal is comprised of three bibliographic databases containing more than 6.8 bibliographic records and full-text scans of much of the astronomical and physics literature. Included are access and pointers to external resources, electronic articles, data catalogs and archives.


• Dissertations, Proquest Digital - Indexes doctoral dissertations.


• Energy Citations Database - "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."


• Google Scholar - Scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources.


• NTIS (National Technical Information - U.S. Government-sponsored research in scientific, technical, engineering, and business-related areas.


• Physics Abstracts, 1941-2000 (530 X S416)


• Scitation & Spin Databases - Scitation and Spin can be searched separately or together. Scitation offers reference linking, both forward and backward, to many rich sources of information, including ISI's Web of Science, MEDLINE, Chemport/Chemical Abstracts Service, SPIN database, INSPEC, EDP Sciences, X-ArkiV, SLAC-SPIRES, and other Scitation journals, and others. The SPIN (Searchable Physics Information Notices) database includes bibliographic records and abstracts for more than 1.5 million articles from major physical science journals, magazines, and conference proceedings.


• SPIRES: High Energy Physics Literature - A comprehensive database of particle physics literature.


• Web of Science - Multidisciplinary index.

Search specialized magazines and journals when looking for articles on your research topic. Some of the browsing examples to look at are: Advances in Physics; Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics; Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science; Applied Physics Letters; Astronomy and Astrophysics Review; Journal of Chemical Physics; Physical Review; Reviews of Modern Physics.

To Browse Titles or Journals by Subject, click here: Mansfield Library Journals.

For search hints, take a look at the following: UM Catalog Help and Finding Books.

Book catalog resources:

• The University of Montana Catalog - All time periods: Books, Media, Government Documents, etc.


• WorldCat - All time periods; Library Union Catalog; Books, Media, Government Documents, etc.


• Google Book Search - Snippet and full-text views of books as they are scanned by the Google Book Project.

• Access Science - Encyclopedia of Science & Technology Online.


• Astronomical Almanac Online


• The Astonomy and Astrophysics Encyclopedia (520.3 A859)


• Atomic Line List


• Concise Dictionary of Physics (530.03 D554)


• Constants and Equations


• Constellations


• Contributions of 20th Century Women to Physics


• CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics (541.9 H236)


• Databases & On-line Data in Astronomy (025.0652 D232)


• Dictionary of Astronomy (520.3 I36d)


• Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Physics (530.3 E56)


• Encyclopedia of the Solar System (523.203 E5632)


• Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia


• Facts on File Dictionary of Astronomy (520.3 F142)


• Facts on File Dictionary of Physics (530.03 F1425)


• Famous Physicists


• Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature


• Handbook of Nanostructured Materials and Nanotechnology (620.5 N173h)


• History of Astronomy: an Encyclopedia (520.3 H673)


• History of Space Exploration


• Index to Physical, Chemical and Other Property Data


• Information Sources in Physics (530 X I43)


• Materials Information Resource


• Messier Deep-Sky Catalog


• Millenium Star Atlas (523.80222 S61796m)


• NASA Atlas of the Solar System (523.20223 G794)


• NGC 2000.0: ...Catalogue and Index...of Nebulae and Star Clusters (523.80212 D778n)


• NGC Catlog Online, Interactive


• NIST Data Gateway


• Nobel Laureates in Physics


• Physical Reference Data


• The Physics Quick Reference Guide (530 C678p)


• Q is for quantum: an Encyclopedia of Particle Physics (539.7203 G846q)


• Sun/Moon/Eclipse Data


• Timeline: a Century of Physics


• USA in Space (387.80973 U11)


• The Virtual Physics Center

For hints on how to use search engines effectively, take a look at the following: Finding Info and Evaluating Web Sites.

Some suggested search engines are:

• Google


• Live Search


• Yahoo


• Zuula

• AstroWeb


• Astronomy (UCSB)


• Astronomy (Yahoo)


• Physics (WWW Virtual Library)


• Physics (Yahoo)


• Physics Education (BUBL)


• PhysNet


• Resources in Astronomy (SLA)


• Resources in Physics (SLA)


• Space Science Education Resource Index (NASA)

Here are some resources to help you manage your bibliographies:

• Cite Right: a quick guide to Citation Styles (808.027 L7675c)


• EndNote Web


• RefWorks