Research Guides: Physics and Astronomy: Home

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If you are looking for physics journal articles, a good place to start is our online subscription to the American Physical Society Journals collection.

Physical Review Journals
Physics journals published by the American Physical Society (APS).

Full-text available for journal titles to which Rowan University subscribes. For coverage dates of specific journals use the website's Journal Finder search.

Article Databases for Physics

Use these subscription databases to locate published research in physics.

For even more options, visit the library's A-Z Databases: Physics list.

Physical Review Journals
Physics journals published by the American Physical Society (APS).

Full-text available for journal titles to which Rowan University subscribes. For coverage dates of specific journals use the website's Journal Finder search.
IOP Science (Institute of Physics)
Physics journals from IOP Publishing.

Full text access to journals published by IOP Publishing on the IOP Science platform.
Nature Journals Online
Scientific research journals from Nature Publishing Group.

Provides online full-text access to a core package of international scientific research journals published by Nature Publishing Group. The flagship journal, Nature, is the world's most highly cited interdisciplinary science journal, and has been published weekly since 1869. Nature journals in Rowan University's subscription package may also be accessed by individual journal title through the library catalog.
SPIE Digital Library
Research papers in optics, photonics, and related physics topics.

With more than 400,000 papers spanning biomedicine, communications, sensors, defense and security, manufacturing, electronics, energy, and imaging, the SPIE Digital Library is the most extensive research database available on optics and photonics research.
Science Direct
Peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters in the sciences.

ScienceDirect is a leading full-text scientific database offering journal articles and book chapters from more than 2,500 journals and almost 20,000 books. The database covers the Physical Sciences, Life Sciences, Health Sciences, Social Sciences and the Humanities.
IEEE Xplore
Journal and conference papers in electrical engineering.

Full text access to journals and major conference proceedings published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE).
Scopus
SciVerse Scopus is the world’s largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality web sources.
Annual Reviews
Review articles (literature reviews) in the sciences and social sciences.

A searchable collection of comprehensive and critical literature reviews covering a broad spectrum of scientific disciplines, including the Life, Biomedical, and the Social and Physical Sciences. Full text available from 1991 to present (Mobile Device Compatible)
General Science Full Text (H.W. Wilson)
Journal, magazine and news articles in all areas of science.

Index to periodicals in biology, chemistry, earth sciences, health and medicine, nutrition, and physics. Indexing from 1984; select full text from 1994 forward. (formerly from Wilson)