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Subject Guide: Physics

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- Access Science
  
  Provided by Devereaux Library
  
  [McGraw Hill]
  An authoritative online resource that contains high-quality reference material covering all major scientific disciplines; includes links to primary research material and videos.
- Applied Science & Technology
  
  Provided by Devereaux Library
  
  [EBSCOhost]
  A database covering a wide variety of applied science specialties - acoustics to aeronautics, neural networks to nuclear and civil engineering, computers and informatics and much more; indexing and full text (H.W. Wilson).
- IOPscience
  
  Provided by Devereaux Library
  
  [Institute of Physics]
  IOP science is an online service for journal content published by IOP Publishing; indexing and full text. Devereaux Library does not subscribe to all material indexed in this database. Campus community members may request any item via Devereaux Delivers at no charge.
- Physical Review Journals
  
  Provided by Devereaux Library
  
  [American Physical Society]
  Journals of the American Physical Society; indexing and full-text. Devereaux Library does not subscribe to all material indexed in this database. Campus community members may request any item via Devereaux Delivers at no charge.
- Scitation
  
  Provided by Devereaux Library
  
  [American Institute of Physics]
  A database of journals and conference proceedings from AIP Publishing and AIP Member Societies; includes PubMed; indexing and limited full text. Devereaux Library does not subscribe to all material indexed in this database. Campus community members may request any item via Devereaux Delivers at no charge.
- SciTech Premium Collection
  
  Provided by Devereaux Library
  
  [ProQuest]
  This collection includes the Natural Science Collection and Technology Collection as well and the Science Database and provides full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications and more.
- Web of Science
  
  Provided by South Dakota Board of Regents
  [Clarivate]
  This website provides access to citation databases. Multidisciplinary content covers journals including open access journals and conference proceedings; as well as extensive indexing. Devereaux Library does not subscribe to all material indexed in this database. Campus community members may request any item via Devereaux Delivers at no charge.
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- Academic Search Premier
  
  Provided by Devereaux Library
  
  [EBSCOhost]
  A multidisciplinary database providing indexing and full-text for more than 5000 journals.
- CAS SciFinder
  
  Provided by Devereaux Library
  
  [Chemical Abstracts]
  Provides access to a wide diversity of research from many scientific disciplines. Includes CAS database with complete coverage of chemistry and the life sciences including biochemistry, biology, pharmacology, medicine, and related disciplines; indexing and full-text. Create a SciFinder account. A new version of Scifinder is here. To migrate your SciFinder answer sets and alerts to the new version go here.
- EBSCO MegaFILE
  
  Provided by Devereaux Library
  
  [EBSCOhost]
  EBSCO MegaFILE is a multi-disciplinary database providing full text for over 19,000 publications and indexing & abstracting for nearly 24,000 publications. Coverage spans every area of academic study and general interest subject area and offers information dating as far back as the 1800s.
- Engineering Village
  
  Provided by Devereaux Library
  
  [Elsevier]
  A comprehensive bibliographic database of engineering research; indexing and links to full-text holdings. The database allows searching in both Compendex and Knovel individually or simultaneously.
- Google Scholar
  
  [Google]
  Simple access point to search for scholarly literature in many disciplines; indexing and full text.
- IEEE All Society Periodicals Package
  
  Provided by Devereaux Library
  
  [IEEE]
  This database provides access to the core IEEE collection of technology journals. Also included is access to the society’s proceedings and IEEE Spectrum.
- JSTOR
  
  Provided by Devereaux Library
  
  [Jstor]
  An online research database covering a wide variety of topics. Devereaux Library does not subscribe to the journals but there is a wealth of open access titles available. Campus community members may request any item via Devereaux Delivers at no charge.
- ScienceDirect
  
  Provided by Devereaux Library
  
  [Elsevier]
  This database provides indexing to a wide range of scholarly journals and books in engineering and science. Full text is provided for more than a million open access articles. Devereaux Library does not subscribe to all material indexed in this database. Campus community members may request any item via Devereaux Delivers at no charge.
e-Books
- Ebook Central
  
  Provided by Devereaux Library
  
  [ProQuest]
  More than 1.8 million e-books covering all academic disciplines. Read online or download full-text books to your device.
- eBook Collection
  
  Provided by Devereaux Library
  
  [EBSCOhost]
  Full text of commercially published books in the arts, humanities, social sciences, life and physical sciences, business, computers and more.
- Google Books
  
  [Google]
  Searches full-text of millions of books; provides some previews and full-text.
- Knovel
  
  Provided by Devereaux Library
  
  [Elsevier]
  Knovel is specifically focused on the engineering community, offering a comprehensive collection of engineering content full-text books and engineering references.
Other
- Access Engineering
  
  Provided by Devereaux Library
  
  [McGraw Hill]
  Comprehensive database providing engineering textbooks, professional reference books and handbooks; videos including problem-solving videos; downloadable spreadsheet; case studies of real-world engineering applications, and tutorials and solutions walkthroughs and more.
- Britannica Academic
  
  Provided by Devereaux Library
  
  [Encyclopedia Britannica]
  The Encyclopedia Britannica online with articles, images and videos. Other features include a world atlas and factbook as well as an online dictionary and thesaurus.
- Dissertations & Theses Global
  
  Provided by Devereaux Library
  
  [ProQuest]
  A comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world. Full-text coverage from 1743 to present with citation coverage dating back to 1637.
- Journal List - OCLC
  
  Provided by Devereaux Library
  
  [OCLC]
  Listing of all journals, electronic, print, and microform as well as ebooks available through the Devereaux Library; indexes journal articles and ebooks.; journal listing with indexes, provides links to full-text.
- Library Catalog - (PRIMO)
  
  Provided by Devereaux Library
  
  [South Dakota Library Network]
  The catalog of the Devereaux Library, a register of bibliographic items found in the library. Includes, books, journals, DVDs, CDs, documents, and links to electronic materials; database of materials held by the Devereaux Library.
- State Agency Databases
  
  [Government Documents Roundtable]
  Annotated list of databases produced by the 50 states; indexing. Provided by GODORT.
- U.S. Government Printing Office MetaLib
  
  [U.S. Government Printing Office]
  Retrieves articles, reports and citations from federal government publications; indexing and full-text. Provided by US GPO.
- WorldCat Discovery
  
  Provided by Devereaux Library
  
  [OCLC]
  A worldwide catalog of millions of items found libraries and links to journal articles; indexing, full text, and bibliographic links to resources.

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