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Popular Physics & Astronomy Resources

INSPEC (Web of Science)
Web of Science consists of a number of citation databases, containing information from thousands of scholarly journals and conference proceedings in all areas of research. The databases contain the references cited by the authors of the journal articles they cover. The cited references can be used as search terms, allowing a published work to be used to find other, later works that cite it. In addition, the databases can be searched by topic, author, source title, and address. Full text is available by linking to subscribed journals. Coverage is variable according to database.

Scopus
Scopus is a multidisciplinary abstract and citation database. It covers a large number of peer-reviewed journals in the scientific, technical, medical and social science fields, from an extensive range of international publishers. Also indexed are open access journals, conference proceedings, book series and trade publications, as well as patent records. References go back to 1996, while abstracts go back further. Linking to full-text articles is available.
ScienceDirect
Is a database that contains the full text of more than 1,800 Elsevier Science journals, as well as citations and abstracts of other journals. Over 2,000 peer-reviewed journals are indexed. Subject coverage emphasizes the life, medical, technical, and physical sciences, but there is also coverage of the arts, humanities, social sciences and psychology. Coverage is selective full-text.
IOPscience
IOPscience provides a cross searchable interface for the journals published by the Institute of Physics. Full text access is available for subscribed journals. Coverage varies according to the journal.
APS Physics Journals
Browse or search for articles in the journals produced by the American Physical Society.
arXiv.org
A searchable e-print service which presents papers in physics and related disciplines, mathematics, nonlinear science, computer science, statistics and quantitative biology. arXiv.org is a fully automated electronic archive and distribution server for research papers which functions as a means of communicating ongoing research information in these subject areas.
CERN document server
A searchable database, the CERN Document Server contains over 900,000 bibliographic records, including 360,000 fulltext documents, of interest to people working in particle physics and related areas. It covers preprints, articles, books, journals, theses, photographs, etc. The Articles & Preprints collection aims to cover as far as possible the published and pre-published literature in particle physics and its related technologies. The documents originate from articles published in journals, preprints, technical reports, conference presentations, scientific committee documents and theses - all comprehensively indexed by the CERN Scientific Information Service.
Scitation
Produced by the American Institute of Physics, this searchable database provides access to more than 1 million documents from scholarly journals, magazines and other special publications from scientific societies and technical publishers in the areas of physics and associated disciplines. Fulltext is available to subscribed journals. Cross searchable with Scitation is the SPIN (Searchable Physics Information Notices) database, which differs from Scitation in that it includes articles from other online platforms.

SPIE Digital Library
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AGU's digital library
The AGU Digital Library is a comprehensive collection of more than 100 years of earth and space science research as published in the American Geophysical Union's journals. The library contains articles from journals dating back to 1896. Full text and Boolean searching across publications is available. Book titles will be added as they are available.

New Physics & Astronomy Resources

Current Trials

Database Trials: The Library regularly trials new resources throughout the year. You can participate in our trials and provide feedback to help us make purchasing decisions. To see resources that are currently being trialed by the Library click here.

Contact one of your Research Librarians (details below) to provide specific feedback on any resource currently being trialed.

Research Librarians - Faculty of Science & Engineering

Fiona Jones (fiona.jones@mq.edu.au) and Abigail Baker (abigail.baker@mq.edu.au)

We are your Research Librarians for the Faculty of Science & Engineering.

Please email us with your query. If you include both of us in the one email the first available librarian will get back to you.

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MultiSearch
MultiSearch searches across a number of databases held by the library, as well as the catalogue. A good starting point.
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EndNote/Mendeley
Referencing using LaTeX/BibTeX
HDR Workshops and Courses
The University offers a range of on-campus HDR training workshops and courses including: Research Writing Courses; Writing Retreats; Oral Presentation Training; Research Methods workshops; Grant Writing, Thesis Writing & Publication seminars; and Personal & Professional Development training.
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The Australasian Dark Sky Alliance
The Australasian Dark Sky Alliance (ADSA) is an independent non-profit organisation formed to: educate the public and policymakers about night sky conservation; promote environmentally responsible outdoor lighting; create business opportunities, and celebrate our night sky heritage.