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Core Physics Databases

arXiv.org
arXiv is a free distribution service and an open-access archive for scholarly articles in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics. Materials on this site are not peer-reviewed by arXiv. The repository is maintained and operated by Cornell Tech
Institute of Physics (IoP) Electronic Journals
(c. 1874 to present) Full text of journals published by the Institute of Physics; several of the journals cover topics in Chemistry as well as Physics.
Physical Review Online Archive (PROLA)
(c. 1893 to present) The full text of journals published the American Physical Society.
Includes:
Physical Review Series I and II, in their entirety (1893–1969)
Physical Review A–D from 1970–2012
Physical Review E from 1993–2012
Physical Review Letters from 1958–2012
Reviews of Modern Physics from 1929–2012
Scitation
Scitation is the online journal platform of the AIP, providing access to news, comment, analysis and research in the Physical Sciences.
Davidson College has access to the following journals from AIP:
American Journal of Physics
Applied Physics Letters
Applied Physics Letters
Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science
Computing in Science & Engineering
Journal of Applied Physics
Journal of Applied Physics
Journal of Laser Applications
Journal of Mathematical Physics
Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data
Noise Control
Physics of Fluids
Physics of Plasmas
Review of Scientific Instruments
Review of Scientific Instruments
Sound: Its uses and Control
The Journal of Chemical Physics
The Journal of Chemical Physics
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
The Physics Teacher
Web of Science
(c. 1900 to present) An interdisciplinary resource with over 20,000 scholarly journals, books, and proceedings in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities, also navigate the full citation network.
Access is restricted to current faculty and staff and currently-enrolled students of Davidson College only.

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Annual Reviews
(1932 to present) Full text review and overview articles on important topics in the Biomedical, Life, Physical, and Social Sciences. Includes 51 Annual Review titles.
ProQuest Research Tools
Multidisciplinary collection of full-text journal, magazine, and newspaper articles, e-books, dissertations, and more. Also contains citations to additional materials. Search includes all of the Davidson College Library ProQuest databases.
Wiley Online Library
(c. 1997 to present, but varies) This database contains over 1,600 full-text journals, and 22,000+ ebooks, published by John Wiley & Sons and Blackwell Publishing multidisciplinary in scope. Access, view and download full ebooks or chapters individual chapters.
Note: Jan. 2022 we added the 22,000+ Wiley ebooks to our subscription.

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