Physics: Home
Physics at GVSU
- GVSU PhysicsThe Department of Physics offers a Bachelor of Science degree (B.S.). Visit the department website for more information about faculty, courses, more.
- Physics Help CornerThe Physics Help Corner is open 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Monday through Thursday.
- Physics K-12 EducationA libguide dedicated to learning to teach in the STEM disciplines, including resources dedicated to teaching science.
Getting started
Search the Library for Books, etc.
Use your keyword(s) in the search box:
Start with Advanced Search if you know you want to limit to just books, or any other specific format type.
Finding Articles
Databases are the first place you want to look for articles. Databases usually have information about an article (such as the title, author, name of the journal or magazine the article appeared in) and sometimes they will also contain an abstract, or summary, of the article.
Databases also often have information about other types of resources too - sometimes they contain information about books, book chapters, government documents, and other things.
Some databases will also have the articles themselves (called the full text of the article). When that happens, you should see a link to an HTML or PDF document. If you do not see a link, click on - this will check the other library databases for the full text of the article.
Physics Databases
- ADS (Astrophysics Data System) This link opens in a new windowThis database, funded by NASA, searches for information about astronomy, astrophysics, instrumentation, physics, and geophysics. Users can search for articles, books, conference proceedings and pre-prints (the author's version of an article before it goes through peer-review).
- arXivOpen access (meaning free to the public) to scholarly information in physics. Also includes the following subjects: mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance and statistics.
- MathSciNet This link opens in a new windowMathSciNet is a good source for scholarly articles and reviews related to mathematics. This database does contain information for several physics journals as well.
- INSPIRE: High Energy Physics contentA trusted community hub that helps researchers to share and find accurate scholarly information in high energy physics. Content includes scholarly literature and conference publications.
- PROLA (Physical Review Online Archive)PROLA is the American Physical Society's (APS) online database for scholarly journals. It contains journal articles published from 1893–present.
- SciFinder-n This link opens in a new windowA research tool for accessing information in Chemical Abstracts databases, using a graphical user interface. It includes journal articles, book chapters, patents, conference proceedings, technical reports, substance database and dissertations covered in Chemical Abstracts as well as articles currently being indexed, book reviews and biographical information. Requires a one-time, free registration, and an additional login for each use.
- SpringerLink This link opens in a new windowThrough Springer, the library has full text access to over 100 journals in physics.
- Web of Science This link opens in a new windowThis is a great multi-disciplinary database. It searches scholarly journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts & humanities.
- Google Scholar This link opens in a new windowUse Google Scholar to search for scholarly, peer reviewed articles on any topic.
Not finding what you need?
- Science Direct This link opens in a new windowPartial full text for Elsevier journals covering science, technology and medicine. Coverage in some cases back to 1823.
- Wiley Online Library This link opens in a new windowThis database contains scholarly journal articles covering a wide range of subjects including physics and astronomy
- Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new windowAcademic Search Premier covers most subjects and searches for newspaper & magazine articles in addition to more scholarly articles available in journals.
Your Librarian is ...
- Last Updated: Apr 18, 2024 1:55 PM
- URL: https://libguides.gvsu.edu/physics