Selected Resources ~ Physics
|| Encyclopedias & Handbooks || Dictionaries ||
|| Other Books || Journals || Web Sites ||
American Institute of Physics Handbook. Coordinating editor: Dwight E. Gray. 3d ed. New York, McGraw-Hill [1972] REF 530.83 A63
CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. Cleveland, Ohio: CRC Press, [Annual] REF 540.212 C517 2000-2001
Macmillan Encyclopedia of Physics. John S. Rigden, editor in chief. Publisher: New York: Simon & Schuster Macmillan, 1996. REF 530.03 M167 199
Academic Press Dictionary of Science and Technology
Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Physics: General, Nuclear, Solid State, Molecular, Chemical, Metal and Vacuum Physics, Astronomy, Geophysics, Biophysics, and Related Subjects. Editor-in-chief: J. Thewlis. New York, Pergamon Press, 1961-64. REF 530.3 E62
Glossary of Plasma Physics and Fusion Energy
For books on individual topics, search by subject or keyword in the Macdonald DeWitt Library's Catalist Online Catalog. In the catalog, you will find both Reference books, for use in the Library, and books in the general collection, which may be checked out.
Books at Other Libraries
If you don't find the books you need in Catalist, SUNY Ulster's Online Catalog, you may use the SENY Virtual Union Catalog to access online catalogs for most academic libraries in the region or use the WorldCat database to locate more books on your topic. To request a needed book from another library, visit the Reference Desk in the Library and fill out an InterLibrary Loan Request form.
The following are a few of the journals available at SUNY Ulster. Search Catalist, SUNY Ulster's Online Catalog to find out if SUNY Ulster owns other periodicals that you need.
American Journal of Physics. 1980 - 1989.
Physics Today. 1990 - current.
Quantum. 1995 - current.
~ Journals on the Web
The following are some of the journals that have web sites
and post content online. This content varies from a few feature
articles in a current issue to searchable archives of past
issues.
Center for History of Physics Newsletter
Electronic Journal of Combinatorics
Institute of Physics publications full-text of 29 journals, current issue only.
MRS Internet Journal of Nitride Semi Conductor Research
Studies
in Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics
~ Locating journal articles by subject using online databases, indexes or tables of contents
AIP Journal Center index and abtracts for American Institute of Physics publications, 1975 to current.
American Journal of Physics index and abstracts 1975 to current.
Elsevier Science index and abstracts for multiple science journals.
If the full-text of a journal you need available in an online subscription database? Penfield Library maintains a search engine that allows researchers to search titles of journals and newspapers to determine if the full-text is available in an online database. If the journal is located in an online database, SUNY Ulster students must return to the database page to access the databases available to them.
If you have questions about locating the full-text of journals online, visit the Reference Desk in the Library. The Library has electronic access to journal articles through many subscription databases. For example, in the general databases, Expanded Academic Index. contains full-text articles and, in the specialized databases, the following Additional FirstSearch Databases contain some full-text:
ASTA Applied Science and Technology
Abstracts
ECO Scholarly Journals
GenSciAbs
Physics Directories and Search Engines
- The
Internet Pilot to Physics
- Librarians'
Index to the Internet -- Physics
- Physics:
an Annotated List of Key Resources on the Internet
- Physics
directory at Google
- Physics
Internet Resources
- Scholarly Societies Project -- Physics
A Few Interesting Links
Please ask a librarian for help.
For assistance, you can call us, e-mail us,
or speak to a Reference Librarian at the Reference Desk.
Phone: 845-687-5208
E-mail:askref@sunyulster.edu
