Physics: Journals & Databases
Subject Librarian
Databases and journal collections
Otago University subscribes to hundreds of databases, but the ones to the right are a good start for physics students and researchers. Thousands of journals are indexed on these databases, and they contain millions of indexed articles.
Databases often give access to full text content, but the amount of full text content available can vary. Other databases just have 'bibliographic' information like the title, author(s), journal name (with the volume, issue and page numbers), and year of publication.
You can search for the full text of an article, even if it is not available on the database you are searching, by using the 'Article Link' tool. If 'Article Link' does not find a full text version of the article you are after you can still get it through the library's interloans service.
Article databases index and classify articles from scholarly publications, primarily peer-reviewed journals. Different databases cover different ranges of publications, depending on their subject matter and the scope of the database. Databases link through to the Library's e-journals collections for full article access wherever possible.
- ArXiv"Open access to e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics"
- ProQuest Central This link opens in a new windowA leading electronic database providing indexing/abstracting and full-text access to scholarly and general interest publications. It combines information from a number of leading online databases with subjects covering: business, law, education, computing, science, technology, engineering, arts, medicine, and religion.
- Web of Science Core Collection This link opens in a new windowThe Web of Science Core Collection includes several databases: 1) Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) covers more than 9,200 journals across 178 scientific disciplines, with over 53 million records 2) Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) covers more than 3,400 journals in the social sciences, with over 9.3 million records 3) Arts & Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) covers more than 1,800 journals in the arts and humanities, with over 4.9 million records. 4) Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) covers more than 7,800 journals in all disciplines, with over 3 million records. 5) Book Citation Index (BCI) covers more than 116,000 editorially selected books, with over 53.2 million records. 6) Conference Proceedings Citation Index (CPCI) covers more than 205,000 conference proceedings, with over 70.1 million records[
- Web of Science All Databases This link opens in a new windowSearch across Web of Science Core Collection, Current Contents Connect, KCI-Korean Journal Database, Medline, Preprint Citation Index, ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Citation Index, SciELO Citation Index and Zoological Record for comprehensive, multidisciplinary results. 1864+
- Scopus This link opens in a new windowA multidisciplinary abstract and citation database of research literature and web sources, with over 90 million records from nearly 27,000 peer-reviewed journal titles (and nearly 300,000 books) from more than 7,000 publishers.
- Google Scholar This link opens in a new windowGoogle Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.
Journal collections index and classify articles from scholarly publications, primarily peer-reviewed journals. The collection can have a subject specialisation, of just come from the same publisher. They usually have a significant amount of full text content.
- Energy NewsNew Zealand's online news and information service for the energy sector including a comprehensive industry participant and energy asset database.
- IET Electronic Library, IEEE Xplore This link opens in a new windowThe IEEE Xplore digital library is a resource for discovery and access to scientific and technical content published by the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) and its publishing partners. Browse this resource to access IEEE's journals & magazines, standards, and conference proceedings.
- IOP Science This link opens in a new windowIOP Science is an online service for journal content published by IOP Publishing. IOPscience embraces innovative technologies to make it easier for researchers to access scientific, technical and medical content.
- OSA publishing This link opens in a new windowOSA Publishing’s Digital Library offers the largest collection of peer-reviewed optics and photonics content. This cutting-edge repository includes content from OSA's prestigious journals and co-publications.
- ScienceDirect Physics CollectionScienceDirect is a leading full-text scientific database offering journal articles and book chapters from over 1800 physics & astronomy journals.
- SpringerLink - PhysicsSpringerLink provides researchers with access to millions of scientific documents from journals, books, series, protocols and reference works.
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Quickly find a specific article using Google Scholar
- Try searching Google Scholar for the "Title of the Article" (usually within quotation marks)
- Look for Otago Article Link in your results list to access the article through our library databases
- NOTE: You may need to adjust your Google Scholar settings to display these links under Library Links find and then select University of Otago - Otago Article Link.
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