- INSPEC on Web of Knowledge(Physics Abstracts) -- INSPEC covers topics including physics, electrical engineering, electronics, communications, control engineering, computers and computing, and information technology from 1898 to present. International journals, conference proceedings, reports, dissertations, books, and periodicals are among the printed materials indexed. Producer-assigned fields and classification codes include chemical and numerical information, as well as subject-specific descriptors and identifiers.
- Compendex -- Web version of Engineering Index, the largest international source of engineering abstracts. Our access to Compendex spans from 1884 to present. All areas of engineering are covered, including chemical, environmental, industrial, optical, electrical, mechanical, civil, automotive, nuclear, materials, metals, aerospace, hydrology, biotechnology, food sciences, and many other related fields. Approximately 22% of the database is conference literature, and 90% of the source documents are in English.
- Current Contents -- Lists tables
of contents for over 6500 journals. Includes bibliographic data for each article,
and includes abstracts for about 85% of the articles. Search by journal title,
article title, authors, keywords, and corporate source. You may also set up
personal profiles which you execute as desired to discover when new articles
of interest are published in specific journals in your subject area.
- Web of Knowledge (Science Citation Index)
-- Multidisciplinary coverage, including the ability to search for publications
which cite a known author and/or article. Coverage from 1900 to present.
- SciFinder Scholar -- Focus is
chemistry, but includes significant coverage of related areas of chemical
physics, nuclear science, space/astronomical studies, and other areas of physics.
Requires a special software, which can be downloaded by University of Chicago
researchers. Coverage is from 1907 to present.
- FirstSearch
Among the many available FirstSearch databases is:- WorldCat, an online union catalog, representing
the holdings of hundreds of major research, public, and university libraries
throughout the US and worldwide.
- WorldCat, an online union catalog, representing
the holdings of hundreds of major research, public, and university libraries
throughout the US and worldwide.
- PACS Physics and Astronomy Classification Scheme Subject Identifications
- Alphabetical List of Electronic Databases at the University of Chicago (complete list in all subject areas, including social sciences and humanities)
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