Research Guides: Physics
Books: Use the Library Catalog
Search the Millsaps Library Catalog
Can’t find a book on your topic at Millsaps? Search Worldcat catalog of books and other materials in libraries around the world. Click on a book title and then click, “Get this item from another library. (Interlibrary Loan)” to request the book. It will arrive in 1-2 weeks.
Articles in Journals/Magazines
Academic Search Premier (Ebsco)
Provides full text for more than 3,430 scholarly publications.
American Institute of Physics
Tables of contents and abstracts from many Physics Journals.
Clase/Periodica
Index of Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities.
GEOBASE
Index and abstracts on worldwide literature in geography, geology and related subjects.
The Physical Review Online Archive (PROLA)
The Physical Review Online Archive (PROLA) is the American Physical Society's online archive for Physical Review Letters, Reviews of Modern Physics, and Physical Review A–E. It contains all APS journal articles published from 1893–2005. Each January, another year is added to the archive.
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
These Web pages for NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies provide a wealth of scientific material on global climate change. Scientific reports and science briefs with detailed graphics are updated regularly and archived here. The research section describes the scope of research at GISS with links to scientific papers from 2003 to the present. The section on data and images includes excellent graphics and animations that display data and model results. A database of scientific documents covering the last 40 years is searchable via keyword, title, author, and other identifiers.
The National Science Digital Library (NSDL)
The National Science Digital Library (NSDL) was created by the National Science Foundation to provide organized access to high quality resources and tools that support innovations in teaching and learning at all levels of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education.
Scirus
The most comprehensive science-specific search engine on the Internet.
Oxford Reference Online -- Physical Sciences & Mathematics
A Dictionary of Astronomy, A Dictionary of Chemistry, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics, A Dictionary of Physics, A Dictionary of Scientists, A Dictionary of Statistics, A Dictionary of Weights, Measures, and Units
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Oxford Reference Online -- Science Books
Astromony, Biology, Medicine, Chemistry, Earth Sciences, Ecology, Genetics, Nursing, Physics, Plant Sciences, Psychology, Science Fiction, Weather, and Zoology Dictionaries.
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Encyclopaedia Britannica
Full text, online version of EB.
Science.gov Science.gov is a gateway to over 50 million pages of
provided by U.S. government agencies, including research and development results
Britannica's Original Sources
The site includes original source documents, critical selections and acclaimed works across U.S. and World History, Literature, Social Science, Political Science, Law, Science, Mathematics, Religion, Philosophy, and Language.

