COVID-19 Updates
Due to COVID-19, library services have been altered to facilitate social distancing. Right now, many library locations have opened for limited hours. Members of the Yale community have a choice between contactless and mediated checkouts, and many study spaces are available. Librarian consultation services, workshops, and instruction remain remote until further notice.
For up-to-date information, please visit the Library's statement on COVID-19.
This guide contains important information about connecting to a variety of library resources. In addition to the content on the guide, let me stress:
- QuickSearch Books+ has faceted searching. If you are only looking for online content, after searching, please select "Online" under format. The Library has made significant updates to QuickSearch to facilitate users who need online-only materials.
- Library staff are still here to support you in your teaching, learning, and research. Please contact me using the information on my profile (below). You may email or schedule a Zoom appointment.
- The Yale University Library is transitioning from VPN-mediated access to a tool called "EZProxy" to help you access materials more seamlessly. Please visit this site for questions about the new authentication system, but for the majority of our online resources, you will now be sent to an authentication screen and you will not need to use VPN.
We have a purchase request form if you need something that is not currently available.
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Welcome to the Physics subject guide. Here, you will find:
- Reference data and handbooks.
- A primer on the library's subscription databases, what they do, and how you can use them.
- Maybe you have questions about how library subscription resources compare to other things available to you, such as Google Scholar and INSPIRE-HEP? Get Articles contains a comparison of four resources — Web of Science, the arXiv (which the library supports), INSPIRE-HEP, and Google Scholar.
- Physics-related ebook collections.
New Physics Titles
For a list of Physics books published in the past six months, please click here. The titles below come from an RSS feed produced by the same link.
CMS Higgs Event, LHC
File:CMS Higgs-event.jpg. (2018, January 23). Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository. Retrieved 19:36, August 1, 2018 from https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:CMS_Higgs-event.jpg&oldid=282194387.
Top Resources
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Astrophysics Data SystemThe ADS is for anyone working in cosomology, astrophysics, and related disciplines — and it mirrors content from the arXiv. It is used to locate articles, gray literature, and other content. When you search, the tools and filters allow you to drill down to what you want — be it a set of papers related to a specific data archive or on a specific topic (see the concept cloud under the EXPLORE drop-down menu). Documentation on advanced search is available on the ADS help page.
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INSPIRE-HEPINSPIRE provides author disambiguation for profiles and search; detailed record pages; searchable arXiv text; figure/captions searching; LHC experimental notes; and excellent content. Its front page includes a long list of search operators so you can get granular from the get-go. It predominantly serves high-energy physics, with some coverage of overlap areas.
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IOP Publishing eBooksThe collection includes:
– IOP Expanding Physics: Full-length works.
– Concise Physics: Shorter texts “in rapidly-advancing areas” of physics. (Novella-length, but physics.)
– Physics World Discovery: Shorter ("longread"-length) works to help you get started in an area you're unfamiliar with.
– AAS-IOP Astronomy: eBooks published as a scholarly collaboration between both societies.
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ProQuest Dissertations & Theses GlobalOnline access to over 2 million dissertations and master's theses, many of which are available in full text. Citations of abstracts are available for dissertations dating from 1861 and full text online from 1997. Searchable by university, department and adviser.
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Web of ScienceThe Web of Science is an abstract database, which means it indexes abstracts and other information from academic articles to let you know what has been published in a research area. The database is strongest in the sciences, and it is great for looking in the published physics literature. (It doesn't include preprints.) This is also the system that records the Impact Factor of journals; you can use it to figure out where to publish.
Science Research Support Librarian
Please email me or use the Schedule Appointment button. Appointments will happen using Zoom or other videoconferencing software. Zoom has a phone option for those who need to call in.
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Marx Science and Social Science Library (formerly called CSSSI)
Office C41
219 Prospect Street
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