ANU Library Resources in the Physical Science

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The ANU Library Home Page provides a gateway to all print and electronic research material, Library services (including Document Supply), Library Collections and much more.

Physical Collection

With the closure of the Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering Library in September 2005, its entire collection has been integrated into the W. K. Hancock Building in Biology Road. Previously housed in the Le Couteur Building, this collection of physics related research material comprises hundreds of prints serial titles, reference material and a growing collection of over 40,00 books, all of which is searchable on the Library's on-line catalogue.

Electronic Resources

Off-campus users will need a network username and password to access ANU Library electronic resources. Go to the Reverse Proxy Login page at virtual.anu.edu.au and enter your UniId and password.

Full-Text Electronic Journals and Collections

• Full-text e-journals and collections
  Browse an alphebatical list of e-journal collections, or e-journals by broad subject areas, or search for e-journals by title or ISSN.
  • Physics e-journals - listed by sub-catagories
  • Science e-journals by broad subject area
• ANU Library Catalogue: electronic journals: physical sciences
  An alphabetical list of over 350 physics and physics related e-journal titles.

Other Electronic Resources (Databases)

• Bibliographic databases for the physical sciences and related disciplines
  
• Inspec
  Inspec is the most comprehensive bibliographic database providing access to scientific and technical literature in: physics, electrical engineering, electronics, communications, control engineering, computers and computing and information technology.
• Current Contents Connect (part of the ISI Web of Knowledge portal)
  This bibligraphic service provides access to information from scholarly research journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities, with good coverage of the Physical, Chemical and Earth Sciences.
• ISI Web of Knowledge portal provides access to:
  
  • Web of Science which allows general and cited reference searching.
  • Journal Citation Reports which alllows you to evaluate and compare journals using citation data drawn from over 7,500 scholarly and technical journals from more than 3,300 publishers.
  • Essential Science Indicator Types of data featured in this resource include most cited scientist rankings, institutional (university, corporate, government research lab) rankings, national rankings, and journal rankings.
• SciFinder Scholar 2006
  SciFinder Scholar provides access to Chemical Abstracts, with citation searching as well as structure searching. Topics include, biochemistry, materials science and environmental science.

Other Physics Related Electronic Resources

• ArXiv is an e-print service in the fields of physics, mathematics, non-linear science, computer science, and quantitative biology.
• Scirus is a science-specific search engine on the Internet, searching over 200 million science-specific Web pages.
• Selected Internet Reference Sources for Science: Physical Sciences
• Selected Physical Sciences Internet Resources