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Web of Science
Multidisciplinary database containing journal articles, books and proceedings for sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities.
A multidisciplinary journal index database which abstracts and indexes articles from some 5,100 journals in science and technology; 1,700 journals in the social sciences and 1,200 journals in the arts and humanities.
NOTE: The Web of Knowledge product platform has changed to the Web of Science. The collection of Citation Indexes which comprise the Web of Science - including the Arts & humanities citation index, Book citation index, Science citation index expanded and Social sciences citation index are unchanged and will now be known as the Web of Science Core Collection.
Scopus
Abstracts and indexes journals, books and conference proceedings for all disciplines. Includes tools to track, analyse and visualise research.
Scopus is an abstract and citation database of research literature and quality web sources. It provides a Journal Analyzer tool which uses citation information to indicate impact and journal ranking. Subject areas covered are: chemistry, physics, mathematics and engineering, life and health sciences, social science, psychology and economics, biological, agricultural and environmental sciences, and general sciences.
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SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Portal for researchers in astronomy and physics, operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) under a NASA grant.
arXiv.org e-Print archive
An e-print service which presents papers in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics.
PhysMath Central
PhysMath Central is an independent publishing platform operated by BioMed Central committed to providing immediate open access to peer-reviewed physics and mathematics research. All original research articles published by, or in cooperation with, PhysMath Central are made freely and permanently accessible online immediately upon publication. PhysMath Central views open access to research as essential in order to ensure the rapid and efficient communication of research findings.
HEP : High-Energy Physics Literature Database
Search more than 500,000 high-energy physics related articles, including journal papers, preprints, e-prints, technical reports, conference papers and theses, comprehensively indexed by the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) libraries since 1974.
PhysNet : Physics Documents Worldwide
Provides lists of document sources, such as preprints, research reports, annual reports, teaching material and list of publications of physics institutions and individual physicists throughout the world.
Oxford Scholarship Online. Mathematics
Cross-searchable library containing the full text and abstracts of classic and newly published Oxford books in the areas of applied mathematics; mathematical biology; biostatistics; mathematical finance; geometry / topology; logic / computer science / mathematical philosophy; mathematical physics; probability / statistics.
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