Research Guides: *Physics: Getting Started with Physics

Best Bets for Physics

American Institute of Physics (AIP) Journals
Browse a title list and the tables of contents for AIP published journals.

Scopus This link opens in a new window
Sciences and social sciences journal article citations. Searchable by author affiliation and citation count.
Physical Review Online Archive (PROLA/APS) This link opens in a new window
PROLA provides immediate access to the APS journal collection dating back to the first volume of each journal. A subscription to PROLA gives access to all journal content, except for the current year and the preceding three years.
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.
arXiv This link opens in a new window
E-print service in the fields of astronomy, astrophysics, physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance and statistics. Not peer-reviewed.
Appearance of a paper is not intended in any way to convey tacit approval of its assumptions, methods, or conclusions by any agent (electronic, mechanical, or other). In other words, these articles are not necessarily subjected to the traditional model of "peer review."

Topic Overviews in Physics

Basic Concepts in Physics : From the Cosmos to Quarks by Masud Chaichian; Hugo Perez Rojas; Anca Tureanu
Published: 2021
"Covers topics such as Newton’s laws of motion, thermodynamics and statistical physics, electrodynamics, special and general relativity, quantum mechanics and cosmology, the standard model, and quantum chromodynamics. Also includes exercises and problems distributed throughout the book." [From the publisher]
Fundamentals of Physics by R. Shankar
Published: 2019
Concise coverage of fundamental concepts ranging from Galileo's and Newton's discoveries to the twentieth-century's revolutionary ideas on relativity and quantum mechanics.

Article Databases for Physics

Scopus This link opens in a new window
Sciences and social sciences journal article citations. Searchable by author affiliation and citation count.
Scitation This link opens in a new window
Index to content from disciplines including physics, chemistry, geosciences, engineering, and acoustics published by American Institute of Physics (AIP) Publishing and AIP Member Societies.
Contains approximately 600,000 articles from more than 110 technical publications in the physical sciences. Citations and abstracts come from 18 STM publishers (AIP, APS, ASCE, ASME, SPIE, and other science and engineering societies) Users must first register, which is free. Maintained by the American Institute of Physics (AIP).

American Institute of Physics (AIP) Journals
Browse a title list and the tables of contents for AIP published journals.

Physical Review Online Archive (PROLA/APS) This link opens in a new window
PROLA provides immediate access to the APS journal collection dating back to the first volume of each journal. A subscription to PROLA gives access to all journal content, except for the current year and the preceding three years.
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.
arXiv This link opens in a new window
E-print service in the fields of astronomy, astrophysics, physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance and statistics. Not peer-reviewed.
Appearance of a paper is not intended in any way to convey tacit approval of its assumptions, methods, or conclusions by any agent (electronic, mechanical, or other). In other words, these articles are not necessarily subjected to the traditional model of "peer review."

Top Physics Journals

Nature Physics
Content reflects core physics disciplines as well as topics whose central theme falls within the bounds of physics.
Applied Physics. B, Lasers and Optics
Applied Physics B covers the broad field of laser physics, linear and nonlinear optics, ultrafast phenomena, photonic devices, optical and laser materials, quantum optics, laser spectroscopy of atoms, molecules and clusters as well as the use of laser radiation in biophotonics, chemistry and biochemistry.
Journal of Applied Physics
The Journal of Applied Physics is an influential international journal publishing full-length Articles, new or improved Methods, comprehensive Reviews, forward-looking Perspectives, and educational Tutorials.
Physical Review Letters
The world’s premier physics letter journal publishing short, high quality reports of significant and notable results in the full arc of fundamental and interdisciplinary physics research [From the publisher].
Physical Review X
The American Physical Society’s highly selective, online-only, fully open access journal which publishes key papers from all areas of pure, applied, and interdisciplinary physics.
Physics Reports
Each Report reviews one specific, physics-related subject. These reviews are specialist in nature but contain enough introductory material to make the main points intelligible to a non-specialist.
Reviews of Modern Physics
Review articles which offer in-depth treatment of a research area, surveying recent work, and providing an introduction aimed at graduate students and nonspecialists. The journal's shorter Colloquia describe recent work of interest to all, especially work at the frontiers of physics, which may impact several different subfields [From the publisher].
ACS Nano
Comprehensive articles on nanoscience and nanotechnology research related to the synthesis, assembly, characterization, theory, and simulation of nanostructures (nanomaterials and assemblies, nanodevices, and self-assembled structures), nanobiotechnology, nanofabrication, methods and tools for nanoscience and nanotechnology, and self- and directed-assembly. [From the publisher]

Theses and Other Capstone Projects

Capstone Projects - Physics and Astronomy
Bates Physics and Astronomy Department capstone projects including honors and standard theses published from 2011 to present are discoverable electronically on SCARAB.
Honors theses earlier than 2011 can be found in the catalog under the Author "Bates College. Department of Physics and Astronomy."

Science and Data Librarian

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Ladd Library 133
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