Physical Sciences Librarian
Thurston Miller
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Articles
Databases are multidisciplinary collections of scholarly resources. Most databases gather links to and citations for scholarly articles, although some contain additional information on books and other resources.
- ADSThe SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) is a Digital Library portal for researchers in Astronomy and Physics, operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) under a NASA grant. The ADS maintains three bibliographic databases containing more than 12.7 million records covering publications in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Physics, and the arXiv e-prints.
- ArXiv.org This link opens in a new windowOpen access to 1,282,963 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics.
- Google Scholar This link opens in a new windowCoverage: IMPORTANT. Use the FindText@Notre Dame link _under_ the citation, _not_ the one to the right, which often doesn't link to resources ND has licensed.
Google Scholar is Google's new search engine that focuses on academic content. Google Scholar indexes peer reviewed articles, abstracts, books, theses, pre-prints, and technical reports from academic publishers, universities, pre-print repositories, professional societies, and other scholarly organizations. - Inspec This link opens in a new windowDatabase providing bibliographic citations and abstracts of the scientific and technical literature in physics, electrical engineering, electronics, communications, control engineering, computers and computing and information technology. Material covered includes journal articles, conference proceedings, reports, patents and books published around the world.
- NASA Astrophysics Data System. This link opens in a new windowIntroduces the Astrophysics Data System (ADS) of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which provides astronomical data to scientific users. Features its Abstract Service, providing over 210,000 textual abstracts and 6,000 journal images. Offers further information on ASIAS Abstract and Article Services, ADS Digital Library, ADS Data Catalogs and Archives, and ADS Graphical User Interface. Links to recent publications.
- Web of Science: Science Citation Index This link opens in a new windowCoverage: 1900-
"... accesses multidisciplinary databases of bibliographic information gathered from thousands of scholarly journals. The databases are indexed so you can search for specific articles by subject, author, journal, and/or author address. Because the information stored about each article includes the article's cited reference list (often called its bibliography), you can also search the databases for articles that cite a known author or work."--Tutorial screen.
Search the CAS Index by Title, Abbreviation, CODEN, ISBN, or ISSN. Maximum results returned (50)
Data
Finding data at Notre Dame.
- NASA Extragalactic DatabaseNED is a comprehensive database of multiwavelength data for extragalactic objects, providing a systematic, ongoing fusion of information integrated from hundreds of large sky surveys and tens of thousands of research publications. The contents and services span the entire observed spectrum from gamma rays through radio frequencies. As new observations are published, they are cross- identified or statistically associated with previous data and integrated into a unified database to simplify queries and retrieval. Seamless connectivity is also provided to data in NASA astrophysics mission archives (IRSA, HEASARC, MAST), to the astrophysics literature via ADS, and to other data centers around the world.
- NASA HEASARCThe High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center (HEASARC) is the primary archive for NASA's (and other space agencies') missions studying electromagnetic radiation from extremely energetic cosmic phenomena ranging from black holes to the Big Bang. Since its merger with the Legacy Archive for Microwave Background Data Analysis (LAMBDA) in 2008, the HEASARC archive contains data obtained by high-energy astronomy missions observing in the extreme-ultraviolet (EUV), X-ray, and gamma-ray bands, as well as data from space missions, balloons, and ground-based facilities that have studied the relic cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation in the sub-mm, mm and cm bands.
- SIMBAD Astronomical DatabaseThe SIMBAD astronomical database provides basic data, cross-identifications, bibliography and measurements for astronomical objects outside the solar system. SIMBAD can be queried by object name, coordinates and various criteria. Lists of objects and scripts can be submitted.
Books
These resources will help you find e-books and print held by Notre Dame, other local libraries, or books held at other libraries worldwide.
- AmazonSearch for books, music, videos, and more--in a snap.
- Google Books This link opens in a new window
- Hesburgh Libraries Online Catalog (Aleph)This is the Hesburgh Libraries online catalog, which also allows access to other MALC catalogs, and includes the full holdings of the Hesburgh Libraries of Notre Dame.
- WorldCat This link opens in a new windowA worldwide union catalog created and maintained collectively by more than 9,000 OCLC member institutions. With millions of online records built from the bibliographic and ownership information of contributing libraries, it is the largest and most comprehensive database of its kind.
Theses and Dissertations
These resources will help you find unpublished theses and dissertations, which present an author's research and findings as part of their degree candidacy or professional qualification.
- American doctoral dissertations This link opens in a new window"Compiled for the Association of Research Libraries."
- ProQuest Digital Dissertations This link opens in a new windowProvides information about doctoral dissertations and master's theses, with subject, title, and author access to almost all American dissertations accepted at an accredited institution since 1861. Offers full text for most dissertations (Notre Dame and other) added since 1997. Access info: Access to full text (PDF) of Notre Dame dissertations since 1997, restricted to users with valid Notre Dame NetIDs.