Databases & E-Reference Materials

Provides coverage in the fundamental theoretical aspects of the subject, including quantum mechanics, mechanics, electrodynamics, relativity, and statistical mechanics. The text also discusses applied topics, key materials systems, materials processing, and experimental techniques.

This five-volume set contains articles covering the entire range of mathematical and theoretical physics.

Discusses the physical principles of rockets, satellites, and space stations as well as the effect of the space environment on human and other biological systems.

A web-based virtual community for engineers and other technical professionals. Engineering Village includes access to EI Compendex Web database, which indexes and abstracts engineering journals, conferences, and reports. Also includes access to Knovel, Georef, and GEOBASE.

Full text access to IEEE/IEE journals, proceedings, and standards.

INSPIRE is a database covering high energy physics which indexes articles, conferences, institutions, journals, researchers, experiments, jobs, and data.

Provides reference books, data sets, and information in the fields of chemistry, the life sciences, and materials science and engineering. Full text is available.

Indexes journals published by the American Physical Society from 1893 to the present. Some full text is available from 1893 to 1999.

Chemical Abstracts Service database of the chemical literature; indexes journals, conference proceedings, patents, dissertations, reports, and books. Includes step-by-step synthetic procedures for reactions, as well as retrosynthesis information. Some full text is available.

The revised edition of the Smithsonian Physical Tables is comprised of 901 tables concentrating on a broad scope of common physical and chemical data. The information provided is of general interest to scientists and engineers, and of particular interest to those involved with physics in its larger sense. Full text is available.