Electronic Resources - Physics & Astrophysics

This list does not include individual e-journals. Please use the E-journals A to Z to search for e-journals by title.

Many resources require Keele usernames for off-campus access. Please see  our E-resources Access page for further information about this service.

Bibliographic Databases

These services enable you to find references for journal articles on a particular topic.  Some also index book chapters, conference papers and theses. They provide full bibliographic details for articles (references) and often abstracts (summaries).  Their extensive, international coverage means that items found by your search may not necessarily be available from the Library's collections.

If no full-text link is given for an article, clicking on the @Keele logo will search our e-journals and provide a link to the full-text if available, or direct you to where a paper copy may be found in the Library's print journal collection.  Items not available either online or in print can usually be obtained for a fee through the Inter-Library Requests Service.

  • Web of Knowlege (includes Web of Science)
    Access the world’s leading scholarly literature in the sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities.  Our Web of Knowledge Quick Guide will help you get started.  Click here for off-campus access.
  • ScienceDirect
    Leading scientific database offering journal articles and book chapters.  Our ScienceDirect Quick Guide will help you get started.
  • ProQuest Technology Research Database
    This database indexes world literature on technology and applied science, including materials science, aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering, civil engineering, condensed matter physics, computer science and electronic engineering. It incorporates Materials Research Database with METADEX, Engineering Research Database, High Technology Research Database with Aerospace and all of their subfiles.  Click here for off-campus access.
  • EBSCO Databases
    Cross-search a variety of multi-disciplinary databses.  Our EBSCO Quick Guide will help you get started.
  • SPIRES HEP Search (High Energy Physics Database)
    Bibliographic information about the literature of the field of high energy physics.
  • Astrophysics Data System (ADS) - developed by NASA
    Bibliographic records and many full-text articles covering astronomy and physics.




Electronic Journal Collections

These are searchable collections of full-text e-journals.  They often lack the wide-ranging coverage of bibliographic databases, but the full-text of articles are immediately available in the majority of cases.

  • Institute of Physics (IOP) Journals
    Access more than 50 peer-reviewed physics and technology journals.
  • JSTOR
    Digital archive of over 1,000 academic journals covering the sciences, social sciences and humanities.
    Our JSTOR Quick Guide will help you get started.  Click here for off-campus access.
  • SwetsWise
    Full-text access to over 3,000 journals covering many disciplines.  Our SwetsWise Quick Guide will help you get started.  Click here for off-campus access.
  • arXiv
    Archive for electronic preprints of scientific papers in the fields of mathematics, physics, astronomy, computer science and statistics.
  • IEEE Xplore Digital Library
    Provides full-text access to high quality literature in technology. IEEE Xplore contains full-text documents from IEEE journals, transactions, magazines, letters, conference proceedings, standards, and IET (Institution of Engineering and Technology) publications.
    For off-campus access click here, select Keele from the list of institutions then enter your university login details.
  • SAGE Journals
    Over 600 peer-reviewed, full text journals with coverage dating back to 1999.

Internet Search Engines and Gateways

  • Analytical Sciences Digital Library
    Digital library that collects, catalogs, links and publishes peer reviewed web-based discovery materials pertinent to the analytical sciences
  • Google Scholar
    Use Google to search specifically for scholarly literature.
  • Intute
    Gateway to evaluated, quality internet resources.  Subjects covered include: Physical Sciences and Engineering
  • Scientific Web Plus
    Science-based web search engine
  • Scirus
    Comprehensive science-specific search engine.

Newspapers

The following services provide full-text access to a large number of newspapers:

  • ProQuest UK News Stand
    Provides the searchable full-text of articles published in around 30 UK newspapers including The Times, Telegraph, Guardian and The Independent.
  • Nexis UK
    A news and business service which includes around 12,000 publications, including worldwide, national and local newspapers.
  • The Times Digital Archive
    Search the complete digital edition of The Times from 1785-2006. The entire newspaper is captured with all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos.

E-Books

To search for e-books held by the Library, use the Library Catalogue and change the 'View Entire Collection' option to 'Electronic Resources'.  E-books can be read in full, online, 24-hours a day.  The following e-book collections may also be useful:

Our E-books Quick Guide will help you get started.

Theses

To search for theses held in the Library, use the Library Catalogue Advanced Search and set the material type to "THESIS".  The following resources may also be of use:

  • ETHOS
    The British Library ETHOS project provides electronic access to research theses from many UK universities.
  • Index to Theses
    A searchable listing of theses with abstracts accepted for higher degrees by universities in Great Britain and Ireland since 1716. You can only access the Index to Theses from computers on the Keele network.
  • NDLTD – Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
    Details of theses and dissertations from universities in the United States and worldwide.
  • PhDData
    An index of doctoral dissertations in progress around the world.

Other Useful Links

  • Internet Detective
    A free online tutorial offering practical advice on evaluating the quality of websites.
  • RefWorks
    This is an online reference management software tool which can be used to import, manage and save references from your research, enabling easy creation of bibliographies.  See our Refworks information page for further details.
  • Zetoc
    Use this site to set up "table of contents" email alerts to your inbox when new issues of journals are published.