Welcome! The purpose of this guide is to help you find and access information about Physics. If you have any questions or comments about this guide, then please feel free to email me directly.
Start your research and find articles with these key Physics databases.
Preprint repository for over 2,100,000 scholarly articles in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics.
APS publications serve the international physics community with peer-reviewed research journals, news and commentary about the latest research, news about members, information about physics and its place in the world, science policy blogs, and fun and educational science news.
Starting January 1, 2025, use Scopus instead of Web of Science. Scopus is a comprehensive, multidisciplinary abstract and citation database that includes scientific journals, books, and conference proceedings in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities.
Find the complete list of physics databases at the Physics subject link in our database list.
Don't forget to actively seek out diversity of voices in your research. It does take extra effort to find research from a diversity of authors and regions of the world. Review our finding diverse research sources page for strategies to find these authors and sources.
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