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RECOMMENDED DATABASES by SUBJECT: Physics/Astronomy

Off-Campus Access & Usage Restrictions

Astronomical Applications

Astrophysics Data System
an abstracting service in the field, dating to 1975 - 1.5 million abstracts

BECMatters
information for the Bose-Einstein condensation and matter wave community

Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics

Fundamental Physical Constants

International System of Units from NIST

Landolt-Boernstein Index
browsable tables of contents and abstracts of more than 280 volumes of chemistry, physics and technology data.

The NASA Astrophysics Data System
provides free access to the full text of approximately 300,000 articles in astronomy and astrophysics. Most of the major astronomical journals are included. In many cases articles published in the current year are not available through ADS. Articles are available in PDF, GIF or other electronic formats.

NTIS

PhilSci Archive
sponsored by the Philosophy of Science Association, and by the University of Pittsburgh's Center for Philosophy of Science, a database to search preprint papers on the philosophy of physics/cosmology, and philosophy of mathematics, and computer science

PhysNet
links to Physics institutions around the world, and more

Radionuclide Half-Life Measurements

Space Science News
NASA news

SPIN (Searchable Physics Information Notices)

Upcoming Space Shuttle Launches

Web of Science

Who's Who in Space Physics

XCOM: Photon Cross Section Database

Stony Brook University Libraries
Frank Melville Jr. Memorial Library, Stony Brook, NY 11794-3300
631.632.7100 (t), 631.632.7116 (fax)

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