LibGuides: Physics: Databases; A-Z journal list

Journal lists

Publication Finder for NWU
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Alphabetical title list of electronic full-text journals and e-books to which the library has access to.
SACat (Sabinet)
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SACat reflects the collection of libraries in Southern Africa and contains bibliographic information referring to books, periodicals, audiovisual items and other information material.

Key Databases

ADS: the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System
The SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) is a Digital Library portal for researchers in Astronomy and Physics.

ScienceDirect
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ScienceDirect is a leading full-text scientific database offering articles/chapters from more than 2 500 peer-reviewed journals and more than 11 000 books
Scopus
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Scopus is the world’s largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality web sources.

IoP Science Xtra
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IOPscience is an online service for journal content published by IOP Publishing. IOPscience embraces innovative technologies to make it easier for researchers to access scientific, technical and medical content

Web of Science
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Web of Science is a platform consisting of several literature search databases designed to support scientific and scholarly research. There are databases with a subject focus like Medline, BIOSIS Citation Index, and Zoological Record; databases with a document type focus like Derwent Innovations Index (patents) and Data Citation Index (datasets and data studies); and databases highlighting content from regions around the world.
Learn more about Web of Science and how to search on this database.
MathSciNet
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MathSciNet is a database of reviews, abstracts and bibliographic information for much of the mathematical sciences literature.
EBSCOhost
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For effective searching within EbscoHost, select the following databases from the list:
Academic Search Premier
Applied Science & Technology Source
Computers & Applied Sciences Complete
MasterFile Premier
IEEE Xplore
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IEEE Xplore contains full text documents from IEEE journals transactions magazines letters conference proceedings standards and IET (Institution of Engineering and Technology) publications.
INIS
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The International Nuclear Information System (INIS) hosts one of the world's largest collections of published information on the peaceful uses of nuclear science and technology.
The INIS Repository contains bibliographic references and full-text documents of conventional and non-conventional literature, including scientific and technical reports, conference proceedings, patents and theses.
It covers all areas of IAEA’s activities, including nuclear engineering and technology, nuclear safety and radiation protection, safeguards and non-proliferation, applications of nuclear and isotope techniques, nuclear and high energy physics, nuclear and radiation chemistry, nuclear applications in life sciences, legal aspects, and environmental and economic aspects of nuclear and non-nuclear energy sources.
INIS maintains a multilingual thesaurus in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, Russian and Spanish, providing translations of thousands of technical terms that help with navigating and searching the collection.
JSTOR
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It includes archives of over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities social sciences and sciences as well as select monographs and other materials valuable for academic work.

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South Africa E-learning Platform via Snapplify - Follow the instructions in this PDF document.

Google Scholar Search

Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Google Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research.

Physics: Databases; A-Z journal list

Journal lists

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