LibGuides: Physics: Welcome

Literature Searching

INSPEC
Primary index database for the journal and conference literature of physics and related fields.
Web of Science
Citation index covering thousands of journals across all scientific disciplines.

INSPIRE High Energy Physics Literature Database
A one-stop information platform for HEP community, comprising 8 interlinked databases on literature, conferences, institutions, journals, researchers, experiments, jobs and data. Run in collaboration by CERN, DESY, Fermilab, IHEP, IN2P3, and SLAC.

ADS (Astrophysics Data System)
Unlimited users.
The ADS maintains three bibliographic collections containing more than 15 million records covering publications in astronomy and astrophysics, physics, and general science, including all arXiv e-prints. Abstracts and full-text of major astronomy and physics publications are indexed and searchable. To access full text of UT’s subscribed content, register for a user account and choose UT Austin from the list of institutions.
OSTI.GOV
Unlimited users.
Updated regularly. Provides bibliographic and full text access to the Department of Energy (DOE) research and development reports in physics, chemistry, materials, biology, environmental sciences, energy technologies, engineering, computer and information science, renewable energy, and other topics.
Google Scholar
Unlimited users.
Google Scholar uses the popular Google search engine to enable searches for scholarly materials such as peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from broad areas of research. It includes a variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web. Google Scholar includes full text and citations.

Use this link to access Google Scholar, and see our Google Scholar Guide for information on using this resource.
SciFinder
The primary index to literature in the chemical sciences (Chemical Abstracts) provides comprehensive coverage of chemical physics, spectroscopy, and related information. Requires registration for a personal user account. More information
Requires users to register with a utexas.edu email account.

Major Full Text Sources

arXiv.org
The world's first and largest e-print server. Areas covered include physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, and more. Now hosted at Cornell Tech.
American Institute of Physics (AIP) Journals
Unlimited users.
Provides full-text articles from scholarly journals and conference proceedings published by the American Institute of Physics (AIP). AIP Publishing’s portfolio comprises 19 highly regarded, peer-reviewed journals, including the flagship journals Applied Physics Letters, Journal of Applied Physics, and The Journal of Chemical Physics, in addition to the AIP Conference Proceedings.
American Physical Society (APS) Journals
Unlimited users.
Provides access to the full text of scholarly journals published by the American Physical Society (APS). Titles include Physical Review, sections A-E; Physical Review Letters; Review of Modern Physics; Physical Review Special Topics - Accelerators & Beams; various journals in the "Virtual Journals in Science and Technology" series; and free publications APS News and Physical Review Focus.
Institute of Physics (IOP) Electronic Journals
Unlimited users.
Updated weekly. Provides full text access to the journals published by the Institute of Physics.
American Chemical Society (ACS) Journals
Unlimited users.
Updated weekly. Provides full text access to journals published by the American Chemical Society.

CERN Document Server (CDS)
Records for over 600,000 articles, preprints, conferences and books related to HEP, with full text for thousands of items.
DOE PAGES
DOE discovery tool, developed by the DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), that makes peer-reviewed scholarly scientific publications resulting from DOE research funding publicly accessible to read, download, and analyze.
Mathematical Physics Preprint Archive - mp_arc
Electronic archive for research papers (1991-2023) in Mathematical Physics and related areas.
SCOAP3 Repository
Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics is a cooperative venture across a number of publishers to make a portion of the particle physics journal literature freely available to all. Participating journals are also accessible individually through UT's Library Catalog.