Physics and Astronomy: Home
A guide to OSU library resources for students and faculty in Physics and Astronomy
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ScienceDirectA scientific research index that contains the full text of more than 1,000 Elsevier Science journals in the life, physical, medical, technical, and social sciences, as well as indexing for journals from cooperating publishers Updated daily Coverage varies by journal. May be searched by journal title and issue in which case the complete table of contents is displayed or by keyword, regardless of the journal title and issue.
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ScopusScopus is a large abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. Delivering a comprehensive overview of the world's research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities, Scopus features smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research.
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Annual ReviewsAnnual Reviews provides over 50 journals that cover many disciplines, with access to both current and archived journal volumes.
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arXivarXiv is a free distribution service and open-access archive with over 2.1 million scholarly articles in astronomy, computer science, mathematics, physics, quantitative biology, quantitative finance and statistics.
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CERN Document ServerArticles, reports, and multimedia content about CERN and high-energy physics. Covers articles, preprints, books, lectures, periodicals, reports, and photographs.
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Inspire HEPInformation on publications and developments in High Energy Physics. Aggregates content from a variety of sources such as arXiv, the Astrophysics Data System, HepData, CERN, and a number of academic publishers.
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Academic Search Premier
This multi-disciplinary database offers full text for nearly 2,000 scholarly journals, including more than 1,500 peer-reviewed titles. Covering virtually every area of academic study, Academic Search Premier offers full text information dating as far back as 1985. This database is updated on a daily basis.
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The Mendenhall ObservatoryOklahoma State University's observatory is situated under dark skies southwest of Stillwater, Oklahoma. The 24-inch telescope was designed and instrumented for astrometry, photometry, and multicolor imaging of objects such as near-Earth asteroids, transiting exoplanets, and quasars.
