Science & Math Librarian
Welcome to the one-stop shop for Physics 105!
This guide has been specifically curated to bring together Libraries resources for both of the lessons that your Physics & Astronomy Librarian will spend with you in class.
You can find information here on:
- physical and digital Libraries resources
- resources to help you with your physicist biography assignment
- tools to help you identify, evaluate, and cite sources of information that you find and use in your assignments
- data management and ethics in physics
- Main Physics & Astronomy Subject GuideThis is the general subject research guide for Physics & Astronomy. You'll find recommended databases, reference materials, and more. It's broader than this course guide, and has lots of resources that will help you throughout your time in Physics classes at JMU.
Frequently Used Resources for Physics Students
- Scopus This link opens in a new windowIndexing, abstracts, and citation searching for science and social science scholarly literature.
- AIP Publishing: ScitationFrom the American Institute of Physics (AIP), discover more than one million documents from scholarly journals, magazines, conference proceedings, and other special publications from prestigious scientific societies and technical publishers. This includes Physics Today, among other titles.
- Physics TodayTrade journal in Physics. Once link is selected, scroll down to "Get JMU Access Online availability" and select AIP Journals (American Institute of Physics)
Research Tools
- JMU Library Catalog This link opens in a new windowFind journals, books, ebooks, films, sound recordings, and government documents available to JMU users.
- Astronomy & Astrophysics JournalsThis link will take you to all of the Astronomy & Astrophysics journals the Libraries subscribes to.
- DOI FinderIf you have the DOI number for an article, use this link to help locate the article.
- Physics DatabasesThis link will take you to all of the Physics databases the Libraries subscribes to.
- Physics JournalsThis link will take you to all of the Physics journals the Libraries subscribes to.