FINDING ARTICLES

Databases and indexes are collections of citations to articles. Select a database that covers the subject area you are researching but avoid databases with popular literature (i.e. Article First), when you need scholarly articles.

Consult the Help and About sections of each database for information about topical coverage and the types of information included.

Use lessons in the Information Literacy Tutorial or contact a librarian for further suggestions.

Databases

The following databases contain citations and some abstracts and full-text articles from scholarly literature.

• Applied Science and Technology Abstracts (1983-) Subject areas covered include engineering, mathematics, physics, and computer technology.
  

• Science Citation Index Expanded (1980-) General subject and cited reference searches are possible. Tutorial.
  

• Compendex (1980-) Comprehensive interdisciplinary engineering database.
  
• History of Science, Technology and Medicine (1975 - ) Contains four bibliographies: the Isis Current Bibliography of the History of Science (HSS), the Current Bibliography in the History of Technology (Technology and Culture), Bibliografia Italiana di Storia della Scienza nd the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine.
  
• INSPEC (1969 - ) Citations to scientific and technical journals and conference proceedings in physics, electrical engineering and electronics, computing and control, and information technology.

Physics Journals at Kenyon College

• Free access to portions of Spectrum Online, the magazine of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.

Off Site Journals

When you find citations to articles in journals that are not owned by Kenyon College nor available online, you must make an Inter Library Loan request. It may take 7-10 days for a photocopy of the article to arrive at Kenyon. You will be notified by E-mail when you may pick up the article at the library Circulation Desk. Request an article.

INTERNET RESOURCES

Choose Internet resources with a critical eye. When in doubt, assess each site or posting with evaualtion criteria.

Selected Web Sites

• Kenyon College Department of Physics.
• AIP/APS Virtual Journals in Science and Technology.
• American Institute of Physics: Education and Student Services.
• Chem Center: The American Chemical Society Online - home of the American Chemical Society
• Earth and moon viewer: Contains links on Earth and Moon
• Exploratorium: Museum of science, art and human perception.
• Galileo - an extensive database of relevant information and links
• Google Web Directory: physics - a search engine covering a range of topics
• Histories: History of science.
• Internet Pilot to Physics.TIPTOP is a vast collection of online resources provided by the physics community for the physics community.
• NASA.
• NASA Langley Technical Reports: Database provides access to publicly available online NASA documents covering aeronautical and space science. Over 2,300 full-text reports.
• Net Advance of Physics: Review Articles and Tutorials in an Encyclopædic Format.
• Physics 2000: Interactive journey through modern physics-- learn visually and conceptually about 20th Century science and high-tech devices.
• Physics links selected by the American Physical Society.
• Resources of Scholarly Societies-Physics: University of Waterloo, Canada.
• StarWorlds - a large searchable directory of organizations, institutions, associations, etc., involved in astronomy and related space sciences.
• Resources of scholarly societies: physics - gives access to information on scholarly societies around the world
• Yahoo!

Physics Listservs

INFORMATION LITERACY

Select lessons from the Information Literacy Tutorial. Lessons are designed to assist you in: Selecting and refining a topic | Developing a research strategy | Identifying useful reference sources | Performing efficient searches in the library catalog, databases and web pages | Understanding and writing citations | Evaluating information.

FINDING BOOKS

Use CONSORT to identify books at Kenyon or another CONSORT partner library (College of Wooster, Denison University and Ohio Wesleyan). If a an item you want to borrow is owned at Kenyon, check the floorplans to find the exact location. If an item is owned by a CONSORT partner, or an OhioLINK partner, request the item online. Guide to requesting items owned by CONSORT or OhioLINK partner.

COURSE GUIDES

Course guides are created for teaching faculty by Library Liaisons upon request.

REFERENCE SOURCES

• AccessScience is an online encyclopedia of science and technology. It contains encyclopedia articles, dictionary terms, biographies, research updates and science news.
  
• Bartleby's Web Reference Library contains Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th Ed.; The American Heritage® Dictionary, 3rd Ed.; Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, 3rd Ed.; Simpson's Contemporary Quotations; American Heritage® Book of English Usage; Bartlett's Familiar Quotations; Strunk's Elements of Style, Fowler's the King's English, 2nd Ed.; Emily Post's Etiquette; Cambridge History of English & American Literature and Fannie Farmer's Cookbook.
  
• Academic Press Dictionary of Science and Technology
  
• Dynamical systems, ergodic theory and applications / L.A. Bunimovich ed. New York: Springer, 2000 Edition 2nd,
  KEN Reference QC19.2 .M37 v.1 LIB USE ONLY
  
• Macmillan encyclopedia of physics / John S. Rigden ed. New York: Macmillan Reference.
  KEN Reference QC5 .M15 1996 v.1-4
  
• Several complex variables V : complex analysis in partial differential equations and mathematical physics / G.M. Khenkin (ed.) New York: Springer-Verlag.
  KEN Main QA331.7 .K6713 1993
  
• Encyclopedia of physics, 2nd ed./Rita G. Lerner ed. New York: VCH.
  KEN Reference QC5 .E545 1990 LIB USE ONLY

HELP

LBIS Liaison

Minyu Zhou, Librarian and Technology Consultant, provides library support for the Physics department. zhoum@kenyon.edu. 740-427-5869.

Info Desk

Feel free to stop by, call (740-427-5691), or E-mail (InfoDesk@kenyon.edu) the librarian on duty at the Information Desk. Hours.