Featured Resource: JoVE, The Journal of Visualized Experiments
What is JoVE?
JoVE, the Journal of Visualized Experiments (Opens in new window) is the world's first peer-reviewed video journal. JoVE features video demonstrations of advanced science experiments filmed in research laboratories of the leading academic institutions in the world. It helps researchers, faculty, Ph.D. students, post-docs, technicians, and scientific personnel to achieve more productivity, efficiency, reproducibility, and success in their own research.
Explore JoVE videos on Physics Education (Opens in new window). JoVE articles are indexed in SciFinder-n.
Physics Databases
Search physics societies and related databases individually
- arXiv Physics (Cornell University) This link opens in a new windowPreprint server for the voluntary sharing of information in physics and related disciplines. Started in August 1991.
- Engineering Village This link opens in a new windowCombines the citations and full text links of Compendex and Inspec with full text books from Knovel, for a more comprehensive search on computer science and engineering topics.
- IEEEXplore (IEEE/IET Electronic Library) This link opens in a new windowSearch IEEE journals, transactions, magazines, conference proceedings, and standards
- Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET) Journals (opens in new window)Based in the U.K., IET is focused on scholarly publishing for physics, electrical and computer engineering, mechanical and product engineering, computer science, and other engineering sciences. All journal content published from 2013 to the present is now available as open access on this website. Most earlier issues and IET conference proceedings are also available to the Northeastern community via IEEE XPlore and the IET Digital Library.
- PROLA (Physical Review Online Archive) This link opens in a new windowAmerican Physical Society's online archive for Physical Review Letters, Reviews of Modern Physics, and Physical Review AE. Complete date coverage for each journal is described in Scholar OneSearch.
- AIP Publishing (American Institute of Physics) This link opens in a new windowCurrent advances and foundational research covering the breadth and depth of the physical sciences.
- SPIE Digital Library This link opens in a new windowThe SPIE Digital Library is the most extensive resource available on optics and photonics: technical papers from SPIE Journals and Conference Proceedings from 1990 to the present.
- Web of Science, Core Collection 1975-present This link opens in a new windowWeb of Science is a database that broadly covers all of the sciences with strengths in natural sciences, health sciences, engineering, computer science, materials sciences. Great for interdisciplinary research, it also includes coverage of social sciences, arts, and humanities. Web of Science contains over 73 million records.
Other Relevant Databases
- Academic OneFile (Gale Cengage) This link opens in a new windowScholarly, peer-reviewed articles and professional association publications, the majority in full text. Includes the New York Times backfile from 1995 to present. Interdisciplinary.
- Academic Search Ultimate (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new windowFull text for nearly 4,500 journals, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles covering all academic subjects
- Dissertations and Theses Global (ProQuest) This link opens in a new windowWith over 2 million entries, Proquest Dissertations is the single, central, authoritative resource for information about doctoral dissertations and master's theses.
- Nature Journals Online This link opens in a new windowThe flagship journal "Nature" is the most highly cited interdisciplinary science journal; NU's subscription includes a number of sister titles. Current affiliates + alumni
- Science Magazine This link opens in a new windowA journal of original scientific research, global news, and commentary.
- ScienceDirect Books and Journals (Elsevier) This link opens in a new windowSelected journal titles from the scholarly publisher Elsevier and its affiliates.
- Springer Nature Link This link opens in a new windowOnline journals and books from Springer publishing
Interlibrary loan
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- ILLiad log-in (Opens in new window)Need a book, book chapter, or article not available at Northeastern? Current US-based Northeastern faculty, staff, and students can request materials that aren't available at the Northeastern University Library through ILLiad, our interlibrary loan software.