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Electronic and Print Journals at the Graduate CenterSearch the GC library's holdings of print and electronic journals, magazines, and newspapers.
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Electronic Journals at New York Public LibraryFind electronic journals available both at NYPL and from home.
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Print Journals at New York Public LibrarySearch NYPL's research catalog for journals, magazines, and newspapers not available electronically.
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Library Doesn't Have the Journal You Need? Use Interlibrary Loan!Whenever you need an article from a journal that the GC library doesn't have, you can request the article via interlibrary loan.
Best Bets for Physics Research
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Web of ScienceMassive multidisciplinary index of scholarly publications, with especially strong coverage of the sciences and social sciences. Includes numerous sub-databases, most notably the Web of Science Core Collection, which provides cover-to-cover indexing of 21,000+ peer-reviewed journals. Includes citation data for publications, allowing searchers to identify highly cited articles, find citations to a given article/author, and track citations over time. Includes detailed author records and several unique search capabilities, such as the ability to search by author affiliation, grant number, or chemical structure. Also includes awarded grant information and associated publications.
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American Institute of Physics JournalsJournals from the American Institute of Physics (AIP) and AIP member societies. The Graduate Center Library's subscription includes Applied Physics Reviews, Applied Physics Letters, Journal of Applied Physics, The Journal of Chemical Physics, Physics Today, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Review of Scientific Instruments, American Journal of Physics, Physics of Fluids, and AIP Advances.
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American Physical Society Physical Review JournalsContains the full text of journals published by the American Physical Society, including important titles like Physical Review, and Physical Review Letters. Journals cover quantum information science; atomic, molecular, and optical physics; condensed matter and materials physics; particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology; statistical, nonlinear, biological and soft matter physics; accelerator science and technology; theoretical applications of physics; and research on fluids and materials.
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IOPscience ExtraSearch across and access full text of all current and archived journals, as well as e-books from the Institute of Physics (IOP).
- IOP Journal List
- IOP Book List
- IOP Conference Proceedings are also available open access (no login required).
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IOP Conference ProceedingsThe IOP Conference Series includes open access proceedings from science conferences held worldwide. Key topics include physics, materials science, environmental science, bioscience, engineering, computational science, and mathematics.
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CAS SciFinder-nRequires registration. CAS SciFinder-n, formerly SciFinder Scholar, is an index of chemical and other scientific literature that pulls from the CAplus database of U.S. and international patents, CASREACT, the CAS Registry and Medline. Includes journal articles, substances, reactions, patents and more. CAS SciFinder-n includes relevance-ranked results, step-by-step procedures and protocols, citation mapping, biosequence searching, retrosynthetic analysis, patent landscape mapping, touch-screen enabled structure drawing and more.
Both Graduate Center credentials and a SciFinder-n account are required for accessing CAS SciFinder-n remotely.
New users must register first with a gc.cuny.edu or gradcenter.cuny.edu email address. Follow the "new users" link to register.
Other Databases for Physics Research
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Science MagazineFull text of Science Magazine since 1880. Search across the full run of the publication or browse by issue. To reach the magazine archive, select Journals from the menu and then click on Science. On the Science page, select Archive to view issues by decade, then navigate to specific years and issues. Click on 1940s to display earlier decades.
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Nature Journals and ArchiveFull text of the journal Nature from 1869 to present, as well as many other Nature titles. Click more to see a selection from among the dozens of journals that are accessible.
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General Science Full TextIndexes nearly 300 scholarly, professional, and popular science periodicals published from 1984 to the present in the United States and the United Kingdom. Includes full text for more than 100 publications from 1995 to the present. Subject coverage includes astronomy, biology, botany, chemistry, conservation, health & medicine, oceanography, physics, zoology, and more.
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Applied Science & Technology SourceContains full text for almost 1,200 journals along with citations to millions of articles within a wide variety of applied science and computing disciplines, including aeronautics, nuclear engineering, and neural networks. Coverage dates back to 1909.
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IEEE XploreThe IEEE Xplore digital library is a powerful resource for discovery and access to scientific and technical content published by the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) and its publishing partners. IEEE Xplore provides Web access to more than 5.5 million full-text documents from some of the world's most highly cited publications in electrical engineering, computer science and electronics. Includes journals, conference papers, technical standards, books, and courses.
Article & Journal Impact
Article Impact: One measure of the impact of an article is the number of times it has been cited by other articles. These databases offer robust cited reference searching:
Journal Impact: A journal's impact is calculated by analyzing (in different ways by different tools) how frequently its articles are cited. Journal-level metrics are provided by:
For more information, see the Research Metrics guide.
Google Scholar
Google Scholar provides a simple way to search broadly for scholarly literature, including journal articles and books. The Graduate Center Library has created a customized version that knows the library’s electronic journal holdings and links you directly to the articles in the library’s databases.
Go to GC-customized Google Scholar
Note: If you’re off campus, you’ll be prompted to log in with your GC credentials before you can access library subscriptions.