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Electronic and Print Journals at the Graduate CenterSearch the Graduate Center's holdings in electronic and print journals, magazines, and newspapers and browse the electronic titles by subject.
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Electronic Journals at the New York Public LibraryFind electronic journals available both at NYPL and from home.
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Print Journals at the New York Public LibraryPrint periodicals from NYPL (search across all branches or individually).
Best Bets for Physics Research
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Web of ScienceCited references in all disciplines in the arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences. Drawn from the top 15% of scholarly journals in more than 250 categories.
Web of Science Core Collection includes: Citation Indexes, Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Conference Proceedings Citation Index–Science, Conference Proceedings Citation Index–Social Science & Humanities, Book Citation Index–Science, Book Citation Index–Social Sciences & Humanities, Emerging Sources Citation Index, Current Chemical Reactions, Index Chemicus.
Other databases included in "All Databases" search:
- BIOSIS Citation Index: covering pre-clinical and experimental research, methods and instrumentation, animal studies, and more.
- Current Contents Connect: tables of contents and bibliographic information from leading scholarly journals and books.
- Data Citation Index: data sets from a wide range of international data repositories
- Derwent Innovations Index: patents and patent citations.
- KCI-Korean Journal Database: managed by the National Research Foundation of Korea.
- MEDLINE: managed by the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
- Russian Science Citation Index: managed by the Scientific Electronic Library (eLIBRARY.RU), Russia's largest research information provider.
- SciELO Citation Index: open access journals from Latin American, Portugal, Spain and South Africa.
- Zoological Record: taxonomic records, oldest continuing database of animal biology.
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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 Letters, Chaos, Journal of Applied Physics, Journal of Chemical Physics, Journal of Mathematical Physics, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Physics of Fluids, Physics of Plasmas, Physics Today, and Review of Scientific Instruments.
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American Physical Society Physical Review JournalsAmerican Physical Society (APS) Physical Review Journals contains the full text of journals published by the American Physical Society. This includes important titles like Physical Review, and Physical Review Letters.
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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 open access IOP Conference Series. Key publishing subject areas include: physics, materials science, environmental science, bioscience, engineering, computational science and mathematics.
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SciFinder ScholarRequires registration. 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.
Graduate Center credentials are required for accessing SciFinder Scholar, both on-campus and remotely. To access SciFinder Scholar materials wherever you are, you must register with a gc.cuny.edu or gradcenter.cuny.edu email address. Follow the link below to register.
Other Databases for Physics Research
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Science MagazineFull text of Science Magazine since 1880.
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Nature Archive and Nature JournalsFull text of the journal Nature content from 1869 to present, as well as many other Nature titles--click more to see list of journals that are accessible.
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General Science Full TextIndexes scholarly, professional, and popular science periodicals published from 1984 to the present in the United States and the United Kingdom. Includes text for 93 publications from 1994 to present.
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Applied Science & Technology SourceFull-text of over 1,200 journals with coverage dating back to 1913.
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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 3-million full-text documents from some of the world's most highly cited publications in electrical engineering, computer science and electronics.
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.