Research Guides: Physics: Articles

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Top Choice Article & Report Databases

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Scitation (searches all American Institute of Physics content)
Web of Science - All databases (Web of Science, Clarivate)
Authoritative and comprehensive index of citations and abstracts of journal articles and conference proceedings in the Sciences and Social Sciences.

Click the Get It button in the search results to see if we have the full text article.
ProQuest - All databases
Multidisciplinary. A good place to start for any research topic.

ProQuest Status Page
ScienceDirect (Elsevier)
To see only full-text articles that are immediately accessible, go to Advanced Search, then open Expert Search, and refine to Subscribed Publications.
TORPEDO Ultra
Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC)
Publicly available documents in all areas of defense research (science, technology, engineering, social science, business & budget), DoD directives & instructions. DTIC is the central scientific, research, and engineering information support activity for the DoD.

For a better search experience, you can use the National Technical Reports Library instead. Full text for most reports are available there.
Defense Technical Information Center Research & Engineering Gateway (DTIC R&E)
Both publicly available and access controlled documents in all areas of defense research (science, technology, engineering, social science, business & budget), DoD directives & instructions. DTIC is the central scientific, research, and engineering information support activity for the DoD.

Click the Access-Controlled Sites tab. Accounts available to DoD and federal government employees and their contractors. CAC login/registration required.
arXiv.org
Institute of Physics Science (IOP)
High Energy Physics Literature Database (INSPIRE)