Research Guides: PHYS 3050 Writing in Physics (Wilkerson): Home

Best Databases for Physics

arXiv.org
Online archive and distribution server for research articles and pre-prints.
Google Scholar
Tool to search for scholarly documents across the web, with an added feature of Find It at CU links.
Web of Science
Interdisciplinary index that provides citations for high impact journals. Useful for forward citation searching.
Please contact the Center for Research Data & Digital Scholarship for assistance setting up the Web of Science API.
IOP Science
Journals published by the Institute of Physics.
American Institute of Physics Journals
Publications from the American Institute of Physics (AIP).

Review Articles

What are Review Articles?

"Review articles are a particular type of scholarly article that provide a systematic overview and analysis of the primary literature in a particular field. Review articles sum up the current state of research including the major advances and discoveries, ongoing debates, and where there are gaps in our knowledge that require more research. Because review articles discuss and cite the research articles that are advancing the field, you can quickly get an idea of who the major researchers are in that field." (Vassar College Libraries)

Finding Review Articles:

To limit your search to review papers, add terms like "review", "literature review," or "review of the literature" to your search in any database. Web of Science is an especially good place to look for review papers, because it has a filter to help you get just review papers in your search results.

Web of Science
Interdisciplinary index that provides citations for high impact journals. Useful for forward citation searching.
Please contact the Center for Research Data & Digital Scholarship for assistance setting up the Web of Science API.

Put in your keywords and hit search
Scroll down until you see the left-hand filter for "document types"
Check "review" and click "Refine" to filter your search for review papers on the topic you searched.

Best Databases for Engineering & Computer Science

Engineering Village
Comprehensive database of scholarly literature in engineering and other applied sciences, including electrical and computer engineering
IEEE Electronic Library
Technical literature from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE), and the Institution of Engineering and Technology Proceedings.
ACM Digital Library
Publications of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
Computers & Applied Sciences Complete (EBSCO)
Database covering a wide variety of computing and applied science research.
MathSciNet
Database of reviews, abstracts and bibliographic information for much of the mathematical sciences literature, from the American Mathematical Society (AMS).