Physics

Electronic Books

• ProQuest: Find theses and dissertations (full-text; 1637-2016)
• Science Direct: Physics and astronomy
• SpringerLink: Physics
• Wiley Online Library: Physics

Recommended eBooks

• CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics - online version in the library only, except for members of the ChemTK community, who have remote access when authenticated to the ChemTK network.

• Encyclopedia of Applied Physics

Print Books

Books about physics are on the fifth floor, shelves 5B 034-5C 039, call (location) numbers QC1-999.

Recommended Books

• CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics - In print (2008-present).
  • Also available (in the library only) online (see above)

Historical Books

• Search items in our rare books collection published before 1920
• Read reviews of selected historical titles (in Czech).

Online articles

• AIP Scitation - Database of more than two million articles from American Institute of Physics.
• arXiv.org - Electronic archive of scientific preprint and postprint full-texts, scientific research and technical reports and theses. More than 600,000 records in physics, mathematics, computer science, nonlinear sciences, quantitative biology and statistics.
• ICTP Preprints Archive
• IOPscience - Titles from the Institute of Physics, one of the world's leading publishers in physics and related sciences. Most articles include a list of references plus links to the abstracts of cited publications.
• Other recommended databases
  

• ProQuest: Find theses and dissertations (full-text; 1637-2016)
• Science Direct: Physics and astronomy
• SpringerLink: Physics
• Wiley Online Library: Physics
• American Institute of Physics - Complete
• APS Journals
• Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Technology

A-Z list of physics eJournals

Open access journals in DOAJ

Print Journals

Alphabetical list

Recent issues of print journals in physics are located in the Periodicals Reading Room on the third floor, mostly on shelves 3D054-059.

List of current journal subscriptions

Reference resources

• ALDEBARAN - Czech electronic textbooks in astrophysics and plasma physics with plenty of animations and illustrations.
• CERN Document Server - Document and multimedia archives from the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) containing more than 1,030,000 bibliographic records and full-text documents in physics.
• inSPIRE High-Energy Literature Database
• SCOAP3 repository (Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics) - Contains freely accessible articles about nuclear and particle physics. More information.
• Superconductivity Papers Database - Database of articles on superconductivity. Provided by the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) and the International Superconductivity Technology Center Foundation (ISTEC) in Japan.

Other Electronic Resources.

Web pages

Featured: Physics@MIT OpenCourseware: Syllabi and multimedia course materials for undergraduates.

• conVERTER - Unit conversions, physical tables, biographies of physicists and information about the Nobel Prize. More than seven hundred units divided into topics according to variables.
• PhysNet - International resource with a list of sites and documents sorted by country of origin; online journals; conferences; job offers; and learning resources.
• Surface Evolver -A free interactive program for the modeling liquid surfaces shaped by various forces and constraints.