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Physics

The University Library offers a small selection of printed books and a bigger collection of electronic material like e-books and e-journals in physics. All printed material as well as electronic resources can be found via the catalogue www.a-z.lu.

Subject-related questions on catalog and database research can be addressed to askalibrarian@uni.lu.

New Acquisitions
Print Resources
Electronic Resources
Links

A selection of new acquisitions

	Classical and quantum statistical physics: fundamentals and advanced topics [e-book] Heissenberg, Carlo Cambridge University Press 2022
	More Than the Sum of the Parts: Complexity in Physics and Beyond [e-book] Satz, Helmut. Oxford University Press 2022
	AI for Physics [e-book] Knecht, Volker Taylor & Francis 2022

Consult new books via a-z.lu.

If you have an acquisition suggestion, please send the bibliographic data to askalibrarian@uni.lu.
If you are a member of staff, please use the form that is provided on the library pages of the UL-Intranet (ULI).

Organisation

Localisation

The physics book collection is housed at the Luxembourg Learning Centre on the second floor. Fragile, old or valuable material is in storage and needs to be ordered via the “Request” button above the location details of an a-z.lu entry.

Classification, Signage

The books are sorted on the shelves according to a subject related classification. Engineering material will mainly be found between the classification numbers 530 and 539.

DDC Example : the call number field in the "Get this at a library" tab might show something like "537.6 Lew". This is the code printed on the book spine which enables you to find it on the shelf. The figures represent the main content of the book – in this case:

          500 =    Natural Sciences
          530 =    Physics
          537 =    Electricity & electronics
          537.6 = Electric currents (Electrodynamics) and thermoelectricity

The three characters behind the figures are the first letters of the author's name or the book title – this helps to further separate the material shelved under the same call number.

Reference Works

You will find below a selection of reference works on physics which are available in the University library:

José-Philippe Pérez	Leçons de physique : une approche moderne	Bruxelles : De Boeck,2011
John R. Rumble et al.	CRC handbook of chemistry and physics : a ready-reference book of chemical and physical data	Boca Raton : CRC Press, 2019
Richard Taillet, Loïc Villain, Pascal Febvre	Dictionnaire de physique	Louvain-la-Neuve : De Boeck supérieur, 2018

Printed Journal Collection (and other periodical works)

For physics, most of the relevant journals are not offered in print but as e-journals that are discoverable via a-z.lu. The print versions of journals need to be ordered from storage. For more information on how to do this, see Journals.

Organisation

There is a lot of information online that is not freely accessible. The University of Luxembourg Library has subscribed to many databases, e-journals and e-books which are accessible by entering your login credentials in a-z.lu, which are provided after becoming a member of the library.

– if you want to search only e-book titles, choose "Digital library" in the top row of the search box and set the filter “Type of publication” on “Books” (in the menu on the right). For further information on how to find and access e-books in the LLC, click here.

Further directory on international e-books:

Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)

The Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) is an online directory to increase discoverability of Open Access books. The database is included in the a-z.lu search as well as partly in BASE.

– if you want to search only e-journal titles, choose "Digital library" in the top row of the search box and set the filter “type of publication” on “Journals” (in the menu on the right). Be aware that you only search the titles of the e-journals and not the articles within them. For searching articles in journals, proceedings etc. set the filter on "Articles".

Further directories on international e-journals:

Ulrichsweb	Ulrichsweb is a serials directory on more than 300,000 periodicals of all types: academic and scholarly journals, e-journals, peer-reviewed titles, popular magazines, newspapers, newsletters, and more. Access only within the IP-range of the campus or at the National Library (BNL).
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)	The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is an online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals. The database is included in the a-z.lu search as well as in BASE.
Electronic Journals Library	The Electronic Journals Library is a service of the University Library of Regensburg to facilitate the use of scholarly journals on the internet and offers a unified interface to access full-text articles online from all areas of research. Besides the more than 50,000 journals which are accessible free of charge to anyone, participating libraries provide their users access to the journals they subscribe to.

Catalogues and Other Databases

For searching online databases go to a-z.lu and click on "Database Search" in the top menu bar. There you can search for titles or use the subject search for physics databases.

Here is a selection of further physics databases:

arXiv.org	arXiv.org is an e-print-server offering a quick publication possibility for research results. Thus it is an important open access resource in astronomy, computer science, mathematics and physics.
CERN Document Server	The focus of the CERN document server lies on high energy and particle physics research and comprises more than 1 Mio bibliographic records and over 700.000 full texts (preprints, conference papers, reports as well as AV-material, e.g. videos of presentations).
INSPIRE-HEP	CERN, DESY, Fermilab and SLAC have built the High Energy Physics (HEP) information system, INSPIRE. It combines the SPIRES database content with the Invenio digital library technology developed at CERN. INSPIRE is run by a collaboration of CERN, DESY, Fermilab, IHEP, and SLAC, and interacts closely with HEP publishers, arXiv.org, NASA-ADS, PDG, HEPDATA and other information resources. Besides bibliographic information INSPIRE-HEP offers information on institutions, persons, conferences, experiments and job offers.
SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)	Digital Library portal for researchers in Astronomy and Physics, operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) under a NASA grant. The ADS maintains three bibliographic databases containing more than 11.6 million records covering publications in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Physics, and the arXiv e-prints.
DBIS-Datenbankinfosystem	Overview of international databases in physics.

SpringerLink	Springer is the world's second largest STM publisher, delivering peer-reviewed journals via the interdisciplinary portal SpringerLink offering a wide range of information resources in all disciplines, such as ejournals, ebooks, book series and reference works. (Access SpringerLink after having registered in a-z.lu in order to see which content is licensed by the LLC.)
ScienceDirect	ScienceDirect contains science, technology and medicine full text and bibliographic information.
Oxford Academic	Oxford Academic (formerly Oxford Journals) offers access to abstracts and full texts of e-journals in STM subjects as well as in humanities, law, and social sciences.
Academic Search Complete	EBSCO's "Academic Search Complete" offers peer-reviewed full text for STEM research, as well as for the social sciences and humanities.
Web of Science	WoS provides reference and citation data from academic journals, conference proceedings, and other documents in various academic disciplines.
SCOPUS	SCOPUS is a multidisciplinary abstract and reference database for research literature and high quality internet sources (peer reviewed) and provides citations of scientific articles which make citation analyses possible (Who cites whom? Who is cited by whom?). SCOPUS offers various tools to trace, analyse and visualise research information in science, technology and medicine, social sciences and humanities from the publication year 1996.

Online Reference Books, Dictionaries and Encyclopaedias

The following works on physics are available online:

The Penguin Dictionary of Physics	Subscription needed – after log in to a-z.lu the e-book is accessible.
Eric Weisstein's World of Physics	Online encyclopaedia on physics with short definitions as well as bibliographic references.
Open Access Encyclopedia for Photonics and Laser Technology	This open-access encyclopedia explains the physical principles and common techniques in laser technology, while also covering major areas of fiber-optic technology and nonlinear optics, and addressing supplementary topics like ultrashort pulses, optical communications, general optics, optoelectronics, and quantum optics.
Lexikon der Physik	The “Lexikon der Physik”, written by Walter Greulich and Ulrich Kilian, is freely available on the website of the German publisher Spektrum Akademischer Verlag and gives a comprehensive overview of the knowledge in physics (in German).
Wikipedia: Portal Physics	Relevant Wikipedia articles on physics are collected in this portal.

Statistics

Statista

Statista is one of the world’s largest statistics and market data platforms with access to more than 1 million statistics, forecasts, dossiers, reports and infographics on 80.000 topics from more than 22.500 sources.

Thesauri and Classifications

INIS/ETDE Thesaurus	Multilingual thesaurus of the International Nuclear Information System focusing on nuclear physics, chemistry, material sciences, life and earth sciences, and energy technology.
Unified Astronomy Thesaurus	The Unified Astronomy Thesaurus (UAT) is a community-supported thesaurus that unifies the existing Astronomy & Astrophysics thesauri into a single freely-available open thesaurus formalizing astronomical concepts and their inter-relationships.
INSPEC Thesaurus and INSPEC Classification	The Inspec Thesaurus is a subject key to the Inspec Database while the Inspec Classification acts as a search tool within the database.
Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC)	The Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) unifies the classifications of the European Patent Office (EPO) and the patent office of the USA (USPTO).
International Patent Classification (IPC)	The IPC is searchable on the website of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). A German translation of the IPC is available on the website of the Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt.
Bartoc	The Basic Register of Thesauri, Ontologies & Classifications (BARTOC) is a database of Knowledge Organization Systems and KOS related registries.

Abbreviations

Abbreviations may differ between or even within a branch of sciences. Journals often define the standard of the publication style within their author guidelines.

Physical Review Style and Notation Guide	The style and notation guide for publications in the "Physical Review" journal of the American Physical Society (APS) with the requirements for journal abbreviations in the appendix of the document.
Science and Engineering Journal Abbreviations	The Woodward Library offers a database of abbreviations for journal titles from natural sciences and technology.
France Terme	France Term is a set of terms of different scientific and technical fields in French.
Web of Science: Journal Title Abbreviations	List of journals and their abbreviations.

Factual Databases

Kaye and Laby Online: Tables of Physical and Chemical Constants	The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) published the 16th edition of the „Kaye and Laby” online and updates the content comprising data in physics and chemistry.
National Nuclear Data Center	Database collection on nuclear and particle physics.
NIST: Physical Reference Data	Collection of databases of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
NRL Plasma Formulary	Formulary of plasma physics.
Particle Data Group: The Review of Particle Physics	The yearly updates on elementary particles and their characteristics are published by the PDG on this website.
DBIS: Faktendatenbanken Physik	List of factual databases in physics.

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Interesting Sites

The following sites may be of interest if you are studying physics (free access):

physicsworld.com	The Institute of Physics in London publishes its member magazine Physics World. On the website of the journal there are additional service offers for the community (calendar of events, job offers).
Interactions	Particle Physics News and Resources.
Scitation	Platform for news, comment, analysis and research in the Physical Sciences.
PhysLink.com	PhysLink.com is a physics and astronomy online education, research and reference web site. In addition to providing content, PhysLink.com is a meeting place for professionals, students and other interested persons.
ComPADRE Digital Library	The AAPT ComPADRE Digital Library is a network of free online resource collections supporting faculty, students, and teachers in Physics and Astronomy Education.
pro-physik.de	Within the website of the „Physik Journal“ (the member magazine of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft [DPG]) the publisher Wiley-VCH and the DPG presents news, job offers, products, applications, books and events in physics.
Welt der Physik	This is a physics portal for professionals, students and other interested persons, run by the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft and the German ministry of research and technology. It contains online resources, overview of current and completed research projects as well an event calendar.
Konferenz der Fachbereiche Physik (KFP)	The union of the German physics university departments publishes recent information and statistics on physical studies in Germany (addresses, labour market data, grant possibilities etc.)