Research Guides: Physics: Reference Sources & Books

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Reference Sources

Feynman Lectures on Phyics Classic lectures from a giant of American physics, with exercises and supplementary material.
Physics: An Overview History and current view of physics, with web sources for further exploration.
Scholarpedia: Astrophysics News and articles for cutting edge work in Astrophysics.
Scientific Principles, Laws & Theories Encyclopedia of astronomy, biology, chemistry, geology, mathematics, medicine, meteorology, and physics.
Scientific Thought::In Context Essays and historic documents on the relations of science and society throughout history.

Books on Physics

Catalog USMAI Find books and electronic documents in the University System of Maryland.
Cook One Search Discovery Tool E-books, chapters, articles, references, and government documents from Cook Library.
Towson Catalog Collections owned by Cook Library, including ebooks, documents and encyclopedias.
Worldcat Discovery Search Towson University Library and beyond.

e-Book Collections in Physics

ABC-CLIO eBOOK Collection This link opens in a new window Full text electronic access to encyclopedias, handbooks, and biographical works in all academic subjects. Terms and Conditions
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Ebook Central This link opens in a new window A multidisciplinary e-book database that covers all academic subject areas. The collection includes more than 150,000 titles from more than 220 academic, STM, and professional publishers. Towson University's Ebook Central collection also includes 8 separate databases in business, marketing and economics; humanities; life and physical science; medical sciences; computers and information technology; engineering and technology; social and behavioral sciences; education; and reference and maps. In order to download books for offline viewing, you will need Adobe Digital Editions. This collection of ebooks used to be hosted on Ebrary and EBL.
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EBSCO eBook Collection This link opens in a new window Provides a collection of over 210,000 electronic books, including reference books.
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Dissertations and Theses: Global This link opens in a new window This database is the world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, spanning from 1861 to the present day and offering full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997. It also contains a significant amount of new international dissertations and theses both in citations and in full text. With more than 2 million entries, PQD&T is the single, central, authoritative resource for information about doctoral dissertations and master's theses.
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OpenDissertations This link opens in a new window OpenDissertations is an open-access database built to assist researchers in locating both historic and contemporary dissertations and theses. Created with the generous support of the H.W. Wilson Foundation and the Congregational Library & Archives in Boston, it incorporates EBSCO’s previously released American Doctoral Dissertations and features additional dissertation metadata contributed by select colleges and universities from around the world.
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Teaching Resources

Physics Central Science news and features from the American Physical Society.
Physics Central Science news and features from the American Physical Society.

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