Subject specialist
Norah Xiao
nxiao@usc.edu
(213) 740 2214
Reference Services & Research Assistance
- For Research consultation
and/or to schedule an instruction session:
- Contact Norah at nxiao@usc.edu
- Or, email the S&E librarians team at: lib-scit@dots.usc.edu
- Or, call the Science & Engineering Reference Desk (213) 740 4416
- Hours for reference desks
- Electronic assistance (Chat/IM and Email Reference): Ask-A-Librarian
- 05/20/2008: No night chat with S&E librarians during the summer. Ask-A-Librarian will be available as usual and 24 x 7 chat can help you during night hours.
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The principal Physics and Astronomy collections are located in the Science & Engineering Library (SSL on the USC map). These collections support Physics and Astronomy teaching and research through the doctoral level and beyond. HISTORY and PHILOSOPY of astronomy and/or physics texts are in the Doheny Memorial Library. Older texts and bound journals for which we have online subscriptions are in the Grand Library. Click HERE for the collection policy statement.
Remember, for online resources, you must be using the proxy server or a vpn client to access from off campus!
BOOKS:
- Search the HOMER catalog to find print and electronic books and where they are located.
- Astronomy and Physics books are generally in the QB and QC call number sections.
- New books are shelved separately in the Science & Engineering Library, on the 1st floor to the right of the stairwell. These books may be checked out.
- Link to recent new books lists:
- Many physics electronic books, e.g. Prof. Johnson's D-Branes text, are in the ebrary collection (note: ebrary requires Active-X, plus a reader plug-in; for more details see our Research Guide for ebrary)
- Recommend a book for library purchase (no textbooks please)
JOURNALS:
- Search the HOMER online catalog for PRINT journals.
- Search Ejournals A to Z (http://www.usc.edu/ejournalsatoz) for ELECTRONIC/ONLINE journals by TITLE
- Use the INSPEC citation database on Engineering Village 2 to search for and link to journal ARTICLES by topic, author, etc.
- The following are the article resources most often cited by 2006-07 colloquium speakers (in order of number of cites). Also included is information on the range of our online holdings.
You can always search Ejournals A to Z for these and all the rest of USC's electronic journals.
- ALL of the American Physical Society (APS) titles ALL the way back to volume 1's -- easiest start point = PROLA
- Nature -- Now back to the beginning! 1869! (January 2008+). Search this page.
- We have all the Nature titles online, back to varying start dates; search via this site
- Science (older issues in JSTOR; back to 1880, but AAAS will be moving off JSTOR)
- arXiv preprint server
- Journal of Physics A: Mathematical & Theoretical (back to vol. 1, 1968)
- The Astrophysical Journal (back to 1996)
- Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (back to 2003, its beginning)
- Smithsonian/NASA Astrophysical Data System/ADS (databases and a search engine; thousands of links to fulltext, some only abstracts)
- Applied Physics Letters (back to 1962, vol. 1)
- Journal of Applied Physics (back to 1931, vol. 1)
- Annals of Mathematics (link is to Open J-Gate version; back to 2003)
Space
- The Science & Engineering Library is SSL on the University map.
- Hours
- Technology resources (collaborative space for laptops, large screen, videoconferencing, and more)
(updated June 27, 2008)