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Subject guide for Physics and Astronomy

On this page you will find a selection of resources for Physics, Astronomy, and iNANO. You are welcome to contact the subject editor in case you need help, or if you have content suggestions.

Article databases

  • Web of Science
    Reference and citation database. Covers all research areas but is best suited for science and health sciences. Time period: 1900 - .
  • Scopus
    Reference and citation database. Covers all research areas but is best suited for science and health sciences. Time period: 1960 – (full indexing from 1996).

Bibliographies

  • ADS
    (NASA Astrophysics Data System)
    Digital library for astrophysics, physics and instrumentation.  
  • ARIBIB
    References from Astronomy and Astrophysics Abstracts
  • Proquest
    Collection of databases.   

Subject relevant websites

  • CERN Document Server
    More than 650.000 bibliographic records, including 320.000 fulltext documents. 
  • SIMBAD
    Contains information for about 1 million objects, for which 3.3 million identifiers, more than 1.5 million observational measurements and 1.4 million bibliographical references are available. 
  • AIP Scitation 
    Database of 80 scientific journals published by the American Institute of Physics and its Member Societies.   

Newspaper and media

  • Infomedia
    A large database that comprises articles from Danish daily newspapers as well as a wide range of periodicals, local papers, etc. 

Dictionaries - Physics

Dictionaries - Languages

  • Ordbogen.com
    Collection of dictionaries which contains Ordbogen.com and Gyldendals Ordbøger. The collection of dictionaries covers a large number of subject areas and languages. The list of all relevant dictionaries is obtained when you search a word.
  • Oxford English Dictionary
    Online dictionary. English-English. © 2016 Oxford University Press.
  • Dansk Sprognævn
    Website from the Danish Language Council. Contains different tools on the Danish language and grammar.
  • Den Danske Ordbog
    Dictionary on the modern Danish Language. Published by det Danske sprog- og litteraturselskab.
  • Google Translate
    Translation tool. Machine-generated translations, many different languages and alphabets.
  • AU oversættelse og sprog
    AU’s Dictionary, Translate and English style guide

e-Archives

  • arXiv.org 
    e-Print Archive. Full-text access to preprints

Patents

Access and information on patents.
 

Access from home

VPN-remote.au.dk
Guides to installation of AU-ACCESS.

Via AU Library
Info on remote access to the library resources via WAYF, AU Library and VPN.


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