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.

Reference works

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).

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.

Bibliographies

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

e-Archives

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

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

Dictionary of Physics
7. ed., © 2016. Part of Oxford Reference (OUP)
Hutchinson Pocket Dictionary of Physics
© 2005. Helicon Publishing

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