F&M Library: Phy171

Phy171: Quark to Quasars

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Indexes, Abstracts & Full-Text Databases

Dictionaries, Encyclopedias & Handbooks

AccessScience

Sci Ref Q121 .M3
Full access to more than 7,000 articles, 115,000 definitions, 2,000 biographies and research advances in science and technology. Updated daily. Electronic version of McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology,

Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Dictionary of Physics
Dictionary of Weights, Measures, and Units
Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Illustrated Dictionary of Science
New Penguin Dictionary of Science
Penguin Dictionary of Physics
A-Z of Physicists - Sci Ref QC15 .L45 2003
Encyclopedia of Physics, 3rd ed. - Sci Ref QC5 .E454 vol. 1-2
Encyclopedia of Physics - Sci Ref QC5 .R596 2004
MacMillam Encyclopedia of Physics - Sci Ref QC5 .M15 vol. 1-4
Nobel Laureates and Twentieth-Century Physics - Stacks QC7 .D27 2004
Nobel Prize Winners - Physics - Sci Ref QC25 .N63 vol. 1-3
Nuclear and Particle Physics Handbook - Sci Ref QC776 .N77
Oxford Guiide to the History of Physics and Astronomy - Sci Ref QC7 .O94 2005
Particle Physics: One Hundred Years of Discoveries: an Annotated Chronical Bibliography - Sci Ref QC793.16 .Z4 P35 1996

Full-Text Journals

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Where is it? Science Library locations

Call Number	Location
BF	First Floor
GA-GE, Q-TP, Z (some)	Third Floor

Collection Title	Location
Bound Periodicals	Second Floor
Browsing Books	First Floor
Classics of Medicine	First Floor (by the pencil sharpener)
Current Periodicals	First Floor (next to the circulation desk)
Government Documents	Second Floor
Landmarks of Science & Technology	Third Floor
Microforms	First Floor
New Books	First Floor
Oversize Books	Third Floor (last book shelf)
Reference Collection	First Floor
Reserves	Circulation Desk

Photocopiers	First & Second Floor

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Last updated:9/14/09 dr, contact Dale Riordan for assistance, 291-3843