Optics Subject Guide
Databases
See also: Complete Database List
| Database | Selected Subject Areas | Coverage / Journals Indexed | Details | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Primary Databases | |||||
| INSPEC | Physics Electronics Electrical Engineering Communications Computers Information Technology Atmospheric Optics & Physics Geophysics Oceanography Biomedical Sciences Matierials Science |
1969 - Present | Produced by the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE), INSPEC contains over 9 million records. It also links to cited references, citing articles, and related articles from the Web of Science database. full text articles are available for some journals. | ||
| Web of Science (Science Citation Index) |
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1955 - Present |
Indexes more than 9,200 journals. Contains the Cited Reference feature, which enables you to find articles that have cited a book, a patent or another article. | ||
| Secondary Databases | |||||
| IEEE Xplore
NIST employees only |
Engineering Physics Technology |
1998 - Present |
Contains IEE and IEEE transactions, journals, magazines and conference proceedings and current standards. | ||
| Energy Citations Database (ECD) | Chemistry Climatology Computer science Engineering Environmental science Geology Materials Mathematics Oceanography Physics |
1948 - Present | Includes citations to report literature, conference papers, journal articles, books, dissertations, and patents. | ||
| PapersFirst | Any | 1993 - Present | Covers every published congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received by The British Library Document Supply Centre | ||
| Proceedings | Any | 1993 - Present | Index of worldwide conference proceedings. Searchable by conference name, sponsor, and editors. | ||
E-Journals
See also: All Electronic Journals
Search the Library Catalog for print and electronic journals
- Print available at the Main Library - Icon links to Catalog Record / Holdings
- Print available at the Branch Library - Icon links to Catalog Record / Holdings
- Applied Optics
- V. 1 (1962) - Present
- Applied Physics B: Lasers and Optics
- V. 64, No. 2 (1997) - Present
- V. 63 (1996) - 12 months ago
- European Physical Journal D - Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
- V. 1 (1998) - Present
- V. 26 (2003) - 12 months ago
- Fiber and Integrated Optics
- V. 24 (2005) - V. 27 (2008)
- Journal of Biomedical Optics Letters
- Sep. 2005 - Present
- Journal of Lightwave Technology
- V. 1 (1983) - Present - Full access provided by NIST for NIST employees only
- Journal of Modern Optics
- V. 1 (1954) - Present
- V. 45 (1998) - 18 months ago
- Journal of Nanophotonics Letters
- 2007 - Present
- Journal of Optics
- V. 8 (1977) - V. 29 (1998); V. 12 (2010) - Present
- Continued by Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics; reverted to Journal of Optics, 2010 -
- Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics
- V. 1 (1999) - Present
- Journal of Optics B: Quantum and Semiclassical Optics
- V. 1 (1999) - V. 7 (2005)
- Merged with Journal of Physics B
- Journal of Physics B
- V. 21 (1988) - Present (Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics)
- V. 1 (1968) - V. 20 (1987) (Atomic and Molecular Physics)
- Journal of the Optical Society of America (JOSA). A, Optics, Image Science, and Vision
- V. 1 (1984) - Present
- Journal of the Optical Society of America (JOSA). B, Optical Physics
- V. 1 (1984) - Present
- Microwave and Optical Technology Letters
- V. 11 (1996) - Present
- Nature Photonics
- V. 1 (2007) - Present
- Nouvelle Revue d'Optique
- V. 4 (1973) - V. 7 (1976)
- Continued by Journal of Optics
- Nouvelle Revue d'Optique Applique
- V. 1 (1970) - V. 3 (1972)
- Continued by Nouvelle Revue d'Optique
- OE Magazine
- Optical and Quantum Electronics
- V. 29 (1997) - Present
- Optical Engineering
- V. 29 (1990) - Present
- Optical Engineering Letters
- July 2005 - Present
- Optics and Photonics Letters (OPL)
- V. 1 (2008) - Present
- Optics and Photonics News
- V. 13 (2002) - Present
- Optics Communications
- V. 113 (1995) - Present
- Optics Express
- V. 1 (1997) - Present
- Optics Letters
- V. 1 (1977) - Present
- Pure and Applied Optics: Journal of the European Optical Society Part A
- V. 1 (1992) - V. 7 (1998)
- Continued by Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics
- Quantum and Semiclassical Optics: Journal of the European Optical Society Part B
- V. 7 (1995) - V. 10 (1998)
- Continued by Journal of Optics B: Quantum and Semiclassical Optics
- Quantum Optics: Journal of the European Optical Society Part B
- V. 1 (1989) - V. 6 (1994)
- Continued by Quantum and Semiclassical Optics
- Transactions of the Optical Society
- V. 1 (1899) - V. 33 (1932)
E-Books & Documents
See also: Technical Books, Reports & Theses and E-Books
- AccessScience (McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology)
- Columbia Encyclopedia
- CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics
- Photonics Dictionary
- Photonics Handbook
Browse the library Catalog for print and electronic books, journals, and reports in:
- Optics
- Electrooptics
- Fiber Optics
- Image Processing
- Lasers
- Light
- Nanotechnology
- Optoelectronics
- Photonics
- Physics
- Thin Films
- Handbooks
- Dictionaries
Reference Resources
See also: Internet Resources
- Atomic Scattering Factors
- Fibresystems.org
- Glossary of Color Science
- Nanotechweb.org
- NIST Scientific and Technical Databases
- Optical Library
- OSA - Optical Society of America
- OpticsNotes.com
- Photonic & Sonic Band-Gap Bibliography
- Photonics Dictionary
- Photonics.com
- Quantum Optics and Atom Optics Links
- SPIE Web: The International Society for Optical Engineering
- Superconductivity Papers Database
See also: Physics Subject Guide - for general physics resources
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