Physics & Engineering Research Guide: Find Articles

View a YouTube video via the link below for a discussion of scholary and popular information.

Endnote is a Web-based tool for managing and citing references in papers and creating bibliographies.  EndNote has numerous citation styles including APA, MLA, Chicago (Turabian).  EndNote is available to current members of the PLNU community.  To access EndNote simply enter your PLNU network ID and password the same as you would to access campus email and Canvas.

Ryan Library databases are subscriptions provided to the PLNU community for online access to journal and magazine articles and/or citations. 

Recommended databases for Physics students include:

• Academic Search Premier - large interdisciplinary database, with much full-text content.
• AccessScience - McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology online.
• General Science Full Text - large science-related database, with much full-text content.
• JSTOR - large, interdisciplinary full-text database.
• OmniFile Full Text Mega - multi-disciplinary database, with much full-text content. 
• PROLA - Physical Review Online Archive.
• ScienceDirect - selected fulltext scholarly content from journals published by Elsevier.
• Wiley Online Library - fulltext scholarly journals in various science disciplines.

Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature.

InterLibrary Loan allows members of the PLNU community to request articles from another library.

Before you request an article, complete the following steps (in this order) to verify that the article is not available at PLNU:

1. Find out if the journal is full text in one of our databases. 
2. Find out if the journal (hard copy) is located in Ryan Library. 
3. Use InterLibrary Loan to request the article. 

Do you work or attend classes at a PLNU location other than the main campus? Use the Interlibrary Loan form to request books or articles from PLNU's Ryan Library.