Welcome to the Physics library resources guide.

Reviewing the resources on this page will give background for using the other pages (each of which has a separate tab) of this guide.

Contact Brian Simboli with any questions. (Contact info at right.)

The following guides give overviews of library essentials:

• 10 Things Every First Year Student Should Know
• What Every New Graduate Student Should Know
• What Every New International Student Should Know
• What Every Distance Education Student Should Know

For answers to questions that require a quick look-up, see our E-Reference page.

Wikipedia is of course very popular, but there is debate about its reliability relative to other resources. See this wikepedia article: Reliability of Wikipedia.

• Locating Full Text Articles
• Constructing Search Statements
• Web Resource Evaluation
• Get it from another Library
• RefWorks- Manage your research/Create bibliographies
• Other "Tutorials for Research Success"
• Footnote and Citation Style Guides

Courtesy: National Science Foundation