Online resources

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Link Description Access Resource type Subjects

The ACM Digital Library is a research and discovery platform containing the full-text collection of all Association of… more

Digital library IT

Access to all the journals published by the American Chemical Society (ACS), including the earliest years of those… more

Digital library Other subjects

Online access to all 24 journals published by the American Institute of Physics (AIP). This portfolio comprises peer-reviewed… more

Digital library Physics

Access to a selection of volumes of some book series published by the American Mathematical Society: 

- Contemporary… more

Digital library Mathematics

Access the statistics on CERN publications, as reported in the CERN Annual Report, here:… more

Other types CERN, Physics

Online access to all of the 14 journals published by the American Physical Society (APS) since 1893. Part of the content is… more

Digital library Physics

ARIBIB: Astronomisches Rechen-Institut BIBliographical Database for Astronomical References provides access to bibliographic… more

Bibliographic database Physics

arXiv is a free distribution service and an open access archive for more than 1,600,000 scholarly articles in the fields of… more

Digital library Mathematics, Other subjects, Physics

The ASM Handbook is a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the structure, properties, processing, performance, and… more

Digital library Engineering

The SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) is a digital library portal for researchers in astronomy and physics, operated by… more

Digital library Physics

Cambridge Core is an online platform giving access to the electronic journals, books and conference proceedings published by… more

Digital library Engineering, Mathematics, Physics

The CERN Document Server (CDS) is a CERN institutional repository. CDS Videos is a… more

Digital library CERN, General

CERN Analysis Preservation (CAP) is a service for researchers to preserve and document the various components of their… more

Other types CERN, Physics

CERN Document Server is where you can find the CERN scientific output (articles, preprints, reports, CERN Annual reports,… more

Digital library CERN, Engineering, General, IT, Language, Mathematics, Other subjects, Physics

The CERN Library Catalogue includes all the collections acquired and managed by the CERN Library: books, e-books, proceedings… more

Bibliographic database General

The CERN Open Data portal is the access point to a growing range of data produced through the research performed at CERN. It… more

Data collection CERN, Physics

A list of CERN-related resources in Wikipedia - categories and articles related to CERN and… more

Encyclopedia CERN, Physics

The Chicago Manual of Style (CMOS or CMS) is a style guide for American English published since 1906 by the University of… more

Manual of styles Language

Compendex® is the most comprehensive bibliographic engineering database, covering 190 disciplines from the world's significant… more

Bibliographic database Engineering

Includes almost 3,000 records of institutions active in high-energy physics and having some connections with CERN. It is a… more

Address database Physics

Engineering & Equipment Data Management Service (EDMS) is CERN's Engineering Data Management Service. More information on… more

Digital library CERN, Engineering

For several years CERN has been an active member in several standardization organizations who… more

Digital library Engineering

The Encyclopædia Britannica (Latin for 'British Encyclopaedia') is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia. It was… more

Encyclopedia General

The Handbook of Chemistry and Physics is one of the most important data reference books used by scientists worldwide for over… more

Data collection Physics

The Durham High-Energy-Physics Database is an open access repositorymore

Data collection Physics

Online access to all IEEE and IET journals and magazines, IEEE and IET conference proceedings and approved and published IEEE… more

Digital library Engineering

Indico is a web application which provides support for organising events. You can find event-related files… more

Conferences CERN, General

The INIS repository contains bibliographic references and full-text documents of conventional and non-conventional literature… more

Bibliographic database, Digital library Engineering, Physics

INSPEC is a bibliographic database of published literature in physics, electrical/electronic engineering, computing, control… more

Bibliographic database Engineering, Physics

INSPIRE is a trusted community hub that helps researchers to share and find accurate scholarly information in high-energy… more

Bibliographic database Physics

Online access to the full list of scientific journals published by the Institute of Physics (IOP)  from 1874 until present. It… more

Digital library Physics

The JSTOR collections feature the full-text articles of more than 2,600 academic journals across the humanities, social… more

Digital library Mathematics

Online access to the well-known French dictionary Le Grand Robert. Includes more than 100,000 words, and many additional… more

Dictionary Language

For more than 150 years, Merriam-Webster has been America's leading and most-trusted provider of language information. All… more

Dictionary Language

CERN SIS is supporting the Direct to Open programmore

Digital library Engineering, General, IT, Mathematics, Physics

NTRS provides access to aerospace-related citations, full-text online documents, images, and videos. The types of information… more

Bibliographic database, Digital library Engineering, Physics

For over a hundred years Hart’s Rules has been the authority on style, helping writers and editors to prepare copy for… more

Manual of styles Language

This dictionary provides scientists, science writers, and all who work in scientific publishing with a clear style guide for… more

Manual of styles Language

This specialist dictionary proves an essential guide to the written word, with thousands of brief informative entries to… more

Manual of styles Language

Nucleonica is a web portal developed for the worldwide nuclear science community. This resource replaces the traditional paper… more

Data collection Physics

This platform includes a majority of the e-books previously available on the Proquest Safari platform and a large number of… more

Digital library IT

A collection of online information resources in particle physics and related areas - extended and… more

Other types Physics

OSTI.GOV is the primary search tool for DOE science, technology, and engineering research and development results and the… more

Bibliographic database, Digital library Engineering, General, Physics

These English language reference works are popular and reliable resources that provide expert recommendations on grammar,… more

Dictionary, Grammar guide General

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language. It is a guide to the… more

Dictionary Language

Access to a selection of journals published by Oxford University Press. To view the journals published by Oxford University… more

Digital library Physics

Oxford Reference is the premier online reference product, spanning 25 different subject areas, bringing together 2 million… more

Dictionary, Encyclopedia General

Oxford Scholarship Online (OSO) is a digital library, providing access to thousands of books published by Oxford University… more

Digital library Physics

The site is an archive of the PASCAL and FRANCIS bibliographic databases in exact, human and social sciences, produced by the… more

Bibliographic database, Digital library General

Project Euclid was created to provide a platform for small scholarly publishers of mathematics and statistics journals to move… more

Digital library Mathematics

The Particle Data Group (PDG) is an international collaboration that provides a comprehensive… more

Data collection Physics

Science.gov searches over 60 databases and over 2,200 scientific websites to provide users with access to more than 200… more

Bibliographic database, Digital library Engineering, Physics

ScienceDirect is the online platform giving access to the electronic journals, books and conference proceedings published by… more

Digital library Engineering, Mathematics, Physics

Online access to all scientific journals published on the platform Scientific.net, focused on science and engineering. 

Digital library Engineering, Physics

All articles funded by SCOAP3 appear in the SCOAP3 repository upon publication, alongside… more

Digital library Physics

SNV connect offers an online access to current and historical standards, in English, French or German, published by SNV, IEC,… more

Digital library General

SpringerLink is the online platform giving access to the electronic journals, books and conference proceedings published by… more

Digital library Engineering, Mathematics, Physics

Comprehensive materials database that contains more than 20,000,000 property records for over 450,000 metallic and non-… more

Data collection Engineering

Wiley Online Library is the online platform giving access to the electronic journals, books and conference proceedings … more

Digital library Engineering, Mathematics, Physics

Free online bilingual dictionaries and tools, including, among others, the languages English-Spanish, English-French, English-… more

Dictionary Language

Access to selected electronic journals, books and conference proceedings published by World Scientific. Part of the content is… more

Digital library Engineering, Mathematics, Physics

zbMATH Open also called ZentralBlatt fur Mathematik is the most complete and longest running abstracting and reviewing service… more

Data collection Mathematics

Zenodo is an open repository for all scholarship, enabling… more

Digital library General