LibGuides: Physics and Astronomy Research Guide: Find Books

Find Books and Videos

Interested in physically browsing our book collection for books on physics or astronomy? Go to the General Collection, Reference Collection, Video Collection, or New Books Shelf (2nd & 3rd floors) of Woodward Library and look up the following call number ranges.

Please Note: this list does not represent all titles or subjects of interest available for research in physics or astronomy. Consult the library's online catalog, Austin, for additional areas of interest.

Library of Congress (LC) Call Numbers

Subclass QB -- Astronomy

QB1-139 General

QB140-237 Practical and spherical astronomy

QB275-343 Geodesy

QB349-421 Theoretical astronomy and celestial mechanics

QB455-456 Astrogeology

QB460-466 Astrophysics

QB468-480 Non-optical methods of astronomy

QB495-903 Descriptive astronomy

QB500.5-785 Solar system

QB799-903 Stars

QB980-991 Cosmogony. Cosmology

Subclass QC -- Physics

QC1-75 General

QC81-114 Weights and measures

QC120-168.85 Descriptive and experimental mechanics

QC170-197 Atomic physics. Constitution and properties of matter

Including molecular physics, relativity, quantum theory, and

solid state physics

QC221-246 Acoustics. Sound

QC251-338.5 Heat

QC310.15-319 Thermodynamics

QC350-467 Optics. Light

QC450-467 Spectroscopy

QC474-496.9 Radiation physics (General)

QC501-766 Electricity and magnetism

QC501-(721) Electricity

QC669-675.8 Electromagnetic theory

QC676-678.6 Radio waves (Theory)

QC701-715.4 Electric discharge

QC717.6-718.8 Plasma physics. Ionized gases

QC750-766 Magnetism

QC770-798 Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity

QC793-793.5 Elementary particle physics

QC794.95-798 Radioactivity and radioactive substances

QC801-809 Geophysics. Cosmic physics

QC811-849 Geomagnetism

QC851-999 Meteorology. Climatology

Including the earth's atmosphere

QC974.5-976 Meteorological optics

QC980-999 Climatology and weather

QC994.95-999 Weather forecasting

For a complete listing of all LC Call Numbers, go to the Library of Congress Classification Outline.

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*This edition of WorldCat, provided through OCLC FirstSearch, enables users to search multiple terms in specific fields (title, author, subject, etc.) and limit by characteristics such as format, date, or audience level.

A free version is available at http://www.worldcat.org/

Resources with Electronic Books

Many of the books in these collections will appear in search results from the catalog search above. They may also be searched individually using the links provided below.

ABC-CLIO eBook Collection This link opens in a new window
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Collection of Electronic Books on various subjects
*The ABC-CLIO eBook Collection is comprised of all the electronic titles from the publisher ABC-CLIO for which Austin Peay State University has purchased access.

*The "Search" option in the upper-left enables you to search through the text in all the listed volumes.

*You can also can click on any individual title to browse the contents or conduct a search.
Ebook Central (Academic Complete) This link opens in a new window
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Electronic Book Collection containing over 134,000 titles as of October 2016. All titles can be viewed online and most downloaded to PC, iOS, or Android.
*Formerly known as ebrary, eBook Central (Academic Complete) is a collection of around 134,000 electronic books provided by Felix G. Woodward Library. The content for this collection covers a wide variety of subject areas and all the titles within this collection can be searched simultaneously. Access is provided to these titles through the link above as well as through the Austin Library Catalog.

Most eBook Central titles include unlimited access and can be downloaded by chapter in PDF format or in full through Adobe Digital Editions or apps for iOS and Android. See http://libguides.apsu.edu/ebrary for more info.

Around 300 titles may have limited access and only allow 1 user to open the the book at a time (download option not available). Follow the guidelines at the bottom of this text for these titles*.

*There is no time limit for reading a limited ebrary book. However, if another user wants to use the book and places it in their queue, it will be passed on to the next user in the queue after 15 minutes of inactivity. (Being active means turning pages, doing full-text searches, making notes, etc).
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*This growing subscription package (EBSCO Academic collection) contains a large selection of multidisciplinary eBook titles representing a broad range of academic subject matter. More than 161,000 titles are included in this package, and additional titles are added to the package each month. Also included in this collection are thousands of previously purchased NetLibrary eBooks from the SoliNet shared collections. NetLibrary was purchased by EBSCO in 2010.

*Books in the Academic Collection have unlimited access and many can be downloaded for offline viewing. See http://libguides.apsu.edu/ebsco_ebooks
Education Collection (ASCD) This link opens in a new window
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Education and Professional Development eBooks from ASCD
*Collection of 66 electronic books from the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD)

*covers titles that address the ongoing professional development needs of today's educators

*individual chapters can be printed, downloaded, and e-mailed

*citations can be exported in MLA and APA format
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Catalog of online electronic books
*Electronic Books is an OCLC catalog of online electronic books cataloged by OCLC members and available through libraries worldwide

*Dates Covered: All cataloged ebooks to the present

*Titles Covered: Over 665,000 books in the database.
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All subjects (Encyclopedias & Reference)
*Gale Virtual Reference Library delivers a wealth of electronic reference content in a database format.

*The sources that Gale Virtual Reference Library offers in eBook format include multi-volume encyclopedias, biographical collections, business plan handbooks, company history compilations, consumer health references, and specialized reference sources.

*A list of titles accessible to APSU is available within the resource
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All subjects
*Website that facilitates access to books that are freely readable over the Internet. It also aims to encourage the development of such online books, for the benefit and edification of all. It lists over 30,000 free books on the Web.
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Encyclopedia
*World Book Online provides access to the following sections:

Early Learning,

World Book Kids,

World Book Discover,

World Book Student,

World Book Advanced,

World Book Timelines,

World Book EBooks,

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