Medical Physics

This guide will help you find information for physics research. If you can’t find what you’re looking or don’t know where to start, please contact Justin Fuhr, the Medical Physics librarian.

If you need to find:	Use:
Peer-reviewed journal articles	Articles & Databases
Broad topics or background information	Books
Quick information on unfamiliar topics, words, or phrases	Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, & Handbooks
Influential or highly-cited journals	Articles & Databases
Most recent medical physics research that may not be formally published	Preprints & Current Research
Information on how to cite or organize journal articles, books, or other sources	Citing & Writing
Help with academic writing	Citing & Writing
Generative AI tools for your research	Using Generative AI for Library Research

Wondering how librarians can help you?

Students

For students, I can:

Discuss your research goals and questions to find relevant resources.
Help you develop a search strategy to find scholarly journal articles or other resources.
Answer any questions you have about systematic or scoping reviews.
Choose the best databases for your research.
Help you to understand citation and reference styles.
Answer any questions about using the library to finish an assignment.
Help you deposit your thesis or dissertation in MSpace, our institutional repository.
Tell you about our amazing library services.

Faculty and Staff

For faculty and staff, I can:

Guide you to an appropriate journal to publish in, open access or otherwise.
Help you to deposit your scholarly work in MSpace, our institutional repository.
Instruct your class on library services and information literacy, such as searching for and evaluating scientific literature.
Answer any questions you have about systematic or scoping reviews.
Speak with your students about an assignment.
Create library content in UMLearn for your class.
Consider book or resource purchase suggestions.
Help make your academic work open, such as using the Open Science Framework.
Interpret journal author agreements.
Answer any questions you have about library services.

Key Databases

PubMed PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to over 11 million citations from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.
Web of Science Web of Science™ Core Collection provides researchers, administrators, faculty, and students with quick, powerful access to the world's leading citation databases. Authoritative, multidisciplinary content covers over 12,000 of the highest impact journals worldwide, including Open Access journals and over 150,000 conference proceedings. You'll find current and retrospective coverage in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities, with coverage to 1900.
Scopus Please Note: Scopus works with Internet Explorer, FireFox and Chrome; there is limited functionality with Safari Scopus is a multi-disciplinary abstract and citation database. Scopus is integrated with, and can simultaneously search Scirus which covers science-related Web pages and institutional repositories. Scopus is able to track cited references: you can use it to search for subsequently published papers that cite an original research paper. more...
INSPEC (Archive) Inspec provides access to scientific literature in electrical engineering, electronics, physics, control engineering, information technology, communications, computers, computing, and manufacturing and production engineering. The database, produced by the Institution of Electrical Engineers, contains over eight million bibliographic records taken from 3,500 scientific and technical journals and 1,500 conference proceedings.
Google Scholar Peer-reviewed papers, theses, books and articles from academic publishers, societies, pre-print repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. Set preferences to make "Get It @ UML" appear if you are not accessing Google Scholar through the link above by clicking on "Scholar Preferences" and typing "Manitoba" into the box by "Library Links". From the list returned, select the University of Manitoba as your affiliated library. It is recommended that you use either Firefox or Internet Explorer to access this resource as both Google Chrome (PC / Mac) and Safari (Mac) seem to drop their respective connections to the Library's proxy server.
MEDLINE (Ovid) Ovid MEDLINE ® covers the international journal literature on biomedicine, including the allied health fields and the biological and physical sciences, humanities, and information science as they relate to medicine and health care.
arXiv arXiv.org is an open access database of preprints and e-prints of scientific papers, maintained by Cornell University Library, covering the subject areas of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, and statistics. Mathematicians and scientists regularly upload their papers to arXiv.org for worldwide access before they are published in peer-reviewed journals. Content is updated monthly.
ScienceDirect ScienceDirect provides access to academic journals and e-books from Elsevier Science. Subjects covered include agriculture, chemistry, computer science, materials science, mathematics and physics.
IEEE Xplore The IEEE provides access to the full text of ejournals, ebooks, conference proceedings, and technical standards of: the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and SAE International (Society of Automotive Engineers). Subject areas include electrical engineering, computer science, electronics, bioengineering, and communication technologies, among other growing areas of research.

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