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AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY JOURNALS
The American Physical Society (APS) and WCPLtn offer free access to all content in the Society's nine journals and over 400,000 scientific research papers. Access to content is free to patrons visiting the library. Remote access is not available.
| APS Journals Home page | http://publish.aps.org/ |
| Physical Review Letters (PRL) (brief important papers, all topics in physics) | http://prl.aps.org/ |
| Physical Review A (atomic, molecular, and optical physics) | http://pra.aps.org/ |
| Physical Review B (condensed matter and materials physics) | http://prb.aps.org/ |
| Physical Review C (nuclear physics) | http://prc.aps.org/ |
| Physical Review D (particles, fields, gravitation and cosmology) | http://prd.aps.org/ |
| Physical Review E (statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics) | "http://pre.aps.org/ |
| Reviews of Modern Physics (in-depth articles, all topics in physics) | http://rmp.aps.org/ |
| Physical Review Special Topics - Accelerators and Beams | http://prst-ab.aps.org/ |
| Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research | http://prst-per.aps.org/ |
| PROLA, the Physical Review Online Archive (archive of APS journals back to 1893) | http://prola.aps.org/ |
Upon access the journal title block will display the message: "Access provided through the APS Public Access Program and Williamson County Public Library."
APS offers several publications and informational websites that are available free to all users, with no registration or subscription required:
- Physics (highlighting significant papers from APS journals): http://physics.aps.org/
- Focus (selected papers from APS journals explained for students and other researchers): http://focus.aps.org/
- Physics Central (educational/informational site about physics, for students and the public): http://www.physicscentral.com/
