The Philosophy of Physics Writing Guide

Physics Journals

DeWitt Library database has access to a number of physics and philosophy and religion journals.  

Find the "search within publication" in order to focus your search in only that journal.

The following are open access journals that have reprints which can be used if they are less than 3 years old. 

  • arXiv "is a free distribution service and an open-access archive for 1,823,661 scholarly articles in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics. Materials on this site are not peer-reviewed by arXiv."
  • bioRxiv "(pronounced "bio-archive") is a free online archive and distribution service for unpublished preprints in the life sciences. It is operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a not-for-profit research and educational institution. By posting preprints on bioRxiv, authors are able to make their findings immediately available to the scientific community and receive feedback on draft manuscripts before they are submitted to journals."

Electronic Databases

  • AtlaSerials
    AtlaSerials is the American Theological Library Association’s database of journals and articles on topics in biblical studies, world religions, church history, theology, and religion in social issues. Our subscription provides full-text content to more than 330 journals in this area.
     
  • BioOne 
    A searchable collection of high-impact bioscience research journals from a community of independent society and organizational publishers.
     
  • ScienceDirect 
    A large database of authoritative articles in the sciences including physical, life, health and social.

Open Access Physics Journals

Physics (ISSN 2624-8174) is an international peer-reviewed open access journal which presents latest research on all aspects of physics. It publishes original research articles, review articles, and communications with no restriction on the length of the papers. Physics is published quarterly online by MDPI.

New Journal of Physics (NJP) publishes important new research of the highest scientific quality with significance across a broad readership. The journal is owned and run by scientific societies, with the selection of content and the peer review managed by a prestigious international board of scientists.

Philosophy Databases

Young Earth Perspective

The articles found in these open access journals are peer-reviewed and considered to be scholarly sources.

  • Answers Research Journal is published by Answers in Genesis. Articles deal with scientific "research from the perspective of the recent creation and global flood within a Biblical framework."
  • Creation Research Society Quarterly (CRSQ) was first published in 1964. It is peer-reviewed and provides scientific evidence supporting "intelligent design, a recent creation, and a catastrophic worldwide flood." Articles published between 1964 and 2014 are open access. A few recently published articles are available as pdfs.
  • Creation Matters contains "news of interest to creationists as well as scientific news about creation and evolution." Issues from1998  to 2009 are available online.
  • Journal of Creation is a part of Creation Ministries International.
  • Detriot Baptist Seminary Journal is found in the ATLAS database. Issues 18 and 21 have articles from the creationist viewpoint.

About Journals at DeWitt

We have 2 ways to search for journals at DeWitt Library using BrowZine:

To see what journals we have in a subject area, browse to your subject, then click on the journal(s) you are interested in.  You'll see a table of contents for the latest issue and can review what topics are being discussed.  You can also browse back to previous issues.

To see if you have access to a specific title, enter the title in the search box.  

If you are looking for a journal we do not have access to, please try Interlibrary Loan. You can also contact the library if you have any questions.  

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