Reference books provide background information on a topic, such as definitions of terms, key figures and events, and well written overviews. They can be a useful starting point for any research project, because they fill in missing knowledge about the topic or provide you with the language of the discipline.
Selected books from our Reference collection:
A Dictionary of Physics
Encyclopedia of Condensed Matter Physics
Encyclopedia of the Solar System
Springer handbook of atomic, molecular, and optical physicsAccessScience is a multi-media scholarly reference in the area of science and technology.
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