Library

Photo: F. Caldwell/MPP

The library of the Max-Planck-Institute for Physics specializes in particle physics, cosmology, field and string theory and mathematical physics. Selected books on topics in pure and applied mathematics complete the portfolio.

The library holds offers 46,000 monographs, with about 350 books per year being added. Furthermore a collection of textbooks is available for students, with triple copies respectively. Newspapers and magazines of general interest are available in the reading room.

The library is constantly updating and completing its portfolio. Suggestions for new aquisitions are welcome and can be directed to the library.

Opening hours

  • To MPP members and scientific guests the library is open anytime.
  • For visitors, opening hours are monday to thursday from 9.00 a.m. to 3.00 p.m. and friday from 9.00 a.m. to 1.00 p.m.

Book search

OPAC
New acquisitions

Resources

Electronic Journals Library (EZB)
rzblx1.uni-regensburg.de/ezeit/index.phtml
Journals Database (ZDB)
www.zeitschriftendatenbank.de
JSTOR
www.jstor.org
Annual Reviews
www.annualreviews.org
University of Chicago Press Journals
www.journals.uchicago.edu
Astronomy and Astrophysics
www.aanda.org
IEEE Explore
ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/guesthome.jsp
World Scientific Journals
www.worldscinet.com/subject.shtml
Nature
www.nature.com/index.html
Nature Physics
www.nature.com/nphys/index.html
Science
www.sciencemag.org
Physics Today
www.physicstoday.org

CERN Document Server
cds.cern.ch
Spires-HEP
www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/
NASA ADS
adswww.harvard.edu
ArXiv
arxiv.org
Web of Knowledge
www.isiwebofknowledge.com
CSA Illumina
www.csa.com
MathSciNet
www.ams.org/mathscinet/
Scirus
www.scirus.com
EBSCOhost
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