Online resources
| Link | Description | Access | Subjects |
|---|---|---|---|
| ACM Digital Library | The ACM Digital Library is a research and discovery platform containing the full-text collection of all Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) publications, including journals, conference proceedings, technical magazines and newsletters. The access to the e-books is not included. | CERN account required | IT |
| ACS Journals | Access to all the journals published by the American Chemical Society (ACS), including the earliest years of those publications. The access to the e-books is not included. | CERN account required | Other subjects |
| AIP Journals | Online access to all 24 journals published by the American Institute of Physics (AIP). This portfolio comprises peer-reviewed journals, including a growing portfolio of open access titles, that cover all areas of the physical sciences. | CERN account required, Free | Physics |
| AMS | Access to a selection of volumes of some book series published by the American Mathematical Society: – Contemporary Mathematics – AMS/IP Studies in Advanced Mathematics – Proceedings of Symposia in Pure Mathematics Specific access instructions This resource cannot be accessed from outside CERN using EzProxy. In order to be able to remotely access AMS publications, you need to follow these instructions. | CERN IP | Mathematics |
| Annual lists of CERN-authored publications | To access the lists of CERN publications, please follow the links below (allow some loading time). You can find the respective CERN Annual Reports themselves on the CERN Document Server (CDS), see CERN Annual reports collection. For more detailed statistics on CERN annual publications as of 2004, please consult this page. | Free | CERN, Physics |
| APS Journals | Online access to all of the 14 journals published by the American Physical Society (APS) since 1893. Part of the content is available in open access. | CERN account required, Free | Physics |
| ARIBIB | ARIBIB: Astronomisches Rechen-Institut BIBliographical Database for Astronomical References provides access to bibliographic information of the published literature in all aspects of astronomy, astrophysics, and their neighbouring fields. The ARIBIB is based on the information given in the printed bibliography ‘Astronomy and Astrophysics Abstracts’. AAA were published from 1899 until 2000. Astronomy and Astrophysics Abstracts was designed to assist engineers, scientists and others to locate relevant journal articles, conference papers and other documents in response to specific queries. | Free | Physics |
| arXiv | arXiv is a free distribution service and an open access archive for more than 1,600,000 scholarly articles in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics. | Free | Mathematics, Other subjects, Physics |
| ASM Handbooks Online | The ASM Handbook is a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the structure, properties, processing, performance, and evaluation of metals and nonmetallic engineering materials. | CERN account required, CERN IP | Engineering |
| Astrophysics Data System (ADS) | The SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) is a digital library portal for researchers in astronomy and physics, operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) under a NASA grant. The ADS maintains three bibliographic databases containing more than 13 million records covering publications in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Physics, and the arXiv e-prints. Abstracts and full-text of major astronomy and physics publications are indexed and searchable. | Free | Physics |
| Cambridge Core | Cambridge Core is an online platform giving access to the electronic journals, books and conference proceedings published by Cambridge University Press. At CERN, the access is only available for some selected journals and e-books. In order to find the Cambridge Core journals and e-books available at CERN, please consult the CERN Library Catalogue. | CERN account required | Engineering, Mathematics, Physics |
| CDS Videos | The CERN Document Server (CDS) is a CERN institutional repository. CDS Videos is a repository dedicated to CERN-related videos. Specific access instructions Some videos are restricted and require a CERN login. | Free | CERN, General |
| CERN Analysis Preservation | CERN Analysis Preservation (CAP) is a service for researchers to preserve and document the various components of their physics analyses, e.g. datasets, software, documentation, so that they are reusable and understandable in the future. By using this tool, researchers ensure these outputs are preserved, findable and accessible for their collaborators in the long-term. | Free | CERN, Physics |
| CERN Document Server (CDS) | CERN Document Server is where you can find the CERN scientific output (articles, preprints, reports, CERN Annual reports, Yellow Reports, CERN Bulletin, etc.). The books, proceedings, standards and periodicals can be found on the CERN Library Catalogue. | CERN account required, Free | CERN, Engineering, General, IT, Language, Mathematics, Other subjects, Physics |
| CERN Document Server (new repository) | During the migration of the current CERN Document Server to the new one, some new collections may be available exclusively on the new instance (example: FCC documents). Explore both https://cds.cern.ch/ (current version) and the new repository (more collections to come). | CERN account required, Free | CERN, Physics, Engineering, General, IT, Language, Mathematics, Other subjects |
| CERN Library Catalogue | The CERN Library Catalogue includes all the collections acquired and managed by the CERN Library: books, e-books, proceedings, standards and periodicals. | CERN account required, CERN IP, Free, Restricted | General |
| CERN Open Data Portal | The CERN Open Data portal is the access point to a growing range of data produced through the research performed at CERN. It disseminates the preserved output from various research activities, including accompanying software and documentation which is needed to understand and analyse the data being shared. | Free | CERN, Physics |
| CERN-related resources in Wikipedia | A list of CERN-related resources in Wikipedia – categories and articles related to CERN and particle physics (laboratories, accelerators, experiments, people, etc.). | Free | CERN, Physics |
| Chicago Manual of Style | The Chicago Manual of Style (CMOS or CMS) is a style guide for American English published since 1906 by the University of Chicago Press. | CERN account required | Language |
| Directory of high-energy physics institutes | Includes almost 3,000 records of institutions active in high-energy physics and having some connections with CERN. It is a collection available on the CERN Document Server (CDS). | Free | Physics |
| EDMS | Engineering & Equipment Data Management Service (EDMS) is CERN’s Engineering & Equipment Data Management Service (EDMS) is CERN’s Engineering Data Management Service. More information here. | CERN account required | CERN, Engineering |
| Electronics specifications and standards | For several years CERN has been an active member in several standardization organizations. Learn more here. | CERN account required | Engineering |
| Encyclopædia Britannica | The Encyclopædia Britannica (Latin for ‘British Encyclopaedia’) is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia. It was formerly published by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., and other publishers (for previous editions). It was written by about 100 full-time editors and more than 4,000 contributors. | CERN account required | General |
| HEPdata | The Durham High-Energy-Physics Database is an open access repository for scattering data relative to experimental particle physics. It currently counts around 9,000 publications and over 83,000 data tables. HEPData is funded by a grant from the UK STFC, and based at the IPPP at Durham University. | Free | Physics |
| IEEE Electronic Library | Online access to all IEEE and IET journals and magazines, IEEE and IET conference proceedings and approved and published IEEE standards. | CERN account required | Engineering |
| Indico | Indico is a web application which provides support for organising events. You can find event-related files and documents (e.g. presentations, slides) for lectures, conferences, meetings, etc. | Free, Restricted | CERN, General |
| INIS | The INIS repository contains bibliographic references and full-text documents of conventional and non-conventional literature, including scientific and technical reports, conference proceedings, patents and theses. It covers all areas of IAEA’s activities, including nuclear engineering and technology, nuclear safety and radiation protection, safeguards and non-proliferation, applications of nuclear and isotope techniques, nuclear and high-energy physics, nuclear and radiation chemistry, nuclear applications in life sciences, legal aspects, and environmental and economic aspects of nuclear and non-nuclear energy sources. | Free | Engineering, Physics |
| INSPIRE | INSPIRE is a trusted community hub that helps researchers to share and find accurate scholarly information in high-energy physics. It serves as a one-stop information platform for the high-energy physics (HEP) community, comprising 8 interlinked databases on literature, conferences, institutions, journals, researchers, experiments, jobs and data. Run in collaboration by CERN, DESY, Fermilab, IHEP, IN2P3, and SLAC, it has been serving the scientific community for almost 50 years. Previously known as SPIRES, it was the first website outside Europe and the first database on the web. Close interaction with the user community and with arXiv, ADS, HEPData, ORCID, PDG and publishers is the backbone of INSPIRE’s evolution. | Free | Physics |
| IOPscience | Online access to the full list of scientific journals published by the Institute of Physics (IOP) from 1874 until present. It includes also access to a selected list of e-books. | CERN account required, Free | Physics |
| JSTOR | The JSTOR collections feature the full-text articles of more than 2,600 academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Journal titles are from 1,200 publishers from 57 countries. At CERN, the access is only available for a selection of more than 50 journals in ‘Mathematics and Statistics’. To view the JSTOR journals available at CERN, please consult the CERN Library Catalogue. | CERN account required | Mathematics |
| Le Grand Robert | Online access to the well-known French dictionary Le Grand Robert. Includes more than 100,000 words, and many additional resources. Specific access instructions Please select the option ‘Accès direct par adresse IP’ at the bottom of the page. Access from outside CERN doesn’t work with EzProxy: please follow the instructions at the bottom of the EzProxy page. | CERN IP | Language |
| Merriam-Webster | For more than 150 years, Merriam-Webster has been America’s leading and most-trusted provider of language information. All Merriam-Webster products and services are backed by the largest team of professional dictionary editors and writers in America, and one of the largest in the world. | Free | Language |
| MIT Press e-books | CERN SIS is supporting the Direct to Open program from MIT Press, which will contribute to the Open Access publishing of around 90 monographs from MIT Press, and provide to CERN Users access to the monographs backfiles in Science and Technology (~ 1,300 titles). | CERN account required, CERN IP | Engineering, General, IT, Mathematics, Physics |
| NASA Technical Report Server (NTRS) | NTRS provides access to aerospace-related citations, full-text online documents, images, and videos. The types of information included are: conference papers, journal articles, meeting papers, patents, research reports, images, movies and technical videos. This is scientific and technical information (STI) created or funded by NASA. | Free, Restricted | Engineering, Physics |
| New Hart’s Rules: The Oxford Style Guide | For over a hundred years Hart’s Rules has been the authority on style, helping writers and editors to prepare copy for publication. The latest edition of this guide has an increased focus on publishing in a digital age and has been updated in consultation with publishing experts and using the unrivalled resources of Oxford Dictionaries. | CERN account required | Language |
| New Oxford Dictionary for Scientific Writers & Editors | This dictionary provides scientists, science writers, and all who work in scientific publishing with a clear style guide for the presentation of scientific information. In over 9,700 entries, it reflects widely accepted usage and follows the recommendations of international scientific bodies such as IUPAC and IUPAP. The dictionary gives clear guidance on such matters as spellings (American English and British English), punctuation, abbreviations, prefixes and suffixes, units and quantities, and symbols. | CERN account required | Language |
| Nucleonica | Nucleonica is a web portal developed Nucleonica is a web portal developed for the worldwide nuclear science community. This resource replaces the traditional paper-based Karlsruhe Nuclide Chart. In order to benefit from this resource, you can register for a basic account using your CERN email address and your account will be automatically upgraded to Premium. | CERN account required | Physics |
| O’Reilly Learning platform | This platform includes a majority of the e-books previously available on the Proquest Safari platform and a large number of videos, trainings and audiobooks, mainly in IT, but also in other domains such as management and communication. This platform is accessible with your CERN account from inside or outside CERN. Please connect to this link, select CERN as an institution and enter your credentials. Since November 2021, the O’Reilly app works also with the CERN Authentication. | CERN account required | IT |
| Online Particle Physics Information | A collection of online information resources in particle physics and related areas – extended and regularly updated online version of the chapter ‘Online Particle Physics Information’ of the Review of Particle Physics (RPP). | Free | Physics |
| OSTI.GOV | A collection of online information OSTI.GOV is the primary search tool for DOE science, technology, and engineering research and development results and the organizational hub for information about the DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information. It consolidates OSTI’s home page and our now retired primary search tool SciTech Connect. OSTI.GOV makes discoverable over 70 years of research results from DOE and its predecessor agencies. Research results include journal articles/accepted manuscripts and related metadata; technical reports; scientific research datasets and collections; scientific software; patents; conference and workshop papers; books and theses; and multimedia. OSTI.GOV contains over 3 million records, including citations to 1.5 million journal articles. | Free, Restricted | Engineering, General, Physics |
| Oxford Dictionaries Pro | These English language reference works are popular and reliable rThese These English language reference works are popular and reliable resources that provide expert recommendations on grammar, spelling, and usage; essential guides to the written word; and specialist dictionaries for writers, editors, proofreaders, and other professionals. | CERN account required | General |
| Oxford English Dictionary | The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language. It is a guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words – past and present – from across the English-speaking world. | CERN account required | Language |
| Oxford Journals | Access to a selection of journals published by Oxford University Press. To view the journals published by Oxford University Press available at CERN, please consult the CERN Library Catalogue. | CERN account required | Physics |
| Oxford Reference Online | Oxford Reference is the premier online reference product, spanning 25 different subject areas, bringing together 2 million digitize d entries across Oxford University Press’s Dictionaries, Companions and Encyclopedias. | CERN account required | General |
| Oxford Scholarship Online | Oxford Scholarship Online (OSO) is a digital library, providing access to thousands of books published by Oxford University Press (OUP). At CERN, the access is focused on the books published in the ‘Physics’ domain, the access includes more than 450 books. During the COVID-19 epidemic, the access includes also books in Mathematics (till 31/12/2020) | CERN account required | Physics |
| PASCAL and FRANCIS ! | The site is an archive of the PASCAL and FRANCIS bibliographic databases in exact, human and social sciences, produced by the Inist-CNRS from 1972 to 2015. It provides access to more than 20 million references (articles, patents, maps, conferences, books, reports and theses) in exact sciences and technology, biological and medical sciences, art, archaeology, economics, ethnology, geography, history of science and technology, literature, linguistics, administrative and legal sciences, education and religion sciences. When possible, access to full-text is proposed. Stopped in 2015, this archive does not report any new documentary resources. | Free | General |
| Project Euclid | Project Euclid was created to provide a platform for small scholarly publishers of mathematics and statistics journals to move from print to electronic in a cost-effective way. Through a combination of support by subscribing libraries and participating publishers, over 70% of the journal articles hosted on Project Euclid are openly available. As of 2018, Project Euclid hosts 1.8 million pages of open-access content. | Free | Mathematics |
| Review of Particle Physics | The Particle Data Group (PDG) is an international collaboration that provides a comprehensive summary of particle physics and related areas of cosmology: the Review of Particle Physics. See more information here. | Free | Physics |
| Science.gov | Science.gov searches over 60 databases and over 2,200 scientific websites to provide users with access to more than 200 million pages of authoritative U.S. federal science information including research and development results. | Free, Restricted | Engineering, Physics |
| ScienceDirect | ScienceDirect is the online platform giving access to the electronic journals, books and conference proceedings published by Elsevier, Pergamon Press or Academic Press. At CERN, the access is only available for selected titles. For some of them, the access covers also the backfiles, including the earliest years of the publication. Some open access content can also be found on ScienceDirect. To view the ScienceDirect journals and e-books available at CERN, please consult the CERN Library Catalogue. | CERN account required, Free | Engineering, Mathematics, Physics |
| Scientific.net | Online access to all scientific journals published on the platform Scientific.net, focused on science and engineering. | CERN IP | Engineering, Physics |
| SCOAP3 Repository | All articles funded by SCOAP3 appear in the SCOAP3 repository upon publication, alongside the publishers’ own platforms. Several formats are available, including PDF, PDF/A and XML. Articles are published under a CC-BY license and can be freely downloaded and further disseminated. The repository metadata is also available under a CC0 license. These metadata include article DOIs and the ORCIDs of authors, when available. The aim of the SCOAP3 repository is neither to duplicate arXiv nor the publisher platforms, nor offer value-added services such as those of INSPIRE. It is rather a staging platform, for further distribution of information. The repository was launched in early February 2014 and is continuously being upgraded. It is freely accessible. | Free | Physics |
| SNV Connect | SNV connect offers an online access to current and historical standards, in English, French or German, published by SNV, IEC. Learn more here. | CERN account required | General |
| SpringerLink | SpringerLink is the online platform giving access to the electronic journals, books and conference proceedings published by Springer. At CERN, we have access to most of the journals published by Springer. For some of them, the access covers also the backfiles, including the earliest years of the publication. Some open access content can also be found on SpringerLink. There is an access to the complete collection of e-books in ‘Physics and Astronomy’ and ‘Mathematics’, and for selected titles in ‘Engineering’. To view the Springer journals and e-books available at CERN, please consult the CERN Library Catalogue. | CERN account required, Free | Engineering, Mathematics, Physics |
| Total Materia | Comprehensive materials database that contains more than 20,000,000 property records for over 450,000 metallic and non-metallic materials presented in 26 languages. In order to get access to this database, please register with your CERN email at this URL. See more information here. | CERN account required | Engineering |
| Wiley Online Library | Wiley Online Library is the online platform giving access to the electronic journals, books and conference proceedings published by Wiley. At CERN, we have access to all Wiley journals and a selection of e-books. To view the e-books available at CERN, please consult the CERN Library Catalogue. | CERN account required | Engineering, Mathematics, Physics |
| Wordreference.com | Free online bilingual dictionaries and Free online bilingual dictionaries and tools, including, among others, the languages English-Spanish, English-French, English-Italian, Spanish-French, and Spanish-Portuguese. | Free | Language |
| World Scientific | Access to selected electronic journals, books and conference proceedings published by World Scientific. Part of the content is available in open access. To view the World Scientific journals and e-books available at CERN, please consult the CERN Library Catalogue. | CERN account required, Free | Engineering, Mathematics, Physics |
| zbMATH Open | zbMATH Open also called ZentralBlatt fur Mathematik is the most complete and longest running abstracting and reviewing service in pure and applied mathematics in the world. This covers the years from 1931 to present. Access to the ZBMath online help | Free | Mathematics |
| Zenodo | Zenodo is an open repository for all scholarship, enabling researchers from all disciplines to share and preserve their research outputs, regardless of size or format. Free to upload and free to access, Zenodo makes scientific outputs of all kinds citable, shareable and discoverable for the long term. | Free | General |