Books

Search the Library's Sofia Discovery tool for books. The catalogue searches the title and descriptions of books, and not the full text. For full text searches, try a Google Books search to first identify titles of interest.

eBooks

Follow this instructional PDF to limit the format of your results to electronic books and electronic audiobooks for remote access.

Schulich Library maintains a list of e-book packages in the physical sciences and engineering. 

Relevant packages for physics:

• SpringerLink: The Springer eBook Collection has more than 10,000 titles in physics.
• Wiley Online Library: Hundreds of physics e-books to explore.

Selected titles for background information

• A dictionary of physics (Oxford Reference Online)
• A dictionary of astronomy (Oxford Reference Online)
• Encyclopedia of the solar system
• Encyclopedia of applied physics
• Encyclopedia of the history of astronomy and astrophysics
• Oxford companion to cosmology
• Nanoparticle technology handbook
• CRC handbook of chemistry and physics
• Encyclopedia of chemical physics and physical chemistry
• NIST Physical Reference Data (National Institute of Standards and Technology)

Browse these selections of biographies of physicists, astronomers and astrophysicists, as well as women in these fields.

Open textbooks

• The Feynman Lectures on Physics (hosted by Caltech)
• MIT online textbooks: Open-licensed electronic versions of print books, self-published online books, or course notes that serve as alternatives to conventional textbooks.
• Physics LibreTexts library: Open access textbooks.
• OpenStax: Nonprofit based at Rice University.
  • ​Astronomy 2e
  • University Physics (3 volumes)