Physical Sciences Journal Backfiles
One of the largest archives of its kind issued by a single publisher, the complete Wiley backfile includes over 17 million pages across more than 900 titles. The Physical Science backfile collection features many of the earliest top-tier journals in their respective field, including several titles published on behalf of academic and professional societies. Nobel laureates such as Robert H. Grubbs, Elias J. Corey, Robert Burns Woodward and Roald Hoffmann, as well as early pioneers in their respective fields such as Ted Belytschko, Thomas J. R. Hughes and René de Borst are represented. Our content is deep, with coverage extending to Volume 1, Issue 1, including issues dating back to the eighteenth century.
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Biotechnology
563,000+ pages, some dating back to the 19th century, from 21 journals, including:
Journals
- AIChE Journal
- Chemical Engineering & Technology
- Chemie Ingenieur Technik
- Journal of the Society of Chemical Industry
(currently known as Journal of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology) - Journal of Molecular Recognition
- Journal of Peptide Science
- Process Safety Progress
- The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering
Free Key Articles
- Local compositions in thermodynamic excess functions for liquid mixtures
AIChE Journal, 1968 - Catalytic palladium-based membrane reactors: A review
The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, 1991 - The metabolism of penicillium chrysogenum and the production of penicillin using a high yielding strain, at different temperatures
Journal of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology, 1972 - DNA recognition by intercalators and hybrid molecules
Journal of Molecular Recognition, 1994 - Synthesis, characterization and biocompatibility of PEGA resins
Journal of Peptide Science, 1995 - Models for domino effect analysis in chemical process industries
Process Safety Progress, 1998
Chemistry
1,000,000+ pages, some dating back to the 19th century, from 24 journals, including:
Journals
- Acta Crystallographica Section A
- Journal für Praktische Chemie
(currently known as Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis) - Angewandte Chemie International Edition
- Helvetica Chimica Acta
- International Journal of Quantum Chemistry
- Journal of Applied Crystallography
- Journal of Computational Chemistry
- Journal of Heterocyclic Chemistry
- Journal of the Society of Dyers and Colourists
(currently known as Coloration Technology) - Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine Chemie
Free Key Articles
- Characterization of Nx,Ny-Disubstituted adenines by ultraviolet absorption spectra
Journal of Heterocyclic Chemistry, 1965 - CHARMM: A program for macromolecular energy, minimization, and dynamics calculations
Journal of Computational Chemistry, 1983 - Phenanthridin u. Acetylen-dicarbonsäureester 34. Mitteilung Über Dien-Synthesen
Journal für Praktische Chemie (currently known as Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis), 1940 - The Conservation of Orbital Symmetry
Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English, 1969 - Theoretical models incorporating electron correlation
International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, 1976 - Über Aromatenkomplexe von Metallen. II. Zur Kristallstruktur und Molekelgestalt des Di-benzol-chrom(0)
Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine Chemie, 1956 - Improved methods for building protein models in electron density maps and the location of errors in these models
Acta Crystallographica Section A, 1991 - MOLSCRIPT: a program to produce both detailed and schematic plots of protein structures
Journal of Applied Crystallography, 1991 - Zur Kenntnis der Triterpene. 190. Mitteilung. Eine stereochemische Interpretation der biogenetischen Isoprenregel bei den Triterpenen
Helvetica Chimica Acta, 1955
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Chemistry Societies
Over 1 million articles from Annalen, Angewandte, Berichte and more, including:
Journals
Chemistry Societies - Annalen, Angewandte, Berichte and more
- Angewandte Chemie
- Chemische Berichte
(currently known as European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry) - Chemistry: A European Journal
- Liebigs Annalen
(currently known as European Journal of Organic Chemistry)
Chemistry Societies II
- Berichte der Bunsengesellschaft für physikalische Chemie
- Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte
- Bulletin de Sociétè Chimiques Belges
(currently known as European Journal of Organic Chemistry / European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry) - ChemInform
- Chinese Journal of Chemistry
- Nachrichten aus der Chemie
- Recueil de Traveaux Chimiques des Pays-bas
(currently known as European Journal of Organic Chemistry / European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry) - Zeitschrift für Chemie
Free Key Articles
- Synthesen in der hydroaromatischen Reihe
Justus Liebigs Annalen der Chemie (currently known as the European Journal of Organic Chemistry), 1928 - Zur Reaktionsweise des Pentaphenyl-phosphors und einiger Derivate
Justus Liebigs Annalen der Chemie (currently known as the European Journal of Organic Chemistry), 1953 - Eine neue Methode zur Synthese von Peptiden: Aktivierung der Carboxylgruppe mit Dicyclohexylcarbodiimid unter Zusatz von 1-Hydroxy-benzotriazolen
Chemische Berichte (currently known as European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry), 1970 - Die Erhaltung der Orbitalsymmetrie
Angewandte Chemie, 1969 - Spezifikation der molekularen Chiralität
Angewandte Chemie, 1966 - Synthesis and characterization of thiol-stabilized CdTe nanocrystals
Berichte der Bunsengesellschaft für physikalische Chemie, 1996 - The stereochemistry of chuangxinmycin
Acta Chimica Sinica, 1985 - Studies on organophosphorus compounds XX. syntheses of thioketones
Bulletin des Sociétés Chimiques Belges, 1978 - The enzymic conversion of all-cis 8,11,14-eicosatrienoic acid into prostaglandin E1
Recueil des Travaux Chimiques des Pays-Bas, 1966 - Controlling Self-Assembly
Chemistry – A European Journal, 1997
Analytical Sciences
183,000+ pages from 12 journals, including:
Journals
- Biomedical Chromatography
- Electroanalysis
- Electrophoresis
- Journal of Bioluminescence and Chemiluminescence
(currently known as Luminescence) - Journal of Chemometrics
- Journal of High Resolution Chromatography
(now known as Journal of Separation Science, including Journal of Microcolumn Separations) - Journal of Mass Spectrometry
- Journal of Raman Spectroscopy
- Mass Spectrometry Reviews
- Organic Magnetic Resonance
(currently known as Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry) - Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry
- X-Ray Spectrometry
Free Key Articles
- Analytical chemistry and biochemistry of D-amino acids
Biomedical Chromatography, 1996 - Carbon-Paste Electrodes Modified with Enzymes, Tissues, and Cells
Electroanalysis, 1995 - 1,2-Dioxetanes: Novel chemiluminescent enzyme substrates. Applications to immunoassays
Luminescence, 1989 - Selectivity, local rank, three-way data analysis and ambiguity in multivariate curve resolution
Journal of Chemometrics, 1995 - Conformation-dependent 13C chemical shifts: A new means of conformational characterization as obtained by high-resolution solid-state 13C NMR
Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry, 1986 - Analysis of X-ray spectra by iterative least squares (AXIL): New developments
X-Ray Spectrometry, 1994 - The Raman spectrum of brookite, TiO2 (Pbca, Z = 8)
Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, 1995 - Assigning structures to ions in the gas phase
Journal of Mass Spectrometry, 1985 - Improved silver staining of plant proteins, RNA and DNA in polyacrylamide gels
Electrophoresis, 1987 - New desorption strategies for the mass spectrometric analysis of macromolecules
Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 1993
Statistics and Mathematics
255,000+ pages from 15 journals, including:
Journals
- Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry
- Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics
- Journal of Graph Theory
- Journal of Time-Series Analysis
- Naval Research Logistics (NRL)
- Networks
- Random Structures & Algorithms
- ZAMM - Zeitschrift fuer Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik
Free Key Articles
- Orthonormal bases of compactly supported wavelets
Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics, 1988 - The graph isomorphism disease
Journal of Graph Theory, 1977 - An Introduction to Long-Term Memory Time Series Models and Fractional Differencing
Journal of Time-Series Analysis, 1980 - An algorithm for the resource constrained shortest path problem
Networks, 1989 - A survey of the search theory literature
Naval Research Logistics (NRL), 1991 - Interpreting multiple correspondence analysis
Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry, 1991 - A critical point for random graphs with a given degree sequence
Random Structures & Algorithms, 1995 - Existenz- und Konvergenzsätze für die Prandtlschen Grenzschicht-differentialgleichungen unter Benutzung der Linienmethode
ZAMM - Journal of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics / Zeitschrift für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik, 1977
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Civil Engineering
Almost 25,000 pages, including:
Journals
- Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics
- Journal of Structural Control
(currently known as Structural Control & Health Monitoring) - Structural Design of Tall Buildings
(currently known as The Structural Design of Tall and Special Buildings)
Free Key Articles
- Seismic damage estimation for low- and mid-rise buildings in Japan
Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics, 1981 - Improved numerical dissipation for time integration algorithms in structural dynamics
Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics, 1977 - High damping natural rubber seismic isolators
Journal of Structural Control (currently known as Structural Control and Health Monitoring), 1997 - Hybrid feedback-feedforward control for vibration suppression
Journal of Structural Control (currently known as Structural Control and Health Monitoring), 1996 - Interstory drift design and damage control issues
Structural Design of Tall Buildings (currently known as Structural Design of Tall and Special Buildings), 1995 - New structural systems for tall buildings: The space-truss concept
Structural Design of Tall Buildings (currently known as Structural Design of Tall and Special Buildings), 1995
Communications Technology, Electrical & Systems Engineering
190,000+ pages from 21 journals, including:
Journals
- Electrical Engineering in Japan
- Electronics and Communications in Japan (Part III: Fundamental Electronic Science)
(currently known as Electronics and Communications in Japan) - European Transactions on Electrical Power
- International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications
- International Journal of Energy Research
- International Journal of Human Factors in Manufacturing
(currently known as Human Factors and Ergonomics in Manufacturing & Service Industries) - International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control
- Journal of the American Society for Information Science
(currently known as Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology)
Free Key Articles
- Information search tactics
Journal of the American Society for Information Science (became Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology in 2001), 1979 - Transfer functions of three-phase induction motors under stator voltage control by symmetrically triggered thyristors
Electrical Engineering in Japan, 1979 - Signal matching using wavelet correlation
Electronics & Communications in Japan, 1996 - Space phasor or space vector?
European Transactions on Electrical Power, 1994 - Capacity of Multi-antenna Gaussian Channels
European Transactions on Telecommunications, 1999 - Model reduction for robust control: A schur relative error method
International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing, 1998 - Electronically controlled ota-c filter with follow-the-leader-feedback structure
International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications, 1998 - Markal, a linear-programming model for energy systems analysis: Technical description of the bnl version
International Journal of Energy Research, 1981 - Maximal connected sets—application to microcell CDMA
International Journal of Communication Systems, 1994 - New Technology, Automation, and Work Organization: Stress Problems and Improved Technology Implementation Strategies
International Journal of Human Factors in Manufacturing (became Human Factors and Ergonomics in Manufacturing in 1997), 1995 - A review of evolutionary artificial neural networks
International Journal of Intelligent Systems, 1993 - Dielectric resonator antennas—a review and general design relations for resonant frequency and bandwidth
International Journal of Microwave & Millimeter-wave Computer-Aided Engineering (became International Journal of RF and Microwave Computer-Aided Engineering in 1998), 1994 - QAPlus from Diag Soft
International Journal of Network Management, 1992 - A linear matrix inequality approach to H∞ control
International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, 1994 - A new method for the prediction of fade duration statistics in satellite links above 10 GHz
International Journal of Satellite Communications (became International Journal of Satellite Communications & Networking in 2003), 1994 - Bettering operation of Robots by learning
Journal of Field Robotics (formerly Journal of Robotic Systems), 1984
- A 3D perfectly matched medium from modified maxwell's equations with stretched coordinates
Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, 1994 - On the problems of riblets as a drag reduction device
Optimal Control Applications and Methods, 1989 - Analysis and control of mismatch power loss in photovoltaic arrays
Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications, 1995 - Application of the weibull proportional hazards model to aircraft and marine engine failure data
Quality and Reliability Engineering International, 1987 - Analysis of lengthy sentences using an english comparative structure model
Systems and Computers in Japan, 1996
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Computer Science
Almost 57,000 pages from 10 journals, including:
Journals
- Computational Intelligence
- Computer Graphics Forum
- Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering
- Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience
(currently known as Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience) - Expert Systems
- Information Systems Journal
- Journal of Software Maintenance Research & Practice
(currently known as Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution) - The Journal of Visualization and Computer Animation
(currently known as Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds) - Software Testing, Verification and Reliability
- Software: Practice and Experience
Free Key Articles
- Instance-based prediction of real-valued attributes
Computational Intelligence, 1989 - Real-time Volumetric Deformable Models for Surgery Simulation using Finite Elements and Condensation
Computer Graphics Forum, 1996 - Second Generation of Active Structural Control in Civil Engineering
Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering, 1996 - PVM: A framework for parallel distributed computing
Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (formerly Concurrency: Practice and Experience), 1990 - The problem of implicit knowledge
Expert Systems, 1987 - Case study research: a multi-faceted research approach for IS
Information Systems Journal, 1996 - An early impact analysis technique for software maintenance
Journal of Software: Evolution and Process (currently known as Journal of Software: Evolution and Process), 1994 - Two-dimensional visual simulation of flames, smoke and the spread of fire
Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds (formerly known as The Journal of Visualization and Computer Animation), 1994 - An exercise in weakest preconditions
Software Testing, Verification and Reliability, 1991 - Breaking paragraphs into lines
Software: Practice and Experience, 1981
Numerical Engineering
139,000+ pages, including:
Journals
- Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering
(Currently known as International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering) - International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics
- International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering
- International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids
- International Journal of Numerical Modelling, Electronic Networks, Devices and Fields
- Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences
- Numerical Linear Algebra with Applications
- Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations
Key Free Articles
- Laplacian smoothing and Delaunay triangulations
Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering, 1988 - Dynamic behaviour of saturated porous media; The generalized Biot formulation and its numerical solution
International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, 1984 - Gaussian quadrature formulas for triangles
International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 1972 - Finite element simulation of turbulent Couette–Poiseuille flows using a low Reynolds number k–ϵ model
International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, 1999 - Noise analysis of linear microwave circuits
International Journal of Numerical Modelling, Electronic Networks, Devices and Fields, 1990 - Linear stability condition for explicit Runge-Kutta methods to solve the compressible Navier-Stokes equations
Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences, 1990 - Stability of block LU factorization
Numerical Linear Algebra with Applications, 1995 - Solution of the advection-dispersion equation with free exit boundary
Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations, 1988
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Materials Science
Almost 350,000 pages from 17 journals, including:
Journals
- Advanced Functional Materials
- Advanced Materials
- Journal of the American Ceramic Society
- Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A + B
- Materials and Corrosion
- Microscopy Research and Technique
- Surface and Interface Analysis
Free Key Articles
- Thermodynamics, mechanisms and kinetics of metal dusting
Materials and Corrosion, 1998 - Polymer Layered Silicate Nanocomposites
Advanced Materials, 1996 - Nanochemistry: Synthesis in diminishing dimensions
Advanced Materials, 1992 - Mixed alkyl zinc or cadmium complexes with dialkyl thio- or selenocarbamates: Precursors for cadmium chalcogenides
Advanced Functional Materials (Advanced Materials for Optics and Electronics), 1994 - Calculations of electorn inelastic mean free paths. II. Data for 27 elements over the 50–2000 eV range
Surface and Interface Analysis, 1991 - Ceramic Fuel Cells
Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 1993 - Electrophoretic Deposition (EPD): Mechanisms, Kinetics, and Application to Ceramics
Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 1996 - Correlation between substratum roughness and wettability, cell adhesion, and cell migration
Journal of Biomedical Materials Research, 1997 - Dynamics of mitochondria in living cells: Shape changes, dislocations, fusion, and fission of mitochondria
Microscopy Research and Technique, 1994
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Polymer
Almost 730,000 pages from 12 journals, including:
Journals
- Journal of Applied Polymer Science
- Journal of Polymer Science
- Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics
- Macromolecular Materials and Engineering
- Macromolecular Rapid Communications
- Macromolecular Symposia
- Macromolecular Theory and Simulations
- Polymer Engineering & Science
- Polymer International
Free Key Articles
- Monodisperse polymeric spheres in the micron size range by a single step process
Polymer International, 1982 - Topochemical polymerization of monomers with conjugated triple bonds
Macromolecular Chemistry & Physics, 1972 - Polyelectrolyte/Ionomer behavior in polymer gel collapse
Macromolecular Theory & Simulations, 1994 - Reversible digital and holographic optical storage in polymeric liquid crystals
Macromolecular Rapid Communications, 1987 - Development of concepts in polymer science. A half century in retrospect
Macromolecular Symposia, 1986 - Thermogravimetric and differential thermal analysis of cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin
Journal of Applied Polymer Science, 1970 - Synthesis and barrier properties of poly(ε-caprolactone)-layered silicate nanocomposites
Journal of Polymer Science, Part A: Polymer Chemistry, 1995 - Chromism of soluble polythienylenes
Journal of Polymer Science, Part B: Polymer Physics, 1987 - Mechanical percolation in cellulose whisker nanocomposites
Polymer Engineering & Science, 1997
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Physics and Astronomy
Over 850,000 pages from 9 journals, including:
Journals
- Annalen der Physik
- Astronomische Nachrichten
- Contributions to Plasma Physics
- Fortschritte der Physik
- pss (a) - applications and materials science
- pss (b) – basic solid state physics
Free Key Articles
- Application of Plasma Technology in Environmental Techniques
Contributions to Plasma Physics, 1999 - Kepler's Somnium. The Dream, or posthumous work on Lunar Astronomy
Astronomical Notes – Astronomische Nachrichten, 1970 - Optical Properties and Electronic Structure of Amorphous Germanium
pss b – basic solid state physics, 1966 - Charge Transport in Disordered Organic Photoconductors a Monte Carlo Simulation Study
pss b – basic solid state physics, 1993 - Domain Observations on Fe=Cr=Fe Layered Structnres. Evidence for a Biquadratic Coupling Effect
pss a – applications and materials science, 1991 - Cavitation bubble collapse studied at 20 million frames per second
Annalen der Physik, 1995 - Crossover from BCS-superconductivity to Bose-condensation
Annalen der Physik, 1996 - Topological Aspects of the Berry Phase
Fortschritte der Physik – Progress of Physics, 1996
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