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    Mathematics Guide     

    Text in BROWN indicates that the item is located in the Reference section of Hoover Library.
    Dewey call numbers for books in Mathematics: 510-519

    Full-text Mathematics Articles

    • Academic Search Premier (Ebsco) Provided by the Maryland Digital Library.
      • Multidisciplinary database indexing over 3000 journals and magazines and full text for over 1,200 titles (i.e. only some articles are available full text).
      • 1990 to present, but dates vary widely with the journal.
    • arXiv.org
      • Searchable archive and distribution server for research papers. Covers physics and related disciplines, mathematics, nonlinear sciences, computational linguistics, and neuroscience.
    • Expanded Academic Index ASAP (InfoTrac)
      • Multidisciplinary database indexing about 2000 journals and magazines with about 1000 titles in full text (i.e. only some articles are available full text).
      • 1980 to present, but dates vary widely with the journal.
    • FindArticles.com
      • Search for articles dating back to 1998 from more than 300 magazines and journals.
      • Note: Text only, i.e. no images, charts, tables, etc. Nor does it provide volume, issue, or page numbers.
    • Science Direct
      • Mostly full-text articles from journals covering biomedical sciences, economics, business, law, finance, engineering and material sciences, life sciences, mathematics and computer science, medicine, nursing, physical and environmental sciences, psychology, social sciences, and veterinary medicine.
    • JSTOR
      • Full text of 254 journals in 19 academic disciplines.
      • Consists of first issue of journal up to the most current 2 to 5 years, i.e. 1995 to 1999.
    • National Academy Press
      • Search or browse over 1,500 books online in science, engineering, health, and technology, including math and statistics.
    • PNAS: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States
      • Articles from 1915 to 3 years ago online.
      • PNAS is a multidisciplinary journal covering the biological, physical, and social sciences. Contains research reports, commentaries, reviews, colloquium papers, and actions of the Academy. Searchable.
      • Hoover Library carries vol. 47 (1961) to present.

    Mathematics Indexes with Citations

    • General Science Index (H.W. Wilson)
      • Indexes journals and magazines covering astronomy, atmospheric science, biology, botany, chemistry, conservation, earth science, environment, food, genetics, health, mathematics, medicine, microbiology, nutrition, oceanography, physics, physiology, and zoology.
      • 5/1984 to present.
      • Note: this database allows only 4 users at one time. You could get a message saying the database is busy. In that case, try again later.
      • Paper format: 6/1978 to 5/1991; (Call number: Index 500 G326).
    • FirstSearch (OCLC) - includes the following databases:
      • ArticleFirst - index to items from table of contents of journals, 1990 to present;
      • ECO - index to scholarly journals, 1995 to present;
      • UnionList - list of periodicals held by OCLC member libraries;
      • WorldCat - catalog of all items cataloged by OCLC member libraries.

    General Resources

    • Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Mathematics and Science Education (ENC) (Ohio State University)
      • K-12 mathematics and science resources. Site is searchable.
    • Encyclopaedia of Mathematics. 10 vols. Dordrecht, Holland: Reidel, 1988.
      • (Call number: R 510.3 E56)
      • An updated and annotated translation of the Soviet 'Mathematical Encyclopaedia', 1977-1985.
    • Encyclopedic Dictionary of Mathematics (EDM). 2nd edition. 4 vols. Kiyosi Ito, ed. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1993.
      • (Call number: R 510.3 E57)
      • Standard reference work. Rather technical.
    • Internet Mathematics Library
    • MathWorld (Eric Weisstein)
      Extensive mathematics resource. Searchable.

    Mathematics Education