Mathematics Databases
Recommended starting places - Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
AccessScience (McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology)
(reference resource, e-books)
Includes articles from the latest edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, research updates, thousands of illustrations, Science News headlines, biographies, and more.
Oxford Reference - Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics
(reference resource, e-books)
Recommended starting places - Article Indexes
AMS Journals (American Mathematical Society)
(article index)
Our subscriptions include Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, Conformal Geometry and Dynamics, Journal of the AMS, Notices of the American Mathematical Society, Proceedings of the AMS, Representation Theory, and Transactions of the AMS.
JSTOR
(article index)
JSTOR's Arts & Sciences Collections I through VIII and Mathematics & Statistics Collection provide complete backfiles of approximately 1500 core scholarly journal titles starting with the first issues. Note that there is a gap, usually 1 to 5 years, between the most recent issue and the back issues available in JSTOR.
MathSciNet
(article index)
Online version of the American Mathematical Society's Mathematical Reviews.
Science Citation Index (ISI Web of Science)
(article index)
Web of Science includes Arts & Humanities Citation Index (2004-present), Science Citation Index (1999-present), and Social Sciences Citation Index (1965-present). It offers bibliographic citations and cited references from a broad range of disciplines, and is useful as a citation analysis tool.
ScienceDirect
(article index)
1993-present. Over 1,800 full text journals in the areas of science, technology, and medicine. Full text coverage for all titles goes back to 1995; coverage for IDEAL titles goes back to 1993.
Recommended starting places - General Article Indexes
Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost)
(article index)
A large academic multi-disciplinary database providing indexing for over 8,000 journals and full text for nearly 4,700 (including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals). PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for some journals.
ProQuest Research Library
(article index)
1971-present. Covers scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, and newspapers in a broad range of subjects.
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AMS Books Online (American Mathematical Society)
(e-books, free non-subscription resource)
A collection of online research-level mathematics or mathematically related books.
arXiv.org
(free non-subscription resource)
Open access to 421,600 e-prints in physics, mathematics, computer science and quantitative biology.
Google Scholar
(article index, e-books, free non-subscription resource)
Google Scholar, currently in development, searches for scholarly materials (peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts, and articles) from sources such as academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, and universities.
