Math 7: Chaos in Literature, Math & Beyond Winter '07
Dorothy I. Wallace Professor

Print and digital books, magazines, journal titles, and other materials available through all the Dartmouth College libraries can be found by using the Dartmouth Library Catalog. Search by author, title, subject headings or keyword; the Library Catalog will give you the call numbers and locations of the print items, and the URLs for the digital materials.

Choosing Resources - Points to consider when choosing resources to use in your research:

—-> Dates covered (many online or Web indexes and databases go back to the mid-80's; consult the print version for materials before the online index began; find print index by title in the online catalog or consult a librarian)

—-> Subject areas covered

—-> Types of source materials indexed. Does the index cover popular magazines or scientific journals?

—-> Types of material within the source indexed. Does the index include conference paper abstracts, editorials, corrections, and other matter outside of the full research reports or articles?

—-> Numbers of source publications indexed-this gives you an indication of how much you may have to limit a search due to large retrievals.

—-> Language-English only or many languages? You may need to limit a search to English-language-only materials in databases that contain foreign language material.

—-> Are there special searching features that you might need such as cited reference searching, citation links, geographic search features, limits to review articles?

—-> Are you searching full-text in the database or reference information only? Are there links to full-text?

FINDING ARTICLES IN SCHOLARLY JOURNALS
Academic Search Premier Large scholarly, multi-disciplinary, mostly full text database. You can limit your results to peer reviewed journals, as opposed to magazines. Google Scholar The Google search engine indexing the more scholarly material for which the basic descriptive information is freely available, such as title, author and abstract. Generally, the coverage of the material in Google is less consistent, less thorough, and less reliable than the coverage in the other indexes MathSciNet A database of bibliographic information and reviews (summaries) for mathematical research literature created and maintained by the American Mathematical Society. Includes books, 1700 journals and serials, conference proceedings. Search360 Search360 is an interface that allows you to simultaneously search multiple article indexes. Right now there are approximately 50 article indexes included in Search360. WoS Web of Science indexes about 8000 journals in all subject areas. Web of Science offers the unique Cited Reference Searching which allows you to search forward in time based who has cited a paper. Most material in WoS is peer reviewed.
FINDING ARTICLES ELSEWHERE
AccessScience Contains access to articles, dictionary terms, and research updates in all areas of science and technology. Also includes biographies of leading scientists, updates of breakthroughs and discoveries in science and technology, and links to related websites. eResources, Math for a listing of indexes, databases, and other electronic resources licensed by Dartmouth in Mathematics. Math Research Guide This guide provides a selection of core reference resources (both print & electronic) in Mathematics MathWorld A free authoritative resource similar to an encyclopedia