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Use this guide to locate a wide variety of resources for deep research in Mathematics.
If you are just getting started with mathematics library research, see Mathematics: A Research Guide.
The following indexes and abstracts will help to identify literature in mathematics. For journal articles, proceeding papers, and book chapters, the Dartmouth Library Catalog should be searched to determine if Dartmouth owns the journal, proceeding, or book. To search the catalog see: http://libcat.dartmouth.edu . See the Digital Library section of this guide for what's available electronically for journals, proceedings, and books.
a bibliographic index to publications in statistics and related fields. The CIS Extended Database (CIS-ED) includes coverage, in most cases from 1974 (or first issue if later) to the present from 106 "core journals" (and pre-1974 coverage for a number of them), selected articles since 1974 from about 900 additional journals, and about 8000 books in statistics published since 1974. Each year, the Extended Database is updated with an additional year of coverage. CIS is a joint venture of the American Statistical Association and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.
To search Current Index to Statistics see: http://query.statindex.org/
The mission of the Directory of Preprint and e-Print Servers is to make available to the mathematical community the current homepage URLs and email contacts of all mathematical preprint and e-print servers throughout the world. This directory will provide mathematicians with a tool to find any of these servers in order to browse the articles posted on them and, in many cases, to post an article to the server itself. The servers are divided into three categories: umbrella servers which cover all areas of mathematics such as the "Front for the Mathematics ArXiv" and the "MPRESS/MathNet.preprints server", special subject servers and servers administered by mathematics departments and institutes. There is an additional link to retired preprint services.
For the Directory see: http://www.ams.org/global-preprints/
The Jahrbuch Project provides a database of the "Jahrbuch �ber die Fortschritte der Mathematik" (JFM) and a digital archive of the most important mathematical publications of the period 1868 - 1942. For more information see: http://www.emis.de/projects/JFM/
To search ERAM see: http://www.emis.de/MATH/JFM/JFM.html
The Library has the original print version, see: Title "Jahrbuch" "uber" "die" "Fortschritte" "der" "Mathematik"
A comprehensive web based index containing bibliographic citations and evaluative reviews and abstracts of the research literature in mathematics. It is the electronic equivalent to Mathematical Reviews covering the years 1940 to the present. Review texts and abstracts are available from 1940 - present.
To search MathSciNet see: http://www.ams.org/mathscinet/search
and MathSciNet Search Suggestion
Covers 5,300 journals in the basic and applied sciences, including medicine, engineering, mathematics and computer science. Years covered are 1900-present. Updated weekly.
Search features include: cited reference searching, current awareness searching, keyword searching across all files, related records linking, interdisciplinary searching, and number of times a paper was cited. Searching "This week's update" or "Latest 2 weeks" or "Latest 4 weeks" or "All years" or "Year selected" are possible date limits.
To search Web of Science see: http://isiknowledge.com/wos
For journals indexed by Web of Science see: http://www.isinet.com/isi/journals
Provides abstracts to the mathematics literature in English, French or German. Covers the years 1931-present. It was preceded by Jahrbuch uber die Forschritte der Mathematik. The Library has the print version from 1931 - 1994.
The Library also has access to an electronic version of Zentralblatt fur Mathematik called MATH through an online service called STN. The years covered are 1972 - current. Contact a Kresge Librarian for details on searching MATH.
A subject, title, and author guide to virtually every American dissertation accepted at an accredited institution since 1861. Selected Masters theses have been included since 1962. In addition, since 1988, the database includes citations for dissertations from 50 British universities that have been collected by and filmed at The British Document Supply Centre. Beginning with DAIC Volume 49, Number 2 (Spring 1988), citations and abstracts from Section C, Worldwide Dissertations (formerly European Dissertations), have been included.
Access to DISSERTATION ABSTRACTS is either through microform in the Baker/Berry Media Center, see in the library catalog: Title "Dissertation" "abstracts" "international", or over the Web via Digital Dissertations (About) at http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations.
produced by the British Library Document Supply Centre (BLDSC). The database contains details of all papers given at every congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop, and meeting received at the British Library Document Supply Centre since October 1993. Each year over 15,000 proceedings are indexed, covering a wide range of subjects published as serials, monographs, or microform. Over 500,000 bibliographic citations for individual conference papers will be added annually. Most records are in English, with many languages represented in the source documents.
Access to Inside Conferences is through an online service called Dialog. Contact a Kresge Librarian for details on searching Inside Conferences.
Note - For current conferences in Mathematics see: http://www.ams.org/mathcal/
These two indexes from the Wilson company cover a small number of popular and multidisciplinary journals in all areas of science and technology. From this site, you can choose to search individual indexes or combinations of several of them. Coverage is from 1984 - present. Journals such as Mathematical Intelligencer, American Mathematical Monthly, Science, Scientific American, and Nature are included. Abstracts have been added since 3/93.
To search any or all the Wilson Indexes see: http://hwwilsonweb.com/
Kresge Library offers a Current Awareness Service to Faculty and Graduate Students.
An automated alerting service that delivers the table of contents of periodicals directly to an e-mail box. Ingenta UnCover Reveal derives its contents from the journal aggregator Ingenta, which has a database of current article information taken from over 25,000 multidisciplinary journals starting from the Fall of 1988. For assistance in setting up a profile, contact Lisa Ladd.
Inside Information describes articles appearing in 21,000 of the most requested titles in the British Library Document Supply Centre's collection of 65,000 serials. Inside Information Plus covers all topics from from January 1996 to the present. Updated weekly.
RefWorks is a very easy to use reference management program, with in-context guidance. You can access your reference lists, add to them and work on your paper from any networked computer. All help files are online, so you always have access to the documentation. It is useful for groups working at a distance because they can all share the same files.
EndNote
EndNote is a bibliographic management database that can be used in several ways to help you organize and track citations to the literature. You can download search results from databases such as the online catalog, MathSciNet, ISI's Web of Science, and General Science Index directly into EndNote. EndNote provides a searchable index to the articles by author, keyword, date, etc., and can be used to produce a bibliography, formatted according to preselected styles, when combined with a word processing program like Microsoft Word.
Kresge Library will offer workshops on EndNote and RefWorks upon demand. See Choosing a Reference Manager for help in what program to use.
More information about reference management programs is on the Managing your References page.
Sources: Their Use and Acknowledgement. Dartmouth College general resource to citing sources in all subject areas.
Directly request books from the combined library catalogs (Brown, Columbia, Cornell, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton, and Yale) using Borrow Direct.
Please fill out the DartDoc Form for documents that are in Storage or not in the Dartmouth Library or use Borrow Direct for books.. See the Document Delivery webpage for more details on these services.
For assistance, please see the Staff Directory.
The Mathematics Bibliographer is Ann Perbohner (6-3845)
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