Resource Guide: Mathematics

Reference and Background Information    |     Online Indexes and Databases    |    Print Periodicals      Online Periodicals  | Web Resources   |   Professional Organizations

Academic Search Elite

This multi-disciplinary database offers full-text to many of it 2,000+ scholarly/general journals/magazines; 1,500 of these are peer-reviewed. Covers almost every area of academic study.

 

JSTOR
Provides electronic access to back issues of important mathematics and statistics journals. Note that JSTOR does not provide access to the most recent 3-5 years of issues published.

MathSciNet
From the American Mathematical Society, MathSciNet is the online equivalent to Mathematical Reviews. Indexes and reviews books, periodical articles, and conference proceedings.

OmniFile Full Text

Complete content - indexing, abstracts, and full text - from six of Wilson's full-text databases: Education, General Science, Humanities, Readers' Guide, Social Sciences, Wilson Business.

 

arXiv (http://arxiv.org)
An e-print service in the fields of physics, mathematics, non-linear science, computer science, and quantitative biology partially funded by the National Science Foundation. 

Cornell University Historical Math Collection (http://historical.library.cornell.edu/math)
A collection of selected monographs with expired copyrights chosen from the mathematics field.

Directory of Mathematics Preprint and e-Print Servers (http://www.ams.org/global-preprints/index.html)
Provides links to mathematical preprint and e-print servers throughout the world.

Electronic Research Archive for Mathematics (http://www.emis.de/MATH/JFM/JFM.html)
A digital library for classical mathematics that consists of a complete electronic catalogue of the mathematical publications in the time period between 1868-1942 and a digital archive storing the most relevant publications from that period. 

European Libraries and Electronic Resources (EULER) Project in Mathematical Sciences    (http://www.emis.de/projects/EULER)
An abstracting database with a wide variety of mathematical resources, such as books, preprints, Web pages, abstracts, proceedings, serials, technical reports, and theses. 

History of Mathematics (http://turnbull.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history)
This site includes essays on the history of math, and a very large collection of historical biographies.

Math Archives (http://archives.math.utk.edu)
Provides a wide range of links to software, teaching materials, and topics in mathematics, together with a searchable database.

The Math Forum@Drexel (http://mathforum.org/)
An online math education resource. Includes archives of answers to math questions, Problems of the Week for students in grades 3-12, interactive challenges for middle and high school students, and extensive lists of links to math-related resources on the Web. An Internet newsletter and discussion groups are also available through the site.

Math on the Web (http://www.ams.org/mathweb/mi-mathinfo03.html)
Find links to a wide range of mathematical resources, including Guides to Mathematical Literature, Mathematical Literature on the Web, Sources for Literature Not on the Web, Mathematics by Points of View, Mathematics People, Reference Literature, and Mathematics Web Servers.

Mathematics Help Central (http://www.mathematicshelpcentral.com)
This site offers a number of resources, mainly intended for college-level mathematics students. The bulk of the site's material is contained in the Lecture Notes section. Seven complete sets of notes from math professors are presented, with emphases on courses in college algebra, pre-calculus algebra and trigonometry, and calculus, among others. Ready-to-print graph paper can be downloaded in a variety of grid sizes and layouts. A section of lecture notes on discrete mathematics is also given.

MathWorld (http://mathworld.wolfram.com)
A comprehensive and interactive mathematics encyclopedia assembled by Eric W. Weisstein and intended for students, educators, math enthusiasts, and researchers.

University of Michigan Historical Mathematics Collection (http://www.hti.umich.edu/u/umhistmath)
Online library of books selected from the University of Michigan mathematics collection that have been digitized to improve access and to preserve the content of these books. All of the books in this collection were published in the 19th or early 20th century.

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Professional Organizations
Check these sites of professional organizations and associations specializing in mathematics. Some organizations provide links to informative Web sites or provide white papers and other documents of interest to the researcher.

• American Institute of Mathematics

• American Mathematical Society

• American Statistical Association

• Association for Women in Mathematics

• The Fields Institute

• INFORMS

• International Mathematical Union

• Mathematical Association of America

• Mathematical Programming Society

• Mathematical Sciences Research Institute

• National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

• Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)

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