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Start Here / Best Databases

Google Scholar
Scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources.

MathSciNet This link opens in a new window
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The electronic version of Mathematical Reviews, it contains full text reviews and indexes mathematical sciences journals, books, and conference proceedings from the early 1800s-present. Produced by the American Mathematical Society.
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
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Indexes the world's leading peer reviewed journal literature in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities and provides searching of cited references, from 1900-present. Install the LibKey Nomad extension to improve your research experience.

Other Relevant Databases

For an outline of a comprehensive science literature review, click here: Science Literature Review.

For tips on improving database search results, click here: Improving Database Search Results.

ACM Digital Library This link opens in a new window
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Bibliographic information, abstracts, reviews, and the full text for articles published in ACM periodicals and proceedings since its founding in 1947, together with selected works published by affiliated organizations.
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
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Full text scholarly journal, trade publication, magazine and newspaper articles, books, book reviews, reports, and Associated Press video content, covering all subject areas.

arXiv.org
Research papers and preprints in physics, mathematics, computer science, nonlinear sciences and quantitative biology.

Dissertations & Theses Global, ProQuest This link opens in a new window
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Index to dissertations and theses from over 3,000 institutions in 88 countries. Full text coverage spans from 1743-present, with citation coverage dating back to 1637. NOTE: Dissertations & Theses Global may also be searched and accessed via Web of Science, as well as OneSearch.

Electronic Research Archive for Mathematics (ERAM) Jahrbuch Database
Covers mathematics literature published between 1868-1942 with links to digital collections.
zbMATH
The Zb (Zentralblatt) Math Database contains about 3.5 million entries drawn from about 3,000 journals and 170,000 books from 1826 (complete from 1868) to the present.

Journals

Search specialized magazines and journals when looking for articles on your research topic. Some suggested browsing examples are:

Journal of the American Mathematical Society /
Backfile: JSTOR
Annals of mathematics.
Backfile: JSTOR
Bulletin of the american mathematical society
SIAM review

To browse journal titles, click here: Mansfield Library Journals.

Browse or search ejournal packages (note: some allow keyword searching or article full text):

Cambridge Journals Online This link opens in a new window
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Full text of over 380 Cambridge University Press scholarly journals covering subjects across the humanities, social sciences and science, and technology and medicine, from 1997-present where applicable. NOTE: This Ejournal Package was cancelled beginning Jan 2021. Click more... for details.
Package title list: Cambridge University Press
See the Library Guide to Finding Articles for information about the cancellations and other resources for obtaining full text.
Post-2020 perpetual access will include:
• 2009 to 2020
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
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Full text of all 2,800+ academic journals on JSTOR that span more than 60 disciplines across the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences, along with millions of primary sources across four collections: Global Plants, 19th Century British Pamphlets, Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa, and World Heritage Sites: Africa. Also explore 3+ million images from ARTstor and over 10,000 open access books. Note: The library does not license any collections of fee-based books from JSTOR. New collections added Aug 2023, are identified below. See more... for details.
ARTstor on JSTOR
Existing ARTstor logins automatically work on JSTOR. The separate artstor.org platform will be available until Aug 1, 2024, when it is scheduled to be retired.

Open Access books on JSTOR
More than 10,000 open access (OA) books from 125+ publishers, including Brill, Cornell University Press, University College of London, and University of California Press.

19th Century British Pamphlets
Nearly 26,000 pamphlets from collections in seven universities spanning more than one million pages. Brings together a corpus of primary sources for the study of sociopolitical and economic factors impacting 19th-century Britain.

New Collections Added Aug 2023
Thematic Collections
Three collections focusing on emerging areas of research and containing multiple types of content, including journals and open research reports. Collections include:
•Lives of Literature - Academic journals devoted to the deep study of writers and texts associated with core literary movements.
•Security Studies - Academic and open policy research on international and national security problems and foreign policy issues.
•Sustainability - Academic and open policy research on environmental stresses and their impact on society. Looks at sustainability and resilience through a broad lens spanning more than 30 disciplines.

Primary Sources
Global Plants
A growing collection of nearly three million high-resolution type plant specimens and related materials from over 300 community contributors around the world.

Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa
27,000 objects and 190,000 pages of documents and images related to the liberation struggles and end of Apartheid in Southern Africa during the 20th Century, with an emphasis on Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe.

World Heritage Sites: Africa
More than 86,000 objects of visual, contextual, and spatial documentation of African heritage and rock art sites.
Oxford Journals Online This link opens in a new window
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Full text of journals across six main subject areas: medicine, life sciences, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and physical sciences, and law. Library licenses most Oxford Journals titles offered and coverage is generally 1996-present. NOTE: This Ejournal Package was cancelled beginning Jan 2021. Click more... for details.
Package title list: Oxford University Press
See the Library Guide to Finding Articles for information about the cancellations and other resources for obtaining full text.
Post-2020 perpetual access will include:
• 2007 to 2020
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
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Full text of 2,500 scholarly journals and over 3,000 book series volumes and reference works, published by Elsevier in the fields of health sciences, life sciences, physical sciences & engineering, and the social sciences & humanities. Library licenses most ScienceDirect journals offered, including archival content dating back to volume 1 for many titles. Other than volumes published as part of book series, the library has minimal licensed books.
Springer This link opens in a new window
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Full text of over 50,000 scholarly e-books published by Springer 2005-2015, and over 2,200 current e-journals, with coverage dating back to volume 1 for many titles. Subjects include: biomedicine; business and management; chemistry; computer science; earth sciences; economics; education; engineering; geography; history; law; life sciences; literature; materials science; mathematics; medicine & public health; pharmacy; philosophy; physics; political science and international relations; psychology; social sciences; statistics. Deselect 'Include Preview-Only' from the top of a subject or content page to limit browsing to titles licensed by the library. NOTE: This Ejournal Package was cancelled beginning Jan 2021. Click more... for details.
Ejournal package title list: Springer
See the Library Guide to Finding Articles for information about the cancellations and other resources for obtaining full text.
Post-2020 perpetual access will include:
•All titles in the collection as of 2010 from Volume I through 1996.
•No perpetual access for 1997 to 2005.
•Perpetual access to all titles for 2006-2020.
Wiley Online Library This link opens in a new window
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Full text of over 1,600 e-journals covering life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities. Coverage is generally 1997-present. The library does not license all content offered on the Wiley site. The 'Full Access' lock icon denotes content available to UM users.

Peer Review in 3 Minutes
How do articles get peer reviewed? What role does peer review play in scholarly research and publication? This video will explain.
Video: Types of Sources
Watch the video for an explanation of types of information sources

To evaluate, compare, and rank journals using citation data, click on Journal Citation Reports or Scimago.

Journal Citation Reports This link opens in a new window
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Resource tool for journal evaluation, using citation data drawn from over 11,000 journals dating back to 1997 and includes virtually all specialties in the areas of science, technology, and social sciences. Shows journal impact factors, highest impact journals, most frequently used journals, hottest journals and largest journals.

Book Catalogs

Springer This link opens in a new window
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Full text of over 50,000 scholarly e-books published by Springer 2005-2015, and over 2,200 current e-journals, with coverage dating back to volume 1 for many titles. Subjects include: biomedicine; business and management; chemistry; computer science; earth sciences; economics; education; engineering; geography; history; law; life sciences; literature; materials science; mathematics; medicine & public health; pharmacy; philosophy; physics; political science and international relations; psychology; social sciences; statistics. Deselect 'Include Preview-Only' from the top of a subject or content page to limit browsing to titles licensed by the library. NOTE: This Ejournal Package was cancelled beginning Jan 2021. Click more... for details.
Ejournal package title list: Springer
See the Library Guide to Finding Articles for information about the cancellations and other resources for obtaining full text.
Post-2020 perpetual access will include:
•All titles in the collection as of 2010 from Volume I through 1996.
•No perpetual access for 1997 to 2005.
•Perpetual access to all titles for 2006-2020.
WorldCat (Discovery) This link opens in a new window
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Catalog of library resources held by institutions around the world. Find materials and place interlibrary loan requests for resources not owned locally.
WorldCat on the former FirstSearch platform is available from http://libguides.lib.umt.edu/worldcat-firstsearch

Google Book Search
Snippet and full-text views of books as they are scanned by the Google Book Project.
Historical Math Monographs
"The Cornell University Library Historical Mathematics Monographs is a collection of selected monographs with expired copyrights chosen from the mathematics field."

OneSearch This link opens in a new window
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The search engine for materials owned by the library, both on the shelf and online. Also provides millions of full text article and citation records harvested from publishers, open access repositories, and a large percentage of the library's licensed databases. Click here to view a list of databases with content not findable or only partially findable in OneSearch.
Tip: Remember to check "Include Results without Full Text" in the left-hand facets of OneSearch to expand your results set to citations matching your research interests; full-text can be acquired through interlibrary loan and delivered to you free of charge in a short amount of time.

Main Dewey Decimal call numbers for browsing Mathematical Sciences materials in the Mansfield Library book stacks: 510-519.

For a more detailed view of Dewey Decimal call numbers, click here: Dewey Decimal Classification Summaries

Dictionaries, Encyclopedias & Handbooks

Biographical Encyclopedia of Mathematicians (510.922 B6153)
Biographies of Women Mathematicians
Cambridge Dictionary of Statistics (519.503 E934c)
CRC Concise Encyclopedia of Mathematics (510.3 W433c)
CRC Standard Probability and Statistics: Tables (519.50212 C9119)
Encyclopaedia of Mathematics Electronic (510.3 M425E)
Encyclopedia of Biostatistics (610.72 E56)
Encyclopedia of Mathematics
Encyclopedia of Statistical Science (519.503 E56)
Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences - update (519.503 E5647)
Encyclopedic Dictionary of Mathematics (510.3 N691i.EM)
Entropy on the Web
Facts on File Dictionary of Mathematics (510.3 F1425)
Handbook of Applied Mathematics (510.202 P361h)
History of Mathematics Archive
Mathematical Thought from Ancient to Modern Times (510.9 K65mt)
Notable Mathematicians: from Ancient Times to the Present (510.922 N8992)
Notable Women in Mathematics: a Biographical Dictionary (510.922 N899)
Prime Pages - prime number research, records and resources
Websters New World Dictionary of Mathematics (510.3 K18c 1989)
Wikipedia - an encyclopedia that is written & edited anonymously & collaboratively
The World of Mathematics - 4 vols. (510.82 N553w)

Grants and Funding

Foundation Directory Online This link opens in a new window
Directory of 108,000 foundations, corporate giving programs and grant-making public charities in the U.S.; a database of three million recently awarded grants; and a database of one million recently filed IRS forms 990 and 990-PF.
Foundation Grants to Individuals This link opens in a new window
Directory of close to 10,000 foundation and public charity programs that fund students, artists, researchers, and other individual grant seekers. Covers scholarships, fellowships, loans, and internships; awards, prizes, and grants by nomination; research and professional support; and general welfare and special needs.

National Science Foundation Award Search

Web Sites - Search Engines

Some suggested search engines are:

Web Sites - Meta Sites & Directories

Web Sites - Educational Resources for Instruction

Citation Guides

Here are some resources to help you manage your bibliographies:

AMS Author Packages
EndNote Web
Handbook of Writing for the Mathematical Sciences (808.06651 H638h)

RefWorks This link opens in a new window
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Web-based bibliographic research management, writing, and collaboration tool. Designed for researchers to gather, organize, store and share all types of information and to generate formatted citations and bibliographies.