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SUBJECT: Mathematics

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 Online - Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics
(reference resource, e-books)

Recommended starting places - Article Indexes for Mathematics and Related Sciences

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 I Collection and Mathematics & Statistics Collection provide complete backfiles of 161 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.

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.

Social Sciences Citation Index - Web of Science (ISI)
(article index)
1979-present. Offers bibliographic citations and cited references from a broad range of disciplines. Often used as a citation analysis tool.

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.

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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.

Windows Live Academic Search
(article index, free non-subscription resource)
Windows Live Academic lets you search academic journals and content for article titles, author names article abstracts, and conference proceedings. (currently in beta version)

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