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Department
of Mathematics
Departmental Research Guide
This research guide relays some basic information on library
and information resources pertaining to the concerns of
this department, as provided by University Libraries and/or
sites on the World Wide Web.
1.
LC Call Nos. - - - 2.
Finding Articles - - - 3.
Reference Collection - - - 4.
Math Faculty - - - 5.
Professional Societies - - - 6.
Web Sites
1.
To Shelf-Browse for Books (using main Library
of Congress Subject Divisions)
Books
on subjects associated with this field are shelved under
the call number ranges listed below. Use TOPCAT
to search for specific items in the collection, or more
narrowly-defined subjects.
General
Mathematics: QA1-QA74 & QA77-QA99
------- Arithmetic: QA101-QA145 ------- Algebra:
QA150-QA272 ------- Probability & Statistics:
QA273-QA299.4 ------- Analysis: QA299.6-QA433
------- Geometry, Trigonometry & Topology: QA440-QA699
------- Analytic Mechanics: QA801-QA939 -------
Mathematical Physics: QC19.2-QC20.85 ------- Mathematical
Crystallography: QD911-QD915 ------- Mathematics
Bibliography: Z6651-Z6655 ------- Statistics Bibliography:
Z7551-Z7555
2. To Find Journal and Magazine
Articles (using indexing/abstracting/full-text services)
The
following services are recommended for courses for first-year
students and nonmajors:
- Academic
Search Premier and MasterFILE Premier:
These two all-subject WWW-based services (they are part
of the EBSCOhost system) feature indexing and
abstracting of many journals and magazines WKU Libraries
receives in hardcopy, plus a large selection of articles
in full-text.
- ArticleFirst:
This all-subject FirstSearch-based database indexes
almost 13000 journals and magazines from 1992 onward,
including some ninety percent of the ones University Libraries
carries in hardcopy.
- Google
Scholar: A free Web-based Google service that
restricts searches to the scholarly literature. Now features
linking to full-text of articles held by WKU.
The
following services are recommended for use by advanced students
and researchers:
- MathSciNet:
This WWW-based service provides abstracting of the serial
literature of mathematics, plus a number of enhancements.
Recent years of the paper version (Mathematical Reviews)
are available in Reference.
- JSTOR:
Provides the full text/full image web access of the complete
archival collections of over twenty core scholarly journals
in the mathematical sciences, up to the most recent three
to five years.
- SpringerLink:
Access to about 1000 Springer journals with full content
back to about 1997.
- ejournal
collections by individual publisher: Cambridge
Journals Online, ScienceDirect (Elsevier),
and Wiley Interscience. Abstracting of the nearly
2000 science journals published by these companies, with
some full-text available at each site (individually).
- DOAJ
(Directory of Open Access Journals):
"This service covers free, full text, quality controlled
scientific and scholarly journals" (across all subject
areas, and in multiple languages).
- Electronic
Journal Service: EJS (Ebsco): Full-text
articles, tables of content, and abstracts from journals
across all subject areas.
- ECO
(FirstSearch KYVL database): No
full-text, but provides indexing of WKU hardcopy journal
subscriptions across all subject areas.
- Science
(Magazine) Online (AAAS).
- Google
Scholar: As described above.
- ArticleFirst:
As described above.
- Ingenta:
A free online database indexing some 28000 journals and
magazines from the 1980s onward. Offers for-pay text delivery.
- Current
Index to Statistics: A paper product that reviews
the literature of mathematical statistics for the years
1975-1997. Located in Reference at QA276 .A1 C87 (ref.per.ind.).
Special
resource: Comprehensive
List of Indexes, Abstracts, and Full-Text Services Related
to the Natural & Applied Sciences Held by University Libraries
Special resource:
TDNet
Electronic Journal Finder [use to access Libraries'
electronic journals, magazines, and newspapers, as well
as some indexes and databases containing full-text articles;
includes a comprehensive A-Z listing of titles]
Special
resource:
Knovel
Online Library:
A set of technical reference books and tables of particular
interest to engineering, mathematics, physics, astronomy,
and chemistry.
3. Monographic Reference Works in
Helm Library
The
following are recommended for use:
4. Department of Mathematics Faculty
and Services
5. Related Professional Societies
(for professional news, careers/jobs, memberships, etc.)
6. Web Sites Recommended by Dept.
of Mathematics Faculty
History/Biography
Education/Teaching/Careers
Research
& Gateways Statistics
Tutorials/Student
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Math
Mathematics
History & Biography
Education,
Teaching & Careers
Mathematics
Research & Gateways
Statistics
& Statistical Analysis
Tutorials
& Student Help
Advanced
Mathematics
University
Libraries Liaison: Charles
H. Smith (x6079 / charles.smith@wku.edu)
last updated 4/14/2008
page maintained by Charles H. Smith
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