Databases by Subject -- Mathematics

Find Articles in Databases

Use the following databases to find articles in scholarly journals, magazines, conferences, etc.

Academic OneFile (Partial Full-Text)
1980 - present
Comprehensive database with millions of articles from journals and other reference sources. Includes articles on a variety of subjects such as: business and small business, communications and mass media, computers, criminal justice, diversity, education, environmental studies, health and medicine, landscaping and horticulture, military and terrorism, pop culture, psychology, religion and philosophy, and science. Includes the full-text coverage of The New York Times from 1995 to present.

General OneFile (Partial Full-Text)
1980 - present
A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Millions of full-text articles, many with images.

OmniFile Mega (Partial Full-Text)
1982 - present
A one-stop multidisciplinary database covering many subjects such as: education, sciences, humanities, social sciences, etc. Contains everything (all the indexing, abstracting, and full-text) in the six other Wilson databases: Education Index, Science Index, Humanities Index, Readers' Guide Index, Social Sciences Index, Business Index.

AP Science (Partial Full-Text)
1971 - present
Provides access to articles on earth, life, physical, medical, and applied sciences. Includes the areas of biology, chemistry, mathematics, astronomy, geology, air and space, psychology, forestry, botany, environmental studies, engineering, etc.

Science Index (Partial Full-Text)
1984 - present
Use this database to find articles on many science subjects such as: astronomy, biology, botany, chemistry, environment, food & nutrition, genetics, health & medicine, mathematics, microbiology, oceanography, physics, physiology, zoology, etc. Many articles are full-text. The content in this database is also part of OmniFile Mega.

Infotrac Science (Partial Full-Text)
1980 - present
Includes millions of articles from over 1,600 magazines, journals and reference materials on all aspects of the sciences. Topics include: agriculture, aerospace engineering, architecture, computer-aided design and engineering, electronics, microbiology, physics, plants and animals, psychology, zoology and more. The content of this database is also part of Academic OneFile and General OneFile.

Find an e-Journal

If you are looking for a list of journal or magazine titles about Mathematics, go to the Full-Text online versions of these titles.

Useful Books Located in the Library

Encyclopedia of Mathematics. (6 Vols.)
Hazewinkel, Michiel, Ed.
Boston: Dordrecht, 1995.
Reference Room (3rd Floor) - [Ref] QA5 .M3713 1995

Mathematics Dictionary.
James, Robert C.
New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1992.
Reference Room (3rd Floor) - [Ref] QA5 .J33 1992

Handbook of Discrete and Computational Geometry.
Goodman, Jacob E. and Joseph O'Rourke, Eds.
Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 1997.
Reference Room (3rd Floor) - [Ref] QA167 .H36 1997

Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences. (5 Vols.)
Kotz, Samuel and Norman Lloyd Johnson, Eds.
New York: Wiley, 1982.
Reference Room (3rd Floor) - [Ref] QA276.14 .E5 1982

Cambridge Dictionary of Statistics.
Everitt, Brian.
New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Reference Room (3rd Floor) - [Ref] QA276.15 .E84 1998

Call Numbers for Browsing

QA 1-939	(Mathematics)
QA 9-10.3	(Mathematical Logic)
QA 101-141.8	(Elementary Mathematics)
QA 150-272	(Algebra)
QA 273-274.76	(Probabilities)
QA 276-280	(Mathematical Statistics)
QA 440-699	(Geometry)

Selected Web Sites

Yahoo! Directory for Mathematics