Mathematics Resources
The Peterson Library at the University of New Haven has a number of sources that are useful in conducting mathematical studies. This guide is prepared by a librarian at UNH, and is intended to get you started on your research. Keep in mind that this is just sampling of what is available to you. For more assistance, please come to the library's Reference Desk, call us at (203) 932-7189, or email us.
Library Catalog
Interlibrary Loan
Reference and Circulating Materials
Government Documents
Journals
Databases
Internet Resources
The library catalog allows you to find items that are in the library, including books, audiovisual materials, government documents and periodical holdings. Our library uses the Library of Congress classification schedule. The library's website offers help in searching, including a guide called Using the UNH Library Catalog (OPAC). We also offer an interactive Online Library Catalog Tutorial that you will find helpful.
Government documents can be any type of information published by a government agency. U.S. government documents may be books, reports, congressional hearing transcripts, maps, journals, pamphlets, videos and more. Topics are diverse. The Marvin K. Peterson library has been a depository library since 1971, receiving approximately one third of all of the documents issued by U.S. government agencies. For more on searching government documents click here. Listed below are two examples of government documents relating to mathematics:
- Estimation skills, mathematics-in-context, and advanced skills in mathematics: results from three studies of the National Assessment of Educational Progress 1996 mathematics assessment ED 1.302: M 42/26
- NAEP math test accommodations for students with limited English proficiency ED 1.310/2:431787
Reference and Circulating Materials
Please Note: Ref. at the beginning of a call number indicates that the item is located in the Reference stacks on the main level of the library, and is intended for in-house use only.
- Advanced methods of mathematical physics QC20 .K39 2000
- American men & women of science. Ref. Q141 .A474
- Applied calculus QA303.2 .W36 2007
- CRC standard mathematical tables. Ref. QA47 .C44 1987
- A dictionary of named effects and laws in chemistry, physics, and mathematics. Ref. QD5 .B32 1980
- Encyclopedic dictionary of mathematics. Ref. QA5 .I8313 1993 (Library also owns a circulating copy, under this call number: QA5 .I8313 1987)
- The Facts on File dictionary of mathematics. QA5 .F32 1985
- Finite Mathematics. QA39.3 .R65 2002
- Fundamentals of engineering numerical analysis TA335 .M65 2001
- An introduction to numerical methods: a MATLAB approach. QA297 .K52 2002
- Lessons learned: what international assessments tell us about math achievement. QA135.6 .L47 2007
- Mathematics applied to deterministic problems in the natural sciences. QA37.2 .L55 1988
- Mathematics of classical and quantum physics. QC20 .B9 1992
- Mathematics for elementary teachers: a balanced approach. QA39.2 .K69 1991
- Numerical analysis. QA297 .B84 2001
- Numerical mathematics and computing. QA297 .C426 2004
- Teaching mathematics in secondary and middle school: an interactive approach. QA11 .C23 1996
- A tour through mathematical logic QA9 .W7483 2005
Interlibrary Loan is a service offered to the UNH community. If you need a book, article, or other material that the Peterson Library doesn't have, you can request that item through Interlibrary Loan. This simply means that we will find out what library has the item that you are looking for, and borrow it for you from that library. When the item arrives at UNH, you will be notified. Request forms are available in the library at the Reference Desk, and also online. For more information, including policy information regarding interlibrary loan click here.
A sampling of journal titles available at UNH:
Abstract and applied analysis; ACM communications in computer algebra; American mathematical monthly; Annals of global analysis and geometry; Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics; Annals of statistics; Boundary value problems; Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society; Ciencias matemáticas; Electronic journal of combinatorics; Electronic journal of linear algebra; Fixed point theory and applications; Integers; International journal of mathematical education in science and technology; Journal of computational and graphical statistics; Journal of graph algorithms and applications; Journal of mathematical chemistry; Mathematical intelligencer; Scientia magna; SIAM journal on applied mathematics; SIAM journal on matrix analysis and applications; SIAM journal on numerical analysis; SIAM review; SIGACT news; Smarandache notions journal; Statistical modelling; Technometrics
Databases with a Science/Math Focus
Computing (ProQuest) Indexes and abstracts with some full text for computer literature. Find abstracts for topics like ‘mathematical models', ‘algorithms', and ‘mathematical problems.'
Encyclopedia of Science and Technology Online (McGraw-Hill) Online encyclopedia with more than 7,000 articles on all types of science topics. You may choose the search box option or select the ‘Mathematics' heading and browse through a very detailed listing of subheadings like ‘Algebra and Number Theory' and ‘Probability, Statistics, and Combinatorial Theory.'
Engineering Village 2 contains citations and abstracts from thousands of engineering journals, conference proceedings, and technical reports, including Compendex, the most comprehensive interdisciplinary engineering database in the world. Compendex contains over 8 million records and references over 5,000 international engineering sources including journal, conference, and trade publications. Also links to Referex database, IHS Standards, US Patent and Trademark Office, Esp@cenet (European Patent Office), Scirus (science search engine) and LexisNexis News.
ENGnetBASE: Engineering Handbooks Online ENGnetBASE is an online collection of engineering handbooks, currently consisting of 918 titles. Browse by handbook categories, (such as algorithms and complexity or computational biology), or search mathematical terms to find their chapters within the books online.
HighWire Press hosts the largest repository of free full-text life science articles in the world, with 1,884,244 articles available without subscription. Highwire also access citations and abstracts to subscription journals, and they have a nice feature that allows you to select viewing only those journals to which UNH subscribes, thereby allowing full text access.
K-Essentials (Knovel) Contributions from over 30 leading publishing partners including McGraw Hill, Wiley, Springer and Elsevier. The full-text reference content within K-Essentials includes books, databases and conference proceedings and is fully searchable.
Open Science Directory A search tool for open access journals and journal programs in special programs for developing countries. The Open Science Directory has been developed by EBSCO and the Hasselt University Library. There are currently 350 journals under the mathematics subject heading. They are further broken down into branches such as Algebra, and Analysis.
ScienceDirect Web Editions (Elsevier) An index to books, journals and conference proceedings, reviews of videos, books, etc. Full text for journals to which our library subscribes; citations and abstracts for other items. Alert service may be set up to deliver articles of interest automatically to your email inbox. Registration is free. Features links to the ‘25 Hottest Articles' in each subject area.
Science.gov: USAGov for Science Gateway to government resources, you can search many government agency databases and publications by topic. Links include: the Computer Science & Math Division (a collaboration of the Department of Energy and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Guide to Available Math Software [(Department of Commerce (DOC), National Institutes of Standards and Technology (NIST), Information Technology Laboratory (ITL)], or you can locate current projects from the federal R&D project summaries link.
Science Reference Center (EbscoHost) Included in this database are reference books, journals, biographies, and images. Guides include level of expertise as well as mathematics sub-heading: Algebra, Computation, Geometry, Graphs & Data Analysis, Numbers Theory, Percentages & Fractions, Probability & Statistics, and Types of Users.
SCIRUS: for Scientific Information Only SCIRUS is the most comprehensive scientific research tool on the web. With over 450 million scientific items indexed, it allows researchers to search for not only journal content but also scientists' homepages, courseware, pre-print server material, patents and institutional repository and website information. If you run an advanced search, you may limit the search of this enormous site to the subject of mathematics.
WileyInterscience Online editions of the majority of Wiley's 400+ scientific, technical, medical and professional journals. Browse by subject area. Mathematics and Statistics narrows into these subcategories: Applied Mathematics, Applied Probability and Statistics, Computational and Graphical Statistics, Data Analysis and Management, Mathematics (General), Numerical Methods, Probability and Mathematical Statistics, Regression Analysis, Statistics (General), and Statistics Experimental Design.
Databases that are Multidisciplinary
Academic One File A source for peer-reviewed articles, over half the entries are full-text, the remainder are citations and abstracts. Contains extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects.
CQ Researcher CQ Researcher provides original, comprehensive reporting and analysis on issues in the news. Controversial topics are addressed in a balanced, unbiased manner in the CQ tradition. There are a couple of relevant listings that are geared towards looking at math in the field of education including ‘Teaching Math & Science', and ‘Education Standards'.
CREDO Reference This is a customizable full-text database with content that covers every major subject. Here you can find the Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics.
ERIC This is a portion of the Federal Government's Department of Education web site. ERIC stands for Education Resources Information Center. Primarily mathematics in education is what you will find of relevance within this site.
Expanded Academic ASAP Balanced coverage from 3,500 indexed and 2,100 full-text titles in a wide variety of disciplines with more than 20 years of backfile coverage. Many of these contents are peer-reviewed.
FirstSearch Available in the library only. FirstSearch provides access to many useful databases such as Dissertations from North America and Europe, Periodical Abstracts and many more. Search groups of databases (by topic) or by individual database. FirstSearch can also suggest the best database to search, depending on your search terms.
IRIS The Illinois Researcher Information Service Database, updated daily, currently contains 9,000 active federal and private funding opportunities in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. In addition to funding opportunities for faculty, the IRIS Database also contains fellowships and scholarships for graduate and undergraduate students. Search by subject, then set up alerts to get the latest opportunities fast.
Metasites
einet.net: math Established in 1994, eiNET is the original searchable Internet directory whose mission is to 'provide contextually relevant information by integrating state-of-the-art technology with the human touch'.
EulerService: European Libraries and Electronic Resources in Mathematical Sciences Provides a site for searching out mathematical resources, such as books, preprints, Web pages, abstracts, proceedings, serials, technical reports, and theses.
Open Directory Project: Math The Open Directory Project is the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a vast, global community of volunteer editors.
Penn State Math Department Extensive site with links to quick reference sources, gateways, organizations of interest to mathematicians, and a directory of math departments, including those with special resources.
Yahoo! Science: Mathematics Like other Yahoo directories, this is a comprehensive site, with subcategories such as Academic Papers, Conferences, Wavelets and much more
MathWorld Claims to be the Web's most extensive mathematics resource. Provided as a free service to the world's mathematics and internet communities as part of a commitment to education and educational outreach by Wolfram Research, makers of Mathematica.
Societies & Associations
The American Mathematical Society Founded in 1888, the society's Web site, e-MATH, contains areas for membership, career services, meetings, surveys and outreach, government relations, public awareness, and customer services.
American Statistical Association The American Statistical Association (ASA) is a scientific and educational society founded in 1839 with the following mission: ‘To promote excellence in the application of statistical science across the wealth of human endeavor'.
European Mathematical Society (EMS) Founded in 1990, membership consists of all the mathematical societies in Europe and about 2,000 individual members who joined through their national societies.
Institute of Mathematical Statistics The purpose of the Institute is to foster the development and dissemination of the theory and applications of statistics and probability.
The Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (University of Minnesota)
Founded in 1982 by the National Science Foundation, as a result of a national competition. The IMA's primary mission is to promote interdisciplinary research, linking mathematics to the most vital scientific and technological challenges from other disciplines and industry.
Mathematical Association of America The MAA bills itself as the world's largest organization devoted to the interests of collegiate mathematics. The society serves 30,000 members and includes e-journals, employment information and meetings.
Mathematical Sciences Research Institute The Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) exists to further mathematical research through broadly based programs in the mathematical sciences.
The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics The mission of SIAM is to build cooperation between mathematics and the worlds of science and technology through publications, research, and community.
preprint servers
Directory of Mathematics Preprint and e-Print Servers Their mission is to make available to the mathematical community the current homepage URLs and email contacts of all mathematical preprint and e-print servers throughout the world. This directory will provide mathematicians with a tool to find any of these servers in order to browse the articles posted on them and, in many cases, to post an article to the server itself.
Los Alamos (Ginsparg) e-Print Archive The Mathematics section is searchable to February 1992. Options include browsing, searching, catching up, and an extensive collection of subcategories within mathematics.
tools & Reviews
MathSciNet The American Mathematical Society's "Mathematical Reviews on the Web". MathSciNet contains over 2 million items and over 700,000 direct links to original articles.
Zentralblatt MATH Internet tools for mathematicians. Zentralblatt MATH is the world's most complete and longest running abstracting and reviewing service in pure and applied mathematics. The Zentralblatt MATH Database contains more than 2.0 million entries drawn from more than 2300 serials and journals and covers the period from 1868 - present by the recent integration of the Jahrbuch database.
history & biography
About.com: Mathematicians Includes a history of mathematics and mathematicians. A variety of resources to support historical concepts in mathematics.
Biography of Women Mathematicians Part of an on-going project at Agnes Scott College in Atlanta, Georgia, to illustrate the numerous achievements of women in the field of mathematics.
BW Department of Mathematics & Computer Science: History of Mathematics Web Sites An intriguing set of specialized hyperlinks makes this site from the Baldwin-Wallace College in Ohio stand out. Links include: The Abacus; History of Egyptian and Mesopotamian Mathematics; Archimedes Home Page and much more.
History of Mathematics (British Society for the History of Mathematics) Includes: general sites, web resources, biographies, regional mathematics, museums with math exhibits, books and articles online, philosophy of mathematics, history of statistics, and the history of computing.
MathArchives: History of Mathematics Links to many of the esoteric mathematical sites. Links include: The Abacus: The Art of Calculating with Beads, and A Brief History of Algebra and Computing: An Eclectic Oxonian View.
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