Math and Stats
Math and Stats Librarian: Nestor Osorio
Founders Memorial 303
815-753-9837
Nosorio@niu.edu
- American Mathematical Society Journals - - Eight periodicals issued by the Society (including its, Bulletin and Transactions, and Journal as well as specialized works on conformal geometry, computation, electronic research and representation theory) comprise this database. Beginning dates of publication range from 1992 to 1998. Full Text.
- Current Index to Statistics - - This database is a bibliographic index to publications in statistics and related fields. Coverage in most cases is from 1974 to current volumes (1997) for 106 "core" journals, selected articles from 900 additional journals since 1974, and about 800 books in statistics published since 1974. Abstracts Only.
- ERIC (CSA) - - Focuses on educational resources and research. Over 900,000 citations divided approximately in half between journal literature and references to conference papers, official reports, theses, etc. Coverage is 1966 to the present. Full Text.
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- ERIC (FirstSearch) - - Focuses on educational resources and research. Over 900,000 citations divided approximately in half between journal literature and references to conference papers, official reports, theses, etc. Coverage is 1966 to the present. Full Text.
- ERIC (via EBSCO) - - Focuses on educational resources and research. Over 900,000 citations divided approximately in half between journal literature and references to conference papers, official reports, theses, etc. Coverage is 1966 to the present. Full Text.
- Journal Citation Reports - - Journal Citation Reports: Science and Social Sciences Editions--the former edition contains data from over 5,900 journals in science and technology. The latter includes data from over 1,700 journals in the social sciences. The database can be searched at the individual title level or by subject category, publisher and country/territory.
- JSTOR - - An online, full-text archive of complete backfiles of scholarly periodical literature since 1872. Journals are intended to be archival, not current; most are 2-5 years behind
the current issues, depending on the journal. Full Text.
- MathSci Net - - The major indexing and abstracting service for mathematical sciences and its applications. It covers the literature of mathematics since 1940. Abstracts Only.
- Web of Science - - The database allows access to both the Science and Social Sciences Citation Indexes. One can locate not only specific articles, but more important explore how specific articles have been treated by the literature in their respective fields. The backfile extends to 1965.
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- Blackwell Science/Synergy - - The database offers the full contents of the paper journals for which we have access plus all the benefits of online access. The first page of the database lists the journals that we have access, which includes all of the journals, subscribed to by any of the CCMP partners. Full Text.
- Book Review Index Plus - - The database offers a comprehensive guide to book reviews that includes more than 5 million review citations from thousands of publications. Coverage is 1965 to the present.
- Chicago Manual of Style Online, 15th edition - - This new edition of the venerable guide to the preparation of manuscripts, articles, and papers has been thoroughly overhauled and updated to reflect the new realities of digital texts and electronic publishing.
- Chronicle of Higher Education - - The Chronicle provides well-researched and thoughtful analyses of current issues in higher education.
- ebrary Academic Complete - - This electronic book package includes more than 24,000 individual texts covering a broad array of academic disciplines. The database boasts a distinguished set of publishers including such university presses as Oxford, Cambridge, Princeton, Harvard, etc. The content of the database is well paired with an advanced set of tools that allows for expansive searching capabilities, and manipulation and storage of text.
- Handbook of Mathematical Functions with Formulas, Graphs, and Mathematical Tables - - This handbook has been designed to provide scientific investigators with a comprehensive and self-contained summary of the mathematical functions that arise in physical and engineering problems.
- INSPEC - - Inspec is the world's leading bibliographic database providing comprehensive global coverage of scientific and technical literature in the fields of physics, electrical engineering, electronics and computer science. Inspec contains over 8 million records dating from 1969 and draws upon 3,000 scientific and technical journals and 2,000 conference proceedings for coverage. Combined searches of Inspec with the Compendex database ensure the most complete coverage of published engineering literature possible.
- International Abstracts in Operations Research - - IAOR Online is a comprehensive, unique and continually growing reference database. It builds on the rich heritage of its counterpart print product, International Abstracts in Operations Research.
- Science Direct - - Science Direct provides access to the full text of more than 320 journals published by Elsevier Science. Articles are generally available from 1995 forward.
Please note that Northern does not subscribe to all of the journals within Science Direct.
- Web of Knowledge - - Combines the acclaimed Science and Social Sciences Citation Indexes (1987 to the present) with additional databases including BIOSIS Previews (1969 to the present), Current Contents (1998 to the present), and Medline (1950 to the present). The database offers a powerful and versatile research platform as well as search and analysis tools that enhance its scholarly value.
Web Resources
Associations and Societies
Research Centers and Institutes
Other Mathematics and Statistics Sites
