Guide to Mathematics Research
Databases, Indexes and Abstracts

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The following databases and paper indexing and abstracting publications may be used to locate articles relevant to mathematics in journals, magazines, conference proceedings, books, and other sources.  Email the SDSU Librarians or call 688-5570 or 800-786-2038 for more information or if off-campus access is denied to a current SDSU student, faculty member, or staff member.

MathSciNet. 1940+
This exhaustive resource provides reviews and bibliographic references for much of the literature of mathematics. The database is created and maintained by the American Mathematical Society. The print publication Mathematical Reviews is published monthly, with an annual cumulated author and subject index issue, and is shelved on the library's main floor in the Abstracts & Indexes area (510.5 M421). Entries are arranged by Mathematics Subject Classification.

Abstracts of Papers Presented to the American Mathematical Society. 1980+
Shelved on the library's main floor in the Abstracts & Indexes area (510.6 Am32).

Engineering Village-Compendex. 1969+
The world's premiere engineering abstracts database. Sources include journals, conference proceedings, and technical reports in all areas of engineering. 

JSTOR.
Provides electronic full text/image access to the back issues of scholarly journals in many fields including mathematics.

SpringerLink.
Provides full-text access to many scholarly journals in the field of mathematics.

Web of Science. 2001+
Provides access to Science Citation Index and Social Sciences Citation Index.

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Other Databases, Periodical Indexes and Abstracts

Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost).
The largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for more than 4,600 scholarly publications, including full text for more than 3,500 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975.

Current Contents. 
This multidisciplinary, current awareness resource provides indexing and tables of contents to over 7,000 journals covering a broad range of disciplines.  

Dissertation Abstracts International.
This resource provides a subject, title, and author guide to over 2 million doctoral dissertations and masters theses written since 1861.

General Science Index. 1978-1998. 
This resource covers popular magazines and basic scientific journals in several science disciplines. Shelved on the library's main floor at Index 016.5 G286. 

Ingenta.
A database indexing the contents of thousands of journals and magazines in a wide range of disciplines. Full text articles are available on a fee basis.

Inspec.
INSPEC, from the Institute of Electrical Engineers (IEE), is the world's leading abstracts database covering the literature of physics, electronics and electrical engineering, telecommunications, computers, control technology and information technology.

Jahrbuch Project: Electronic Research Archives for Mathematics
The project provides a digital archive of the most important mathematical publications of the period 1868-1942 and a database based on the Jahrbuch über die Fortschritte der Mathematik."

Oxford Journals.
The Oxford Journals online collection includes over 170 titles.  Some of the subjects covered include:  Life Sciences, Mathematics and Physical Sciences, Medicine, Social Sciences, Humanities and Law.

ProQuest.
ProQuest allows access to many bibliographic and full-text databases. The Sciences Module and the Research Library Core are perhaps of most relevance for mathematics. However, other modules may be appropriate for certain topics. Many of the journal articles are full-text.

Science Citation Index. 1992+ (via Web of Science).
This multidisciplinary database of citations and abstracts from journal literature can be used as a conventional author-subject index, or it can be searched by cited author or paper. Access this database via Web of Science for citations from 1992 to the present. Prior years (1965-1990) are available in paper shelved on the library's main floor in the Abstracts & Indexes area (016.5 .Sci27).

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