Physical Sciences & Engineering Library
Mathematics and Statistics Subject Guide
Library resources for the field of Mathematics and StatisticsArticles
Primary Databases:
- MathSciNet
- Covers approximately 1600 mathematical journals as indexed in the American Mathematical Society's publications Mathematical Reviews (QA 1 M3) and Current Mathematical Publications (Z 6653 C63). Coverage: 1940 - present.
- Current Index to Statistics (CIS)
- Covers publications in statistics and related fields. CIS is a joint venture of the American Statistical Association and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. Coverage: 1974 - present.
- Electronic Research Archive for Mathematics
- A database created from the "Jahrbuch über die Fortschritte der Mathematik." Coverage: 1868-1942
- Zentralblatt für Mathematik
- Zentralblatt MATH is the world's most complete and longest running abstracting and reviewing service in pure and applied mathematics. The database contains more than 2.0 million entries drawn from more than 2300 serials and journals. While we do not have a subscription to this database, searchers can view up to the first three reviews of each result set. Coverage: 1868 - present.
Secondary Databases:
- BIOSIS
- Contains citations to items in over 6,000 journals, books, conference proceedings, and technical reports, in all areas of the life sciences and biology, including bioengineering, and biostatistics. Coverage: 1969 - present.
- Compendex
- Most comprehensive bibliographic database of engineering research literature, containing references to over 5000 engineering journals and conferences. Coverage: 1884 - present.
- INSPEC (http://uclibs.org/PID/22771)
- Citations from scholarly journals, conference proceedings, books, reports, and dissertations in physics, electrical engineering and electronics, computers and control, and information technology. Coverage: 1898 - present.
- PubMed
- PubMed is the National Library of Medicine's search service that provides access to over 11 million citations in MEDLINE, PreMEDLINE, and other related databases, with links to participating online journals. Coverage: 1950s - present.
- Web of Science
- Provides access to the three ISI (Institute for Scientific Information) Citation Databases: Science Citation Index Expanded; Social Sciences Citation Index; Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Coverage: 1900 - present.
Preprints
- UC Davis Mathematics arXiv Preprints
- Searchable front end for the mathematics arXiv, maintained at Cornell University, is also available at: http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/
- Directory of Mathematics Preprint and e-Print Servers
- Virtual Technical Reports Center
Encyclopedias & Dictionaries
- The Cambridge Dictionary of Statistics
- Shields Library Bio/Ag Reference QA276.14 .E934 2002
- Collins Dictionary of Mathematics
- Shields Library QA5 .B625 2002
- CRC Concise Encyclopedia of Mathematics [pdf]
- Shields Library Bio/Ag Reference QA5 .W45 2003
- Dictionary of Algebra, Arithmetic, and Trigonometry [pdf]
- Shields Library QA5 .D4983 2001
- Dictionary of Analysis, Calculus, and Differential Equations [pdf]
- Shields Library QA5 .D53 2000
- Dictionary of Applied Math for Engineers and Scientists [pdf]
- Shields Library QA5 .D49835 2003
- Dictionary of Classical and Theoretical Mathematics [pdf]
- Shields Library Bio/Ag Reference QA5 .D4984 2001
- A Dictionary of Statistics
- Shields Library QA276.14 .U67 2002
- Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences
- Shields Library Bio/Ag Reference QA276.14 .E5 2006
- The Oxford Dictionary of Statistical Terms
- Shields Library HA17 K4 2003
- World of Mathematics
- On Order for Bio/Ag Reference
Handbooks & Tables
- CRC Handbook of Mathematical Sciences
- Shields Library Bio/Ag Reference QA47 .H32
- CRC Standard Mathematical Tables and Formulae (31st ed.) [pdf]
- Shields Library Bio/Ag Reference QA47 M28
- CRC Standard Probability and Statistics Tables and Formulae [pdf]
- Shields Library QA273.3 Z95 2000
- Handbook of Mathematical Formulas and Integrals
- Shields Library QA47 J38 2000
- Table of Integrals, Series, and Products
- Phy Sci Engr Library Reference QA55 G6613 2000
- Shields Library Bio/Ag Reference QA55 G6613 1994
e-Books
- MATHnetBASE
- Full-text searchable database collection of over 125 handbooks, textbooks and manuals from CRC Press.
- STATSnetBASE
- Full-text searchable database collection of almost 100 statistics handbooks, textbooks and manuals from CRC Press.
- Frontiers in Mathematics
- v.1 (2004) - present.
- Lecture Notes in Mathematics
- v.1750 (2000) - present.
Some noteworthy online Historical Mathematics Collections include:
Societies
- American Institute of Mathematics (AIM)
- American Mathematical Society (AMS)
- American Statistical Association (ASA)
- Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS)
- European Mathematical Information Service (EMIS)
- Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS)
- Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA)
- London Mathematical Society (LMS)
- Mathematical Association of America (MAA)
- Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
Web Sites
- Abbreviation of Names of Serials (Mathematical Reviews) [pdf]
- Mathematical Atlas: A Gateway to Modern Mathematics
- Mathematics Subject Classification (AMS, 2000)
- Mathematics WWW Virtual Library
- MathGuide
- MathSearch
- MathWorld
- NIST Mathematics, Statistics and Computational Science
- StatLib
- World Wide Web Virtual Library: Statistics
- Zentralblatt für Mathematik Journal Abbreviations [pdf]


