Mathematics, Statistics & Computing

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Key databases

ACM Digital Library Full Text
Association for Computing Machinery - includes articles from ACM journals, newsletter articles and conference proceedings.

Canadian Mathematical Society Full Text
Access to the full-text of the journals of the Canadian Mathematical Society.

ITKnowledgeBASE Full Text
ITKnowledgeBASE contains the full text of over 160 books on databases, intelligent systems, IT management, networking, operations management, programming, security and systems development.

MathSciNet (American Mathematical Society)
Provides access to mathematical reviews and current publications in the field from 1940 to the present.

ProQuest Full Text
ProQuest has 8,000 magazines and newspapers, 30,000 theses and 4,500 market reports in full text. Other content includes Hoover’s Company Records and 25,000 working papers from the Social Science Research Network (SSRN).

ScienceDirect Full Text
Access 227 Elsevier journals through the ScienceDirect platform.
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SpringerLink Full Text
Peer-reviewed journals in astronomy, chemistry, computer science, economics, engineering, environmental sciences, geosciences, life sciences, mathematics, medicine and physics.

STATSnetBASE Full Text
STATSnetsBASE contains the full text of more than 120 works on statistics, including biostatistics, statistics for psychology, social science and law, statistical theory, and statistics for the biological sciences.

Web of Knowledge
Search Web of Science, Current Contents Connect, CAB Abstracts and Journal Citation Reports.

Wiley InterScience Full Text
Search current journals in a wide range of disciplines.
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WorldSciNet Full Text
Journal website of scientific research papers covering computer science, engineering, mathematics, medical and life sciences, among others.

Worth a look

Gale Databases Full Text
These cover the arts and humanities, social sciences, science and technology. Includes peer-reviewed articles, ebooks and online encyclopedias.

Select Academic OneFile and Computer Databases.

JSTOR Full Text
JSTOR contains the full-text of hundreds of journals across the disciplines from archaeology to zoology. Many journal backsets begin in the nineteenth or early twentieth century, however most publishers included in JSTOR have negotiated 3-5 year embargoes, so the latest issues are not included.

Includes 54 full text mathematics journals and 38 full text statistics journals.

Scitopia.org Full Text
A federated search portal to the digital libraries of science and technology societies.

This federated vertical search portal was created by 21 leading science and technology societies. Includes maths, stats and computing information.

Encyclopedias and dictionaries

Cambridge Dictionary of Statistics
Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures
Dictionary of Classical and Theoretical Mathematics
Dictionary of Computing
Dictionary of Distances
Dictionary of Statistics
Encyclopedia of Mobile Computing and Commerce
Handbook of Mathematical Functions

High impact journals

These journals have been selected using Journal Citation Reports (JCR), a resource tool for journal evaluation. According to JCR, these journals have a high impact on the scientific literature when compared with other journals in the field.

The Annals of Mathematics
Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics
Bioinformatics
Biostatistics
ACM Computing Surveys
MIS Quarterly
VLDB Journal

Web sites and Internet resources

General

ArXiv — Open access to 507,567 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology and Statistics.
AuthorMapper - searches journal articles and maps the location of authors.
BUBL Link - a catalogue of selected internet resources covering all academic subject areas, including mathematics and computing. Site has a search facility.
Cognitive sciences eprint archive — an electronic archive for self-archived papers.
Intute — Science, Engineering and Technology resources.
National Science Digital Library - resources for students in a variety of disciplines.
Wolfram Alpha - A computational knowledge engine which generates output by doing computations from its own internal knowledge base, instead of searching the web and returning links.

Mathematics

AMS — American Mathematical Society.
Aust MS — Australian Mathematical Society
EqWorld — mathematical equations
Mathematics WWW Virtual Library
Project Euclid - organised by Cornell University and Duke University. Some of the journals are open access, others partially open and some subscribers only.