Mathematics, Statistics & Computing

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Key databases

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

Canadian Mathematical Society Full Text
This source provides access to 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
MathSciNet provides reviews and publications in mathematics from 1940 to the present.

ProQuest Full Text
ProQuest includes academic and non-academic content in a wide range of fields, from arts, literature, and social science to business, science, technology, and medicine.

ScienceDirect Full Text
Science Direct offers full-text access to over 200 Elsevier journals.

Scopus
Scopus provides citations and abstracts for over17,000 academic journals, with many links to full-text. Scopus also provides citation counts and other bibliographical information.

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
The Web of Knowledge includes Web of Science and a range of other databases, including citation tracking tools.

Wiley Online Library Full Text
The Wiley Online Library includes current journals in a wide range of disciplines.

WorldSciNet Full Text
WorldSciNet provides access to scientific research papers covering computer science, engineering, mathematics, medical and life sciences.

Worth a look

Gale Databases Selected Full Text
The Gale Databases cover the arts and humanities, social sciences, science and technology. They includes peer-reviewed journal articles, ebooks and online encyclopedias.

Select Academic OneFile and Computer Databases.

JSTOR Full Text
JSTOR contains the full-text journals across the disciplines from archaeology to zoology.

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

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 general topology
Encyclopedia of mobile computing and commerce
Encyclopedia of statistical sciences
Handbook of mathematical formulas and integrals
Handbook of mathematical functions with formulas, graphs, and mathematical tables

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.
CiteSeer - scientific literature digital library and search engine with a focus on computer and information science.
Cognitive sciences eprint archive — an electronic archive for self-archived papers.
National Science Digital Library - resources for students in a variety of disciplines.
Trove - National Library of Australia - one search to a wealth of Australian information
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.

Computing

Association for Computing Machinery ACM
DBLP Computer Science Bibliography — bibliographic information on major computer science journals and proceedings.
Living internet— tour of the history of the Internet.
CoRR — Computing Research Repository
Dictionary of Programming Languages
PC Technology Guide— providing clear, accessible information on computer hardware, maintenance and operation.