Library and Internet Guide
The
following is a select list of resources available on the Internet
JCU Library Resources
 InfoHelp
- questions answered, assistance given online, or by phone or email
Catalogue
Library
Guides
Databases
- General Information
Indexing/Abstracting Databases
- Current Contents Connect
is a multidisciplinary current awareness service for over 8,000
journals and more than 2,000 books
- IngentaConnect provides book and journal article searches as well as search alerting and tables of contents services.
- Web of Science Access
to Science Citation Index Expanded and other citation indexes.
As well as topic searching for journal articles, the citation indexes
allow "cited reference" searching and enable you to examine
a document's historical origin and follow through to its current position
in the research literature.
Full text databases and electronic journals
- Expanded
Academic ASAP - (via InfoTrac) - indexes over 2,000
journals with full-text articles from over half available online.
- ProQuest includes ProQuest Science Journals and other databases covering a range of disciplines.
- ScienceDirect
- Full text for around 290 of the 1700 titles, with contents pages and
abstracts for the remainder
- Wiley
InterScience - provides full-text of all 311 Wiley journals
back to 1997.
- Electronic
journals - linked, alphabetical listing of full-text journals
available to members of James Cook University
- You can also link directly to journals via Tropicat:
the JCU Library Catalogue
Databases
on the WWW
- AMS Digital Mathematics Registry Centralized access to certain collections of digitized publications in the mathematical sciences
- Cornell
University Library historical math monographs Digital facsimiles
of historical mathematical monographs
- EEVL's Ejournal Search Engines Search the content of over 250 freely available full-text ejournals in Engineering, Mathematics & Computing
- The
Electronic Library of Mathematics: Mathematical Journals
Australian mirror site for the European Mathematical Information Service,
giving access to the full-text of a number of mathematics journals
- Energy Citations
Database Developed by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI). Provides access
to DOE publicly available citations from 1948 to the present. Includes
citations to report literature, conference papers, journal articles,
books, dissertations, and patents.
- EprintWeb e-print service in the fields of physics, mathematics, non-linear science, computer science, and quantitative biology. Searchable & browseable with reference linking across the entire content
- The
Mathematics Preprint Server Archive and rapid distribution medium
for research articles in the field of mathematics.
- MathematicsWeb
An integrated search of journal articles and preprints
- MathSciNet Indexes
the mathematical literature from 1940 to the present. It provides access
to the reviews and bibliographic data from Mathematical Reviews
and Current Mathematical Publications. "Featured Reviews"
are freely available. Only subscribers may access the full text.
- The Multi-Repository
Mathematics Collections Access to three
of the most significant mathematics collections digitally available:
The Mathematics Collection from Cornell, the Mathematics Collection
from Göttingen, and the University of Michigan's Historical Math
Collection.
- Scitopia Search portal to the digital libraries of leading science and technology societies
- TechXtra in Engineering, Mathematics, and Computing Provides access Web sites and to "grey literature" such as dissertations, industry news, technical reports, e-prints, newsletters
Mathematical
Associations and Societies
Mathematics
Resources
- Australian Science
and Technology on the Internet National Library's selective list
of Australian science and technology Internet sites
- College Algebra Online tutorials from West Texas A&M University
- College Math Resources Free interactive web-based resources that help with the learning of college level mathematics.
- CSIRO Division of Mathematical
and Information Sciences
- Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical
Computer Science Free online journal
- e-MATH e-MATH is the American
Mathematical Society's resource for delivering electronic products and
services to mathematicians. The AMS is a professional membership organization
for research mathematicians and a leading publisher of mathematical
research results.
- Geometry in
Action Real world applications of ideas from discrete and computational
geometry.
- Isaac Newton
Institute for Mathematical Sciences: Preprints International research
institute with research programmes in mathematics and the mathematical
sciences. This website links to completed papers from participants of
Institute programmes.
- James Cook University
School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences
- Linear
Algebra Toolkit Interactive site for matrix calculations
- Links to
Web Sites on the History of Mathematics By the British Society for
the History of Mathematics
- Mac Tutor History of Mathematics Archive
- Math Archives Software,
teaching materials, and topics in mathematics, together with a searchable
database
- Math Forum @ Drexel Resources for mathematics educators
- MathDL Mathematical Sciences
Digital Library - an online resource managed by the Mathematical Association
of America
- MathWorld Online encyclopedia of mathematics by Eric Weisstein.
- Mathematical Functions
Wolfram Research's compendium of mathematical functions includes elementary
and special functions that are significant not only in mathematics but
also in the natural sciences, engineering, and other fields.
- Mathematical Sciences Research
Institute (MSRI)
- MathSearch
Searchable collection of over 200,000 documents on mathematics and statistics
servers
- Mathtools.net A "link exchange for the technical community" hosted by MathWorks. Links are organized by the following categories: MATLAB, Excel, C, C++, Java, Fortran, Visual Basic, Applications and Industry, and Learning and Education.
- MathWorld An online encyclopedia of mathematics.
- MERLOT
Mathematics Free and open resource with links to online learning
materials along with annotations such as peer reviews and assignments
- Miscellaneous Mathematical Utilities Convenient, user-friendly calculators.
The algorithms underlying these utilities come from the BLAS, EISPACK, and LINPACK collection of subprograms.
- NIST digital library of mathematical
functions Special functions and their applications
- Number Theory
Web A collection of links to online information of interest to number
theorists everywhere
- PRIME Mathematics Encyclopedia
For mathematics educators, part of the Platonic Realms web site
- The Prime Pages Prime
number research, records and resources.
- Probability Tutorials Detailed tutorials complemented by an introductory essay, clear definitions of various terms, and a discussion board
- The
Probability Web Collection of probability resources on the Web for
researchers, teachers, and people in the probability community
- Public
Domain Statistics (PDS) Basic statistics package (for WinPC only),
free to download.
- Representation Theory An electronic-only
journal of the AMS.
- ScienceNet
Mathematics and Computing Resources
- Web Interface for Statistics Education A sequence of interactive tutorials on key statistical concepts, and access to a wide range of resources that are freely available on the Internet
Directories
and Gateways
Search
Engines
- Athenus Resources in science and engineering on the web. Indexes subject-specific web sites, publications, news and other resources, providing users with a current, focused collection of topic-specific material.
- Google - simple, fast with excellent
results
- Internet
Searching Tools - check out some other search engines here
- Metacrawler
- if searching the Web with 11 popular search engines simultaneously
appeals, try this
- Scientific-search-engines.com
- SCiNet Science, engineering, and
medical search engine and directory
- Scirus for scientific, technical
and medical information sources
Research
and Study Aids
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