Research Guides: Mathematics: Finding Articles

Using Databases

Start Your Research tutorial
The Start Your Research tutorial will help you:
- Understand the goal(s) of your assignment
- Determine the information you need
- Explain how knowledge is created over time
- Find the information you need using Library resources and services

Databases: Highly Recommended

MathSciNet This link opens in a new window
Why search here? Good for comprehensively searching the world's mathematical literature, as well as accessing brief reviews for select articles.
Content type: Abstracts of scholarly articles, books, dissertations and theses
Coverage dates: 1800s-present
Most articles are characterized according to the Mathematical Subject Classification system, which you can explore under Free Tools, and many include both a reference list and citation data. Authors are provided unique identifiers and publication statistics are provided, as well as a network of co-authors.
Language: English
Text Mining: Permitted; with advance permission
Keywords: Math Sci Net
ACM Digital Library This link opens in a new window
Why search here? Good for broadly searching the computing and information technology literature, as well as browsing all publications by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
Content type: Abstracts, scholarly articles, conference proceedings, magazine articles, newsletters, eBooks
Coverage dates: 1947-present
Search results can be broken down to specifically highlight supplementary materials included with ACM publications such as software, datasets, and videos. Author profiles and upcoming ACM conference lists are also great ways to better understand the field.
Language: English
Text Mining: Permitted
arXiv e-Print archive This link opens in a new window
Why search here? Explore this moderated, open access archive for rapid access to scholarly research, sometimes prior to formal publication and peer review.
Content type: Manuscripts of scholarly articles, dissertations, and theses
Curated by volunteer moderators, submissions are not peer-reviewed by arXiv, but are reviewed for scholarly interest and relevance to the disciplinary scope of the repository. arXiv currently serves the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics. Operated by Cornell University.
Language: English
O'Reilly Safari Learning Platform This link opens in a new window
Why search here? Discover e-learning resources for a variety of STEM and information technology topics, including data science and machine learning.
Content type: Books, videos, interactive labs
Language: English, French, Italian, Japanese, German, Chinese, Russian, and others
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
Why search here? Access a wide variety of journals across scientific disciplines as well as some areas of the social sciences and humanities.
Content type: Abstracts, scholarly articles, conference proceedings
In addition to the physical and life sciences, health sciences, and engineering, this platform includes journals in the areas of accounting, business, management, economics and econometrics, finance, psychology and more.
Language: English
Keywords: Elsevier Science Direct SD
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Why search here? Search here for scholarly content in the humanities and social sciences in a major database that many students are familiar with from high school.
Content type: Journal articles, eBooks, images, primary sources
Many journals include only backfiles and do not include current content. Use other databases to find the most recent issues of these journals.
Language: English, French, German, Spanish