Search engine for scholarly materials including journal articles. Be sure to use WebBridge to link to Lafayette's resources. Note: if accessing from off-campus, go to "Scholar Preferences" and search "Library Links" for "Lafayette." Check "Lafayette College - Lafayette WebBridge" to make WebBridge appear in search results.
Mathematics
Major Research Tools
Coverage: 1940-present.
Electronic version of Mathematical Reviews, which indexes and abstracts books and journals covering pure and applied mathematics. Includes indexing of some computer science journals.
Index covering the journal literature of science, technology, and the social sciences. Allows you to search for a topic, an author, or for articles that cite a known author or work. (Help using Web of Science for cited reference searching)
Other Suggested Research Tools
Coverage: 1954-present
"Full text of every article ever published by ACM and bibliographic citations from major publishers in computing."
A search engine for the archive of math pre-prints maintained at Cornell University. (Mathematicians can submit their work to the archive before it is published so it can quickly be disseminated to the mathematical community.)
Extensive biographies with references and links to related topics. Special indexes offer timelines, birthplace maps, quotations, a directory of female mathematicians, and more. May be searched by time period or by name. Maintained by the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland.
"The web's most extensive mathematics resource" offers detailed information on mathematical concepts and principles. From Wolfram Research, the makers of Mathematica.
Resource for information on special mathematical functions. See also NIST Handbook of Mathematical Functions.
Collection of dictionaries on the physical sciences and mathematics from Oxford University Press.



