Mathematics and Statistics

Databases: find journal articles, technical reports, books, etc.

• American Mathematical Society (AMS) Journals. Searchable database of all AMS journals. Allows searching by author, title, keywords, abstract, full text of article, references or anywhere in the record.
• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Digital Library. Registration is free, but full-text is for ACM members only.
• Directory of Mathematics Preprint and E-print Servers. Maintained by the AMS. Provides links to all worldwide preprint servers.
• Directory of Open Access Journals. This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. It includes 102 math journals and 20 statistics journals.
• Electronic Library of Mathematics. A service of the European Mathematical Society that offers links to free online journals, proceedings, and monographs.
• Gottinger Digitalisierungs-Zentrum. Digital Collections. Mathematica.
• IEEE Xplore. Index to IEEE and IET publications in electrical engineering, computer science, and electronics.  Full text of IEEE and IET journals, conference proceedings and standards is available at Fogler Library.
• Jahrbuch Project. Electronic Research Archive for Mathematics (ERAM). Indexes publications from 1868-1942. Consult the search help and contents information.
• JSTOR. A digital archive of over 350 scholarly journals. It includes 17 journals in mathematics and 13 in statistics. Coverage is always back to the first volume of a journal so several titles in mathematics date back to the 18th and 19th centuries. JSTOR does not provide access to the most recent volumes of a journal. Usually the most recent 2 to 5 years are not included.
• MathDoc Portal. Index to online books, dissertations, journal articles, preprints, and table of contents 
• Mathematical Association of America (MAA) Mathematical Sciences Digital Library.
• Math-Net E-Journals.
• Math Search. Allows you to search over 200,000 documents on English-language mathematics and statistics servers across the Web. Note that most of the material is concerned with research-level mathematics. Allows you to find faculty and departments working on a topic.
• Mathematical Physics Preprint Archive. Coverage is 1991 to present and organized by the University of Texas.
• Mathematics arXiv. Preprint archive for 1992 to present. See also the homepage for arXiv.org for computer science and physics preprint indexes. Database is searchable by author, title, abstract, full-text, etc. Users may register to receive email notification of new papers on matching areas of interest.
• MathSciNet. Coverage is 1940 - Present. Comprehensive resource covering mathematical journal articles and books. It also includes full-text reviews of many of the articles. This is the electronic version of Mathematical Reviews (Sci Index QA 1 M7) and Current Mathematical Publications (shelved in Sci Periodicals). MathSciNet Guidebook and MathSciNet Search Help.
• NUMDAM: Digitization of Ancient Mathematics Documents. Searchable database containing the full text of 6 French mathematics journals. Publications dates range from 1864 - 2000.
• Probability Abstract Service. Coverage is 1991 to present by the Univ. of Washington.
• Science.gov − Mathematics. New improved gateway to U.S. government publications and web sites. 12 major science agencies are collaborating on this project. They have recently added relevancy-ranked order to the results of a search. It includes 30 databases and over 1700 web sites.
• Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Journals Online Database.
• StatLib. Maintained by the Carnegie Mellon University Statistics Department; contains software, datasets, and publications related to statistics.
• Web of Science. Coverage is 1900 to present. Online version of Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index and Arts and Humanities Citation Index. General Search allows you to do keyword, author, journal title, and author's affiliation or location. The Cited Reference Search allows you to find articles that cite an older article of interest. For the cited reference search just use the first author's last name and initial(s) and the year of publication. Do not bother with the journal or book title. Keep in mind our subscription is only for 2000 to present. 

Library Catalogs

• URSUS. University of Maine System catalog.  
• MaineCat. College, university, and major public libraries in Maine.  
• Library of Congress. Online catalog.
• British Library. Catalogue.
• Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (CISTI) Catalog.

Encyclopedias and Dictionaries

• Access Science. Online version of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology and the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms. Includes over 8,500 online encyclopedia articles and 15,000 illustrations from the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, 10th Edition and regularly updated, fully-searchable media-rich content, terms, images and video.Includes over 8,500 online encyclopedia articles and 15,000 illustrations from the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, 10th Edition and regularly updated, fully-searchable media-rich content, terms, images and video.
• Infoplease.com. Encyclopedia, almanac, atlas, dictionary and thesaurus in one resource with good science and technology coverage. Nobel and science awards page.
• ISI Glossary of Statistical Terms. By the International Statistical Institute. Includes entries in 19 languages. 
• MathWorld. (Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics). Interactive mathematics encyclopedia for students, educators and researchers.
• On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences. Produced by AT&T Labs.
• Planet Math.Org. Mathematics Encyclopedia.
• PRIME Encyclopedia.

Handbooks and Textbooks

• American Mathematical Society (AMS) Books Online.
• Bartleby.com: Great Books Online. Includes dictionaries, thesauri, quotations, encyclopedias, handbooks and more.
• Cornell Historic Math Book Collection. Full text of historic mathematics titles from Cornell's Digital Library Collection.
• DML Digital Mathematics Library. Contains over 2200 digitized books and over 200 digitized journals and confernece proceedings.
• Electronic Library of Mathematics. Contains online journals, article collections, monographs, and other electronic resources. Access is generally free, except for some periodicals with a "moving wall", i.e., a certain delay period after which resources become freely available.
• Ethnomathematics Digital Library. online books or articles about mathematics around the world and math used in everyday life.
• Gottinger Digitalisierungs-Zentrum. Digital Collections. Mathematica
• Google Directory of online mathematics books.
• Jahrbuch uber die Fortschritte der Mathematik. Most important publications from the period 1868 - 1942. 
• Livres Numérisés Mathématiques. Digital Mathematical Books. Combined index for the digital books from Bibliothèque nationale de France, Cornell University Library, University of Michigan Library, and Universität Göttingen and the ICM, Uniwersytet Warszawski - Biblioteka Wirtualna Matematyki.
• Math2.org. Mathematics reference tables.
• Mathsoft. Mathcad. Electronic Books.
• Mathtools.net. Collection of tutorials, books, and web sites on programming languages including MATLAB, C, C++, JAVA, Visual Basic, etc. Full text tutorials are extensive.
• Multi-Repository Mathematics Collections. joint project by the University of Michigan, Cornell and University of Göttingen.
• National Science Digital Library. A digital library of exemplary resource collections and services, organized in support of science education at all levels.
• NetLibrary. A collection of 7,400 e-books (3,400 copyrighted titles and 4,000 in the public domain). Although access to the public domain titles is unrestricted, users must create a personal account in order to check out copyrighted titles and in order to access these titles from non-University IP addresses or commercial internet service providers. The check-out period is 4 hours and can be repeated.
• Newton Project. Digitized works by Isaac Newton, links to many biographical sources and digital libraries of his works.
• Online Books Page. Sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania. Mathematics and computer science titles.
• S.O.S. Mathematics Tables and Formulas. Tables featured include Trigonometric Identities, Derivatives, Indefinite Integrals, Common Integrals, and Binomial Coefficients and Formulas, among others.
• Textbooks in Mathematics. These textbooks are available for free on the Internet.
• Trigonometric Delights. by Eli Maor. Princeton Univ. Press, 2002. Online text.
• University of Michigan Library. Historical Mathematics Collection.

History of Mathematics

• Americas Section of History and Pedagogy of Mathematics.
• Archimedes. Collection of his works and analysis of his devices.
• Biographies of Mathematicians. Essays on history topics and biographies. Presented by University of St. Andrews.
• Biographies of Women Mathematicians.
• British Society for the History of Mathematics. Links to Web Sites on the History of Mathematics. Nice directory of web resources.
• Calculating Machines. History of these machines and their inventors.
• Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Mathematics. They hold conferences, publish journals and maintain links to other history of mathematics sites.
• Cornell Historic Math Book Collection. Full text of historic mathematics titles from Cornell's Digital Library Collection.
• Einstein Archives Online. Provides full text access to Einstein's scientific and non-scientific manuscripts held at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Also has archival database indexing over 43,000 items by or about Einstein.
• Galileo Project. Catalog of the Scientific Community of the 16th and 17th Centuries. 631 detailed biographies with vital facts and information on their contributions to science.
• Historia Matematica. Provide a virtual discussion forum for scholarly discussion of the history of mathematics.
• History and Pedagogy of Mathematics (HPM). International Study Group.
• History of Mathematics. Compiled by D.R. Wilkins, Trinity College.
• History of Mathematics. Compiled by D.E. Joyce, Clark University. Links to many web sites and provides extensive bibliographies. Arranged by subject and includes chronology.
• International Commission on the History of Mathematics. (ICHM).
• Jahrbuch Project. Electronic Research Archive for Mathematics (ERAM). Indexes publications from 1868-1942.
• MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive. An excellent site with biographies, histories of mathematical topics, famous curves, prize winner lists, and many other types of information.
• Mathematicians of the 17th and 18th centuries. Adapted from A Short Account of the History of Mathematics by W. W. Rouse Ball 4th Edition, 1908.
• Mathematics Textbooks, 1850 - 1950. Compiled by Prof. Eisso Atzema, Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Maine, Orono. It includes links to important collections in the U.S. and a database under construction by Prof. Atzema.
• Newton Project. Digitized works by Isaac Newton, links to many biographical sources and digital libraries of his works.
• NUMDAM: Digitization of Ancient Mathematics Documents. Searchable database containing the full text of 6 French mathematics journals. Publications dates range from 1864 - 2000.
• Turing Archive for the History of Computing. Collection of digital douments by Turing and other pioneers of computing.
• University of Michigan Library. Historical Mathematics Collection.
• World of Scientific Biography. (Eric Weisstein's). Interactive encyclopedia listing over 250 important researchers in mathematics. Links to information about their contributions.

Maine Resources

• Center for Science and Mathematics Education Research.
• Maine Mathematics and Science Alliance.
• University of Maine. Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics.

Professional Societies

• American Mathematical Society (AMS).
• American Statistical Association (ASA).
• Argonne National Laboratory. Mathematics and Computer Science Division.
• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
• Canadian Mathematical Society.
• Institute of Mathematical Statistics.
• International Mathematical Union.
• International Statistical Institute.
• Mathematical Association of America (MAA).
• National Center for Improving Student Learning and Achievement in Mathematics and Science.
• Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).

Internet Directories

• American Mathematical Society: Math on the Web.
• Catalog of Mathematics Resources on the WWW and Internet.
• Google: Science: Math.
• INFOMINE. Scholarly internet resources.
• Internet Guide to Engineering, Mathematics and Computing. EEVL. Mathematics.
• Mathematics WWW Virtual Library. Florida State University.
• Open Directory Project. Mathematics.
• Penn State University. Mathematics Dept. Mathematics Web Sitess.
• Resources in Mathematics. Special Libraries Association. PAM.
• Virtual Library: Mathematics.
• Virtual Library: Statistics.

Raymond H. Fogler Library University of Maine Orono, ME 04469 207-581-1661

Updated: 06/27/2008
by Martin Wallace