1. Electronic Resources for Mathematics and Statistics
June 2009
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2. Session overview Electronic resources at Oxford How to find them
Key databases
Chance to practise
Visit the RSL subject web pages at RSL:
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3. Search Oxford Libraries Online
Accessing Oxford’s collections:
SOLO – Search Oxford Libraries Online
OLIS - Union Catalogue of Oxford’s Libraries
ORA – Oxford Research Archive
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4. Electronic resources at Oxford
An extensive collection of electronic databases, e-journals,
e-books, standards online, conference proceedings …
Oxlip+ - Oxford University e-resources
MetaLib search engine provides access to all Oxford’s resources
Enables searching by Title or browsing by Subject
Provides a CrossSearch option to search multiple sources
My Resources space.
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5. Accessing Oxlip+ Subject specific database Multidisciplinary databases
General and reference: dictionaries, encyclopedias, handbooks …
E-books
Links to Internet Gateways
Conference Proceedings
Dissertations
Standards
Direct access on the network.
For remote access use your SSO login.
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6. Finding e-journals
Oxford University e-journals
Includes extensive collection of e-journals
Covers all subjects
Searchable by title, subject, citation…
Includes back files and archives of journals
Link from databases using
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7. Databases for Statistics
Published research
International coverage
Subject specific material
Includes thousands of
scientific journals
Peer reviewed publications
Provide abstracts
An electronic equivalent
of abstracts and indexes
Subject specific
MathSciNet
INSPEC
CSA Technology Research
Multi disciplinary
SCOPUS
Web of Knowledge
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8. Subject Specific Databases
MathSciNet
Mathematical Reviews database
Coverage since 1940
Includes topical reviews, journal articles,
conference proceedings, books, etc.
Published by the American Mathematical
Society (AMS)
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9. Subject specific databases
INSPEC
For Physics, Engineering, Computing , Applied Maths …
Comprehensive database covering physics, computing, electrical and electronic engineering
Indexes approx 4200 journals, 1000 conferences, books, reports, dissertations
Coverage from 1969 – to date/Updated weekly
Published by the IET
Available from Engineering Village
Access this database from Oxlip+
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10. Multidisciplinary databases
Web of Science with Conference Proceedings
Science Citation Index Expanded, 1970-
Journal Citation Reports (journal ranking)
Databases cover about 4000 journals and are updated weekly
Produced by ISI/Thomson
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11. Search techniques Search tips: Use wildcard and truncation (?, *)
Boolean operators:
AND to narrow down a search
OR to broaden a search (synonyms)
NOT to exclude some terms
Search tips:
Use wildcard and truncation (?, *)
Include alternative terms
Include different spelling
Use controlled vocabulary
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12. More electronic resources
E-books on Oxlip+:
Encyclopedia of Mathematical Physics
Handbook of mathematical functions
Handbook of Statistics
Lecture Notes in Mathematics
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Oxford Scholarship Online
More electronic books can be found on SOLO.
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13. Internet gateways for mathematics
ArXiv.org provides open access to 526,400 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics
Intute– Mathematics/Statistics and probability
Office of National Statistics (UK statistics online)
Eurostats – European Commission statistics
National Centre for Bioinformatics Information
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14. Societies and professional organisations
AMS – American Mathematical Society
London Mathematical Society
RSS – Royal Statistical Society
EMIS – European Mathematical Information Service
Intute– Mathematics/Statistics and probability
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15. Reference management To keep and organise your references use
RefWorks, EndNote, EndNote Web, BibTex
Export your search results into reference management software
Save the results using an appropriate file format
or Print results and than enter into the software
Keep up-to-date by setting up database alerts
Update your search regularly
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16. The Copyright Law Photocopying, printing and downloading
from books and journals:
one book chapter
one journal article
Up to 5%
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17. Avoiding plagiarism To avoid plagiarism, you must give credit
whenever you use:
another person’s idea, opinion, or theory;
any facts, statistics, graphs, drawings—any pieces of information—that are not common knowledge;
quotations of another person’s actual spoken or written words; or
a paraphrase of another person’s spoken or written words.
(These guidelines were taken from the Student Code of Rights, Responsibilities and
Conduct, Indiana University website)
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18. Contacts Ljilja Ristic MSc Chem PGDipLIS MCLIP
Physical Sciences Librarian
Subject Consultant
The Radcliffe Science Library
Tel.(01865)
Or consult staff in the Radcliffe Science Library.
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