1. November 30, 2015 When do you need to search bibliographic databases? When you are looking for articles/books in a specific topic without knowing what has been published!!

2. November 30, 2015 Think medicine! You may kill someone or something… like your own career!

3. November 30, 2015 Do you want something (anything) to read, or do you want to read the right thing?

4. November 30, 2015 Please keep in mind… MathSciNet and Zentralblatt MATH don’t contain any electronic fulltext articles! They do sometimes contain links to electronic fulltext articles! You may or may not be able to access the electronic fulltexts by clicking on these links! It doesn’t hurt to try, though!

5. November 30, 2015 Published by the American Mathematical Society Electronic version of Mathematical Reviews (MR) –MR published since 1940 Over 2.600.000 references (growth 100.000 new items/year) –Articles, books, conference papers 1.300.000 links to fulltext articles Classification system, Mathematics Subject Classification (MSC) Since 2005 also citations information

6. November 30, 2015 Published by FIZ Karlsruhe, European Mathematical Society and Springer Electronic version of Zentralblatt für Mathematik and Jahrbuch über die Fortschritte der Mathematik –published in paper since 1931 and 1869 respectively Over 3.000.000 references (growth 120.000 new items/year) –Articles, books, conference papers 1000.000 links to fulltext articles Classification system, Mathematics Subject Classification (MSC)

7. November 30, 2015 Mathematics Subject Classification (MSC) also used byMathematics Subject Classification many publishers, e.g. AMS och Springer Revised regularly (which complicates the use) 91B28 (2000-now) Finance, portfolios, investment 90A09 (1980-1999) Finance, portfolios, investment 90 (1940-now) Operations research, mathematical programming No mapping between different codes (old and new) in MSN

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11. http://openj-gate.com/ 8746 Open Access Journals (5879 Peer-Reviewed) It’s slooooow…

12. November 30, 2015 Browse by subject (340 math journals)

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18. Never give up! If you can’t access a certain article, don’t give up! You may be able to access the electronic fulltext articles through other channels! Stay tuned! More to follow!

19. November 30, 2015 Statistics for a department http://www.ams.org/instcode BR-UERJ