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Academic OneFile Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only WebBridge enabled Some full text available

1980 - current. Interdisciplinary index covering over 10,000 scholarly and popular journals and magazines. Most references include full-text or links to full-text. Contains all of Expanded Academic Index ASAP. Coverage of scientific journals is limited.  Shortcuts:  go/onefile (on campus),  http://go.middlebury.edu/onefile (off-campus).

arXiv Unrestricted Resource Some full text available

An e-print service in the fields of physics, mathematics, non-linear science, computer science, and quantitative biology. Many of the papers are scheduled to be published in professional journals. Because papers are submitted and posted without peer review, the archive represents extremely up-to-date research. Materials are added on a daily basis.

Google Scholar Unrestricted Resource WebBridge enabled

Searches for many types of primarily scholarly sources including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other organizations. Some documents will be available for free while others require a subscription or a one-time access fee.

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JSTOR Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only WebBridge enabled Some full text available Resource contains images

Full-text archive of over 700 scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences covering all issues published, except for the last 2 to 5 years. This is a subscription resource; for off-campus access, enter your Middlebury username and password when prompted. Shortcuts: go/jstor (on campus), http://go.middlebury.edu/jstor (off-campus).

MathSciNet Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only WebBridge enabled

MathSciNet is an electronic publication offering access to a carefully maintained and easily searchable database of reviews, abstracts and bibliographic information for much of the mathematical sciences literature. Over 80,000 new items are added each year, most of them classified according to the Mathematics Subject Classification. Authors are uniquely identified, enabling a search for publications by individual author rather than by name string. Continuing in the tradition of the paper publication Mathematical Reviews (MR), which was first published in 1940, expert reviewers are selected by a staff of professional mathematicians to write reviews of the current published literature; over 60,000 reviews are added to the database each year. Extending the MR tradition, MathSciNet contains over 2 million items and over 700,000 direct links to original articles. Bibliographic data from retrodigitized articles dates back to 1864. Reference lists are collected and matched internally from over 300 journals, and citation data for journals, authors, articles and reviews is provided. This web of citations allows users to track the history and influence of research publications in the mathematical sciences.

ScienceDirect Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only WebBridge enabled Some full text available

The Middlebury College Libraries subscribe to less than a third of the 3,000+ electronic journals in this database of science journals published by Elsevier.  Articles from journals to which we subscribe are marked with a green full-text icon.  To find out if we have alternative access to journals not available via ScienceDirect, click on the "Find at Middlebury" button or consult our Journals A to Z list.

Web of Science Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only WebBridge enabled Resource contains images

1985-current. Together, the Science Citation Index and the Social Sciences Citation Index cover several thousand scholarly journals worldwide. The Science Citation Index segment covers core science and technology research journals. Special features include cited article searching and discovery of related articles through common terms. This is a subscription resource; for off-campus access, enter your Middlebury username and password when prompted.

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Note: For references to articles published 1974-1989, use SciSearch via Dialog on Library computers; ask the Science Librarian for assistance.

Web Sites

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The Chaos Hyperbook Unrestricted Resource Some full text available Resource contains images

This resource is for anyone with an interest in chaos, fractals, or non-linear dynamics, or mathematics in general. "It's a moderately heavy piece of work, requiring a bit of mathematical knowledge, but it is definitely not aimed at mathematicians."

DMOZ Open Directory Calculator Listing Unrestricted Resource

A listing of online calculators, including scientific calculators and graphing calculators.

Geometry in Action Unrestricted Resource

Links to real world applications of ideas from discrete and computational geometry.

The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive Unrestricted Resource Some full text available Resource contains images

Indexes the history of mathematics. Includes biographies and maps.

MathDL Unrestricted Resource Some full text available Resource contains images

MathDL is an online resource published by the Mathematical Association of America. The site provides online resources for both teachers and students of mathematics. MathDL is a component of the National STEM Digital Library (NSDL) and is supported by National Science Foundation grant.

Mathworld Unrestricted Resource Some full text available Resource contains images

MathWorld is the web's most extensive mathematical resource, provided as a free service to the world's mathematics and internet communities as part of a commitment to education and educational outreach by Wolfram Research, makers of Mathematica.
MathWorld has been assembled over more than a decade by Eric W. Weisstein with assistance from thousands of contributors. Since its contents first appeared online in 1995, MathWorld has emerged as a nexus of mathematical information in both the mathematics and educational communities. It not only reaches millions of readers from all continents of the globe, but also serves as a clearinghouse for new mathematical discoveries that are routinely contributed by researchers. Its entries are extensively referenced in journals and books spanning all educational levels, including those read by researchers, elementary school students and teachers, engineers, and hobbyists.

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Multi-Repository Mathematics Collections Unrestricted Resource Some full text available Resource contains images

From the Multi-Repository Mathematics Collections site you will gain access to three of the most significant mathematics collections digitally available: The Mathematics Collection from Cornell, the Mathematics Collection from Göttingen, and the University of Michigan's Historical Math Collection.

The Prime Page Unrestricted Resource Some full text available Resource contains images

A source of prime number research, records and resources. The "Guinness book" of prime number records.

Videolectures.net Unrestricted Resource Resource contains video Resource contains audio

Free on-demand educational video lectures from world's leading and prominent scientists, research institutions, EU research projects.

Biographical Information

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American Men and Women of Science Unrestricted Resource

Main Library Ref Q141 A474 next to latest ed
Armstrong Ref Q141 A474 latest ed

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American National Biography Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only Some full text available Resource contains images

Oxford ANB Online is an exploration of American history through the lives of the men and women who shaped the nation.

Biographical Dictionary of Mathematicians Unrestricted Resource

Multi-volume
Ref QA28 B534 1991

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Biographies of Women Mathematicians Unrestricted Resource Some full text available Resource contains images

An on-going project at Agnes Scott College to illustrate the numerous achievements of women in the field of mathematics. Here you can find biographical essays or comments on the women mathematicians profiled on this site, as well as additional resources about women in mathematics.

Dictionary of National Biography Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only Some full text available Resource contains images

Oxford DNB - 56,000 biographies of deceased people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to the present.  Also available in print: Main Library Reference CT773 .D4 2004.

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Go To: The Story of the Math Majors, Bridge Players, Engineers, Chess Wizards, Maverick Scientists and Iconoclasts, the Programmers who Created the Software Revolution Unrestricted Resource

by Steve Lohr
QA76.2.A2 L64 2001

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Mathematical People: Profiles and Interviews Unrestricted Resource

QA28.M37 1985

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Women of Mathematics: a Biobibliographic Sourcebook Unrestricted Resource

QA28 W66 1987

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Citation and Style Guides

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Middlebury Citation & Style Guide Unrestricted Resource

This library subject guide links to additional resources pertaining to how to format your paper's footnotes, bibliographies and more.

RefWorks Middlebury Students, Faculty and Staff only WebBridge enabled

RefWorks will automatically generate bibliographies and format your research papers in any of hundreds of styles including MLA, APA, Chicago, and Turabian.  Middlebury  College students and faculty may use RefWorks by creating a RefWorks account.  For more info, follow the RefWorks link or email refworks@middlebury.edu.

Middlebury-specific RefWorks Guide located at  http://go.middlebury.edu/refworks?midd.

Dictionaries

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Dictionary of Mathematics in Four Languages, English, German, French, Russian Unrestricted Resource

Ref QA5 E35 1982

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A Dictionary of Statistical Terms Unrestricted Resource

Ref HA17 K4 1990

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Mathematics Dictionary Unrestricted Resource

Ref QA5 J33 1992

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MIDCAT List - Math Dictionaries Unrestricted Resource

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MIDCAT List - Statistics Dictionaries Unrestricted Resource

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Encyclopedias

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MIDCAT List - Math Encyclopedias Unrestricted Resource

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