Electronic Resources for Mathematics

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Electronic Resources for Mathematics

• Louise Colver
• 8th March 2006

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Overview of session

• OxLIP gateway to e-resources
• Key resources in Maths
• Search skills creating a search strategy

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OxLIP

• Oxford Library Information Platform
• www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/oxlip
• Gateway to all electronic resources available in
  Oxford, including
• Library catalogues (OLIS)
• Bibliographic databases (journal article
  summaries tables of contents)
• Full-text electronic journals
• Internet sites (subject gateways)

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Maths-related databases

• MathSci (ERL)
• MathSciNet (web version)
• INSPEC Physics (ERL)
• Compendex - Engineering
• MATHDI - Mathematical education

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Inter-disciplinary databases

• Web of Knowledge
• Sciences, social sciences, and humanities
• SCOPUS
• New, on trial in Oxford until September 2006
• Covers sciences and social sciences
• Both allow citation searching

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Internet resources

• EEVL
• Internet guide to Engineering, Maths Computing
• Freely available, maintained by information
  specialists at UK universities and institutions
• SCIRUS
• Science-specific internet search engine

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Search topic

• Central limit theorem for Markov chains via
  martingales
• Identify key terms limit theorum, markov
  chains, martingales
• Consider alternatives e.g. markov processes
• Truncate e.g. limit theor, martingale
• Combine using AND, OR
• martingale AND (markov chains OR markov
  processes) AND limit theor

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Getting the fulltext

• Use TOUR link to see if full text is available
• Check TDNet (Oxlip/Electronic Journals)
• http//tdnet.bodley.ox.ac.uk/
• Is it in an Oxford library?
• Check OLIS (Oxlip/OLIS)
• http//www.lib.ox.ac.uk/olis/
• If not, try Inter-Library Loan from the RSL