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History of Mathematics

Library ResourcesJane Wu

Class Objectives

• Understand how to effectively search online databases• Understand Boolean Logic search strategies• Understand differences between keyword and subject• Understand the differences between primary vs.

secondary sources• Know major sources that can be used for the class

Class Guide• Getting Started

• http://otterbein.libguides.com/mathhis • Exploring your topics• Finding Aids • Research databases

• Books• Journal Articles

• Internet Sources• Citing the Sources

• Using MLA, APA styles correctly• RefWorks

• Research Consultation

Finding Books• Otterbein’s Catalog

• Subject Vs Keyword• OPAL Catalog (20 libraries)• OhioLINK Catalog (84 libraries) • Delivery within 4 days

Boolean searchAnd

• smoking and teenagers;OR

• smoking or tobacco useNot

• children not infantAdjacency

• industrial adj regulationTruncation

• CART* will also retrieve cartography, cartilage, cartel, cartridge, carthage, cartwheel

Databases• Academic Search Premier

• Journals from many disciplines, but good mathematical journals also.

• ERIC (EBSCO)• The Education Database.

• MathSciNet• ISI Web of Science

• Science Citation Index Expanded• Scopus

• The most comprehensive database of peer-reviewed research

Science Citation Index

• access to current bibliographic information and cited references from more than 7100 of the world's leading professional scientific research journals covering more than 150 disciplines.

• Researchers can search the citation data (the footnotes of each article), taking a known, relevant paper and finding other, more recent papers that cite it.

Citation Searching

Buck, D. 1996

Fraguela, 2003

Doallo 1999

Aven 1974Denning 1968

Tay 1985

Dan 1990

Díaz-del-Río,2009Birk, 2006

MathSciNet Facts and Figures:• American Mathematical Society database of more than a

million reviews and abstracts of math publications • Bibliographic data and reviews of mathematical research

literature contained in the Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications since 1940.

• MathSciNet, the Mathematical Reviews Database, Mathematical Reviews, and Current Mathematical Publications are all produced by the American Mathematical Society.

• Most of the items are classified according to the Mathematics Subject Classification

Search fields• Author: any author in the Mathematical Reviews database• Author/Related: an author, an editor of a book or journal issue, • Title: any word or phrase in the title of a work• Institution Code: the code Mathematical Reviews uses to identify the

institutional affiliation of an author.• Series: any words that could appear in the title of a series• MSC Primary/Secondary: All items in the Mathematical Reviews

database receive a classification code using the Mathematical Subjects classification scheme. These are either 2 digit (ex: 65 for Numerical analysis), 3 digit (ex: 65D for Numerical approximation and computational geometry (primarily algorithms)) or 5 digit (ex: 65D05 for Interpolation). All items have a least one MSC number, the primary number; some have more than one, a secondary number.

• MR Numbers: numbers assigned to every item with a review. They are connected to the year and month of publication and to the MSC code. Example: MR2639867

• Anywhere: allows searching of all other search fields simultaneously

Search criteria and others

• The wildcard character is the asterisk (*) and may be used in all fields except MR Number and Mathematics Subject Classifications

• To search for mathematical symbols omit the initial \ from the Tex code. For example, to search for {\rm P}\sp\infty, enter p sp infty.

• References, Reference Citations, Review Citations

SCOPUS

• The largest abstract and citation database containing both peer-reviewed research literature and quality web sources

• 50 million records. 21,000 titles. 5,000 publishers, of which 20,000 are peer-reviewed journals

• Quick, easy and comprehensive resource covers scientific, technical, medical and social sciences fields and the arts and humanities fields.

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