Math Resources

Math Resources

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Academic One File
Coverage Dates: 1980-present
Provider: Gale
Peer-reviewed (academic), full-text articles from leading journals and reference sources. Extensive coverage of the sciences, technology, medicine, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects - authoritative and comprehensive. Millions of articles available online in full-text; updated daily.

Academic Search Premier
Coverage Dates: 1975-present
Provider: Ebsco
Academic Search Premier is a great starting place for all of your research needs! This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,600 journals, including full text for nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed (academic) titles. Need help using Academic Search Premier? Check out our video tutorials.

arXiv.org
Coverage Dates: Varies by topic
Provider: Free website
Sponsored by Cornell University Library, arXiv.org provides access to over 750,000 scholarly journal articles in physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, and statistics. Browse by topic or search.

JSTOR
Coverage Dates: Varies
Provider: JSTOR
JSTOR offers high-quality, interdisciplinary content. It includes full text from over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. JSTOR offers more archival issues of journals than most other full text databases.

LearningExpress Library
Coverage Dates: Current
Provider: LearningExpress
Study aids and practice tests for academic, civil service, and certification exams, as well as study aids for academic subjects and job search/workplace skills. Access a comprehensive, interactive online learning platform of practice tests and tutorial course series designed to help you succeed on the academic or licensing tests you need to pass. You'll get immediate scoring, complete answer explanations, and an individualized analysis of your results.

NIST Virtual Library
Coverage Dates: 1948 - present
Provider: Government Resource
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Virtual Library provides access to publications relating to its work in science, engineering, and technical standards.

Publications.USA.gov
Coverage Dates: Varies by subject
Provider: Government Resource
This Federal Citizen Information Center site offers important consumer information and publications to help you make important life decisions. Browse by category or search for your topic.

Summit EBL e-Book Collection
Coverage Dates: Varies by title
Provider: EBL
This collection of e-books is available via the Summit (Orbis-Cascade) Alliance. Search for your subject or browse by a topic to get started.

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Applied Math
Math

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Credo Reference
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Publisher: Credo Reference
More than 550 highly regarded, current reference works, including general and subject-specific encyclopedias, images, dictionaries, atlases, and directories; covers many subject areas.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Academic Edition
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Publisher: Britannica
A combination of the Encyclopædia Britannica plus Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, magazines and periodicals, and many other research tools. Britannica’s contributors include an extensive network of renowned scholars (including former U.S. presidents and Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winners), advisers, content specialists, and writers—whose job it is to ensure that Britannica is current, accurate, unbiased, comprehensive, relevant, international in scope, and engaging to college-level learners, researchers, and faculty.

Encyclopedia of Mathematics and Society
Author/Editor: Sarah J. Greenwald and Jill E. Thomley
Publication Date: 2012
Publisher: Gale
Presents some 490 articles showing the math behind our daily lives. Explains how and why math works, and allows readers to better understand how disciplines such as algebra, geometry, calculus, and others affect what we do every day.

Mathematics
Author/Editor: Barry Max Brandenberger, Jr.
Publication Date: 2002
Publisher: Gale
Explains mathematical concepts with an historical overview of the field. Explores the uses and effects of math in daily life, and provides information on different career choices in this field. For academic readers.

Real-life Math
Author/Editor: K. Lee Lerner and Brenda Wilmoth Lerner
Publication Date: 2006
Publisher: Gale
Provides an understanding of commonly studied math concepts by illustrating their use in everyday life in everyday tasks, such as buying insurance, constructing a budget, reading graphs, adjusting cooking recipes or planning for retirement. Topics are designed to support the modern mathematics curriculum and contain examples related to the global economy.
Images, Films, & Audio
Films on Demand
Coverage Dates: Varies
Provider: Films Media Group
Films On Demand allows you to view streaming videos anytime, anywhere, 24/7! Thousands of high-quality streaming videos are available. Special features built into the Films Demand platform allow you to organize and bookmark clips, share playlists, and store quick links to favorite videos.

Image Quest
Coverage Dates: Current
Provider: Encyclopedia Britannica
Access more than one million rights-cleared images from over 40 of the best collections in the world.

Intelecom Online
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Provider: Intelecom
Streaming videos on a range of academic topics, including Biological Sciences, Oceanography, History, Philosophy, Psychology, Political Science, Sociology, Health, and Environmental Studies. New content is added on an ongoing basis.

TED
Coverage Dates: Current
Provider: Free Website
TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) offers videos of talks about big ideas from well-known people and experts in a variety of fields. Talks are 18 minutes or less in length.

Wikimedia Commons
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Provider: Free website
A sister project of the popular Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons has millions of images, diagrams, animations, audio files, and video files that you can use. The media files in Wikimedia Commons are either open source or protected by a Creative Commons license, which means that they can be used for non-commercial purposes as long as credit is given to the creator of the file.
Government Information
USA.gov
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Provider: Government Resource
The US Government's official web portal, intended to make it easy for the public to get US government information and services on the web.
Websites
Wolfram|Alpha
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Provider: Free Website
Searches and compiles facts, graphs, definitions, tables, numbers, formulas, and other data for a variety of topics. Use the "Examples" page to see how this search engine works.

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