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Research Guide for Mathematics
FINDING ARTICLES
EBSCO Multiple Topics & Disciplines
Academic Search ™ Premier contains full text coverage in a broad array of subjects including biology, chemistry, physics, education, health, psychology, religion & theology, and social work. Academic Search ™ Premier contains indexing for 8,200 publications, with full text for more than 4,650 of those titles.
JSTOR is a non-profit organization that archives scanned images of journal issues and pages. Alvernia College has access to the Arts & Sciences I, II and IV Collections. These collections include many of the core research and society published journals in key fields in the humanities and social sciences, and a limited number of journals in the sciences.
EBSCO's Education searches three databases, Professional Development Collection ™, ERIC ®, and the multidisciplinary Academic Search ™ Premier. Most of the citations in these databases link to the full text of the article. You can search individual databases by going to EBSCO Database Selection . Additional search features are provided when you limit your search to a single database.
ProQuest® Education Journals gives users access to over 700 top educational publications, including nearly 600 of the titles in full text. Image articles include all the charts, tables, diagrams, and other graphical elements often used to enhance the editorial value of articles that focus on education topics. ProQuest Education Journals covers not only the literature on primary, secondary, and higher education but also special education, home schooling, adult education, and hundreds of related topics.
FINDING AUTHORITATIVE WEB SITES
Alvernia Library’s Internet Reference Library
The Internet Reference Library has a list of selected Mathematics Web sites. The Internet Reference Library can be accessed from the Resources page of the Library Web site.
Alvernia Library Research Page
The Research Guides page, listed under Research Help on the Alvernia Library Research page, links to sources for finding and evaluating Web sites.
The Brodart DartClix consists of 16,000 professionally selected Web sites.
FINDING BOOKS, VIDEOS, DVDS, & CDS
Alvernia's Catalog is the best tool for finding items in Alvernia Library's collection. You can search for books, audiobooks, books in the Best Seller collection, audio-visual materials (videos, DVD's and CD's), course reserves, and journals in our print collection. Item records indicate if the item is available. Students, faculty and staff with an Alvernia ID card can place a hold on items that are currently in circulation.
A collection of over 12,000 eBooks is now accessible from NetLibrary. eBooks are full text electronic versions that can be borrowed and returned over the Internet. To access eBooks from off-campus, you must first Create A Free Account from a computer on the Alvernia College computer network.
WorldCat 100 million records
This Online Union Catalog lists holdings from libraries across the world. Searches can be conducted across all libraries or limited to the Alvernia Library collection. Searches can also be limited to specific types of documents such as books, visual materials and Internet resources. (dates of coverage: 2100 B.C. – present)
The Dewey Decimal System is used to classify books in the Alvernia Library
collection. Math books are located in the 510 to 516 section.
Examples of books with background information and reference sources are
listed below:
Reference Collection
Handbook of Mathematical Functions R510 A161
CRC Standard Mathematical Tables and Formulae R510.21 Z98 2003
Mathematics Dictionary R510.3 J27
Biographical Dictionary of Mathematics R510.922 B615
CRC Basic Statistical Tables R519.5 B573
The Cambridge Dictionary of Statistics R519.5 E93 2002
American Mathematical Society Books Online
Online books can be browsed by author or by title for downloading.
Updated: July 10, 2008