Selected Resources in Mathematics and Computer Science

Background Information

Access Science
From: McGraw Hill
McGraw Hill's Encyclopedia of Science and Technology Online.
See especially headings Computing and Information Technology and Mathematics. Click on the tab labeled Biographies to view more than 2000 biographies of scientists.

Credo Reference
Search for titles on a subject or within titles for a specific topic.

Encyclopedia of Computer Science (ebook)
Print edition R 004.03 En1

The Encyclopedia of 20th-Century Technology (ebook)
Print edition R 603 En19

Mathematics Dictionaries

Computer Science Dictionaries

Articles (journals / magazines)

Recommended Databases

JSTOR.
A journal archive storing full text backfiles of many scholarly journals. There are 16 mathematics titles included.

SpringerLink
A premier resource for researchers in science, technology and medicine. There are separate subject collections for computer science and for mathematics and statistics.

Wiley InterScience
A quality collection of peer reviewed journals; hosts many of the core journal titles in their respective fields. Use the Subject List to access a list of subject areas and titles.

Web of Science
From: Institute for Scientific Research (ISI)
Coverage: 1988 - current
The Web of Science provides access to the three major citation indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Index. You may search one or all databases at one time. For search help you may access: Web of Science tutorial or Web-Based Training.

Additional databases that cover topics in Mathematics and Computer Science

Academic Search Premier
From:EBSCOhost
The world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for nearly 4,700 publications, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed publications.

Journal Finder
Under Advanced Search there is a list of journals by discipline. There are more than 700 journal titles listed under Mathematics and more than 900 titles listed under Computer Science.

Books

To find books on a particular topic or by a particular author or title, search the
Meredith Library Catalog

To browse the stacks for computer science or mathematics books, go to the following call numbers on the second floor of the Library, or browse the online catalog by clicking on the linked call numbers below:

Computer science, information and general works

004 Data processing and computer science

005 Computer programs and data

006 Special computer methods

Mathematics

510 Mathematics

511 General principles

512 Algebra and number theory

515 Analysis

516 Geometry

519 Probabilities and applied mathematics

WorldCAT
From: OCLC FirstSearch
Search the collections of libraries in your community and thousands more around the world. An additional search interface is available for searching WorldCAT (new user-friendly website from OCLC).

Other Libraries
Link to libraries in the Triangle, North Carolina, and all over the world.

Internet Resources

• Mathematics

Internet Public Library: Mathematics

PRIME Mathematics Encyclopedia

Wolfram MathWorld

• Computer Science

Internet Public Library: Computers and the Internet

cnet

Computerworld

InfoWorld

ZDNet

ACM
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