Guides: MAT 491: Senior Seminar: Home

Mathematics Individual Paper Quick Links

Watch this video to learn about the different ways in which you can use library resources to find information on your math individual. Checkout the following resources at these minute marks:

1:22 - Gale in Context: Biography
3:28 - Credo Reference
4:40 - NOBLE Catalog
6:38 - How do you look beyond Jenks for books?

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Gale in Context: Biography This link opens in a new window
Includes over 600,000 biographical entries covering international figures from all time periods and areas of study. Alongside its biographies is related content from periodicals, images, videos, audio selections.
Formerly called Biography in Context
Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
Find quick facts and background information in over 600 reference sources. Then continue searching in the NOBLE catalog and other electronic resources right from the Credo search screen.
Oxford Reference Online This link opens in a new window
Provides over 2 million digitized entries from Oxford University Press’s Dictionaries, Companions and Encyclopedias. Find facts, figures, definitions, quotations, translations, and illustrations covering 25 subject areas such as history, linguistics, medicine and health, music, and religion.

BOOKS

NOBLE Catalog Search
Search the Jenks Library catalog for books, eBooks, audiobooks, scores, etc.

LIBRARY DATABASES

Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new window
Academic Search Ultimate offers access to resources cited in key subject indexes. The combination of academic journals, magazines, periodicals, reports, books and videos meets the needs of scholars in virtually every discipline ranging from astronomy, anthropology, biomedicine, engineering, health, law and literacy to mathematics, pharmacology, women’s studies, zoology and more.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
A collection of core scholarly journals, many going back to the first volume. Emphasis is on back issue coverage and does not include the current 3-5 years, unless Gordon has a current subscription to the journal. JSTOR provides long term preservation for journals.

Mathematics Trends/Topic Paper Quick Links

Watch this video to learn how you can use library resources for finding information on your math topic or trend. Checkout the following resources at these minute marks:

1:32 - Credo Reference
2:45 - NOBLE Catalog
4:33 - NOBLE Catalog - Advanced Search
6:05 - Finding journal articles in library databases
8:02 - Searching for articles within academic journals

AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY PUBLICATIONS

Notices of the AMS
Contains expository articles describing current developments and research in the fields of mathematics.
Bulletin of the AMS
The Bulletin of the AMS contains expository articles on contemporary mathematical research for non-experts.

BOOKS

NOBLE Catalog Search
Search the Jenks Library catalog for books, eBooks, audiobooks, scores, etc.

LIBRARY DATABASES

Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new window
Academic Search Ultimate offers access to resources cited in key subject indexes. The combination of academic journals, magazines, periodicals, reports, books and videos meets the needs of scholars in virtually every discipline ranging from astronomy, anthropology, biomedicine, engineering, health, law and literacy to mathematics, pharmacology, women’s studies, zoology and more.
MathSciNet This link opens in a new window
Provides reviews, abstracts and bibliographic information for much of the mathematical sciences literature. Over 125,000 new items are added each year, most of them classified according to the Mathematics Subject Classification.