Use the MERLIN Library Catalog and
the MOBIUS Union Catalog to
find resources relevant to your research. Relevant works can be found
using subject headings (Library of Congress) such as:
To find the location of a book in
Miller Nichols Library, see the Location
Guide.
Remote (off-campus) access to databases is available only to UMKC students,
faculty, and staff. All other users must access online resources within the
Libraries. Begin searching by selecting a database. After selection you will
be prompted to provide a UMKC Single Sign-On user name and
password OR a 9-digit UMKC ID number followed by the letter k (example: 0123456789k) and last name, as needed.
Before you do your research, you may want to read a little about how science and scientists publish the information they discover in the course of their research and why one source of information may not be as good as another. Sence about Science.
- ACM Digital Library 1954 - present.
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Selected full text 1954 - present; coverage varies by title.
Includes citations and full text of articles from journals, magazines, and conference proceedings published by the Association for Computing Machinery. Indexes
nearly 9,000 full-text articles from ACM journals, magazines, and conference
proceedings, from 1991 forward; has Tables of Contents with nearly 5,000 citations
from articles published in ACM journals and magazines from 1985 forward; and
the Tables of Contents with nearly 15,000 citations from articles published
in over 400 volumes of conference proceedings from 1985 to 1996.
- Applied
Science & Technology Index (1958-1997)
Ref Index Wall 1 Z 7913 .I7
Indexes 335 English-language periodicals in aeronautics, chemistry,
computer science, earth science, electronics, engineering, mathematics,
physics, and
other science subjects.
- Current Contents (Ovid) July 1993 - present.
Note: This database is no longer available.
-
Dissertations
& Theses (ProQuest) 1861 - present. Save to del.icio.us
Selected full text 1963 - present (Includes UMKC dissertations and theses only).
"The ProQuest Dissertations & Theses database
is the world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and
theses. It is the database of record for graduate research, with over 2.3
million dissertations and theses included from around the world. Each dissertation
published since July 1980 includes a 350-word abstract written by the author.
Master's theses published since 1988 include 150-word abstracts. Bibliographic
citations are available for dissertations dating from 1861, and more than
60,000 new citations are added to the database every year."
Selected full text for UMKC dissertations and theses is available. [Source:
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Database information page; accessed January
3, 2007.]
- General
Science Index
Ref Index Wall 1 Z7401 .G46
Indexes over 100 English-language general science periodicals. Not available remotely.
- INSPEC (Ovid) 1969 - present. Save to del.icio.us
INSPEC (Ovid) 1987 - present. Save to del.icio.us
Provides access to scientific and technical literature in physics, electrical engineering, electronics, communications, control engineering, computers and computing, information technology, and applied mathematics.
- ISI Web of Science
Note: This database is no longer available.
- JSTOR 1838 - present. Save to del.icio.us
Full text. Coverage varies by title.
New Additional
journals are now available
with the addition of these collections: A&S Complement,
A&S V, and Business II.
Contains fully searchable scanned articles from selected journals in a broad
range of disciplines, including African-American studies, art, ecology, economics,
education, history, law, literature, music, general science, sociology, and statistics.
(To see a complete list of discipines and journal titles, link to the JSTOR
browse list.) Covers the full run of journals from the first issue of volume
one; however, the most recent three to five years of journals are not generally
available.
- Mathematical
Reviews (1940- )
Consists of reviews and citations to the world's research literature in mathematics and related areas compiled from mathematical reviews and current mathematical publications, (See MathSciNet)
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Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) 1996 - present. Save to del.icio.us
Full text October 1996 - present.
Full-text access to the weekly science magazine.
- Science Citation Index (Online) See ISI Web
of Science
Note: This database is no longer available.
- ScienceNOW (American Association for the Advancement of Science) 1996
- present. Save to del.icio.us
Full text 1996 - present.
An online news service from Science magazine. Articles are posted daily
except U.S. holidays.
- SciFinder Scholar. 1907 - present. UMKC students, faculty and staff can use this database from the workstations in the Miller Nichols Library Information Commons or elsewhere on campus, by using the SciFinder Scholar Downloading Information (http://merlin.missouri.edu/merlin/pages/scholar.htm) to download a copy of the client software. Access available 24 hours a day except Saturday from 10:00 p.m. until midnight and on the first Saturday of each month: available until 4:00 p.m.
Note: The 2004 version of SciFinder Scholar has been retired. Please install the 2007 version. Information in SciFinder Scholar is taken from the CAS databases produced by
the Chemical Abstracts Service. With SciFinder Scholar you can explore
chemical substances by chemical name, chemical structure, formulas, or CAS Registry
Numbers. You can find chemical literature relevant to a topic of interest, written
by a specific author, or by CA abstract number or
patent number. Indexed literature includes journal articles, conference proceedings,
books, technical reports, and more.
-
Scirus 1920
- present. Save to del.icio.us
Large in scope with a user-friendly interface, this search engine is
an excellent research tool for finding scientific information on the Internet.
It indexes more than 167 million web pages
as well is a number of online article citation collections. The citations
often link to full text, but a subscription to the specific journal might
be required to access the document.
- Wiley InterScience (Wiley) 1946 - present; coverage varies by title. Save to del.icio.us
Full text 1996 - present; coverage varies by title.A broad spectrum of electronic journals in the sciences and social sciences published
by John Wiley & Sons. Includes full text articles, citations and abstracts
for journals. Full text is generally available beginning in 1996 or 1997, although
coverage does vary by title. Citations and abstracts are often available for
articles published earlier; coverage varies by title.
University Libraries Photocopying and Printing Services
Selected Journals
This list includes journals available in print in the University Libraries
(check the MERLIN Library Catalog
for holdings and location information) and publicly available journals on the
web. To identify additional related journals, search MERLIN by
the subject mathematics and relevant Library
Databases. Additionally, several holdings at Linda Hall Library of Science,
Engineering and Technology are listed here.
Print Journals Available at Miller Nichols Library:
(links to electronic versions, if available, are found on the MERLIN record site)
Print Journals Available at Linda
Hall Library (www.lindahall.org):
Select Search
Leonardo and search by "All Titles Alphabetical" to see Linda
Hall Library's holdings for the following journals:
- American Mathematical Monthly
- American Journal of Mathematics
- Annals of Probability
- Annals of Statistics
- Journal of Recreational Mathematics
- Journal of the American Mathematical Society
- Mathematics Magazine
- Quarterly Journal of Mathematics
- Science Citation Index (1961- )
- SIAM Review
- Statistical Theory & Method (1990-2001)
Electronic Journals on the Web:
Reference sources are useful for locating background information, definitions,
general descriptions, and basic facts. Use these books to help you select or
focus your research topic.
All call numbers in this guide refer to the UMKC Miller
Nichols Library, unless otherwise noted.
Encyclopedias and Dictionaries
| Companion
Encyclopedia of the History & Philosophy of the Mathematical Sciences |
Ref QA21 .C645 |
| The
Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics |
Ref QA5 .C53 |
| Encyclopaedia
of Mathematics |
Ref QA5 .M3713 |
| McGraw-Hill
Encyclopedia of Science & Technology |
Ref Q121 .M3 |
| The
Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of Mathematics |
Ref QA5 .P7 |
| The
Words of Mathematics |
Ref QA5 .S375 |
| The
VNR Concise Encyclopedia of Mathematics |
Ref QA40 .V18 |
All call numbers in this guide refer to the UMKC Miller Nichols Library, unless
otherwise noted.
- Fedworld
Established by the National Technical Information Service (NTIS), this
site provides a starting point for searching, locating, and acquiring federal
government and business information.
(www.fedworld.gov)
- Science.gov
A gateway to authoritative selected science information provided by U.S.
Government agencies, including research and development results.
(Science.gov)
- National Science Foundation
Site has full-text information on grants and funding, relevant readings in
chemistry, funding opportunities, programs/awards, proposal and submission
formats, and evaluation criteria.
(www.nsf.gov)
- US National Institute of Standards and Technology
Develops and applies technology measurement standards. CSTL Physical and
Chemical Properties.
(www.nist.gov)
- US Patent and Trademark Office (1976-)
Front page information and AIDS patent database full-text with images. Site
includes patent information, guides for filling design patents, examining
procedures, and patent rules and regulations.
(www.uspto.gov)
Use search engines linked on the Internet
Search Tools page to identify additional Web resources.
For further assistance, please contact the
Miller Nichols Library Reference Desk at (816) 235-1534.
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