Research Guides: Mathematics History: Books & Articles

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Mathematical Sciences Librarian
Science Education Specialist

Danny Dotson

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180E Geology Library
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Subjects: Computer Science, Earth Science (Geology), Engineering, Geography, Math & Statistics

Flow Chart

Flow Chart for Mathematics History Courses
Use this flow chart to see the process of completing your writing assignment from beginning to end.

Book Sources

OSU Library Catalog
Search for books and other items available at OSU - includes ebooks
OhioLINK Catalog
Search for books statewide.

Electronic Book Center (OhioLINK) [Full Text]
Electronic Book Center included ebooks on all subjects, including many encyclopedias, handbooks, biographical collections, and guides.

Author Search - OSU Library Catalog
Search for works by an author - use format LastName, FirstName. Examples below.
Hilbert, David
Noether, Emmy
Babbage, Charles

The OSU Library Catalog has subject headings. If you had found a good book on your topic, examine the subject headings for that book below the location/call number box. You can click on these to see other items with that subject ot you can search subject directly as follows.

OSU Library Catalog Subject Search

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"History" is a subdivision of a subject that can be added after any other term. Examples: Format: branch--history.

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For mathematics history in a country, region, use for format mathematics--country/region--history.

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Finding Articles

MathSciNet
The major tool for finding mathematics literature.
JFM Database
JFM is a literature database based on the Jahrbuchber die Fortschritte der Mathematik (1868-1942) and an archive of digitised mathematical publications at the Staats- und Universitasbibliothek Gattingen.

Historical Abstracts
A bibliographic database covering the world's scholarly literature in history, including article abstracts and bibliographical citations of books and dissertations on the history of the world, excluding the United States and Canada, from 1550 to the present. All branches of world history are included political, diplomatic, military, economic, social, cultural, religious, and intellectual history, and the history of science, technology, and medicine. When articles, books, and dissertations are presented with historical perspective, the following related social sciences and humanities are also covered: area and interdisciplinary studies, anthropology, political science, economics, psychology, sociology, art, literature, philosophy, education, and popular culture.
America: History and Life
Provides articles abstracts and citations of reviews and dissertations on the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistoric times to present. Articles are abstracted from more than 2,400 journals published in approximately 40 languages.

ERIC (EBSCO version)
The ERIC database is the world's largest source of education information, containing abstracts of documents and journal articles on education research and practice. The database covers descriptions and evaluations of programs, research reports and surveys, curriculum and teaching guides, instructional materials, position papers, and resource materials. In 1993, ERIC began indexing education-related books, including the output of major publishers. The EBSCOhost interface is similar to Academic Search Complete.
Education Research Complete [Selected Articles in Full Text]
Education Research Complete is the definitive online resource for education research. This massive file offers the world's largest and most complete collection of full text education journals. Education Research Complete also covers areas of curriculum instruction as well as administration, policy, funding, and related social issues.

Citation databases allow you to see for each article the items it cited and also the items that have cited it. If you find a great article, use these databases to move both back and forward in time from that article.

Scopus
Scopus is a citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality web sources with smart tools to track analyze and visualize research. Tools to sort, refine and quickly identify results help researchers focus on the outcome of their work.
Web of Science Core Collection
Provides access to citation indexes which can be searched individually or as one file.
- Arts & Humanities Citation Index indexes 1,100 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals.
- Science Citation Index Expanded indexes 5,300 major journals across 164 scientific disciplines and contains searchable, full-length, English-language author abstracts for approximately 70 percent of the articles in the database.
- The Social Sciences Citation Index indexes 1,700 journals spanning 50 disciplines, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 3,300 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals.
- Book Citation Indexes- Science and Social Sciences & Humanties indexes over 30,000 editorially selected books in the sciences, social sciences and humanities, with 10,000 new books added each year. It contains searchable, full-length, English-language author abstracts for approximately 60 per cent of the articles in the database.
Google Scholar
Google Scholar indexes items Google considers scholarly, including articles, theses, books, preprints, abstracts, conference proceedings, and technical reports. The OSU Libraries subscribes to the electronic version of many of these materials and may own the print copy. See the Using Google Scholar movie to set the Google Scholar Preferences to ensure you find materials available free to you from the OSU Libraries and OhioLINK.

History of Science, Technology and Medicine
A resource for the history of science, technology, and medicine, and their influence on culture, from pre-history to the present, HSTM indexes journal articles, conference proceedings, books, book reviews, and dissertations in all scientific disciplines and related fields. Citations reflect the contents of nearly 9,500 journals. This database incorporates four separately created bibliographies: Isis Current Bibliography of the History of Science, Current Bibliography in the History of Technology, Bibliografia Italiana di Storia della Scienza, and Wellcome Bibliography of the History of Medicine.
Index Islamicus
Indexes literature on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world. Material cited in the Index Islamicus includes not only work written about the Middle East, but also about the other main Muslim areas of Asia and Africa, plus Muslim minorities elsewhere. Over 2,000 journals are monitored for inclusion in the database, together with conference proceedings, monographs, multi-authored works and book reviews. Journals and books are indexed down to the article and chapter level.
Computers and Applied Sciences Complete [Selected Articles in Full Text]
Computers & Applied Sciences Complete (CASC) covers the spectrum of the applied sciences, representing knowledge on traditional engineering challenges and providing material for research concerning the business and social implications of new technology. CASC provides indexing and abstracting for more than 1,300 academic journals, professional publications, and other reference sources. Full Text is also available for more than 500 periodicals. Subject areas include the many engineering disciplines, computer theory, and new technologies. Includes Computer Source - Consumer Edition.

JSTOR [Selected Articles in Full Text]
JSTOR offers multidisciplinary and discipline-specific collections in the humanities, sciences and social sciences. The moving wall represents the time period between the last issue available in JSTOR and the most recently published issue of a journal. It is specified by publishers in their license agreements with JSTOR, and generally ranges from 3 and 5 years. In calculating the moving wall, the current, incomplete year is not counted.
Academic Search Complete [Selected Articles in Full Text]
Academic Search Complete is comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 10,900 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.
Google Scholar
Google Scholar indexes items Google considers scholarly, including articles, theses, books, preprints, abstracts, conference proceedings, and technical reports. The OSU Libraries subscribes to the electronic version of many of these materials and may own the print copy. See the Using Google Scholar movie to set the Google Scholar Preferences to ensure you find materials available free to you from the OSU Libraries and OhioLINK.