Useful resources for finding academic literature for Mathematics & Statistics. HTML Current Index to Statistics Access information: Access on and off campus. Description: Bibliographic index with abstracts of publications in statistics, probability, and related fields from approximately 160 core journals, 1,200 journals in related fields, and 11,000 books. Developed by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the American Statistical Association. Coverage: Bulk of publications published 1975-2017. HTML Datastream Advance Access Information: Access to Datastream is available from Refinitiv Eikon. Eikon is limited to selected computers in the Business School. An alternative source of company and financial data is Capital IQ (S&P). To request access to Datastream, email the Business School Library (hub@business-school.ed.ac.uk). Description: Datastream provides key data sets from both developed and emerging markets - equities, market indices, company accounts, macroeconomics, bonds, foreign exchange, interest rates, commodities and derivatives. Coverage: 1965 - present (varies). HTML IFORS Developing Countries OR Resources Website Access information: Freely available. Description: Publicly-available materials on the topic of Operations Research for Development. Also provides a venue for people who are working in the area to share their completed or in-process work. HTML JSTOR Access information: Access on and off campus. Description: Full-text journal archive service providing access to complete back runs of all the scholarly journals currently available in JSTOR. Recent volumes are excluded, usually the last 3-5 years, but each year a further year is added to the archive. Each title is listed in DiscoverEd. About 4-5% of Artstor images migrated into Jstor are not accessible outside the United States. Coverage: The collections currently available are: Arts & Sciences 1-15 Biological Sciences Business I-IV Collection Business & Economics Ecology & Botany II Global Plants Health & General Sciences Hebrew Journals Ireland Jewish Studies Collection JSTOR Essential Collection Language & Literature Lives of Literature Life Sciences Mathematics & Statistics Music Religion and Theology Security Studies Sustainability World Heritage Sites: Africa The 19th Century British Pamphlets Collections is also available via JSTOR. Userguides to the various collections can be found at https://guides.jstor.org MathSciNet is a key resource HTML MathSciNet Access information: Access on and off campus. Description: American Mathematical Society's searchable database comprising Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications. Contains bibliographic records with abstracts (or reviews) of mathematics, statistics, computer science articles published, in more than 2,700 journals, book series and conference proceedings. Updated daily. Citation searching is possible. Coverage: from 1940 to the present. HTML Scopus Access information: Access on and off campus. Description: Abstract and citation database containing both peer-reviewed research literature and quality web sources. Contains over 19 million author profiles, 99,000 institutional profiles, 7000 publishers, 94 million records, 2.4 billion cited references, covers over 29,000 journals and 330,000 books from health, life, physical and social sciences and the humanities. Over 43 million patents from WIPO, EPO, USPTO, JPO & UK Intellectual Property Office: ipo.gov.uk. Coverage: For some subject areas, from 1788 onwards. User guide: https://elsevier.libguides.com/Scopus/home Note: The University of Edinburgh's Affiliation ID is 60027272 (used for configuring Papers 3 for Mac to work with Scopus). Note: If you would like to register to receive personalised searches, alerts etc then select "Other Institution login", then add "Edinburgh" to the search box to find the University of Edinburgh log in link, select the Shibboleth option if requested. HTML SIAM E-Book Collection Access information: Access on and off campus Description: Searchable full-text of over 400 monograph publications from the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. Coverage: 1970s onwards. HTML swMATH (softwareMATH) Access information: Freely available. Description: Database of information on mathematical software. Includes systematic linking of software packages with relevant mathematical publications (from ZentralblattMATH). Articles describe the background and technical details of a program or publications in which a piece of software is applied or used for research. HTML Web of Science Core Collection Access information:Access on and off campus. Russian Science Citation Index is not presently included in the Web of Science.Description:Citations and abstracts to millions of journal articles and conference proceedings from all subjects. Cited reference searching, Impact Factors, h-indexes and email alerts available.Coverage:Arts & Humanities (1975 onwards), Science and Social Sciences Citation Indexes (both 1900 onwards), Conference Proceedings in Science and Social Science & Humanities (both 1990 onwards).Also: Book Citation Indexes in Science and Social Sciences & Humanities (both 2005 onwards), Current Chemical Reactions (1986 onwards), Emerging Sources Citation Index (2015 onwards), Current Chemical Reactions (1985 onwards), Index Chemicus (1993 onwards).Change "Search in:" to use: BIOSIS Citation Index (1926 onwards), Current Contents Connect (1998 onwards), Data Citation Index (1990 onwards), Derwent Innovations Index (1966 onwards), KCI-Korean Journal Database (1980 onwards), Medline (1950 onwards), PrePrint Citation Index (1991 onwards), ProQuest Dissertatoins & Theses Citation Index (1637 onwards), SciELO Citation Index (2002 onwards), Zoological Record (1864 onwards).Help:Publisher userguideFinding articles which have in their reference lists a work you found useful ('cited reference searching'):Cited Reference Searching (pdf) Journal Citation Reports (JCR): Journal Impact Factors and other measures on JCR (pdf) ZentralblattMATH is a key resource HTML Zentralblatt MATH (zbMATH Open) Access information: Freely available Description: Includes bibliographic records, abstracts and reviews of articles published in all aspects of mathematics (pure and applied) and statistics. Covers more than 4,900 journals and serials as well as conference proceedings, collections of papers and 190,000 books. Includes Statistical Theory and Method Abstracts. Searching by formula is possible. Coverage: Starts in 1826 and is complete from 1868 to the present by the integration of the “Jahrbuch über die Fortschritte der Mathematik” database. Related Links Subject guide: Mathematics and statistics Theses databases Economics databases This article was published on 2024-08-21
HTML Current Index to Statistics Access information: Access on and off campus. Description: Bibliographic index with abstracts of publications in statistics, probability, and related fields from approximately 160 core journals, 1,200 journals in related fields, and 11,000 books. Developed by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the American Statistical Association. Coverage: Bulk of publications published 1975-2017.
HTML Datastream Advance Access Information: Access to Datastream is available from Refinitiv Eikon. Eikon is limited to selected computers in the Business School. An alternative source of company and financial data is Capital IQ (S&P). To request access to Datastream, email the Business School Library (hub@business-school.ed.ac.uk). Description: Datastream provides key data sets from both developed and emerging markets - equities, market indices, company accounts, macroeconomics, bonds, foreign exchange, interest rates, commodities and derivatives. Coverage: 1965 - present (varies).
HTML IFORS Developing Countries OR Resources Website Access information: Freely available. Description: Publicly-available materials on the topic of Operations Research for Development. Also provides a venue for people who are working in the area to share their completed or in-process work.
HTML JSTOR Access information: Access on and off campus. Description: Full-text journal archive service providing access to complete back runs of all the scholarly journals currently available in JSTOR. Recent volumes are excluded, usually the last 3-5 years, but each year a further year is added to the archive. Each title is listed in DiscoverEd. About 4-5% of Artstor images migrated into Jstor are not accessible outside the United States. Coverage: The collections currently available are: Arts & Sciences 1-15 Biological Sciences Business I-IV Collection Business & Economics Ecology & Botany II Global Plants Health & General Sciences Hebrew Journals Ireland Jewish Studies Collection JSTOR Essential Collection Language & Literature Lives of Literature Life Sciences Mathematics & Statistics Music Religion and Theology Security Studies Sustainability World Heritage Sites: Africa The 19th Century British Pamphlets Collections is also available via JSTOR. Userguides to the various collections can be found at https://guides.jstor.org
HTML MathSciNet Access information: Access on and off campus. Description: American Mathematical Society's searchable database comprising Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications. Contains bibliographic records with abstracts (or reviews) of mathematics, statistics, computer science articles published, in more than 2,700 journals, book series and conference proceedings. Updated daily. Citation searching is possible. Coverage: from 1940 to the present.
HTML Scopus Access information: Access on and off campus. Description: Abstract and citation database containing both peer-reviewed research literature and quality web sources. Contains over 19 million author profiles, 99,000 institutional profiles, 7000 publishers, 94 million records, 2.4 billion cited references, covers over 29,000 journals and 330,000 books from health, life, physical and social sciences and the humanities. Over 43 million patents from WIPO, EPO, USPTO, JPO & UK Intellectual Property Office: ipo.gov.uk. Coverage: For some subject areas, from 1788 onwards. User guide: https://elsevier.libguides.com/Scopus/home Note: The University of Edinburgh's Affiliation ID is 60027272 (used for configuring Papers 3 for Mac to work with Scopus). Note: If you would like to register to receive personalised searches, alerts etc then select "Other Institution login", then add "Edinburgh" to the search box to find the University of Edinburgh log in link, select the Shibboleth option if requested.
HTML SIAM E-Book Collection Access information: Access on and off campus Description: Searchable full-text of over 400 monograph publications from the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. Coverage: 1970s onwards.
HTML swMATH (softwareMATH) Access information: Freely available. Description: Database of information on mathematical software. Includes systematic linking of software packages with relevant mathematical publications (from ZentralblattMATH). Articles describe the background and technical details of a program or publications in which a piece of software is applied or used for research.
HTML Web of Science Core Collection Access information:Access on and off campus. Russian Science Citation Index is not presently included in the Web of Science.Description:Citations and abstracts to millions of journal articles and conference proceedings from all subjects. Cited reference searching, Impact Factors, h-indexes and email alerts available.Coverage:Arts & Humanities (1975 onwards), Science and Social Sciences Citation Indexes (both 1900 onwards), Conference Proceedings in Science and Social Science & Humanities (both 1990 onwards).Also: Book Citation Indexes in Science and Social Sciences & Humanities (both 2005 onwards), Current Chemical Reactions (1986 onwards), Emerging Sources Citation Index (2015 onwards), Current Chemical Reactions (1985 onwards), Index Chemicus (1993 onwards).Change "Search in:" to use: BIOSIS Citation Index (1926 onwards), Current Contents Connect (1998 onwards), Data Citation Index (1990 onwards), Derwent Innovations Index (1966 onwards), KCI-Korean Journal Database (1980 onwards), Medline (1950 onwards), PrePrint Citation Index (1991 onwards), ProQuest Dissertatoins & Theses Citation Index (1637 onwards), SciELO Citation Index (2002 onwards), Zoological Record (1864 onwards).Help:Publisher userguideFinding articles which have in their reference lists a work you found useful ('cited reference searching'):Cited Reference Searching (pdf) Journal Citation Reports (JCR): Journal Impact Factors and other measures on JCR (pdf)
HTML Zentralblatt MATH (zbMATH Open) Access information: Freely available Description: Includes bibliographic records, abstracts and reviews of articles published in all aspects of mathematics (pure and applied) and statistics. Covers more than 4,900 journals and serials as well as conference proceedings, collections of papers and 190,000 books. Includes Statistical Theory and Method Abstracts. Searching by formula is possible. Coverage: Starts in 1826 and is complete from 1868 to the present by the integration of the “Jahrbuch über die Fortschritte der Mathematik” database.
