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These databases will help you find journal, magazine, and newspaper articles, books, book chapters, statistics, and more. If you are not sure of your topic, start with Academic Search Complete.
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Academic Search Complete      Remote Access
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Start your search with this interdisciplinary database of journals and magazines with full text available for many. Other Interdisciplinary Databases may also be useful. Specific subject databases are below. Use the drop-down menu above to select other databases by title.

Biographical Dictionary
Short biographical information on 22,000 notable men and women from ancient times to the present day. The dictionary can be searched by names, birth years, death years, positions held, professions, literary and artistic works, miscellaneous achievements, and other keywords.

Biographies Info
Collection of biographies of female mathematicians organized by name

Biographies of Women Mathematicians
Access biographies of women mathematicians by alphabetical name list or chronological name list.

Biography.com
Searchable short biographical information on over 25,000 people

Encyclopedia Britannica
Searchable full text information on a wide variety of topics including biographies

Eric's Treasure Trove of Scientific Biography
Short entry biographies organized by subject and name, searchable.

Index: Mathematicians of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Biographies of mathematicians of the 17th & 18th centuries adapted from A Short Account of the History of Mathematics by W. W. Rouse Ball

Indexes of Biographies (MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive)
Searchable database of hundreds of online biographies of mathematicians

JSTOR      Remote Access
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A respected interdisciplinary database of leading academic journals in full text

Lives, the Biography Resource
Links to online biographical resources for people who are no longer living or whose public life and career are well behind them.

Mathographies
Biographical sketches of 24 famous mathematicians

World Biographical Index
" Contains over 2 million short biographical entries for eminent individuals who lived in North and South America, Western and Central Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania. "

More Mathematics Databases
Abstract Algebra Online
Definitions and theorems from abstract algebra. To search the definitions, use the find function on your browser.

Algebra Help
Lessons and tutorials in basic algebra

AMS Preprint Server (American Mathematical Society)
A searchable database of references to and abstracts of mathematical preprints, many available in full text.

Calculus@Internet
An Internet search engine for mathematics, calculus in particular

Integrator The Power to do Integrals as the World has never Seen Before
Enter an integral in the form and answer is returned in one of four user-selected formats: text, ASCII, standard form, and traditional form.

Introduction to Geometry
Understanding points, lines, planes, postulates, theorems and proofs

Karl's Calculus Tutor
Lessons and tutorials in beginning calculus

MATH Database
The web version of Zentralblatt fuer Mathematik/Mathematics Abstracts, 1931 to the present, and Current Contents of New Publications of Zbl. Math. A searchable database of references to journal articles, books, proceedings, research papers. Only three of the citations per search can be retrieved for free; more can be retrieved for a fee.

Math in Daily Life
Information on savings, compound interest, credit card interest, population growth, gambling, and other mathematical examples.

Mathematical Atlas
This is a well organized collection of short articles designed to provide an introduction to the areas of modern mathematics and pointers to further information.

Mathematical Physics Preprint Archive (Dept. of Mathematics, Univ. of Texas at Austin)
Searchable collection of research papers in mathematical physics, from 1991-present with full text.

Mathematics Preprints and PSU Mathematics Department Preprint Library (Dept. of Mathematics, Pennsylvania State Univ.)
Links to general and specialized mathematics preprint servers.

Probability Abstract Service (Mathematics Dept., Univ. of Washington)
Searchable abstracts of papers with some full text.

ScienceDirect       Remote Access
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The full text of 1400 journals in the physical sciences and engineering, life sciences and medicine, social sciences and psychology/counseling.

Sparknotes
Mathematical concepts explained and summarized. Pre-algebra, algebra, trigonometry, geometry, precalculus, and calculus

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