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Electronic Resources for Mathematics . Louise Colver 8 th March 2006. Overview of session. OxLIP – gateway to e-resources Key resources in Maths Search skills – creating a search strategy. OxLIP. Oxford Library Information Platform www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/oxlip
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Electronic Resources for Mathematics Louise Colver 8th March 2006
Overview of session • OxLIP – gateway to e-resources • Key resources in Maths • Search skills – creating a search strategy
OxLIP • Oxford Library Information Platform • www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/oxlip • Gateway to all electronic resources available in Oxford, including; • Library catalogues (OLIS) • Bibliographic databases (journal article summaries & tables of contents) • Full-text electronic journals • Internet sites (subject gateways)
Maths-related databases • MathSci (ERL) • MathSciNet (web version) • INSPEC – Physics (ERL) • Compendex - Engineering • MATHDI - Mathematical education
Inter-disciplinary databases • Web of Knowledge • Sciences, social sciences, and humanities • SCOPUS • New, on trial in Oxford until September 2006 • Covers sciences and social sciences • Both allow citation searching
Internet resources • EEVL • Internet guide to Engineering, Maths & Computing • Freely available, maintained by information specialists at UK universities and institutions • SCIRUS • Science-specific internet search engine
Search topic • Central limit theorem for Markov chains via martingales • Identify key terms – limit theorum, markov chains, martingales • Consider alternatives e.g. markov processes • Truncate e.g. limit theor*, martingale* • Combine using AND, OR • martingale* AND (markov chains OR markov processes) AND limit theor*
Getting the fulltext • Use “TOUR” link to see if full text is available • Check TDNet (Oxlip/Electronic Journals) http://tdnet.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ • Is it in an Oxford library? • Check OLIS (Oxlip/OLIS) • http://www.lib.ox.ac.uk/olis/ • If not, try Inter-Library Loan from the RSL