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Primary subject databases
Database	Description
MathSciNet	Reviews, with abstracts, to the world's literature in mathematics and related areas. View Full Description

Main databases

Secondary subject databases
Database	Description
EBSCOhost databases (all)	Search all EBSCOhost databases at once. View Full Description
IEEE Xplore Digital Library	Electrical and computer engineering journals, conference proceedings and standards from IEEE/IET. View Full Description
Inspec	Comprehensive access to the literature in physics, computing, engineering, and information technology. View Full Description
ProQuest databases (all)	Search all ProQuest databases at once. View Full Description
Web of Science Core Collection	Citation indexes for the arts & humanities, the social sciences, and the sciences. View Full Description

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Tertiary subject databases
Database	Description
Google Scholar	Searches for articles and web resources from academic publishers and universities. View Full Description
ingentaconnect	Academic and professional journals in various subject areas by various publishers. View Full Description
Scholars Portal Books	Electronic books from various publishers and coverage various subjects. View Full Description
Scholars Portal Journals	Several thousand full-text electronic journals; especially strong in sciences and social sciences. View Full Description
Science Citation Index	(included in Web of Science) View Full Description
ScienceDirect	Journals and books published by Elsevier, primarily in the sciences. View Full Description

Applied mathematics, in partnership with computational science, is essential in solving many real-world problems. Our mission is to build cooperation between mathematics and the worlds of science and technology through our publications, research, and community.

Historical Math Monographs (Cornell University Library): A collection of selected monographs with expired copyrights chosen from the mathematics field. The original documents were brittle and decaying and in need of rescue; so they were digitally scanned. The database is fully searchable and includes two other historical math collections.
Intute Mathematics Gateway
Journal of Online Mathematics and its Applications.: Contains peer reviewed articles and is published on the World Wide Web by the Mathematical Association of America
Math Forum: Produced by Drexel Univeristy this site is designed to enrich and support mathematics education.
Mathworld: A comprehensive and interactive encyclopedia dedicated to mathematics and intended for students, faculty, and researchers.
PRIME - the Platonic Realms Interactive Mathematics Encyclopedia: "is a public resource maintained by and for the entire community of mathematics students, educators and researchers."
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Scirus: For Scientific Information Only.: Scirus is a science-specific search engine which examines over 167 million sicence related Web pages.
Sloane's On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences: A searchable database providing identification to integer sequences. Check out the section entitled "New users see."
Topology Atlas: Publishes information related to topology. The website attempts to be a comprehensive on-line resource for mathematicians interested in topology.
Web Pages that Perform Statistical Calculations: "The web pages listed here comprise a powerful, conveniently-accessible, multi-platform statistical software package. There are also links to online statistics books, tutorials, downloadable software, and related resources."

Searching Google

Default Search Settings or How Google Interprets your Query:


Implicit AND	Google returns pages that match all your search terms with the term Search terms are automatically combined using AND
Exact Matching	Google returns pages that match your search terms exactly
Word Variations	Google returns pages that match variants of your search terms. This means that it will automatically look for correct spelling of misspelled words
Common-Word Exclusion	Google ignores some common words called “stop words,”	the, on, where, how
32-Word Limit	Search queries limited to 32 words
Not case sensitive	Capital letters of search terms are ignored
Search	Searches documents by keyword
Word order	Google gives more priority to pages that have search terms in the same order as the query
Ignoring Punctuation	Google ignores most punctuation and special characters including	. ; ? [ ] ( ) @ / * < >
Truncation	Automatic – no additional symbols required to search for alternative word endings
Search results	Displays by relevance attributed to Google’s algorithm
Compound words	Searches both the compound word and the with a space between the words	airline air line

Options to Refine your Search; Crafting Queries with Special Characters, Operators and Symbols:


“phrase searching”	Use quotations marks around phrases	“birds eye”
OR and \|	Interchangeable use of OR or \|. Results include either search term. OR must be capital letters	tourism OR travel
-	Exclude use –immediately before a search term you want to exclude	wine -barrel
..	Specify the results contain numbers in a range	1800..2000
*	Use *, an asterisk character, known as a wildcard, to match one or more words in a phrase (enclosed in quotes)	“Google * my life”
synonyms	Use ~(the tilde symbol) immediately before a search term to include synonyms	~tourism
intitle:	Finds results with your search term in the document title	intitle:tourism
allintitle:	Finds results with your search terms in the document title	allintitle:confidential
inurl:	Finds results with your search term in the URL	inurl:healthy
allinurl:	Finds results with your search terms in the URL	allinurl:google.faq
Info:	Finds results about the web page	Info:library.wlu.ca
related:	Finds results with content related to a specific website	related: http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/
filetype:	Limits your search results to a specific file type. Examples of file types include; doc xls ppt mp4	filetype:pdf
site:	Limits your search to searching within a specific site	site:www.library.wlu.ca
link:	Use to see what sites link to a specific website	link:www.library.wlu.ca
define:	Find definitions sourced from a range of online resources	define:tourist
cache:	See what a cached version of the site looked like. The last time that Google crawled the site	Cache: http://lwlu.ca
AROUND(n)	Proximity search based on the number n. AROUND has to be capitalized	CBC AROUND(20) Harper
$	Find prices	Nexus $
#	Find popular hashtags for trending topics	#leftoverturkey
_	Connect two works. Your search results will find this pair of works linked together or connected with underscore	dog_house
Movie:	Include movie: to find movie-related information	Movie:blade runner
Phonebook:	Reverse lookup using Google	Phonebook:555-555-1212

LaTeX and BibTeX

a freely available typesetting system that produces professional looking publications
useful for writing documents that contain mathematical formulas or equations
create documents with LaTeX using an editor or just using a plain text editor
prepare your text using special commands to produce effects such as heading styles, bold or italic emphasis, mathematical symbols etc.
files are formatted as .tex files (do not use accents or spaces in the file name)
the source code generates printable PDFs that comply with editorial standards
LaTeX Project
BibTeX Project
An updated version of LaTeX is called MikTeX
LaTeX and Friends - M.R.C. van Dongen ISBN: 3642238165 Publication Year: 2012 ebook
Digital Typography using LaTeX - Syropoulos, A; Tsolomitis, A; Sofroniou, N ISBN: 0387952179 Publication Year: 2003 ebook