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Many of the online resources listed on this page are for UAkron students, faculty, and staff only.
For detailed information on connecting from off-campus, see: Connecting to Online Resources.

Catalogs

• ZipLINK
• OhioLINK
• WorldCat

• Search ZipLINK by keyword
  The s: tells the system to execute the search in the subject field. t: a: etc. work for limiting to other fields.
  If you don't use a field delimiter then the search will occur throughout the record.

  s:mathematicians and s:biography
  s:lovelace and s:biography
  a:lovelace ada
  s:mathematicians and s:correspondence
  s:mathematics and s:history and s:china
  mathematics and encyclopedia
  

  Do a Subject search and browse the list of subject headings:

  Mathematics history
  Calculus history
  Functions

  You can search OhioLINK the same way. If we don't have something there's a good chance it's somewhere in Ohio.
  You can request available materials online through OhioLINK and pick them up in about 3 to 5 working days.

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Indexing Databases

• MathSciNet
• History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
• Applied Science and Technology
• Biography Index
• Hand Press Book Database (Use title search in OhioLINK catalog to get to this database)

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Online Journal Resources

• EJC
• JStor

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Reference Resources

These resources are examples of the kinds of materials you can find in ZipLINK by using the search methods outlined above. There are many, many more materials available in the library than just those represented on this list.

• Dictionaries:
  • Notable women in mathematics: a biographical dictionary / edited by Charlene Morrow and Teri Perl
    Bierce Reference QA28 .N68 1998
  • The Biographical dictionary of scientists. Mathematicians / general editor, David Abbott
    Bierce Reference QA28 .B54 1986

• Encyclopedias:
  • Scientists, mathematicians, and inventors: lives and legacies: an encyclopedia of people who changed the world / edited by Doris Simonis
    Science Reference Q141 .S54 1999

• Other books:
  • The search for mathematical roots, 1870-1940: logics, set theories and the foundations of mathematics from Cantor through Russell to G”del / I. Grattan-Guinness
    Bierce QA248 .G684 2000
  • Two millennia of mathematics: from Archimedes to Gauss / George M. Phillips
    Science QA99 .P48 2000

  • Style Guides:
    • Citation Guides for Electronic Documents
    • APA Style guide - U of Akron
    • APA Style - U of Southern Mississippi
    • APA Style - Capital Community College

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  Internet Resources - Search Engines

  • Vivisimo
  • Ixquick
  • Google

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