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Other useful subject guides
Search and Reference
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Credo ReferenceA collection of hundreds of major reference books including dictionaries, encyclopaedias and thesauri.
Includes Mathematics and Statistics reference works such as The Princeton Companion to Mathematics and The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics.
Find theses
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St Andrews Mathematics and Statistics Electronic ThesesSearch or browse by author or title to find these written by St Andrews University students.
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How to find a thesisFind theses that are not currently available electronically, or theses from different institutions.
Library Search
Library Search lets you explore across the Library & Museums collections. You’ll find books, journals, and much more—including major databases such as Web of Science and JSTOR.
By default, results show material that should be immediately available to you. To widen your search, switch on the Search outside St Andrews option in the left-hand column.
For the best results, use the filters on the left to narrow things down. For example, if you’re only interested in books, select Resource Type: Book
Library Search
Key Databases for Mathematics and Statistics
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MathSciNet This link opens in a new windowdatabase of reviews, abstracts and bibliographic information for much of the mathematical sciences literature. (AMS platform)
Useful quick start guide: https://www-ams-org.ezproxy.st-andrews.ac.uk/publications/msn-quickstart-guide.pdf -
MathSciNet via EBSCOhost This link opens in a new windowdatabase of reviews, abstracts and bibliographic information for much of the mathematical sciences literature. (EBSCO platform)
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Scopus This link opens in a new windowa large multidisciplinary abstracting and citation database of peer-reviewed research literature. Covers over 19,000 journal titles.
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Web of Science This link opens in a new windowWeb of Science Core Collection includes the Science, Social Sciences and Arts & Humanities Citation Indexes, Conference Proceedings Citation Index for Science, Social Sciences & Humanities, Current Chemical Reactions and Index Chemicus.
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Statista This link opens in a new windowaccess to market and consumer data from 170 industries and over 150 countries. Includes reports on digital trends, markets and companies, politics and society and countries and regions
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Library search This link opens in a new windowUse Library Search to find Print books, ebooks and rare books; Journal and newspaper articles; Films and documentaries; Music scores.
You can also find items in the University’s Archive, Photographic and Museums collections as well as theses and research outputs from the University. -
JSTOR This link opens in a new windowperiodicals archive of over 2,000 leading scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences and sciences. Over fifty million pages of content
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MacTutor IndexMacTutor is a free online resource containing biographies of more than 3000 mathematicians and over 2000 essays and other supporting materials.
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arXiv.org This link opens in a new windowarchive of over 855,000 open access e-prints in physics, mathematics, computer science, nonlinear sciences, quantitative biology, quantitative finance and statistics
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Early English Books Online (EEBO) via Proquest This link opens in a new windowExcellent resource for scientific primary texts and the history of mathematics.
Subject Guide
JF Allen Library
The JF Allen Library is the University's main science library. Most textbooks for the sciences are held here although for research in some subjects or to consult older works you may have to use the Main Library.
It is located on the first floor of the Physics building on North Haugh. During the day it is open to all students.
For more information please see the JF Allen page on the Library website.