Mathematics & Statistics: Find Articles

Mathematics Databases

These resources can be used to find more advanced scholarly articles.

SpringerLink This link opens in a new window
Mathematics and statistics, as well as sciences, medicine, social sciences and education articles.
arXiv.org This link opens in a new window
Open access to 1,541,333 e-prints in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics. Submissions to arXiv should conform to Cornell University academic standards. arXiv is owned and operated by Cornell University, a private not-for-profit educational institution.

Interdisciplinary Databases that Include Mathematics

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
4500+ magazines and journals in full text in all subject areas.

These are the best resources to begin your research.

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
Read open access articles online in mathematics, statistics, and other subject areas.

JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Archive of journals in a variety of disciplines.
CONTENTS: citations, abstracts, text, images. COVERAGE: complete archive of 169 major research journals. DATES: varies. UPDATES: daily. VENDOR: JSTOR.
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
Full text and indexing for journals in all subjects. 1700+ journals with 870+ in full text.
CONTENTS: citations, abstracts, text. COVERAGE: 1700+ journals with 870+ in full text. DATES: 1995+. UPDATES: daily. VENDOR: Elsevier.
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Free Databases

BioOne
A collection of peer reviewed journals in the fields of biological, ecological, and environmental sciences. The collection may be searched without a subscription. Open access content provided.
bioRxiv
"bioRxiv (pronounced "bio-archive") is a free online archive and distribution service for unpublished preprints in the life sciences. It is operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory..." Started in November of 2013, the archive has a limited number of articles at this time.
ChemWeb
Access to journal abstracts and selected full text articles from Chemistry publishers such as Wiley, Elsevier and Springer. Free registration required for database use.
Entrez - the Life Sciences Search Engine
Provides access to genomic and biomedical information.
Espacenet
Database of "more than 50 million patent documents from all over the world" provided by the European Patent Office.
Google Books
Search an index of the world's books, with many of them previewed or provided in full for free.
Google Patents
Search US patents and applications.
Google Scholar
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature.
medrxiv
"medRxiv (pronounced "med-archive") is a free online archive and distribution server for complete but unpublished manuscripts (preprints) in the medical, clinical, and related health sciences."
NTIS Goverment Technical Reports
"Serves as the largest central resource for government-funded scientific, technical, engineering, and business related information. For more than 60 years, NTIS has assured access to approximately 3 million publications covering over 350 subject areas."
Research Square
"Research Square lets you share your work early, gain feedback from the community, and start making changes to your manuscript prior to peer review in a journal. You can also learn about breakthroughs in your field and comment on new discoveries."
Science.gov
"Searches over 50 databases and over 2100 selected websites from 12 federal agencies, offering 200 million pages of authoritative U.S. government science information including research and development results."
ToxNet
"Databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, environmental health, and toxic releases."
US Copyright Office
Searches "works registered and documents recorded by the U.S. Copyright Office since January 1, 1978."
US Patent and Trademarks Office
Search for US patents and trademarks.
SSRN
SSRN is an open-access online preprint community providing valuable services to leading academic schools and government institutions. Specializing primarily in social sciences, including economics, law, corporate governance, and humanities, SSRN is branching out in to other science disciplines providing opportunities for scholars to post their early research, collaborate on theories and discoveries, and get credit for their ideas before peer reviewed publication.

Full-Text Articles

Many of the databases on this page will contain full-text articles. For those that do not, look for a link that says . Click on this link to be guided to the full-text article if available.

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