Selected Subject Headings (for use in the Library Catalog, "Search Everything" and WorldCat)
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Mathematics early works to 1800 | |
| Algebra | Mathematics East Asia | |
| Aristotle | Mathematics Egyptian | |
| Calculus | Mathematics Greek | |
| Euclid | Mathematics history | |
| Geometry | Mathematics history sources | |
| Logic symbolic and mathematical | Mathematics India | |
| Mathematics Babylonian | Minorities in mathematics | |
| Mathematics Chinese | Pythagorean Theorem | |
| Mathematics German | Trigonometry |
Finding Scholarly Books
Use the Library Catalog to search for books in Milne Library.
“Search Everthing”
The Search Everything tool searches across the library's catalog and many of its databases in a single search. Because the results are so broad, learn to refine your results by using the toggle boxes on the left of the results screen. To narrow a search to books only, go to Location and check the appropriate box or boxes.
WorldCat
Comprehensive database of books, journals, and media owned by libraries world-wide.
Finding Scholarly Journals
- Academic OneFile This link opens in a new windowProvides over 54,000,000 articles, most full-text, from about 13,000 scholarly journals across most academic subject areas. Coverage is from 1980 to the present.
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new windowProvides full text for about 8,500 periodicals including over 7,300 peer-reviewed journals across most areas of academic study as well as indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 magazines and journals.
- America: History & Life with Full Text This link opens in a new windowCovers the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Selective indexing of about 1700 journals from 1955 to the present. Offers full-text for about 200 journals.
- Historical Abstracts with Full TextCovers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women's history, and the history of education. Indexing and abstracts for about 1800 journals; full-text for about 350 journals. Coverage is from 1955 to the present.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowFull text of about 1400 core scholarly journals across most subject areas. The objective of JSTOR is to provide all issues back to Volume 1, Issue 1. Although some current titles are included, the most recent 3-5 years are generally unavailable due to copyright restrictions.
- MathSciNet2.7 million publications, 600,000 authors, 1900 journals with 1.4 million articles, 5.4 million matched citations.
- Nature: international weekly journal of scienceOne of the world's most important scientific journals. Full text coverage is from 2006-present.
- ScienceFull-text access to Science, 1997-current issue and Tables of Contents of current issues and back issues.
- ScienceDirect This link opens in a new windowProvides full text access to over 2200 Elsevier journals in the fields of science, psychology, medicine, and technology.
Finding a Copy of a Periodical Article
Locating the full text of the article in electronic form:
If there is no PDF or HTML full text with the citation for an article in a database, click on Full Text Finder. If the full text of the article is available in another database, there will usually be a link to that database where the article can be found by linking to the appropriate volume and issue number, or by searching for the article by its specific title. In some databases, the article will appear without additional searching.
If the article is not available, return to the home page of the library and click on Journals. Enter the journal title in the search box, and click on the search icon. Click on Full Text Access to see if an online or print copy of the article is available. Oneonta Local links to information about locally held items. On the record for the journal title, click Is it here? The record will list the years and volumes of the journal held in Milne Library. The record will also indicate whether the issue is in print or microfilm.
Print periodicals are located on compact shelving, and microfilm is available in metal cabinets in the Microfilm Room, both of which are in the Periodicals Room, (SB floor), two floors beneath the main floor of the library.
Requesting an article on Interlibrary Loan:
If you find an article from a periodical that is not available at Milne Library, you can request the article through the link Request item on Interlibrary Loan on the record for the article needed or through the link on the bottom of the homepage of the library website. See a librarian for help.
Finding an Article in a Particular Periodical Title:
- Use the Journals tab on the top of the library home page.
- Enter the title of the journal or magazine, for example, Quarterly Journal of Mathematics, in the search box.
- Look for the journal title in the results list.
- Click on an appropriate database.
- Link to the correct issue of the periodical (note the year, issue and volume number of the article).
- If an electronic text is available, click on the link provided. If the library subscribes to the periodical in print or microform, click on the specific library holdings and locate the title in the library.
Revised: February 8, 2018