Workshop 2015 University of Rwanda

How to find electronic

resources in mathematics

Anders Wändahlanders@golonka.se

•Librarian•EMS-CDC•Workshops; mathematics, physics•Wireless connectivity•INFORM/Certiorem; medicine

Tentative schedule for workshop at UR Butare June 2015

Tuesday Wednesday Thursday

0900-1200

Workshop overview, Learning expectationsMathematics Subject ClassificationDatabases; MathSciNet, ZBmath and other relevant databases available at UR

0900-1200

Digital Object IdentifiersGetting fulltexts (pdf:s). Available as subscribed? From UN-organisations? ICTP/eJDS?

0900-1200

Publishing. Finding an appropriate journal. Avoiding predatorypublishers; Beall's list. Evaluation of journals according to different indicators.

1300-1600

Databases; MathSciNet, ZBmath and other relevant databases available at UR

1300-1600

Preprints; arXiv and similar services. Keeping track of the research frontier in a specific area of athematics

1300-1600

Summary of what we have been going through. Wrap up! Needs for the future?Comments and suggestions.

     

     

Reference databases

• A reference database contains information about all journal articles or books published in the major journals and at the most important publishing houses

• When you search for a specific topic in a reference database you will find references to journal articles or books.

• A reference to a journal article is simply a statement of the publication details (author, title, name of journal, volume, issue, pages, DOI) that allow you to pin-point this specific item and find the full-text.

• Reference databases generally don’t contain the full-text themselves, although often there are links from references in the database to the electronic full text.

MathSciNet & zbMATH

Database MathSciNet zbMATH

References ~3 million ~3 million

Provider The American Mathematical Society

FIZ KarlsruheSpringer

USP Adjacency searchReviews

Software search

Do you use the Mathematics Subject Classification (MSC) when searching for literature?

http://mathoverflow.net/questions/96219/do-you-use-the-mathematics-subject-classification-msc-when-searching-for-liter

zbMATH (emergency ;)

URL= http://zbmath.org

Username = rw_2505_0

Password = 73fE0sw3

Find your MSC code!

• In MathSciNet or zbMATH

• In another article/book/reference

• In the MSC 2010 pdf scheme

DOI

A digital object identifier (DOI) is a character string (a "digital identifier") used to uniquely identify a digital object, such as an electronic document.

Anatomy of the DOI

Syntax to get full text

http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10714-013-1557-2

Exercises

• How many journal articles authored by Augustin Banyaga can you find in MathSciNet and zbMATH respectively?

• Which is Augustin Banyagas most cited publication? How many citations? Give the results from both MathSciNet and zbMATH.

• How many books authored by Augustin Banyaga can you find in MathSciNet and zbMATH respectively?

• How many references can you find that have been tagged with the software program R (only in zbMATH)?

• Search for references for journal articles about coloring graphs that are published after 2010. How many in MathSciNet and zbMATH respectively if you search by MSC? How would you perform a search using words only? [Hint: American and English spelling differs]

• Is the journal "International Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics" indexed in MathSciNet and zbMATH respectively?

• Is the journal "Utilitas Mathematica" indexed in MathSciNet and zbMATH respectively?

• Can you find references to any publication on algebraic geometry,

published in 2015, and which has used the software PARI/GP?

Access to journal articles

• Local subscriptions (INASP)• UN-programmes• eJDS• arXiv• Digitized archives• Open Access

Consortia

Publishers relevant to mathematics

Cambridge University PressDuke University PressINFORMSIOPOxford JournalsRoyal SocietySpringerTaylor & FrancisWiley-Blackwell

Access control by IP number(s)

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Free or subsidized UN Programmes

Country specific availability/access. GNI per capita < USD 1600 or Human development index < 0.63 = Free access.

3000+ electronic journals; agricultural sciences but also some statistics and probability journals (~10)

200+ electronic journals; e.g. will all mathematics journals from Elsevier soon be available (109)

8000+ electronic journals, 3000+ books; health sciences but also many mathematics journals (~75))

4500+ electronic journals; environmental sciences but also some mathematics and statistics journals (~50)

Access control by username/password

1957 books and journals in statistics & mathematics

5015 journals

Don’t forget these…

Usernames and passwords are available at the library!

But please…. keep them to yourself!

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http://ejds.org/ejds/

Exercise: where to find the article/book?

• Anguelov, Roumen; Lubuma, Jean M.-S.; Minani, Froduald A monotone scheme for Hamilton-Jacobi equations via the nonstandard finite difference method. (English) Zbl 1191.65113 Math. Methods Appl. Sci. 33, No. 1, 41-48 (2010).

• Bentmann, Rasmus(D-GTN)Classification of certain continuous fields of Kirchberg algebras. (English summary) Internat. J. Math. 25 (2014), no. 1, 1450004, 11 pp.

• Neubauer, Andre.. - Coding theory: algorithms, architectures, and applications / André Neubauer, Jürgen Freudenberger, Volker Kühn.. - 2007. - ISBN: 9780470519837

• Francoise, J.-P.; Roytvarf, N.; Yomdin, Y. Analytic continuation and fixed points of the Poincaré mapping for a polynomial Abel equation. (English) Zbl 1140.30015 J. Eur. Math. Soc. (JEMS) 10, No. 2, 543-570 (2008).

Continued, preprints..

Adding a subscription to e-mail alert of new publications in ”History and Overview”

Confirmation of e-mail alert of new publications in History and Overview

Alert e-mail alert from arXiv about new publication in History and Overview

Where to publish?

Factors where to publish

• Topic?• Peer-review?• Citations/Impact Factor?• Database coverage?• Type of article?• Open Access? Cost?• Acceptance rate?• Turnaround time?• Predatory?• Supervisor?

Evaluation

Evaluation of Journals