Tools for Research in Mathematics
Looking for books or journals?
The UCLA Library Catalog
Lists the books and journals owned by UCLA, allows you to page materials from storage, recall books from another user, place holds on recently received or on order items, and renew your own books.
http://catalog.library.ucla.edu
MELVYL (the combined UC catalog)
Lists the books and journals owned by all of the UC’s, allows you to place interlibrary loan requests for books at any campus using the request button.
Worldcat
A union catalog of the book and journal collections of thousands of libraries in the US and abroad. Will show you the closest copies to UCLA. Also offers the Request feature.
http://firstsearch.oclc.org/fsip?dbname=WorldCat
Links to 356 mathematics e-journals available to UCLA
http://www2.library.ucla.edu/search/1430.cfm?su=54
Looking for journal articles or conference papers?
MathSciNet
A comprehensive database covering the world's mathematical literature since 1940, providing access to Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications
http://www.ams.org/mathscinet/
JSTOR
An electronic archive of important scholarly journals in mathematics and other fields, offering high-resolution, scanned images of journal issues and pages as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated. Because of JSTOR's archival mission, there is a gap, typically from 1 to 5 years, between the most recently published journal issue and the content available in JSTOR.
Zentralblatt MATH
Zentralblatt MATH is the world's most complete and longest running abstracting and reviewing service in pure and applied mathematics. The Zentralblatt MATH Database contains more than 2.0 million entries drawn from more than 2300 serials and journals and covers the period from 1868 - present.
Web of Science (citation database)
A multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the sciences. It fully indexes 5,900 major journals across 150 scientific disciplines—that's 2,100 more journals than the print and CD-ROM versions of the SCI. The Science Citation Index Expanded includes all cited references captured from indexed articles.
http://isi3.isiknowledge.com/portal.cgi/wos
INSPEC
Bibliographic information service providing access to the world's scientific and technical literature in physics, electrical engineering, electronics, communications, control engineering, computers, computing, information technology, manufacturing and production engineering.
Citation Assistance
MRef
A tool for creating standard references with links to MathSciNet. The reference (with the author names first) should be typed or copied and pasted into the box above. Often, only a portion of the reference is necessary for MRef to recognize the corresponding entry in MathSciNet. More detailed help is available.
UCLA Library websites
Main Library Website
Science & Engineering Library Website
http://www.library.ucla.edu/sel
Bruin Success with Less Stress
http://www.library.ucla.edu/bruinsuccess/
Staying Sane in Graduate School
Graduate School Survival Guide
http://www.gdnet.ucla.edu/orientation.html#guide
"How to Succeed in Graduate School" by Marie Dejardins (2 parts)
http://info.acm.org/crossroads/xrds1-2/advice1.html
http://info.acm.org/crossroads/xrds1-3/advice2.html