Getting to the Databases
Use the links on the GCM Library website to access the databases. If you are not at school, you will need the passwords. NOTE: you must be logged onto your school Google account to access the password file.
Search Tips
Use the browse feature available in many databases to help you focus on a topic. Use Advanced Search options to limit your results to certain types of information or particular date ranges. Search with a variety of terms including synonyms to get a variety of results.
Scholarly and Academic resources:
- ProQuest Central Student
- JSTOR
- EBSCO Academic Search Ultimate
- EBSCO Advanced Placement Source
- EBSCO Applied Science & Technology Source Ultimate
- EBSCO eBook Academic
- EBSCO MasterFILE Complete*
- Gale Academic OneFile*
- Gale In Context: Science* +
*Remember to filter for scholarly sources using the advanced search feature.
+ Great for browsing if you don’t have a topic in mind yet
More FCPS/Marshall HS databases:
Other Resources:
- Library of Congress E-Resources
- Digital Commons Network
- SciCentral
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- PLOS ONE
- Crux Mathematicorum
- Plus+ Magazine +
- Numberphile +
- 3Blue1Brown +
+ Great for browsing if you don’t have a topic in mind yet
Popular resources:
- Google Advanced Search (Tips to Get More Out of Google)
US Government’s Open Data
University Mathematics Departments and Projects:
- Caltech Mathematics: Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships abstracts books by year.
- Harvard University Mathematics: Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard
- MIT Mathematics: Summer Program in Undergraduate Research past abstracts and papers, Supervised Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program past papers.
- NYU Mathematics: Summer Undergraduate Research Experience past projects.
- Princeton University Mathematics: Annals of Mathematics.
- Stanford University Mathematics: Mathematics Research Center
- UC Berkeley Mathematics: Workshops and Conferences
- The University of Chicago Mathematics: Research Experience for Undergraduates past projects list.
Help with your writing and research:
- Avoiding Plagiarism in Mathematics, by Richard D. Neidinger
- Some Guidelines for Good Mathematical Writing, by Francis Edward Su
- Citing Sources – MLA
- Database Tutorials
