LibGuides: Mathematics, physics and astronomy: Articles/Databases

Key databases

ADS Astrophysics Data System
An abstracting service offering a search interface into the scientific and technical literature covering astronomy, planetary science, physics, and the arXiv e-prints.Quick guide

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs_doc/faq.html
arXiv e-print archive
e-Print service in the fields of physics, mathematics, non-linear science, computer science, and quantitative biology. arXiv quick guide

Information on citing articles available. The contents of arXiv conform to Cornell University academic standards. arXiv is owned, operated and funded by Cornell University, a private not-for-profit educational institution.
MathSciNet
MathSciNet is a comprehensive database covering the world's mathematical literature of the past 61 years. Quick Guide

MathSciNet is a comprehensive database covering the world's mathematical literature of the past 61 years. It provides Web access to reviews and bibliographic data from Mathematical Review and Current Mathematical Publications. It provides links to original articles and free access to Featured Reviews.
Scopus
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Multidisciplinary abstract and citation database: journals, conference papers, trade publications, book series, patents. Scopus quick guide | User rights
Web of Science
Multidisciplinary abstract and citation database: journals and journal and book-based proceedings. Web of Science quick guide | Rights to use | More information about the database

Web of Science provides access to 6 citation databases: the Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Conference Proceedings Citation Index- Science, Conference Proceedings Citation Index- Social Science & Humanities and Emerging Sources Citation Index. More information.
Ebsco Databases
Several databases in many different subject areas. Full text and reference databases. Ebsco quick guide
SciFinder-n (Chemical Abstracts)
An easy-to-use interface for the world's leading chemical information sources, millions of literature and patent references, as well as chemical compounds and reactions containing information of CAS databases, such as the Chemical Abstracts database. Also contains Medline. Only the students and staff of University of Oulu are entitled to use this database. All users need to create a personal account to use SciFinder-n. You will get instructions for registration from informationservice@oulu.fi. Note: the IP address controls have been lifted until January 31, 2022 for easier access to SciFinder-n also off campus.
SciFinder-n quick guide | Rights to use | SciFinder-n Content
Dimensions
Dimensions contains more than 100 million publications, ranging from articles published in scholarly journals, books and book chapters, to preprints and conference proceedings. Searching is free. Oulu University does not have subscription.

How to search in Dimensions
Iris.ai
Iris.ai is an AI-tool that comes with access to open access papers via core.ac.uk and includes the integration of PubMed database and Cordis database.
* Premium Iris.ai resource center; registration to access Iris.ai Premium, tutorials, workshops, webinars

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Scientific search engines

Google Scholar
A web search engine for scientific information. When you log in with your University of Oulu user ID, you have access to the licensed electronic resources also from outside the University of Oulu Network. Google Scholar quick guide
CiteSeerX
An evolving scientific literature digital library and search engine that focuses primarily on literature in computer and information science.
BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine
A search engine for freely accessible scholarly literature.

More information about the database

Reference Management

Reference management software enables you to
- create your personal database
- share references
- create a bibliography
- create in-text-citations

Freely available reference management software: Mendeley, JabRef (with BibTeX), Zotero.

Accessing a journal article

It is often difficult to access individual journal articles. Try searching for journal articles with the following useful tools:

Oula-Finna library catalogue
Search by Article title.

Google Scholar
Search by article title. Use also Google. Quick guide | More information
BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine
A search engine for freely accessible scholarly literature.

More information about the database

Universal borrowing
Through Universal Borrowing the staff and students of the University of Oulu can request journal articles free of charge from the National Repository Library, which is located in Kuopio. Instructions
Interlibrary loan service

Alternative access to articles
How to access a scholarly article when the organisation does not have a valid licence agreement for the journal? Useful tips from the FinELib.

Finding search terms

Use the tools listed below to find terminology related to your subject area. More about finding search terms in Finding scientific information

MOT Kielipalvelu
In addition to dozens of dictionaries, MOT Kielipalvelu contains MOT Translator (translations between 40 languages) as well as MOT Proofing (proofreading and spell checker of English, Finnish, Swedish, German and French).
Students and staff members can request a login link to the service for remote access as follows:
- Navigate to https://www.sanakirja.fi/korkeakouluille?lang=en
- Choose your organisation from the list and enter the email address you use in your organisation, then click “Get a login link”.
- Click the link in the email you receive.
- Set a password for your account so you will be able to login to the service with all your devices – whenever and wherever.

Scopus
Start searching with concepts and terminology familiar to you. You can find more potential search terms in the Keyword category of the Refine Results box.

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Scopus is a large abstract and citation database covering over 21,000 titles in the fields of science, technology, medicine (100% Medline coverage), social sciences and Arts & Humanities. It includes 6.5 million conferences papers, book series and trade publications. Scopus also cross-searches 24 million patents from five patent offices (US Patent & Trademark Office, European Patent Office, Japan Patent Office, World Intellectual Property Organization and the UK Intellectual Property Office).
Wikipedia
Useful resource for getting to know the subject and finding synonyms.

Evaluating articles

Guide for Evaluation based on scientific publishing : Evaluating articles

Citation Alerts

Making a citation alert means that you will be automatically kept up-to-date when a certain article or a particular researcher has been cited.

Citation alerts in Scopus and Web of Science databases

Mathematics, physics and astronomy: Articles/Databases

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