Welcome to the ISU Library research guide for Statistics. Each tab contains links to resources for students, faculty, and other researchers interested in a variety of topics in statistical analysis.
If you have any questions regarding your search for information, feel free to contact me with the information noted at the right of this page.
--Kris Stacy-Bates, subject specialist librarian for Statistics.
These are major databases useful for searching topics in statistics.
- Scopus This link opens in a new windowA large database containing scholarly journal articles and conference papers on any topic in science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts & humanities. Includes cited references and h-index information.
Click here for tutorial - Web of Science This link opens in a new windowCovers major journals in a range of subjects, including statistics, and has links to make it easy to see which authors have cited others.
- MathSciNet This link opens in a new windowThe American Mathematical Society's easily searchable database of reviews, abstracts and bibliographic information for much of the mathematical sciences literature. Coverage from 1940-present, over 2 million records.
- zbMATH Open This link opens in a new windowzbMATH Open (formerly known as Zentralblatt MATH) covers abstracts and article reviews in pure and applied mathematics, with extensive coverage from 1868 to the present.
Accessibility note: MathSciNet and zbMATH may be difficult to use with screen reader software. If you encounter problems using either of these databases, please contact the librarian for Statistics for alternative databases or search help.
- Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new windowA good general-purpose database with journals and popular magazines. Many of the articles are full-text. Useful to anyone seeking information on topics in the areas of current events.
- Dissertations & Theses Global This link opens in a new windowIndex to PhD dissertations from across the US and a few from other countries, with coverage back to 1861. For dissertations published since 1997, full text may be available. For most Iowa State University Ph.D. dissertations published since 1916, citations and abstracts, a 24-page preview, and the option to download the full text are available. ISU masters' theses are also included in full text, beginning with Fall 2006.
