Part of the A Century of Mathematics in America collection, this book contains articles that describe the mathematics and the mathematical personalities in some of the nations' prominent departments: Johns Hopkins, Clark, Columbia, MIT, Michigan, Texas, and the Institute for Advanced Study.

"Owen has pulled together into one source the major indexing and abstracting sources in science and technology." --MEDICAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION BULLETIN

An alphabetical arrangement of abstracts and indexes available at the National Bureau of Standards (NBS) Library is listed by most current title of the publication. Other information includes description of the abstract or index, library holdings, principal sources, publisher or association, corresponding data base and the classification number. A general subject index follows the main text of the report.

This book is a reference for librarians, mathematicians, and statisticians involved in college and research level mathematics and statistics in the 21st century. We are in a time of transition in scholarly communications in mathematics, practices which have changed little for a hundred years are giving way to new modes of accessing information. Where journals, books, indexes and catalogs were once the physical representation of a good mathematics library, shelves have given way to computers, and users are often accessing information from remote places. Part I is a historical survey of the past 15 years tracking this huge transition in scholarly communications in mathematics. Part II of the book is the bibliography of resources recommended to support the disciplines of mathematics and statistics. These are grouped by type of material. Publication dates range from the 1800's onwards. Hundreds of electronic resources-some online, both dynamic and static, some in fixed media, are listed among the paper resources. Amazingly a majority of listed electronic resources are free.

Will provide a more elementary introduction to these topics than other books available; Gentle is the author of two other Springer books