Carnegie Mellon Libraries: Statistics: Indexes and Abstracts
Indexes and
Abstracts
ABI/Inform
1986-. (updated daily)
ProQuest Direct (Carnegie Mellon users only)
Part of the ProQuest Direct series of databases, ABI/Inform
is a business database that is good for material on statistical applications
in market research, management, operations research, and other business subjects.
EI
Compendex (Carnegie Mellon users only)
1970-. (updated weekly)
The online version of Engineering Index, this source is appropriate
for statistical applications in all area of engineering.
International
Abstracts in Operations Research. Vol.1-, 1961-. (bimonthly, with
annual cumulations)
HUNT REF-1 INDEX
This publication is divided into three sections. "Process oriented" entries
emphasize the modeling of operations, functions, or activities common to various
enterprises. "Application oriented" abstracts center on certain arenas and
models that are specialized to an arena. "Technique oriented" items focus
on abstract or mathematical models, methods, topics, techniques, and solutions.
MathSciNet
(Carnegie Mellon users only)
1940-. (updated daily) Mathematical Reviews
Vol. 1-, 1940-.
E&S-ABS
This database corresponds to two important publications from the American
Mathematical Society and covers the years 1940 to the present. Current
Mathematical Publications is a subject index of recent and forthcoming
mathematical publications. Most items are later reviewed in Mathematical
Reviews which publishes over 47,000 reviews and abstracts annually.
NTIS
(National Technical Information Service) (Carnegie Mellon users only)
1964-. (updated monthly)
Covering a wide range of subjects, NTIS contains reports on government sponsored
research. Much of the material analyzes particular problems and data, often
using statistical applications.
Operations
Research/Management Science Vol.9-, 1969-. (bimonthly, with annual
cumulations)
HUNT REF-1 INDEX
These volumes contain abstracts of articles from U.S. and foreign journals
on management, operations research, planning, and related areas. Each issue
includes abstracts specifically on probability and statistics as well as general
methodology and specific topics in applied statistics.
PsychInfo
(Carnegie Mellon users only)
1887-. (updated monthly)
This source covers journal articles, chapters, books, dissertations and reports
on psychology and related fields. It includes the applications of statistical
methods to psychological research.
Statistical
Theory and Method Abstracts. Vol. 5-, 1964-. (quarterly)
E&S REF-ABS
Most abstracts describe papers from specialized journals on probability, statistics,
and important related applications. Others cover journals in related fields,
collective works such as conference proceedings, and selected research reports
and monographs. The majority of these abstracts are included in MathSciNet.
Web
of Science (Carnegie Mellon users only)
1994-. (updated weekly)
This unique database provides complete bibliographic data for publications,
links to related articles, author and publisher addresses, and cited reference
searching. This last feature permits the user to search the citation data
(the footnotes of each article), and take a known relevant paper and find
other, more recent papers that cite it. You can locate all cited authors,
not just first authors, for articles in the database. Web of Science includes:
Science
Citation Index Expanded
SCI-EXPANDED covers the journal literature of the sciences. It indexes
more than 5,800 journals in 164 scientific disciplines. Over 18,000 new
articles are added each week. Access to earlier years (1964-1999) is available
in print in the Index section of the Engineering & Science Library.
Social
Sciences Citation Index
This index covers 4,700 of the world's leading social science journals,
either comprehensively or selectively, plus a limited number of monographic
series. Documents indexed include articles, proceedings, editorials, letters,
meeting reports, and book reviews. Access to earlier years (1973-1999)
is available in print in the Index section of Hunt Reference.
