Announcing (trumpet blast) the creation of Lib4math, a blog on all things library-ish that pertain to the math department. Here I'll announce new acquisitions (databases, journals, other noteworthy stuff), new services, and other stuff that might help you in teaching and research.
I'm doing this for a couple of reasons-first, the blog produces an RSS feed that you can subscribe to, so if you're using a newsreader or aggregator already, you can subscribe and receive library news that way. The blog also serves as a searchable archive of all the announcements I make, which is handy both for you ("Where was that database trial url again?") and for me ("Did I already announce that database trial, or did I forget?"). The blog allows commenting, and I get email notifications when comments are left, so you can use it to communicate with me as well.
Right now, you are all on a notification list and will receive an email "tickler" every time I update the blog. If you like, I can take you off this list, just leave a comment or send me an email. Don't worry, I'm not planning on making new posts every day, or even every week-just when there's something noteworthy to say.
Blogging is also available to you (and your students) for teaching and research. Just let me know and I'll set up an account for you.
A far cleverer library technologist than I is working on a way to use RSS to syndicate tables of contents from journals. You would pick the journals you're interested in, and a feed listing the recent articles would appear in your newsreader. Egads! Holy no-more-reading-current-journals-in-paper, batman! Even better, it could work with our web-bridge product so that you could click on a link in the feed and be taken directly to the full-text of the article in one of our databases.
A demo is here:
http://public.csusm.edu/dwalker/rss.htm
The project is currently in beta mode, but I'm keeping a close eye on it...what do you think? Are you interested in this service?
I was recently asked by one of your faculty to try and assemble a list of mathematics journals available in the library-he said it might be useful to you.
The list below is the closest I can get. It isn't perfect-there may, indeed, be additional titles available that are not reflected here. This list was created using fund codes, and because of the way accounting works, we are very loosey-goosey about assigning them. Also, some journals may be cross-discipline, and they can only be assigned one code, so there may be a journal you would consider useful in mathematics that's been tagged as computer science or some other code, and so would not appear on this list.
Also, be aware that we may have access to full-text of other journals through large full-text electronic databases, which would not be reflected here. If you have the title of a specific journal in mind, you can always look for it in our Periodical finder:
http://atoz.ebsco.com/home.asp?Id=wlun
This will tell you if we have access through some large database like Ebsco. I wish it had a math journals subject breakout, but currently it lumps math and computer science together. We have complained to the company that produces the list for us, but so far, they've made no move to change it.
So, with all those caveats, here is your list:
1. Acta mathematica.
2. Annals of mathematics.
3. The Annals of probability.
4. Applied mathematics and optimization.
5. Discrete mathematics.
6. The Fibonacci quarterly.
7. Historia mathematica.
8. Journal of combinatorial theory. Series A.
9. Journal of combinatorial theory. Series B.
10. Journal of differential geometry. (cancelled) W&L 1(1967)-62(2002).
11. Journal of recreational mathematics.
12. Journal of undergraduate mathematics. (cancelled) W&L 13(1981)-26(1994).
13. The Mathematical gazette.
14. The mathematical intelligencer.
15. Mathematics of computation.
16. The Mathematics teacher.
17. The [Pi]ME journal.
18. SIAM journal on discrete mathematics
19. SIAM journal on matrix analysis and applications.
20. SIAM review.
21. Statistical science : a review journal of the Institute of Mathematical
Statistics.
22. Technometrics.
23. Journal of the American Mathematical Society
24. Mathematical reviews.
25. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society.
26. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society.
27. The American mathematical monthly : the official journal of the Mathematical
Association of America.
28. The College mathematics journal : an official publication of the Mathematical
Association of America.
29. Mathematics magazine.
30. Abstracts of papers presented to the American Mathematical Society.
31. Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society.
32. Notices of the American Mathematical Society.
33. Journal of operator theory.
34. Crux mathematicorum with mathematical mayhem.
35. Illinois journal of mathematics.
36. Indiana University mathematics journal.
37. Inventiones mathematicae.
38. Acta arithmetica.
39. Geometry and topology of submanifolds.
40. Representation theory : an electronic journal of the AMS.
41. Conformal geometry and dynamics: an electronic journal of the
AMS.
42. Geombinatorics / University of Colorado at Colorado Springs and Center for
Excellence in Mathematical Education.
That's right, we've acquired a trial to the Scopus database! Scopus is an ambitious project that aims to offer "one-stop-shopping" for journal literature in the sciences. UNLV, the institution i just came from, was a development partner for this database, and it was wildly popular there because of it's broad coverage, copious full-text, and ease of use. Please take this thing for a spin and let me know what you think...would it be useful to you and your students?
http://library.wlu.edu/details.asp?resid=721