{"id":687,"date":"2016-12-22T16:37:03","date_gmt":"2016-12-22T16:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mtx\/?p=687"},"modified":"2025-09-24T17:35:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T17:35:40","slug":"specific-topic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mtx\/2016\/12\/22\/specific-topic\/","title":{"rendered":"I am looking for information about a specific topic in mathematics. Where should I begin searching?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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  1. Basic Keyword Search in the Online Catalog<\/a> – If you have a general idea of the topic, search the term in the “Search Anything” field. To broaden the search, use the drop-down box and select “All I-Share Libraries.” I-Share includes the resources of Illinois libraries that belong to CARLI<\/a>, which you may search, request, and borrow material. In the catalog, you will be able to see which libraries own the item and whether that item is available.<\/li>\n
  2. Advanced Search in the Online Catalog<\/a> – To narrow your search, use the “Advanced Search” feature.<\/li>\n
  3. MathSciNet<\/a> – You may search by author, journal title, or simply names or terms “anywhere.” This database includes journal, book, and proceedings titles.<\/li>\n
  4. Zentralblatt MATH<\/a> – This database is like MathSciNet but indexes different titles. Search by author, title, or source. You can limit searches to a specific publication date range. Clicking on “classification” will provide you with information on different search strategies.<\/li>\n
  5. Journal and Article Locator (JAL)<\/a> – Locate e-journals and retrieve full-text articles.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research","category-tips","category-electronic-resources"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mtx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mtx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mtx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mtx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mtx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mtx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3975,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mtx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions\/3975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mtx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mtx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mtx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}