Science at Collins

The Cornell University Library has digitized and posted 576 fragile historical mathematical monographs. Dating mostly from the 1880s through the early 1900s, these freely accessible materials run the gamut from popular education, like Mary Everest Boole’s Philosophy and Fun of Algebra (1909), to traditional scientific publications, such as Henri Poincare’s monographs.

This looks like a great collection for research on both popular and scholarly aspects of mathematical history.

The collection can be browsed by title or author, and the full text of each book can be searched individually. The entire collection can be searched by traditional citation information or in full text, as well. Once you’ve found what you need, the book can be read as a facsimile image or OCR captured plain text.

Below: What Lewis Carroll (a.k.a. Charles Dodgson) worked on when he wasn’t dreaming up wonderland…

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• Akerman, James R., Robert W. Karrow, eds. 2007. Maps : Finding our place in the world. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• Benton-Short, Lisa, and John R. Short, eds. 2008. Cities and nature. London ; New York: Routledge.
• Bronowski, Jacob1974, Adrian Malone, Dick Gilling, Mick Jackson, David John Kennard, British Broadcasting Corporation. Television Service, Time-Life Films, and Ambrose Video Publishing, eds. 2007. The ascent of man [videorecording] : A personal view by J bronowski. New York, NY: Ambrose Video.
• Darwin, Charles1882, and Joseph Carroll, eds. 2003. On the origin of species by means of natural selection. Peterborough, Ont. ; Orchard Park, NY: Broadview Press.
• Garvey, Brian. 2007. Philosophy of biology. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press.
• Hoberman, John. 2005. Testosterone dreams : Rejuvenation, aphrodisia, doping. Berkeley: University of California Press.
• Kim, Mi Gyung. 2003. Affinity, that elusive dream : A genealogy of the chemical revolution. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
• Parker, Sue Taylor, and Karin Enstam Jaffe, eds. 2008. Darwin’s legacy : Scenarios in human evolution. Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press.
• Siraisi, Nancy G. 2007. History, medicine, and the traditions of renaissance learning. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
• Witkowski, J. A., J. R. Inglis, and Davenport,Charles Benedict. 2008. Davenport’s dream : 21st century reflections on heredity and eugenics. Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press.

• Petrenko, Victor F., and Robert W. Whitworth, eds. 1999. Physics of ice. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press.
• Saito, Yukio. 1996. Statistical physics of crystal growth. Singapore ; River Edge, N.J.: World Scientific.

• Fraser, Andrew M. 2008. Hidden markov models and dynamical systems. Philadelphia, PA: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
• Giaquinto, M. 2007. Visual thinking in mathematics : An epistemological study. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press.
• Nardi, Bonnie A., and Vicki O’Day. 1999. Information ecologies :Using technology with heart. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
• Nelson, Peter R., Peter Wludyka, and Karen A. F. Copeland, eds. 2005. The analysis of means : A graphical method for comparing means, rates, and proportions. Philadelphia, Pa. Alexandria, Va.: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics ; American Statistical Association.
• Vinge, Vernor. 2006. Rainbows end. 1st ed. New York: Tor.

• Akerman, James R., Robert W. Karrow, Field Museum of Natural History, and Newberry Library, eds. 2007. Maps : Finding our place in the world. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Benton-Short, Lisa, and John R. Short, eds. 2008. Cities and nature. London ; New York: Routledge.

Chape, Stuart, Mark Spalding, and Martin Jenkins, eds. 2008. The world’s protected areas : Status, values and prospects in the 21st century. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Chivian, Eric, Aaron Bernstein, Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, United Nations Development Programme, United Nations Environment Programme, and IUCN–The World Conservation Union, eds. 2008. Sustaining life : How human health depends on biodiversity. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press.

Crooks, Kevin R., and M. A. Sanjayan, eds. 2006. Connectivity conservation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Diehn, Timur, Jörg Seibold, Arno Hefner, Klaus Töpfer, Peter H. Gleick, Karlheinz Böhm, Vandana Shiva, Deutsche Welle TV, and Films for the Humanities & Sciences, eds. 2004. Thirsty planet[videorecording]. Princeton, NJ: Films for the Humanities & Sciences.

Hicks, Robert L., ed. 2008. Greening aid? : Understanding the environmental impact of development assistance. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press.

Holmer, Marianne, ed. 2008. Aquaculture in the ecosystem. S.l.: Springer.

Kimbrell, Andrew, ed. 2002. The fatal harvest reader : The tragedy of industrial agriculture. Washington: Published by the Foundation for Deep Ecology in collaboration with Island Press.

McCarthy, Michael A. 2007. Bayesian methods for ecology. Cambridge, UK ; New York: Cambridge University Press.

Revesz, Richard L., and Michael A. Livermore, eds. 2008. Retaking rationality : How cost-benefit analysis can better protect the environment and our health. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press.

Stolzenburg, William. 2008. Where the wild things were : Life, death, and ecological wreckage in a land of vanishing predators. 1st U.S. ed. New York: Bloomsbury.

Storch, David, P. A. Marquet, and James H. Brown 1942 Sept.25-, eds. 2007. Scaling biodiversity. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press.

• Anslyn, Eric V., and Dennis A. Dougherty, eds. 2006. Modern physical organic chemistry. Sausalito, CA: University Science.
• Ebel, Hans Friedrich, Claus Bliefert, and William E. Russey, eds. 2004. The art of scientific writing : From student reports to professional publications in chemistry and related fields. 2nd, completely rev. ed. Weinheim: Wiley-VCH.
• Kim, Mi Gyung. 2003. Affinity, that elusive dream : A genealogy of the chemical revolution. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
• Markov, Ivan V. 2003. Crystal growth for beginners : Fundamentals of nucleation, crystal growth and epitaxy. 2nd ed. Singapore ; Hackensack, N.J.: World Scientific.
• Petrenko, Victor F., and Robert W. Whitworth, eds. 1999. Physics of ice. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press.
• Saito, Yukio. 1996. Statistical physics of crystal growth. Singapore ; River Edge, N.J.: World Scientific.
• Turro, Nicholas J., V. Ramamurthy, and J. C. Scaiano, eds. 2009. Principles of molecular photochemistry : An introduction. Sausalito, Calif.: University Science Books.
• Walsh, Patrick J., and Marisa C. Kozlowski, eds. 2009. Fundamentals of asymmetric catalysis. Sausalito, Calif.: University Science Books

• Ashcroft, Frances M. 2000. Ion channels and disease : Channelopathies. San Diego, Calif.: Academic Press.
• Chivian, Eric, Aaron Bernstein, Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, United Nations Development Programme, United Nations Environment Programme, and IUCN–The World Conservation Union, eds. 2008. Sustaining life : How human health depends on biodiversity. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press.
• Crooks, Kevin R., and M. A. Sanjayan, eds. 2006. Connectivity conservation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Darwin, Charles1882, and Joseph Carroll, eds. 2003. On the origin of species by means of natural selection. Peterborough, Ont. ; Orchard Park, NY: Broadview Press.
• Holmer, Marianne, ed. 2008. Aquaculture in the ecosystem. S.l.: Springer.
• Hoberman, John. 2005. Testosterone dreams : Rejuvenation, aphrodisia, doping. Berkeley: University of California Press.
• Kokko, Hanna. 2007. Modelling for field biologists and other interesting people. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press.<br/
• McCarthy, Michael A. 2007. Bayesian methods for ecology. Cambridge, UK ; New York: Cambridge University Press.
• Parker, Sue Taylor, and Karin Enstam Jaffe, eds. 2008. Darwin’s legacy : Scenarios in human evolution. Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press.
• Pechenik, Jan A. 2007. A short guide to writing about biology. 6th ed. New York: Pearson/Longman.
• Riegl, Bernhard M., Richard Eugene Dodge, and National Coral Reef Institute, eds. 2008. Coral reefs of the USA. Dordrecht: Springer.
• Stern, David Benjamin, George Witman, and Elizabeth H. Harris, eds. 2009. The chlamydomonas sourcebook. 2nd ed. Oxford ; Burlington, MA: Elsevier/Academic Press.
• Stolzenburg, William. 2008. Where the wild things were : Life, death, and ecological wreckage in a land of vanishing predators. 1st U.S. ed. New York: Bloomsbury.
• Storch, David, P. A. Marquet, and James H. Brown 1942 Sept.25-, eds. 2007. Scaling biodiversity. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press.

BioOne, a collection of searchable full-text biology journals we subscribe to, has released a new platform and announced new additions to the online collection.

Not only is the new platform more visually appealing and pleasant to browse, it also lets you make more efficient use of its resources.

Now you can:

• Quickly learn about a journal. Each journal or article page lists the journal’s publisher, impact factor and ISI ranking in the left column on any article or journal page:
• Find links in the right hand column of any article page that will let you easily export that article to RefWorks or sign up to track when the article is cited.
• Take advantage of linked references for articles to immediately see abstracts of interesting works cited (Look for the link at the end of the citation) . If the abstracts are worth following up, use the Journal Locator to find them at Collins, or ILLiad to request them.

By signing up for a personal account, you can save even more time:

• Collect your favorite journals or articles in one place.
• Save searches (a great time saver if you’re interrupted during a complex search).
• Request email alerts when a particular article is cited or to deliver new tables of contents for select journals.
• Sign up for RSS feeds for selected journals, so you can see tables of contents in your feed reader (look for this logo: , then click it to subscribe).

In addition to improving ease of use, BioOne has added new content for 2009: two new open access journals apropos to our marine and western environment have been added: Marine and Coastal Fisheries (American Fisheries Society) and Monographs of the Western North American Naturalist (Brigham Young University Press), while BioOne.1 has added Tree Ring Reseach (Tree-Ring Society).