Statistics and Probability
Search the statistics literature
These databases cover predominantly the statistics and mathematical literature.
- Project Euclid This link opens in a new windowDeveloped and deployed by the Cornell University Library and jointly managed by Cornell and the Duke University Press, Project Euclid provides access to high-quality, peer-reviewed journals, monographs, and conference proceedings in the field of theoretical and applied mathematics and statistics.
- Current Index to Statistics (1975-2017)The data from the original Current Index to Statistics (CIS) has been transferred to the American Mathematical Society servers.
- MathSciNet This link opens in a new window
Begun by Mathematical Reviews, MathSciNet covers the world’s mathematical literature since 1940 including journals, conference proceedings, and books. It also provides links from reviews to the text of more than 435,000 online articles in over 870 journals, although full-text, article-level access usually requires an institutional subscription to that journal. MathSciNet also incorporates a citation tracking database.
- arXiv Statistics This link opens in a new windowChoose a specific month, or browse new (most recent mailing), recent (last 5 mailings) or current month's listings. Play catch-up by selecting to view all submissions since a specific date or brows the categories.
To search beyond the statistics literature
Use these databases to do an interdisciplinary search for articles that use or discuss statistics in other research fields (biology, medicine, social sciences, etc.).
- ClinicalKey This link opens in a new windowClinicalKey is an online search tool which brings answers from the largest collection of published medical resources in every medical and surgical specialty, and includes all MEDLINE abstracts with medical and surgical content from Elsevier. It also includes the ability to search for current clinical trials.
- Cochrane Library This link opens in a new windowFor best results, off campus users should use either Internet Explorer or Chrome.
Evidence-based medicine databases including systematic reviews and the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials. - PubMed This link opens in a new window
Is the National Library of Medicine's interface for searching MEDLINE, the major index to medical research, from clinical medicine to cellular and biomolecular biology. Free citations and abstracts, limited full text. Coverage: 1893 - present. Updated weekly.
If you get an error message when logging into your personal account through WMU, please clear your browser history or use an incognito window. - Scopus This link opens in a new window
Indexes scholarly literature in the natural and social sciences. Use this to get extensive inter-disciplinary access to journal articles and also to find out which articles are being cited by other scholars . Cited references from 1970-present, records from 1788-present.
NOTE: WMU users do not have access to SciVal through Scopus - ScienceDirect This link opens in a new windowDatabase for scientific research that contains the citations and abstracts of more than 1,800 Elsevier journals in the life, physical, medical, technical, and social sciences as well as selected full text articles. Science Direct can be searched as a database or browsed by individual title. Coverage varies.