American Mathematical Society Books Online

 

Amer­i­can Math­e­mat­i­cal Soci­ety Books Online [pdf]

The Amer­i­can Math­e­mat­i­cal Soci­ety (AMS) was founded in 1888 in order to fur­ther math­e­mat­i­cal research and schol­ar­ship. Since that time, they have embarked on a num­ber of out­reach pro­grams designed to edu­cate the pub­lic about the impor­tance of var­i­ous math­e­mat­i­cal endeav­ors. In the past sev­eral years, they have been devel­op­ing the AMS Books Online web­site, and it’s quite a resource. The works were all orig­i­nally pub­lished by the AMS, and they can be browsed by author or sub­ject. The sub­ject head­ings include analy­sis, gen­eral inter­est, logic and foun­da­tions, and num­ber the­ory. Users can down­load indi­vid­ual chap­ters from each book, and there are cur­rently over thirty books avail­able on the site. Vis­i­tors should make sure and check back, as there are plans to add books to the site periodically.”

Source:  The Scout Report from the Univ. of Wis­con­sin, Feb. 19, 2010

National Technical Reports Library — coming soon from NTIS

From Bill McGa­hey at NTIS.gov:

“To fur­ther enhance acces­si­bil­ity to the NTIS col­lec­tion, NTIS will be launch­ing the National Tech­ni­cal Reports Library (NTRL) dur­ing early Spring 2009.
 
The NTRL will pro­vide access to:
Bibli­o­graphic records of more than 2,000,000 tech­ni­cal reports
Down­load­able full text of 500,000 of these reports in Portable Doc­u­ment Format
 
The NTRL oper­ates on a subscription-based sys­tem inter­face that allows users to do queries on the large NTIS bib­li­o­graphic data­base. The intent is to broadly expand and improve access to mil­lions of bib­li­o­graphic records (pre-1960 to present) and 500k full-text doc­u­ments in Portable Doc­u­ment For­mat that are directly linked to the bib­li­o­graphic database.”
 
More infor­ma­tion will be forthcoming.