Stanford Statistics Links

Professors may sometimes ask you to do a literature search. They will likely give you a specific topic and ask you to find out what has been published on it. This can be done using Socrates but Socrates does not search journal articles, and this will likely be the most important part of your search. There are several places to search journal articles, usually classified by subject. Here is a partial list of some of the more important ones:
For statistics articles try:
SciSearch: http://scisearch2.lanl.gov/stanford/sci.html
ResearchIndex: http://www.researchindex.com/. This has many online articles and will often search the web for you as well. It can also search for citations, a very valuable tool.
JStor: http://www.jstor.org/. JStor is also a good place to search for economics articles. Their articles are all online but are at least two years old.
For mathematics articles try MathSciNet: http://ams.rice.edu/mathscinet/. This allows a full-text search so again you can search for citations.
For engineering articles try INSPEC: http://inspec/lanl/gov/stanford/. This allows a full-text search also.
For medical or biostat articles try Medline: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/catdb/help/medac.html/.
In general: The Stanford library system lists a large number of searchable databases at http://www-sul.stanford.edu/cadb/alldata.html (linkable from the main library page by clicking on Databases). Usually you can find what you are looking for here. Occasionally you may need to search from a Stanford IP address and the Stanford subscriptions only work for Stanford IP addesses. This can easily be done in any of the departmental computers.
Don't forget that a simple websearch can often lead you right to the author's homepage where you might be able to download the article!